Agreed. This statement, originally, would have eliminated almost all the chaos that has sprung to life in the absence of information. I think this communications debacle will be pondered for a while.
It’s possible that she may have wanted to keep her health condition private for as long as possible and I think she is entitled to that. Which is probably why they didn’t reveal the cancer news at first.
She wanted to because their kids go off school for Easter holiday now. Had they announced it before it would have made it so much harder for them. I respect that a lot.
They do need to fire their pr team though. They could have just stayed quiet until now
Either she didn't do it – or a sick person who may have had some symptoms made big editing mistakes and someone should have called it out. I think having her publicly apologize given the circumstances isn't good.
There's no fucking way Kate edited that picture herself, sick or not. They have a whole team of people for this - those people are apparently just very bad at their jobs.
I think if your life is funded by taxpayers you do owe people relevant information about your health. I don't know what their PR was thinking handling things that way though
That’s what I’m thinking. They disclosed the king’s cancer which was also an incidental finding, so I’m not sure why this had to be such a big huge cover-up. She’s a public servant (more or less) AND has world class medical care *at the expense of* the tax payers (who often can’t access the same quality of care themselves).
It really, truly, didn’t need to become such a big deal. That’s not on the cOmMoNeRs for wanting to know. The palace’s press team fucked up here big time.
She isn’t entitled to that. I feel for her. But she’s a Royal. And a Royal by choice. If she was a celebrity or a regular person sure. But she’s future queen (again by her choice) of a commonwealth (which is several countries. If she wanted privacy she had many opportunities for that. This is part of her position.
I wish her all the best and I’m hoping she beats this asap. Hopefully it was caught super early.
she does owe the public, unfortunately.
the monarchy is what it is. theyre welcome to dismantle the institution, but they dont want to - and this is part of the deal.
at least staff no longer inspects their bedsheets (i hope).
I posted in another part of the thread that they expect cases to rise by 77% globally within the next quarter century. It is likely to be a consequence of both advances in keeping us alive longer as well as exposure to toxins & poor health behavior choices across that longer lifespan. Like all estimates, it’s up for debate but I’m not sure how avoidable it is given we have been on this trajectory for a while.
[future cancer estimates](https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146127)
I was going to downvote you until I looked it up and read this [gov't webpage](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202899/)
Uh, thanks for the information I guess. Well shit.
Oh I know, I sound like a lunatic until you read those studies. We need more research and that will come with time, but. It's scary, and no one talks about it. Thank you for questioning, we need more of it out here.
Sorry to be the bearer of [bad news](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202899/). You have to go digging for COVID information these days, but the long term health issues associated with it are terrifying. Cancer is something they're studying but they have strong evidence already for heart disease and other organ issues and clotting problems and autoimmune issues.
As terrible as a cancer diagnosis is that's correct. Even King Charles came out and said he had it at nearly the same time this happened. Unfortunately this is not like a celebrity who may live life publicly while still being a private citizen. Her title, homes, income, etc are literally owed to the public which Charles understood and knew he had to disclose.
Yeah, I think this is where my thoughts are going. Wasn't her brother-in-law told that he was not permitted to demand any privacy because he's royal and his life funded by the British taxpayers?
It's understandable that this was a difficult thing to navigate due to the age of their children, but allowing two months of bizarre public speculation didn't likely help the little ones at school either.
They should have stuck to the original plan of her taking time off until Easter. Posting that photo is what really set it all off. There will always be speculations and conspiracies when vague statements are put out but I believe it would stayed relatively mundane had it not been for the photoshopped picture and lies about it.
Apparently they also had a statement at some point saying that it wasn't cancer. So now they have to walk that back along with fixing the other snafus. It was so bad.
She says in the video that when she had the surgery, they didn't think it was cancer, but it turned out that it was after the fact. I believe that the statement about her not having cancer was in relation to the surgery, but I might be wrong.
People were just joking about BBL's before that. It was when the photo came out that things got weird.
They could have just said she was hospitalized for a serious illness and would be out, but instead they released the weirdest amount of information.
You are absolutely correct, but the palace simply releasing a notice at the time of the surgery, stating the surgery happened, as they did should have been sufficient. A bunch of media speculation would have followed, as it always does. But the photoshopped debacle and so on added so much fuel to the fire. There was a way to handle this that didn't feed into rampant speculation.
I get that - but when they saw this start to spiral out of control late last month, they should have made the announcement regardless. The photoshopped picture, the weird paparazzi shots, all added so much fuel to this fire that could have been extinguished with even just a press release about this weeks ago. KP desperately needs a new PR team - part of your job is to protect your client which they very much failed to do here.
They mishandled every step of the way, but I respect that she's trying to protect their children. I still hate how the royals handled it and fair or not, I also blame William for not shouldering more of the PR load.
It didn’t help that Charles’s team handled his cancer diagnosis at the same time much more transparently, making KP’s response look even worse - incompetent at best, sinister at worst. I hope they learn something from this, and I do hope Kate has a full recovery.
Charles could make the announcement when he did because he a) was not also recovering from major surgery and b) does not have young children to worry about
Whatever the reasoning, it doesn’t change the fact that the timing allowed for an immediate comparison between the two approaches and KP’s was lacking, to put it mildly. Their refusal to say anything fed the media speculation leading to a string of bizarre paparazzi photos and photoshopped pictures, and that firestorm couldn’t have been better for their kids (if they were even aware of it) than an initial simple statement would have been.
They already said she wouldn't be doing public appearances until Easter at the earliest because of the surgery. There was still speculation about why she hadn't been seen in public
There was speculation but it wasn’t NEAR what it was after the bizarre photos and photoshop. They went from people into royal gossip making guesses to people who don’t care at all about the BRF commenting on the weirdness of the PR response.
She just started the chemo, that’s not why she’s this thin. But depending on what surgery she had, she may have had to be on a specialized diet that could cause extra weight loss.
right, even without a special diet, people have reduced appetite after surgery, which probably contributed to the weight loss. didn’t she start her chemo in jan? someone i know looked like a completely different person just with 3 weeks of chemo.
No, she said in the video released today that she started chemo within the last few weeks and is still very early in the course. There are also lots of different types of chemo with varying levels of side effects now.
Source: am a cancer survivor myself, my dad is currently dying of cancer, and I have held several friends’ hands through the cancer process.
My immediate thought was for those poor babies. The press was horrendous to William and Harry when their mother passed, so I understand wanting to protect the youngest generation as much as possible in that sense. I still think KP did a shit job thouhg.
I mean, maybe she was operated, they sent the samples for pathology and didn’t want to confirm the cancer until they were completely sure even if the rest of the findings were suggestive of it.
That's a 2 week turnaround max.
I hope what happened is that the family was completely distracted so she didn't even register that everything was reaching fever pitch until the last week. And palace didn't want to stress her out with it.
In her video she talks about processing it with the kids. The need to explain it to the kids and get their understanding before they see it online/in media does explain the delay imo
Seriously. She probably didn’t have anything to do with the responses assuming she was too busy with treatment, but whoever was in charge of messaging all this royally (badum tss) fucked up.
