As Kate continued to recuperate in private, Harry and Meghan dominated much of the February royal-watching with their trip to Whistler, Canada. William has been getting out on public engagements more and more, which has been nice to see. Sadly, the month ended with tragedy and bizarre social media drama.
Emilia of the Instagram account @emiliemedia also said she learned what it was and that it is serious but not especially uncommon. But I do wonder how these few people are finding out.
It's really not that shocking. If u watch the daily mail royal show on YouTube with Richard Eden and Rebecca English, it's obvious a few royal reporters have an in with some of palace aides.I'm surprised it took them this long to get that information.
Actually, it’s not. Respected reporters and journalists generally know more about what’s going on with the royal family than they divulge. And this information is often coming from press secretaries and staff, not through surreptitious means.
Pippa has been holidaying with her family in St. Bart’s and looked very relaxed and happy, if Kate was seriously in harms way I can’t imagine her sister would be holidaying so far from home.
I completely agree with this. Those sisters are close and I just can't imagine Pippa jetting off to the beach with her family if Kate's prognosis wasn't good.
Totally agree with your summation. And the regular, uninformed masses don’t realize that no one sees them in the papers while they take the entire month of August off every year. Obviously, Kate has something serious going on, and for someone to have a serious surgery for the first time in their lives they just don’t know how quickly they will recover so I think the Palace probably wanted her to lean to the longest possible timeline in order to avoid this general internet stupidity. Her going public the next day after giving birth is a clear and obvious public duty for the Crown, but also for her child, to spare them from crazy paparazzi. Having her own surgery for her own health is really up to her and I’m sure she chose the most prudent course of action.
I have been a loyal fan of W&K for 20 years but I think they (or at least he & their team) are making PR mishaps and it is actually harming their reputation—even if the most absurd social media speculation is wildly untrue. William needs to be seen, especially in wake of the worrisome diagnosis of his father which drives home the point that William WILL be king and maybe not in such a very long time. They aren’t private citizens as much as they seem to want the freedom and privileges of private citizens. They also enjoy the perks & protection of royalty and with that actually comes some obligation. It simply doesn’t inspire confidence for William to completely disappear. I have started to really wonder if he even intends to take the “job” (of monarch) when the time comes. Maybe he really doesn’t want to? If not, should he have stepped aside and let Harry have it, then? I don’t think that would have been better, but it seems evident that he isn’t fully on board with the requirements of such a public role.
I meant to also say, this could’ve been handled SO much differently with better communication and more savvy PR. Her absence wouldn’t be that alarming if it weren’t accompanied by the complete shut down of their whole operation. (Their social media team could’ve been posting various curated posts and so on.)
I agree - William has also been to several engagements since the initial KP announcement...Aside from cancelling last minute for that funeral which wasnt an official engagement.
They have been taking the corporate route, which means public engagements are all business. Anything not involving their work is off limits. Just a theory.
I mean it’s a theory. It IS a hereditary monarchy though so their actual life and health are relevant. I’m not out here saying what Kate’s surgery was should be announced, or that she should have weakly smiling photos from her sick bed leaked or anything absurd like that. But I feel like their staff should have carried on, keeping visibility (even if using recycled footage!), staying ahead of the rumor mill, not acting surprised that people are anxious and dismissing every question as crossing a line. And while I know many people are not in agreement with me on this, I think William could’ve nipped a lot of this in the bud by stepping out a bit more. Considering his father’s diagnosis hits the reality home that William will be king and perhaps in not such a very long time, I do think he could’ve managed things in this time with a bit more shrewd PR. I totally respect that he’s stressed. I would be too. But I also know that in real life, people often have to do at least some work even if their spouse has had surgery. And particularly considering the nature of his work, I just think he could’ve handled the optics differently without actually having to have done many more engagements.
I think we just have a society that doesn’t understand privacy anymore, and that some people actually enjoy and value privacy. This whole thing also highlights the huge gap between royal watchers and the general public, and how it definitely impacts how the royals are perceived publicly. Baffling to me… Perhaps the palace could change the way they do communication and PR because it’s clearly problematic/confusing for the general public. But that’s an issue for another time.
Yes, communication and PR is utterly abysmal and that is what’s causing the controversy. Whether or not she needs to recover from surgery isn’t the actual driving force behind the controversy. It’s the radio silence, William bowing out of obligations at the last minute, no explanation ever given, just pretend no one notices. They need a better PR approach.
