How Kate Middleton, now the Princess of Wales, held up a mirror to our flawed reality – and her own frailty
8 months, 4 weeks ago

How Kate Middleton, now the Princess of Wales, held up a mirror to our flawed reality – and her own frailty

The Independent  

In years to come historians will pore over the Princess of Wales’s modest, pitch-perfect video announcement that she has cancer, and hail it as an epoch-defining moment for the royal family. The Princess of Wales released a recorded message that revealed following her abdominal surgery in January ‘tests after the operation found cancer had been present’ In many ways, this feels more than we deserve. The Princess of Wales name checked each of her children in her moving statement In the light of the stark facts now surrounding Kate’s health, all the usual guff cited at the breaking of a royal story turns to dust. Kate’s vulnerability, her sweet sad messaging, lifted her to the dizzy heights of a new national hero at the same time as it reduced so many of us to feeling like self-involved gossips.

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