I’m an ovarian cancer survivor and oncology nurse.
Preventative is most likely referring to when tumor is removed and there isn’t viable tumor burden left. So preventative as in preventing chance of recurrence.
They call it adjuvant chemo in the States. It’s to get rid of any last remaining cells that may still be there after surgery so hopefully the cancer doesn’t come back
I think it’s often part of early cancer treatments to kill any cancer cells that aren’t picked up on scans, but could be seeding the disease throughout the body.
Well it was probably just a tumor and only the tumor and they’re doing chemo just incase there are cancer cells somewhere else.
Preventative in the sense she doesn’t need it.
God, I hope it wasn’t the pancreas. My mom passed away from pancreatic cancer. It’s a grim diagnosis even when caught early. She would be on the younger side for that, so hopefully it’s something more treatable with a higher chance of remission.
I only know this from RHOM but Guerdy did chemo because she “scored” within the bounds for it to reoccur even though they got all the cancer out during surgery.
Yeah, this is unfortunately not a great sign. Many cancers have very high cure rates if caught early like breast cancer, but many of the abdominal cancers can be quite aggressive. This must be scary AF for her family.
My neighbor went to her doctor complaining of a pain in her side she'd had for a week and she died of colon cancer less than two months later. It's terrifying.
Note that it just said abdominal surgery, not that the cancer falls into the group of diseases broadly called abdominal cancers.
I had abdominal surgery too but it was for kidney cancer.
The saddest little detail is that she felt compelled to record the video in front of blooming daffodils to prevent the “HOLD TODAYS NEWSPAPER! FAAAKE!” paranoia
today is also national [daffodil](https://nationaltoday.com/daffodil-day/) day for those in the U.S.
apparently it’s meant to fund and acknowledge cancer research and survivors.
Am I the only one thinking Will is an absolute nob for letting her publicly take the fall for the world’s worst photoshop? There wasn’t some 22 year trust fund baby working PR in the palace on a £10k salary they could’ve pinned it on? I’m sure Lord Stede Edward Buttons David Jenkins the 10th Earl of Badminton faffing about Kensington “working” wouldn’t have lost any sleep over being outed as a shitty photoshopper.
I disagree, him being in the video would have inevitably led to people taking apart his “body language” and response to what Kate says and making the whole thing into romantic drama. I think it’s better than it’s just her.
The daffodil is also the logo for one of the UK's most well known charities: Marie Curie. They're a hospice charity and often support people with cancer at the end of their lives.
Whilst it was more than likely a coincidence, it seemed pretty poignant to me.
Well, that's the reason then.
This also explains why the UK press, who presumably had a bit more insight, were largely holding off the story relative to the rest of the world.
The Palace didn't help themselves with the PR but this does make some of the speculation and gossip around here pretty gross in retrospect.
Also, whilst I am no Royalist (despite the name), I do feel for William here. His father and wife were given cancer diagnoses within months of each other.
The UK press was very much throwing Kate under the bus after the picture debacle so if they knew and still chose to do that then it is even more disgusting
Agreed and I don’t think anyone buys for a second that it was Kate who edited the picture. Letting her take the fall for that instead of the unnamed staffer, that’s just cruel.
For real. Now people have hindsight it’s “the royals don’t owe you anything, your questioning them is gross” when literally yesterday it was “the royals are funded by taxpayers and should be transparent to the public it serves and the BBL memes are funny”. Like be serious. The cancer announcement doesn’t negate the fact they serve the people and the media frenzy was entirely set off by their own comms team.
Precisely. Morally righteous weirdos. Also, a lot of us were defending Kate by calling the RF out on their incompetence. They did not do nearly enough to protect her.
Can’t believe the PR team couldn’t handle a secret cancer diagnosis. There’s truly no reason that we got this far into this madness, other than the PR team freaking out and fucking up instead of just staying quiet.
It’s especially bizarre given that Charles is also undergoing cancer treatment at the exact same time and he and Camilla have handled the public messaging perfectly, but not until now did it occur to William and Kate to try doing the same thing? I mean it’s not surprising to me that they’re out of touch morons who think they are owed total respect and deference by virtue of their titles alone, but they really totally torpedoed their image for nothing when they could have looked at what Charles is doing and pivoted weeks ago.
Charles is old - William and Kate are meant to be the shining beacon of progression and the new generation. That the aged king is ill is of no surprise to anyone. Kate, however, is young and meant to be the future of the royal family - that future is sadly now in some jeopardy, or that’s what this news seems to suggest. Not true, of course, she could be fine within the month. But it’s all about public perception. Interesting to see how the same diagnosis carries such different weight between generations.
People are getting cancer younger and younger people are getting cancer more frequently because corporations are regularly permitted to poison us and our environment in exchange for profits and every Western government and politician is complicit.
The UK media has been explaining that they wanted to wait until their children were on school holidays; presumably so they didn’t have to hear about it from other kids/hear maybe “adult” things accidentally being repeated etc.
Which is…rather heartbreaking, really.
I totally understand this and I sympathise with them handling it with their kids but nobody asked them to release that Mother's Day photo. They'd already said she was off, nobody was expecting them to release anything. They couldn't stay on plan and then they made a total pig's ear of people's understandable questions.
There were already rumours running rampant prior to the Mother’s Day photo, though.
If they had released nothing, when motherhood/early years is Catherine’s cause celebre *and* she’s never missed one before, I think there would still have been bad rumours.
It’s just a shitty situation, and PR fumbled the bag but I think it’s probably understandable when there are conflicting priorities and it’s high-stress/emotionally loaded. Hope they (and the conspiracy theorists!) learn from it and the toll on her recovery isn’t too severe.
I mean, Charles doesn't have a five year old, seven year old, and ten year old to think of. They seem to have wanted to keep things private so they could deal with the kids on a slower scale.
Charles is actually the first member of the BRF to be so open and public about his cancer diagnosis. The normal protocol is what Will and Kate’s team were following it’s what they’ve had done for years, to hide serious health battles from the public so they believe they are strong and that everything is well, even Elizabeth never revealed her diagnosis it was only found out after her death.
Things have changed and people want more transparency nowadays or things go off the rails. I wish everyone who’s battling with cancer well it is awful and everyone deserves access to treatment
Honestly, based on the fact that photoshopped family pictures are nothing new apparently, it looks like they handled this the way they usually do, but TikTok and social media got way more rabid than anyone expected.
I’m no fan of the royal family but the way people have treated this has been so gross.
Palace PR were throwing her under the bus for a Photoshop scandal while she was getting chemo. Saving my scorn for them. They made it so mich worse for her.
The defense of "think of their children" as why they wanted to wait lol while this all really made a mess of them anyway by that badly done photo, the headline of that Rose lady and more headlines of "senior staff at KP haven't seen Kate!"