I am sometimes quite shocked at how much detail people share online about their lives...every hurt, worry, concern, troubling event, you name it, they post it. So I think it's difficult for some people to imagine going through something difficult and not wanting to share it publicly.
Yes, it has become completely common place to overshare. Not to mention that many people actually seek fame and exposure and might not even understand why someone like Kate (who has endured public exposure her whole adult life) would try to avoid it whenever possible. I think many people think it must be great to have Kate’s level of fame without even thinking of the negative consequences. Hence the criticism and conspiracies against her.
I agree that she needs time to heal physically and mentally. She did this when George was born and came back stronger because of her time away from the public eye. We should remember that her brother dealt with serious depression issues and with intense therapy and his family’s support, managed to recover and have a happy family life. I’ve blocked a lot of negativity from my social media so the only Kate hysteria I’ve seen are folks commenting on the conspiracy theorists. We’ll see Kate when she’s ready and not before.
I agree, I just think it could have been handled better from a PR standpoint. Rather than “two of the principals will be effectively disappearing and their entire communications team will go dark for an extended period, have a nice day.” OF COURSE that’s going to invite speculation and gossip, including of the ugly variety. They could’ve handled it better.
I think William was only absent from public duties for 2 weeks. He came back once the King announced his cancer diagnosis. I’ve definitely seen Insta stories so I wouldn’t say their communication team has gone dark. Also this is their job and like any job when you are dealing with a medical or family issue it is normal to take medical or family leave.
There’s no reason whatsoever for their full time comms & PR staff to take a break however. I honestly do not think there’s any problem with Kate taking HOWEVER much time for a medical situation, and William limiting engagements to close to home. But their staff isn’t THEM. Their staff could have kept right on promoting the causes the Prince & Princess support, reusing footage, and so on. They could have been proactive with communication to nip some of the gossip in the bud. This comes across unprofessional on the staff’s part. And William bowing out of his godfather’s memorial service right beforehand didn’t help their already foundering image. I’m not just speaking for myself. I WANT them to succeed and this just doesn’t look great. It’s not been handled super professionally. And that’s more on their staff than on them.
The entire communication team has NOT gone dark. People have seen the king, the queen has been out ALOT, Anne, Sophie and Edward are doing regular engagements and when William has been out, their team has been posting.
I’m referring to KP, not BP. Also they have a full time staff. Even when Kate is out sick and William has been doing less, the full staff doesn’t need to go silent. I think it HAS been poorly handled. There has been somewhat widespread criticism for YEARS about their hot & cold social media work. You can disagree but it’s been out there— including from supporters. For a long time, I was scandalized that even their supporters would have criticisms, but I can now see that standpoint. If they want to take a more “business/CEO” approach to royalty (as has been stated in the last couple years), then their social media should reflect that and should be more professional and less spotty. There are often many weeks between posts. Again, you are free to disagree but this isn’t just my opinion.
Let’s agree to disagree. IMO, we live in a world where the public think they ‘deserve’ more than I think they do. If the KP team had stated differently then they did I’d be disappointed, I have assumed there would be little activity until April.
We can absolutely agree to disagree. I actually have no issue with Kate being absent until April and although I think William has complicated the issue of speculation by cancelling one or two things at the last minute, my issue is much more with how their staff is handling it. Imagine a corporation and the boss had to step away for major surgery. You wouldn’t expect the rest of the team to fumble and stop work.
It's remarkable how many people figure that the BRF, who already live their entire lives in a fishbowl and essentially die on the job, owe them not just all of the public moments, but some of the most intensely private ones as well.
I do suspect some of this frenzy has been whipped up by overseas family members who not only are taking advantage of the current vacuum, with Kate recuperating and the King in treatment, trying to dominate the news cycles, and also making known their availability to return temporarily to “help”. So it’s also interesting to see that William pulling out of the memorial service — a private extended family event, by the way, and not official KP/BP business — all of a sudden has various mouthpieces like Lainey Lui questioning W’s “readiness and/or reluctance” to work; the upshot being that if he’s reluctant and not ready, maybe someone else might be both ready AND eager, however temporarily. This frenzy strikes me as organized and directed, and not at all organic, and there are certainly two beneficiaries to all of this.
