A hug for Harry: Prince shares a warm embrace with a terminally ill five-year-old as he celebrates the courage of seriously ill children at the Wellchild Awards in London. A brave little boy who has a terminal illness and can barely walk got to his feet and flung his arms around Prince Harry an an awards ceremony tonight. Ollie Carroll, five, from Cheshire, was born a healthy little boy but developed the rare genetic condition Battens Disease, for which there is no known cure, and will eventually leave him unable to walk, see, eat or breathe. As Harry sank to his knee to chat to him, Ollie, who has great difficulty in controlling his limbs, managed to pull himself up with the help of his mother and gave the royal a huge hug. His mother, Lucy Carroll, looked on proudly and said: 'You know, not every one gets a hug. You are very lucky indeed.' She said afterwards: 'Ollie isn't actually aware of who Harry is but just reacted instinctively to the way he was talking and interacting with him. He is brilliant with kids and just vey natural. 'He was very privileged as Ollie cannot use his legs but he just used his strength of stand up and hug him. I felt really proud of Ollie - and of Harry too! 'I was so touched at the time he took to talk to Ollie. He even knew about his younger sister, Amelia, who is three and has also developed Battens. It was incredible.' Battens occurs as a result of a genetic abnormality, which Mrs Carroll, and her husband Mike, both unknowingly carried the trigger gene for. Just 30 children have the condition in the entire country. Harry met Ollie at the WellChild Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London, attended by stars including Rod Stewart and his wife, Penny Lancaster.