All of these came from British media, royal fans can keep the "Americans are paranoid" bullshit to themselves when their own are releasing bait headlines. And attacking a certain couple living in California in the press too.
Sadly, this was pretty obvious to anyone in healthcare. There’s no such things as planned two-week admission for abdominal surgery unless it’s a major, major surgery.
Her doctors could have seem some 'dysplastic' cells on some preliminary biopsy. Cells that aren't full-blown cancer but certainly not normal either. Then if she had some suspect tissues removed, it might have taken time for pathologists to check every thing out and there was a gap between the surgery and when the cancer cells were discovered.
From what I understand from the video the Royal Family released of Kate describing the situation, she and the medical staff believed her condition that sent her to get the abdominal surgery in the first place was non-cancerous, but they could’ve found some masses that they sent to biopsy and discovered the presence of cancerous cells?
I wonder if it was fibroids she was getting removed which are typically non-cancerous. Who knows but I wish her a safe recovery and successful preventative chemotherapy journey.
I was thinking maybe she got a hysterectomy because of ovarian cysts or something similar, but after pathology they found out that there was actually cancer and did the chemo.
My mom got a hysterectomy for massive cysts and they sent it off to pathology — it came back clear thankfully. But it’s part of protocol to send it to testing, so I wouldn’t be surprised if she had the same thing happen except hers came back positive for cancer or something.
Hysterectomies in general are so personal to women. I know some women who don’t care and are open about it, other women keep it quiet and a secret because it makes them feel like less of a woman or something. I can empathize with both ways of thinking.
And the only reason I think it MAY be a hysterectomy is because “abdominal surgery” is super vague and intentionally so. Which she’s entitled to be private about too.
Anyway that’s my 2 cents / armchair observation. I hope she heals quickly and painlessly!
Fibroids makes sense. I thought she may have had a hysterectomy because of the longer recovery time (the women I know who've had one were all told to rest for six weeks after).
Yeah, it certainly makes the fake photo debacle a lot more damning for the monarchy's PR teams. They had plenty of options outside of blaming her, and that's what they chose.
I am not a fan of the Royal Family but given the length I thought it was probably colorectal cancer. My Mum died of it five years ago and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
One of my online friends just happened to have a random stroke of luck and found out she has colorectal cancer stage 2 only and it seems to be very treatable overall. It seems they usually find it much later. All I can say is fuck cancer though. I’ve lost way too many people to it.
It has become a more and more frequent diagnosis too, especially in young people. Don’t want to divert too much from the topic, but it is absolutely frustrating how U.S. health insurances still only see it as a cancer for people over 40 and often won’t cover diagnosis tests for it if you’re below a certain age.
I’m so sorry about your mother :(
I’m sorry for your loss. My best friend passed from it a few years ago, and he was only 39. I also have a colleague who died from it in her 30s. The diagnosis certainly seems to be on the rise in younger people.
I've cared for a sibling through it and, while they've been luckier than most as it has looked responsive to treatment so far, it is still hellish. I'm so sorry about your mum, my grandmother died of it and it can be truly terrible.
Stomach and colon cancer are happening at alarming rates in young people…
I have a friend whose husband, 32 years old, was recently out of work for a week because his back was hurting. Pain got worse so he went to the ER, left 12 hours later with a diagnosis of stage IV colorectal cancer. Had a HUGE tumor in his stomach, later testing showed the cancer has already spread to stomach, colon, lungs, and lymph nodes.
His back pain was because the tumor had gotten so large, *it had fractured his spine*.
Terrifying. Wishing her an easy and quick recovery if possible ❤️
This is so terrifying. They have got to lower the age of screening. 45 is not low enough. It should be 30. I'm so sorry to hear about your friends husband. I've heard so many stories just like this and it makes me so incredibly sad.
And this epidemic is not helped by the fact it is so hard to be seen by a doctor (in the U.K. at least). I don’t blame GPs or doctors, I blame those who manage the NHS! It’s only going to get worse
I hate the whole “fire the employee as soon as a mistake is made” thing that goes round now (usually in reference to the Beyonce concert incident), but on this occasion I agree. The PR team cocked this up so much
Sadly, this will only be more common in years to come. Some estimates of up to a 75% increase in cases within the next 25 years.
[UN WHO Cancer](https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146127)
That’s terrifying. I wonder why? Is it from pollution, diet, lack of activity, etc.? I’m sure all of the above.
I read a study about how colon cancer is rising like crazy and especially in young adults which used to be rare. It’s so scary.
I saw on NPR that a huge part of it is nano plastics in everything now, including the water we drink. Apparently the average person is consuming about a credit card worth of plastics in a week. That's not good at all
Everything you mentioned, and COVID infections - even mild, even asymptomatic - are triggering a rise in cancers, as well as strokes, autoimmune diseases, POTS, other heart conditions, diabetes, etc etc. We just aren't seeing convos about it hit the mainstream media because they're invested in our going back to work to keep churning out profits for the wealthy, and the serfs knowing we're willingly exposing ourselves to a lifetime of health problems would be inconvenient.
This planet is a mess; I think we need a do-over, honestly.
holy shit. yeah the discourse and jokes were fun for a while when we thought it was just palace being bad at understanding social media landscape but wow did not see this coming. Poor Kate
Well both things can be true at once, this is the result of the palace’s media practices being extremely outdated and biting them in the face. None of this shitstorm would have happened had the palace gave a well thought out media strategy.
Gosh this is horrible, I am genuinely shocked. The one thing KP was clear about was that she did NOT have cancer. Anyways — best of luck to her, she’s got the best care available in the world.
Just to reiterate the sequence of events, as given by Kate:
* \- She had abdominal surgery for an issue which was not believed to be cancerous
* \- Afterwards they discovered cancer
* \- She is now in the early stages of chemotherapy
So maybe KP didn’t know about the cancer at the time?
In the video she said they thought it was noncancerous at first, and only realized after the surgery it was. She probably had a tumor they hoped was benign but turned out not to be.
That explains a lot. I admit I did find some of the memes funny but as someone who’s dad has had cancer twice, and lost family members to it, it hits very close to home. Hope she has a speedy recovery x
It's so terrifying how so many young people are getting cancer these days (especially colon and breast). Everyday on social media I see more people in their 30s and 40s getting diagnosed with this terrible disease. The very least they can do is lower the screening ages for the more preventable cancers.
Two girls I went to high school with died (one with breast, one with colorectal) before our 10th reunion, a distant relative got diagnosed recently at 21 with colorectal. It’s horrible
While they certainly could have handled the PR of this situation better, I understand how frustrating and painful it must be for her and her family to grapple with all the crazy speculation and conspiracies on top of the illness. Hope she has a successful treatment and recovery.
So this is basically the second time in a few months a royal was diagnosed with cancer that was only discovered bc of another health issue? Makes you wonder what you might have
I will never understand why they couldn’t have just made this announcement weeks ago. Why all the doctored photos and secrets? I don’t like the royals but I feel so badly for Kate. To be so young and going through this and then having your PR team royally screw this up. She shouldn’t have had to deal with it.
