Girl who battled leukemia through COVID lockdown wished to meet a princess. Duchess Kate made it happen.

It was a rough lockdown for five-year-old Mila Sneddon. As Britain was put under strict stay-at-home orders last spring, Mila was undergoing chemotherapy in her battle with leukemia.

Her dad still had to go to work, however, so the family made the difficult decision to keep Mila away from her father to minimize the risk of her catching COVID-19. For seven weeks, Mila only got to see her dad through the window of their home in Falkirk, Scotland. Mila's mother took a photo of her little girl kissing the window during her first daily, distanced visit with her dad and submitted it to a community art project spearheaded by Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, for the National Portrait Gallery.