The New Yorker:

After the Princess’s cancer diagnosis, some who had pushed conspiracy theories about her absence seemed chastened. Others were less contrite, blaming the palace for a shoddy communications strategy and a lack of transparency.

By Anna Russell

The morning after Catherine, the Princess of Wales, otherwise known as Kate Middleton, announced that she had cancer, the weather in London was bright and clear. After weeks of gray and rain, it felt like spring in the capital. (Later, it hailed.) It was as if the raging fever of speculation about the senior royal’s health since her disappearance from the public eye in January—some of it genuine, much of it gleeful and unhinged—had finally broken. At 6 p.m. last Friday, just as many were heading to the pub, Kensington Palace released a short video on X, formerly Twitter, in which Catherine sits alone on a bench surrounded by grass and daffodils, and calmly explains that she is undergoing treatment for cancer.

“It has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family,” Catherine says in the video. She’s wearing a striped sweater and jeans, and her hair is, as usual, immaculate. She looks a little tired. “In January, I underwent major abdominal surgery in London, and at the time it was thought that my condition was non-cancerous,” she says. “The surgery was successful—however, tests after the operation found cancer had been present.” Her medical team has recommended a course of “preventative chemotherapy,” and she is now in the “early stages” of that treatment. Here she pauses and presses her hands together, as if gathering strength. The news came as a “huge shock.” She and Prince William have been “doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family.” “As you can imagine, this has taken time,” she continues. “It has taken me time to recover from major surgery in order to start my treatment. But, most importantly, it has taken us time to explain everything to George, Charlotte, and Louis in a way that’s appropriate for them and to reassure them that I’m going to be O.K.”

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