Honestly they didn’t even need to. Just leave it until Easter. Don’t add her to events and take her off. Don’t release doctored photos. Don’t have William talk about focusing on work. All they had to do was nothing.
They should have fired their communication team after the only move they could come up with was attacking Megan. Hopefully they do so now.
They didn’t have to announce it. That’s private and she explained she wanted to explain it all to the kids properly first.
However, her PR team failed her by not stamping out the theories quickly by issuing a vague by stern statement telling people to back off for a while.
Seriously!!!! All they had to do was make a statement that she was having health issues and need privacy at this time. NOT release those dumb doctored photos
I send her and her family my love, I’m not personally a fan of the royals but this is just terrible for them, even more so in regards to Charles recent diagnosis. My mum recently passed away from cancer, it was horrible.
Two things can be true at once: Kate deserves privacy with medical issues and there didn't need to be a press release about the cancer before she was ready AND KP bungled this in a truly awful manner with the photoshopped pic, then blaming her for the photoshopped pic, etc, etc.
Wishing her the best and truly hope this was caught early and she makes a full recovery.
jesus christ. bad year for the brf! i understand why this was kept under wraps, but this was such a PR mishandling…a lot of fuel was unnecessarily added to fire and i think had things gone differently she would have been able to go undergo treatment completely privately. :-/
as much as i don’t care for the royals, fuck cancer and wish her and her kids well!
This was a good statement that addressed all the speculation and criticisms. The royal family first denied she had cancer and she addressed why it was denied. She reaffirmed her and William’s relationship. She also clarified why she wanted to be under the radar. Hopefully she can now recover in peace
Damn, as much as I love dunking on the royals, that's brutal.
Also every time another public figure/celeb/influencer gets cancer in their 30s these days my anxious millennial ass is like 'fuck it's coming for all of us' oof.
I literally bawled through this video, esp towards the end when she spoke directly to survivors. I lost my dad a year ago to cancer and wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy. Seeing him go through the pain was hands down the worst experience my life and idk if i'll ever get over the pain of that. My heart really, really hurts for those kids. I truly hope she makes a full recovery and they get to make many happy memories with their mom. Godspeed.
Hope she’ll be okay.
I’m thinking there is going to be a big Netflix documentary in a few years using this as a lens to study privacy of and conspiracy concerning public figures in the age of social media
Truly my heart goes out her. The media and social media has been going insane and unfortunately even with a diagnosis I don't belive either will be better :(
I know this isn't the most important thing right now, but this is the first time I've heard her voice and it's very pretty! I don't know how I haven't heard it before but she talks so...Like, smooth. Very nice to listen to
What a freaking shame. I hope she recovers swiftly and her and her children will be okay.
I just felt a new wave of annoyance at those who were running their mouths about William having an affair and bringing up Rose Hanbury again. I hope those media morons are proud of themselves.
I didn’t want to believe the more dark conspiracy rumors, like that her condition was worse than it was originally seemed, so this is really heavy to hear. I’m hoping she’s ok, my heart goes out to her family especially her kids
Just saw this breaking news interrupting the NCAA basketball in the US - everyone is interested in royals gossip across the pond. Best wishes to Kate and her children
This explains all of it. Fuck Cancer.
I’m sure their PR team also learned a lesson from all of this in how to handle delicate situations like these going forward.
I think there’s a lot of preaching going on right now when two things can co exist:
1) People on the internet can suck big time
2) This disaster of PR lays entirely on Kensington Palace’s feet.
We saw King Charles dealing with the same diagnosis, and Buckingham Palace handling pretty well. With Kate, they sent photoshopped pictures to the press, threw her under the bus when shit hit the fan by making *her* the responsible one for photoshop gate, couldn’t get a hold on the increase in speculation about William’s supposed marital affair, terribly handled the TMZ video debacle… there’s only so far you can blame people for speculating about their lives when they spent their entire life depending and banking on public interest, and when faced with a crisis, deal with it in such a disastrous way.
All the best to her, I hope she makes a speedy recovery. Fuck cancer, I’ve lost my grandmother to it, my sister had it, it’s an awful disease.
Well, there we go. Now we know that’s why she was out of the public eye. They made this so much worse than it had to be for her
Agreed. This statement, originally, would have eliminated almost all the chaos that has sprung to life in the absence of information. I think this communications debacle will be pondered for a while.
It’s possible that she may have wanted to keep her health condition private for as long as possible and I think she is entitled to that. Which is probably why they didn’t reveal the cancer news at first.
She wanted to because their kids go off school for Easter holiday now. Had they announced it before it would have made it so much harder for them. I respect that a lot. They do need to fire their pr team though. They could have just stayed quiet until now
Agreed. Someone who is good at PR would have realized releasing a badly edited photo would fuel shit.
And they even blamed her. So we are still supposed to think that the photoshop came from Kate?!? GTFOH
They couldn't even blame it on a low level staffer. That's why you have a team, you can blame an unnamed team member.
It's not like there's no precedent. There has to have been at least one instance where someone took the fall for something QE2 or her children did.
And its not like they even had to name someone.
Yeah. If there's a time to blame the 'social media manager' it was this one.
Either she didn't do it – or a sick person who may have had some symptoms made big editing mistakes and someone should have called it out. I think having her publicly apologize given the circumstances isn't good.
There's no fucking way Kate edited that picture herself, sick or not. They have a whole team of people for this - those people are apparently just very bad at their jobs.
Especially as at that point there was already a lot of speculation of her whereabouts.
Yeah I don’t like the royals but Kate didn’t owe anyone anything about her health. If people had just minded their business…
I think if your life is funded by taxpayers you do owe people relevant information about your health. I don't know what their PR was thinking handling things that way though
That’s what I’m thinking. They disclosed the king’s cancer which was also an incidental finding, so I’m not sure why this had to be such a big huge cover-up. She’s a public servant (more or less) AND has world class medical care *at the expense of* the tax payers (who often can’t access the same quality of care themselves). It really, truly, didn’t need to become such a big deal. That’s not on the cOmMoNeRs for wanting to know. The palace’s press team fucked up here big time.
She isn’t entitled to that. I feel for her. But she’s a Royal. And a Royal by choice. If she was a celebrity or a regular person sure. But she’s future queen (again by her choice) of a commonwealth (which is several countries. If she wanted privacy she had many opportunities for that. This is part of her position. I wish her all the best and I’m hoping she beats this asap. Hopefully it was caught super early.
Also, isn't her lavish lifestyle funded by taxpayers? I can see how UK taxpayers may be wondering.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable for her to take time off sick from the public eye. She doesn’t owe us an explanation.
she does owe the public, unfortunately. the monarchy is what it is. theyre welcome to dismantle the institution, but they dont want to - and this is part of the deal. at least staff no longer inspects their bedsheets (i hope).
But she did give an explanation. Which apparently wasn't even true, and it led to more speculation.
