A message from Catherine, The Princess of Wales pic.twitter.com/5LQT1qGarK
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) March 22, 2024
I wish Kate Middleton and her family all the best in her health journey, but just looking back at what I was asking earlier this week, we have an answer, and it's really kind of sad--this young mother, whose father-in-law also recently received a cancer diagnosis, basically endured months of intimate and sordid speculation about her health and family life while she was managing her own health, and it was as if she was supposed to handle her own messaging expertly and basically was thrown under the bus by The Firm.
It is entirely understandable that she wanted to keep some part of this private while she tried to prepare and educate her children about what was going on--they lost their great-grandparents recently and "cancer" can be a terrifying word. But were they spared speculation about their mum's life span only to possibly be exposed to speculation about their parents' marriage? That doesn't seem fair to them.
I don't know that this is the opening up of a place for conversation about what sort of health information famous people have every right to keep private and the boundaries that the media and their concerned public need to make. I still say a broad, non-specific official message that she continued to have health challenges but was recovering could have done a world of good (or at least, a world of "first, do no harm"), that doctored pictures certainly didn't.
The Royal Family never should have put out that all was well when it wasn't, quite. It isn't the tragedy people would be turned off by, after all. We're all human. Just the lack of transparency and trust.
I feel a real sympathy for her as she delivers this careful message, being the one on the spot while she is also the one facing her health challenge, and that she was ill-served. I also would not be surprised if the Susexes hadn't been fully apprised until now. It's a sad state of affairs.
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I think the place to start the conversation is with The Media. They're kings and queens, fergoddesssakes, I'm sure they've got some medieval torture that could be applied
Upon breaking yesterday my second though was "leave those kids alone ...
They live a weird, damaging reality show life, and in the relationship with the press, it seems like it's the women, Diana, Meghan Markle, and now Kate, who get burned.
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