On Friday, Britain’s Princess of Wales Kate Middleton announced in a video that a check-up following a January abdominal surgery showed a cancerous tumor that is being treated by a round of preventative chemotherapy to mitigate “the risk of recurrence and spread”
.Princess Kate explained her silence in the weeks leading up to the announcement by her desire to take time and explain everything to her children: George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that would reassure them.
Kate asked for “time, space, and privacy” as she undergoes treatment. The type of cancer she suffers from was not specified in the announcement or even in the Palace’s statement which just disclosed that Kate has started treatment in late February.
Britain’s King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prince Harry, as well as political leaders such as British Prime Minister Rishy Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, American President Joe Biden, and Canadian President Justin Trudeau, all offered support to the Princess of Wales.
Kate, 42, had not been seen in public since Christmas, but video of her with her husband, Prince William, the heir to the throne, surfaced this week. It showed them leaving a shop that sold produce grown on the royal family’s Windsor estate.
The news comes as a surprise to the royal family, following the admission last month that King Charles III was being treated for an undisclosed type of cancer detected during a treatment for a benign enlarged prostate.