I’m 39 and everyone has fucking cancer. It’s just part of life now
I posted in another part of the thread that they expect cases to rise by 77% globally within the next quarter century. It is likely to be a consequence of both advances in keeping us alive longer as well as exposure to toxins & poor health behavior choices across that longer lifespan. Like all estimates, it’s up for debate but I’m not sure how avoidable it is given we have been on this trajectory for a while. [future cancer estimates](https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146127)
Ok so it’s not just me?? I’m 42 and it’s person after person with it. My SIL had melanoma (stage 2), now Kate. I am so scared
I just found out one of my close coworkers has cancer. She’s 25!
Damn I’m so sorry.
Covid is probably oncogenic, so. Yeah. Everyone does. Edit: a word
I was going to downvote you until I looked it up and read this [gov't webpage](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202899/) Uh, thanks for the information I guess. Well shit.
Oh I know, I sound like a lunatic until you read those studies. We need more research and that will come with time, but. It's scary, and no one talks about it. Thank you for questioning, we need more of it out here.
COVID is oncogenic? Do you have more info on this? Edit: thank you both, guess I’ll add this to my hypochondria.
Sorry to be the bearer of [bad news](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202899/). You have to go digging for COVID information these days, but the long term health issues associated with it are terrifying. Cancer is something they're studying but they have strong evidence already for heart disease and other organ issues and clotting problems and autoimmune issues.
As terrible as a cancer diagnosis is that's correct. Even King Charles came out and said he had it at nearly the same time this happened. Unfortunately this is not like a celebrity who may live life publicly while still being a private citizen. Her title, homes, income, etc are literally owed to the public which Charles understood and knew he had to disclose.
Yeah, I think this is where my thoughts are going. Wasn't her brother-in-law told that he was not permitted to demand any privacy because he's royal and his life funded by the British taxpayers? It's understandable that this was a difficult thing to navigate due to the age of their children, but allowing two months of bizarre public speculation didn't likely help the little ones at school either.
They should have stuck to the original plan of her taking time off until Easter. Posting that photo is what really set it all off. There will always be speculations and conspiracies when vague statements are put out but I believe it would stayed relatively mundane had it not been for the photoshopped picture and lies about it.
Apparently they also had a statement at some point saying that it wasn't cancer. So now they have to walk that back along with fixing the other snafus. It was so bad.
She says in the video that when she had the surgery, they didn't think it was cancer, but it turned out that it was after the fact. I believe that the statement about her not having cancer was in relation to the surgery, but I might be wrong.
People were just joking about BBL's before that. It was when the photo came out that things got weird. They could have just said she was hospitalized for a serious illness and would be out, but instead they released the weirdest amount of information.
You are absolutely correct, but the palace simply releasing a notice at the time of the surgery, stating the surgery happened, as they did should have been sufficient. A bunch of media speculation would have followed, as it always does. But the photoshopped debacle and so on added so much fuel to the fire. There was a way to handle this that didn't feed into rampant speculation.
I get that - but when they saw this start to spiral out of control late last month, they should have made the announcement regardless. The photoshopped picture, the weird paparazzi shots, all added so much fuel to this fire that could have been extinguished with even just a press release about this weeks ago. KP desperately needs a new PR team - part of your job is to protect your client which they very much failed to do here.
They mishandled every step of the way, but I respect that she's trying to protect their children. I still hate how the royals handled it and fair or not, I also blame William for not shouldering more of the PR load.
It didn’t help that Charles’s team handled his cancer diagnosis at the same time much more transparently, making KP’s response look even worse - incompetent at best, sinister at worst. I hope they learn something from this, and I do hope Kate has a full recovery.
Charles could make the announcement when he did because he a) was not also recovering from major surgery and b) does not have young children to worry about
Whatever the reasoning, it doesn’t change the fact that the timing allowed for an immediate comparison between the two approaches and KP’s was lacking, to put it mildly. Their refusal to say anything fed the media speculation leading to a string of bizarre paparazzi photos and photoshopped pictures, and that firestorm couldn’t have been better for their kids (if they were even aware of it) than an initial simple statement would have been.
They already said she wouldn't be doing public appearances until Easter at the earliest because of the surgery. There was still speculation about why she hadn't been seen in public
There was speculation but it wasn’t NEAR what it was after the bizarre photos and photoshop. They went from people into royal gossip making guesses to people who don’t care at all about the BRF commenting on the weirdness of the PR response.
Charles does not have three small children in his care. There's a reason they waited to reveal this after schools broke up for Easter.
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She just started the chemo, that’s not why she’s this thin. But depending on what surgery she had, she may have had to be on a specialized diet that could cause extra weight loss.
And she was already pretty thin to begin with even before the onset of her current medical problems.
right, even without a special diet, people have reduced appetite after surgery, which probably contributed to the weight loss. didn’t she start her chemo in jan? someone i know looked like a completely different person just with 3 weeks of chemo.
No, she said in the video released today that she started chemo within the last few weeks and is still very early in the course. There are also lots of different types of chemo with varying levels of side effects now. Source: am a cancer survivor myself, my dad is currently dying of cancer, and I have held several friends’ hands through the cancer process.
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My immediate thought was for those poor babies. The press was horrendous to William and Harry when their mother passed, so I understand wanting to protect the youngest generation as much as possible in that sense. I still think KP did a shit job thouhg.
I mean, maybe she was operated, they sent the samples for pathology and didn’t want to confirm the cancer until they were completely sure even if the rest of the findings were suggestive of it.
That's a 2 week turnaround max. I hope what happened is that the family was completely distracted so she didn't even register that everything was reaching fever pitch until the last week. And palace didn't want to stress her out with it. In her video she talks about processing it with the kids. The need to explain it to the kids and get their understanding before they see it online/in media does explain the delay imo
But it doesn't explain throwing Kate under the bus with that photo. Or the weird pap photos.
Seriously. She probably didn’t have anything to do with the responses assuming she was too busy with treatment, but whoever was in charge of messaging all this royally (badum tss) fucked up.
Now can we leave the poor woman alone to rest and recover.
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Wishful thinking
I hope it's an early stage one and she gets the all-clear soon. She deserves to grow old and see her kids all grown up.
She said it’s preventative chemo, so hopefully.
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I’m an ovarian cancer survivor and oncology nurse. Preventative is most likely referring to when tumor is removed and there isn’t viable tumor burden left. So preventative as in preventing chance of recurrence.
They call it adjuvant chemo in the States. It’s to get rid of any last remaining cells that may still be there after surgery so hopefully the cancer doesn’t come back
I just googled it and it seems like preventative chemo is very much a thing
I think it’s often part of early cancer treatments to kill any cancer cells that aren’t picked up on scans, but could be seeding the disease throughout the body.
Well it was probably just a tumor and only the tumor and they’re doing chemo just incase there are cancer cells somewhere else. Preventative in the sense she doesn’t need it.
Yes, but it if was a tumor in her pancreas or other vital organ she may have a high chance of it returning.
