March 25, 2024
It wasn’t good when he kept silent about the disease. She didn’t like the “retouched” photo with her three little children published on Mother’s Day. And the sincerity with which Kate Middleton, wife of the heir to the throne of England William, revealed the tumor from which she is suffering is not even good now. “Trolls” are unleashed on the Internet. And there are those who are not ashamed to post on social networks the parody of the video message taken in the park of Windsor Castle with the Princess of Wales, wearing a striped shirt and a courageous look, explaining to her subjects the drama she is going through. The cancer discovered by chance after abdominal surgery last January. The chemotherapy and treatments she will have to face. If many expressed closeness to the family after the truth film, earning the thanks of Kate and William, others insisted on gossiping about the future queen.
“Is sad. It’s a sort of curse”, commented the princess’s friends interviewed by the British newspaper “Daily Mail”. “Whatever he does is not good. But she had already been thinking about revealing everything for two weeks. She knows she is a public figure and is aware of her role.” The warm embrace of the English has failed to erase the gossip of the serial haters. The Kensington Palace spokesperson thanks the former and a former royal advisor lashes the latter. In the meantime, everything has happened. Including an intrusion into the computer system of the London Clinic, where Kate Middleton was operated on, in search of the type of disease that consumes her. Three employees were reportedly suspended. While King Charles, also struggling with cancer, did not fail to support his daughter-in-law for even a minute. He who immediately chose the line of transparency. If the Princess of Wales can be accused of a “fault” (if one can dare say so) it was that of not having immediately said that she had cancer. She certainly wasn’t obliged, but the continuous postponement of public commitments has fueled speculation and conspiracy theories. “The whole world has been gossiping about her,” supporters of the Royal Family get angry.
The honesty in speaking about the diagnosis and the simplicity and clarity of the message have regained her the affection of her subjects, but they have not eliminated the curse. Like Lady Diana, there is always someone ready to “shoot” fake news. “I have seen the worst of her against her,” an advisor to the Firm, as the Royal Family is defined, tells the British media. «The reason that pushed Kate to confess? Maybe the desire to want to live peacefully again. Her first thought is always the well-being of her children.” The choice to release the video on the Friday before the Easter holidays for schoolchildren across the Channel seems to have been dictated by the need to prevent the little princes George, Charlotte and Louis from being overwhelmed by inappropriate comments and questions from their classmates. By the time they return to class the United Kingdom will have “digested” the news. Even the detail of the wedding ring disappearing from Kate’s finger and Willian’s alleged lover will be a distant memory.