It goes to show that cancer affects all ages. If there is one positive outcome of this is that it might give visibility to the needs of these patients.
Both Charles and Kate having cancer diagnoses back-to-back is really hard to deal with for one family. And only one year after Charle's mother passed away. That is a lot for one family to go through in such a short time.
This might sound a little cold (the news is terrible and I wish Kate a full recovery) - just want to clarify that this basically confirms the earliest theory - Kate was confirmed to be very ill at the same time Charles was and, due to the public having far greater attachment to (and investment in) Kate, the palace made the decision to keep Kate’s diagnosis from the spotlight so that hers didn’t attract full public focus and sympathy.
It all went disastrously wrong and they have now (with no other option) done something that would have happened much earlier if Charles wasn’t ill - @JMRGBY - nobody has been thrown under a bus, the point is that they have “come clean” when they never would have needed to originally.
Unfortunately for Kate, due to her position, the choice of whether to receive treatment privately with no public statement was never her decision to make…
It all went disastrously wrong and they have now (with no other option) done something that would have happened much earlier if Charles wasn’t ill - @JMRGBY - nobody has been thrown under a bus, the point is that they have “come clean” when they never would have needed to originally.
Unfortunately for Kate, due to her position, the choice of whether to receive treatment privately with no public statement was never her decision to make…
The 'firm' will never extend the same grace to the women as to the men when it comes to health or private lives. That much is always clear
It didn't need to be like this at all. She didn't have to be plonked in front of a camera at an already traumatic time to tell the world about a cancer diagnosis after the internet had run wild with speculation and memery for weeks on end, and eroding (probably irrepairably) any trust the public might have had in the family or their public communications.
Just fire their dinosaur PR team top to bottom, honestly. Nobody deserves to keep a job after this.
Just fire their dinosaur PR team top to bottom, honestly. Nobody deserves to keep a job after this.
Yeah a 3 sentence statement a month ago would have stopped any of this from happening.
Damn, that’s more grim than anything I was expecting. Hopefully she has a smooth and quick recovery, wishing her the best.
This just makes it even messier how badly they handled this on the PR side of things. Releasing a badly photoshopped picture and then having Kate take the blame for it is wild.
This just makes it even messier how badly they handled this on the PR side of things. Releasing a badly photoshopped picture and then having Kate take the blame for it is wild.
Wild to think it took a new hire to come up with a basic strategy
They/Them
They could simply have said it was a medical issue which she was receiving treatment for and she wasn't ready to share it yet. The public (or vast majority of them anyway) would have given her the space she needed to regain enough strength and reveal all when she was good and ready.
Instead they chucked out a badly photoshopped photo, blamed her for it and did nothing when all the blurry images appeared which no doubt would have put immense stress on her and not done her health any good at all.
William and the firm should be disgusted with themselves. Covering their shoddy PR disasters by throwing a woman who is a mother to three young children with cancer under the bus.
They didn't even need to go this far, really. As @Jamie said above just a dull "I've had a routine operation that requires some ongoing rest, I'm looking forward to being at home for a couple of months looking after the kids" statement on Kensington Palace letterhead would have quashed the interest almost immediately. They didn't even need to go into the cancer bit or give anyone anything to assume it was more serious.
It was the absolute vacuum of information that sent everyone into a spiral, and it was a totally avoidable.
Then can they stop benefiting from my tax money cheers
I don't like them at all, but their medical records are none of our business.