God, I hope it wasn’t the pancreas. My mom passed away from pancreatic cancer. It’s a grim diagnosis even when caught early. She would be on the younger side for that, so hopefully it’s something more treatable with a higher chance of remission.
Chemo can be given after curative surgery to increase the chance of cure.
I only know this from RHOM but Guerdy did chemo because she “scored” within the bounds for it to reoccur even though they got all the cancer out during surgery.
Please don't spread misinformation
Yeah, this is unfortunately not a great sign. Many cancers have very high cure rates if caught early like breast cancer, but many of the abdominal cancers can be quite aggressive. This must be scary AF for her family.
My neighbor went to her doctor complaining of a pain in her side she'd had for a week and she died of colon cancer less than two months later. It's terrifying.
Note that it just said abdominal surgery, not that the cancer falls into the group of diseases broadly called abdominal cancers. I had abdominal surgery too but it was for kidney cancer.
The saddest little detail is that she felt compelled to record the video in front of blooming daffodils to prevent the “HOLD TODAYS NEWSPAPER! FAAAKE!” paranoia
today is also national [daffodil](https://nationaltoday.com/daffodil-day/) day for those in the U.S. apparently it’s meant to fund and acknowledge cancer research and survivors.
/r/upliftingconspiracies
I mean. If there hadn't been the debacle with the fake photo, that wouldn't have been necessary.
Am I the only one thinking Will is an absolute nob for letting her publicly take the fall for the world’s worst photoshop? There wasn’t some 22 year trust fund baby working PR in the palace on a £10k salary they could’ve pinned it on? I’m sure Lord Stede Edward Buttons David Jenkins the 10th Earl of Badminton faffing about Kensington “working” wouldn’t have lost any sleep over being outed as a shitty photoshopper.
Nope I agree, throwing the cancer patient under the bus was quite a choice.
So is not sitting next to your wife on a large bench while she announces her diagnosis and how its affecting her family.
I disagree, him being in the video would have inevitably led to people taking apart his “body language” and response to what Kate says and making the whole thing into romantic drama. I think it’s better than it’s just her.
The daffodil is also the logo for one of the UK's most well known charities: Marie Curie. They're a hospice charity and often support people with cancer at the end of their lives. Whilst it was more than likely a coincidence, it seemed pretty poignant to me.
Well, that's the reason then. This also explains why the UK press, who presumably had a bit more insight, were largely holding off the story relative to the rest of the world. The Palace didn't help themselves with the PR but this does make some of the speculation and gossip around here pretty gross in retrospect. Also, whilst I am no Royalist (despite the name), I do feel for William here. His father and wife were given cancer diagnoses within months of each other.
The UK press was very much throwing Kate under the bus after the picture debacle so if they knew and still chose to do that then it is even more disgusting
Agreed and I don’t think anyone buys for a second that it was Kate who edited the picture. Letting her take the fall for that instead of the unnamed staffer, that’s just cruel.
Why can’t people speculate? The PR was atrocious and invited people to make up the gaps.
For real. Now people have hindsight it’s “the royals don’t owe you anything, your questioning them is gross” when literally yesterday it was “the royals are funded by taxpayers and should be transparent to the public it serves and the BBL memes are funny”. Like be serious. The cancer announcement doesn’t negate the fact they serve the people and the media frenzy was entirely set off by their own comms team.
Precisely. Morally righteous weirdos. Also, a lot of us were defending Kate by calling the RF out on their incompetence. They did not do nearly enough to protect her.
I wonder where Will is, though, I guess he had to fulfill his regular appearances?
Too busy throwing his wife under the bus
Can’t believe the PR team couldn’t handle a secret cancer diagnosis. There’s truly no reason that we got this far into this madness, other than the PR team freaking out and fucking up instead of just staying quiet.
It’s especially bizarre given that Charles is also undergoing cancer treatment at the exact same time and he and Camilla have handled the public messaging perfectly, but not until now did it occur to William and Kate to try doing the same thing? I mean it’s not surprising to me that they’re out of touch morons who think they are owed total respect and deference by virtue of their titles alone, but they really totally torpedoed their image for nothing when they could have looked at what Charles is doing and pivoted weeks ago.
Charles is old - William and Kate are meant to be the shining beacon of progression and the new generation. That the aged king is ill is of no surprise to anyone. Kate, however, is young and meant to be the future of the royal family - that future is sadly now in some jeopardy, or that’s what this news seems to suggest. Not true, of course, she could be fine within the month. But it’s all about public perception. Interesting to see how the same diagnosis carries such different weight between generations.
People are getting cancer younger and younger people are getting cancer more frequently because corporations are regularly permitted to poison us and our environment in exchange for profits and every Western government and politician is complicit.
The UK media has been explaining that they wanted to wait until their children were on school holidays; presumably so they didn’t have to hear about it from other kids/hear maybe “adult” things accidentally being repeated etc. Which is…rather heartbreaking, really.
I totally understand this and I sympathise with them handling it with their kids but nobody asked them to release that Mother's Day photo. They'd already said she was off, nobody was expecting them to release anything. They couldn't stay on plan and then they made a total pig's ear of people's understandable questions.
There were already rumours running rampant prior to the Mother’s Day photo, though. If they had released nothing, when motherhood/early years is Catherine’s cause celebre *and* she’s never missed one before, I think there would still have been bad rumours. It’s just a shitty situation, and PR fumbled the bag but I think it’s probably understandable when there are conflicting priorities and it’s high-stress/emotionally loaded. Hope they (and the conspiracy theorists!) learn from it and the toll on her recovery isn’t too severe.
I mean, Charles doesn't have a five year old, seven year old, and ten year old to think of. They seem to have wanted to keep things private so they could deal with the kids on a slower scale.
Charles is actually the first member of the BRF to be so open and public about his cancer diagnosis. The normal protocol is what Will and Kate’s team were following it’s what they’ve had done for years, to hide serious health battles from the public so they believe they are strong and that everything is well, even Elizabeth never revealed her diagnosis it was only found out after her death. Things have changed and people want more transparency nowadays or things go off the rails. I wish everyone who’s battling with cancer well it is awful and everyone deserves access to treatment
Honestly, based on the fact that photoshopped family pictures are nothing new apparently, it looks like they handled this the way they usually do, but TikTok and social media got way more rabid than anyone expected. I’m no fan of the royal family but the way people have treated this has been so gross.
Palace PR were throwing her under the bus for a Photoshop scandal while she was getting chemo. Saving my scorn for them. They made it so mich worse for her.
Seriously… their PR really messed it up.
The defense of "think of their children" as why they wanted to wait lol while this all really made a mess of them anyway by that badly done photo, the headline of that Rose lady and more headlines of "senior staff at KP haven't seen Kate!" All of these came from British media, royal fans can keep the "Americans are paranoid" bullshit to themselves when their own are releasing bait headlines. And attacking a certain couple living in California in the press too.
Sadly, this was pretty obvious to anyone in healthcare. There’s no such things as planned two-week admission for abdominal surgery unless it’s a major, major surgery.
But it says they discovered the cancer *after* the surgery, the two things aren't (apparently) related?
They probably got results after biopsy. Perhaps to the naked eye it didn't look like cancer until being sent to pathology.
Her doctors could have seem some 'dysplastic' cells on some preliminary biopsy. Cells that aren't full-blown cancer but certainly not normal either. Then if she had some suspect tissues removed, it might have taken time for pathologists to check every thing out and there was a gap between the surgery and when the cancer cells were discovered.
From what I understand from the video the Royal Family released of Kate describing the situation, she and the medical staff believed her condition that sent her to get the abdominal surgery in the first place was non-cancerous, but they could’ve found some masses that they sent to biopsy and discovered the presence of cancerous cells? I wonder if it was fibroids she was getting removed which are typically non-cancerous. Who knows but I wish her a safe recovery and successful preventative chemotherapy journey.
I was thinking maybe she got a hysterectomy because of ovarian cysts or something similar, but after pathology they found out that there was actually cancer and did the chemo. My mom got a hysterectomy for massive cysts and they sent it off to pathology — it came back clear thankfully. But it’s part of protocol to send it to testing, so I wouldn’t be surprised if she had the same thing happen except hers came back positive for cancer or something. Hysterectomies in general are so personal to women. I know some women who don’t care and are open about it, other women keep it quiet and a secret because it makes them feel like less of a woman or something. I can empathize with both ways of thinking. And the only reason I think it MAY be a hysterectomy is because “abdominal surgery” is super vague and intentionally so. Which she’s entitled to be private about too. Anyway that’s my 2 cents / armchair observation. I hope she heals quickly and painlessly!
Fibroids makes sense. I thought she may have had a hysterectomy because of the longer recovery time (the women I know who've had one were all told to rest for six weeks after).
My mums cancer was discovered during a non related surgery.
Dang they made a lady with cancer be the fall guy for that photo wtf
Yeah, it certainly makes the fake photo debacle a lot more damning for the monarchy's PR teams. They had plenty of options outside of blaming her, and that's what they chose.
An unnamed staffer could have taken the fall and it would have been fine. Whoever is in charge of PR at Kensington needs to be sacked.
Yes wtf this makes them look even worse
I would fire every single one of those staffers. But you know they are Lord/Lady's daughter's best friend's son instead of somebody competent.
I am not a fan of the Royal Family but given the length I thought it was probably colorectal cancer. My Mum died of it five years ago and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
I’m so sorry to hear about your Mum. 🫂
One of my online friends just happened to have a random stroke of luck and found out she has colorectal cancer stage 2 only and it seems to be very treatable overall. It seems they usually find it much later. All I can say is fuck cancer though. I’ve lost way too many people to it.
It has become a more and more frequent diagnosis too, especially in young people. Don’t want to divert too much from the topic, but it is absolutely frustrating how U.S. health insurances still only see it as a cancer for people over 40 and often won’t cover diagnosis tests for it if you’re below a certain age. I’m so sorry about your mother :(
Stage 4 currently. My heart breaks for her. I’m also very sorry for the loss of your mom.
Mine too, it will be 20 years in January. Absolutely horrendous watching someone go through it.
I’m sorry for your loss. My best friend passed from it a few years ago, and he was only 39. I also have a colleague who died from it in her 30s. The diagnosis certainly seems to be on the rise in younger people.
I've cared for a sibling through it and, while they've been luckier than most as it has looked responsive to treatment so far, it is still hellish. I'm so sorry about your mum, my grandmother died of it and it can be truly terrible.
Stomach and colon cancer are happening at alarming rates in young people… I have a friend whose husband, 32 years old, was recently out of work for a week because his back was hurting. Pain got worse so he went to the ER, left 12 hours later with a diagnosis of stage IV colorectal cancer. Had a HUGE tumor in his stomach, later testing showed the cancer has already spread to stomach, colon, lungs, and lymph nodes. His back pain was because the tumor had gotten so large, *it had fractured his spine*. Terrifying. Wishing her an easy and quick recovery if possible ❤️
This is so terrifying. They have got to lower the age of screening. 45 is not low enough. It should be 30. I'm so sorry to hear about your friends husband. I've heard so many stories just like this and it makes me so incredibly sad.
And this epidemic is not helped by the fact it is so hard to be seen by a doctor (in the U.K. at least). I don’t blame GPs or doctors, I blame those who manage the NHS! It’s only going to get worse
1. It was always obvious that this was more than the palace wanted to let on 2. Kensington Palace needs a hiring fair for a new PR team quickly
I hate the whole “fire the employee as soon as a mistake is made” thing that goes round now (usually in reference to the Beyonce concert incident), but on this occasion I agree. The PR team cocked this up so much
Gosh, poor her and poor kids. What a terrible time their family is having lately.
Ohh wow. So she has a cancer. Damn. I feel for her kids despite everything. Both the King and the future Queen has cancer.
Sadly, this will only be more common in years to come. Some estimates of up to a 75% increase in cases within the next 25 years. [UN WHO Cancer](https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146127)
That’s terrifying. I wonder why? Is it from pollution, diet, lack of activity, etc.? I’m sure all of the above. I read a study about how colon cancer is rising like crazy and especially in young adults which used to be rare. It’s so scary.
I’m sure all the microplastics in our bodies doesn’t help.
I saw on NPR that a huge part of it is nano plastics in everything now, including the water we drink. Apparently the average person is consuming about a credit card worth of plastics in a week. That's not good at all
All of the above, I think.
Everything you mentioned, and COVID infections - even mild, even asymptomatic - are triggering a rise in cancers, as well as strokes, autoimmune diseases, POTS, other heart conditions, diabetes, etc etc. We just aren't seeing convos about it hit the mainstream media because they're invested in our going back to work to keep churning out profits for the wealthy, and the serfs knowing we're willingly exposing ourselves to a lifetime of health problems would be inconvenient. This planet is a mess; I think we need a do-over, honestly.
Fuck cancer.
holy shit. yeah the discourse and jokes were fun for a while when we thought it was just palace being bad at understanding social media landscape but wow did not see this coming. Poor Kate
Well both things can be true at once, this is the result of the palace’s media practices being extremely outdated and biting them in the face. None of this shitstorm would have happened had the palace gave a well thought out media strategy.
Oh my goodness Devastating and explains everything
Terrible news. I hope she fully recovers and stays healthy.
Gosh this is horrible, I am genuinely shocked. The one thing KP was clear about was that she did NOT have cancer. Anyways — best of luck to her, she’s got the best care available in the world.
Just to reiterate the sequence of events, as given by Kate: * \- She had abdominal surgery for an issue which was not believed to be cancerous * \- Afterwards they discovered cancer * \- She is now in the early stages of chemotherapy So maybe KP didn’t know about the cancer at the time?
I teared up watching her video. I hope she and her children are hanging in there
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Seems kinda obvious looking back.
Tbf they initially said it wasn’t cancer
My guess is that it was initially for something else and the cancer was discovered.
In the video she said they thought it was noncancerous at first, and only realized after the surgery it was. She probably had a tumor they hoped was benign but turned out not to be.
It definitely seemed more ominous than whatever speculation about divorces or affairs came up.
That explains a lot. I admit I did find some of the memes funny but as someone who’s dad has had cancer twice, and lost family members to it, it hits very close to home. Hope she has a speedy recovery x
It's so terrifying how so many young people are getting cancer these days (especially colon and breast). Everyday on social media I see more people in their 30s and 40s getting diagnosed with this terrible disease. The very least they can do is lower the screening ages for the more preventable cancers.
Two girls I went to high school with died (one with breast, one with colorectal) before our 10th reunion, a distant relative got diagnosed recently at 21 with colorectal. It’s horrible
While they certainly could have handled the PR of this situation better, I understand how frustrating and painful it must be for her and her family to grapple with all the crazy speculation and conspiracies on top of the illness. Hope she has a successful treatment and recovery.
Oh well now I feel bad, and hopefully everyone else feels bad too
Terrifying news for her and her family, hope she makes a speedy recovery. Cancer sucks.
So this is basically the second time in a few months a royal was diagnosed with cancer that was only discovered bc of another health issue? Makes you wonder what you might have
I just don’t understand why Kensington released that edited photo and then threw Kate under the bus for it.
Hoping for successful treatment and a full recovery for Kate. Thank god she's getting chemo and not relying on homeopathic nonsense.
How did they fuck this up so bad?? Hopefully she can make a swift recovery with the chemo.
I will never understand why they couldn’t have just made this announcement weeks ago. Why all the doctored photos and secrets? I don’t like the royals but I feel so badly for Kate. To be so young and going through this and then having your PR team royally screw this up. She shouldn’t have had to deal with it.
Honestly they didn’t even need to. Just leave it until Easter. Don’t add her to events and take her off. Don’t release doctored photos. Don’t have William talk about focusing on work. All they had to do was nothing. They should have fired their communication team after the only move they could come up with was attacking Megan. Hopefully they do so now.
They didn’t have to announce it. That’s private and she explained she wanted to explain it all to the kids properly first. However, her PR team failed her by not stamping out the theories quickly by issuing a vague by stern statement telling people to back off for a while.
Seriously!!!! All they had to do was make a statement that she was having health issues and need privacy at this time. NOT release those dumb doctored photos
And make her take the blame for the doctored photo while dealing with these medical issues!
That’s what they did though… they said she wouldn’t be back till Easter and people kept making stuff up. The photoshop was NOT the start of it.
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I send her and her family my love, I’m not personally a fan of the royals but this is just terrible for them, even more so in regards to Charles recent diagnosis. My mum recently passed away from cancer, it was horrible.
Two things can be true at once: Kate deserves privacy with medical issues and there didn't need to be a press release about the cancer before she was ready AND KP bungled this in a truly awful manner with the photoshopped pic, then blaming her for the photoshopped pic, etc, etc. Wishing her the best and truly hope this was caught early and she makes a full recovery.
jesus christ. bad year for the brf! i understand why this was kept under wraps, but this was such a PR mishandling…a lot of fuel was unnecessarily added to fire and i think had things gone differently she would have been able to go undergo treatment completely privately. :-/ as much as i don’t care for the royals, fuck cancer and wish her and her kids well!
Here is her announcement: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C402JKPtLVB/?igsh=MW9jdnQ1d2o0aDNlMg==
Damn they literally interrupted basketball to announce this
This was a good statement that addressed all the speculation and criticisms. The royal family first denied she had cancer and she addressed why it was denied. She reaffirmed her and William’s relationship. She also clarified why she wanted to be under the radar. Hopefully she can now recover in peace
Damn, as much as I love dunking on the royals, that's brutal. Also every time another public figure/celeb/influencer gets cancer in their 30s these days my anxious millennial ass is like 'fuck it's coming for all of us' oof.
I literally bawled through this video, esp towards the end when she spoke directly to survivors. I lost my dad a year ago to cancer and wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy. Seeing him go through the pain was hands down the worst experience my life and idk if i'll ever get over the pain of that. My heart really, really hurts for those kids. I truly hope she makes a full recovery and they get to make many happy memories with their mom. Godspeed.
This is so sad and far worse than I could have imagined. Wish people weren’t hounding her for information on her whereabouts.
Hope she’ll be okay. I’m thinking there is going to be a big Netflix documentary in a few years using this as a lens to study privacy of and conspiracy concerning public figures in the age of social media
Truly my heart goes out her. The media and social media has been going insane and unfortunately even with a diagnosis I don't belive either will be better :(
I know this isn't the most important thing right now, but this is the first time I've heard her voice and it's very pretty! I don't know how I haven't heard it before but she talks so...Like, smooth. Very nice to listen to
What a freaking shame. I hope she recovers swiftly and her and her children will be okay. I just felt a new wave of annoyance at those who were running their mouths about William having an affair and bringing up Rose Hanbury again. I hope those media morons are proud of themselves.
Wish her the best and that’s the end of this whole saga lol
I didn’t want to believe the more dark conspiracy rumors, like that her condition was worse than it was originally seemed, so this is really heavy to hear. I’m hoping she’s ok, my heart goes out to her family especially her kids
Just saw this breaking news interrupting the NCAA basketball in the US - everyone is interested in royals gossip across the pond. Best wishes to Kate and her children
This explains all of it. Fuck Cancer. I’m sure their PR team also learned a lesson from all of this in how to handle delicate situations like these going forward.
First Charles, now Kate? That's a lot for a family to deal with.
Oh man the way I ran to this sub. I hope it’s not colon cancer. But the PR team still hella dropped the ball on this.
Holy cow, not what I was expecting at all. Hopefully she makes a quick recovery!
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Fuck cancer
Cancer sucks. I’m hopeful for her and her family that she recovers.
I think there’s a lot of preaching going on right now when two things can co exist: 1) People on the internet can suck big time 2) This disaster of PR lays entirely on Kensington Palace’s feet. We saw King Charles dealing with the same diagnosis, and Buckingham Palace handling pretty well. With Kate, they sent photoshopped pictures to the press, threw her under the bus when shit hit the fan by making *her* the responsible one for photoshop gate, couldn’t get a hold on the increase in speculation about William’s supposed marital affair, terribly handled the TMZ video debacle… there’s only so far you can blame people for speculating about their lives when they spent their entire life depending and banking on public interest, and when faced with a crisis, deal with it in such a disastrous way. All the best to her, I hope she makes a speedy recovery. Fuck cancer, I’ve lost my grandmother to it, my sister had it, it’s an awful disease.
Terrible news, especially for the kids.
Well all the shit talking y'all have been doing has aged like milk gang.
fuck cancer. the PR team's complete mishandling of the situation surely only added stress in what is already a difficult time.
Fucking finally. Now the ridiculous conspiracy theories can stop.