Two final thoughts. It’s remarkable to see the power of “Never complain, never explain”, and how well W&C have learned its lesson; they’ve been dominating the news without doing anything, and live free in many, many heads. And also, how utterly dispiriting to see how disinformation/misinformation have taken hold in our world, where utterly ridiculous conspiracy theories are shared “for fun” and/or used as weapons, by those who should know better.
Agree with much of what you’ve written, but most of this issue is down to poor public relations handling by Kensington Palace and a failure to adhere to “duty first,” something to which HMTLQ, PP, HMTK, The Princess Royal, and historically most of the older generation of the Royal Family have always adhered.
Had William been undertaking a mainly regular schedule of engagements after Kate went home from the hospital, things would seem more normal. But since he is almost as absent as Kate, it sparks negative press.
I agree with your summation. When Kate was on maternity leave with George we had a few photos here and there but there were none with her out with the pram, visiting her parents (except for the photo a very proud Michael Middleton took), etc. She took maternity leave, end of. As you point out, this was more serious and, potentially more problematic. We all have friends who bounce back after illnesses and I think we also all have friends who take longer. As someone who has just had a bout of illness that has pretty well kept me home and close to the bathroom last week because I "bounced back" too quickly from an earlier illness in February, I say to Kate "take all the time you want and you owe me no explanation." As for William, well, people get sick last minute and he probably doesn't want to give a reading if, mid sentence, he'd have to excuse himself to run to the restroom. Do we need that kind of information? I don't think so.
My two theories regarding William pulling out of the Thanksgiving service on Tuesday for King Constantine are that a) either he learned that Andrew would be present and didn't wish to be in his presence (and seeing how Andrew proceeded to act like he was standing in for the King, this would be understandable...); or b) he woke up that morning and didn't feel well. Would any of YOU wake up with (to be blunt) a case of diarrhea and think you could continue with your scheduled agenda? I really don't think it had anything to do with Kate and a possible setback as she hasn't been re-hospitalized and he was seen the very next day. One thing that has amazed me is that no one employed by London Clinic has leaked either the nature of Kate's surgery or exactly what type of cancer the King is being treated for. In this day and age, it's astonishing that no one was tempted by what I assume were multiple inquiries which came with a reward for information. Parenthetically, anyone can SAY they know but if they then don't reveal any details, who is to say that they're not talking through their proverbial hat?
My two cents is that if he had been ill, the KP press office would have said as much. Because that’s easily understandable and a quite normal reason royals have to postpone their own engagements.
Rather, I suspect it’s more likely to do with one of the children. They are known sticklers for their children’s privacy. More likely one of the children was home sick from school, and William may not have wanted to attend because he would have been sat next to Camilla, which would have risked transmitting a virus to his father.
If this surgery deals with a life changing condition, such as an ileostomy, there would be significant healing both physically and emotionally, and learning to live with a new reality. Not to mention someone might feel uncomfortable to immediately share something so intimate and private. I follow a man on YouTube who had an ileostomy and had to have it redone because of numerous infections.
My goodness, Tom Bower did say very serious but not fatal! That surprised me. I thought all along that if Kate had a complete hysterectomy, for instance, she would certainly want time to recover as well as perhaps adjust to possible hrt if necessary. No matter what, Kate is entitled to privacy and is perfectly within the stated timeline so, we have nothing to complain about 😊
I’m getting sick and tired of everyone thinking they have the right to hearing blow by blow accounts of Catherine’s recovery. Frankly, I say to these people —— GET A LIFE ! This woman isn’t close to us and we don’t even know her! AND, it was made VERY CLEAR that she’d be out of the public eye until April at least!
Thank you for this! I’m so exhausted by the mean-spirited conspiracies floating about. I’ve given up talking people out of believing these things: You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Just as during Covid restrictions , a short video with a few words by Catherine saying how grateful she is for the numerous « Get Better » cards she has received would be enough. And if she looks tired so be it ! She has the right to be ill , period !
Not necessary IMO. You know what would come next …. ‘She looks sicker than she’s saying’…..’wow, she looks ill’ …..’why isn’t she out working if she can do a video’…….etc etc etc.
It’s astonishing that Tom Bower would know. The staff are typically so very discreet.
Emilia of the Instagram account @emiliemedia also said she learned what it was and that it is serious but not especially uncommon. But I do wonder how these few people are finding out.
I think there are more people that know than we think. They are just not talking. Which is a testament to the respect and loyalty Kate inspires.
It's really not that shocking. If u watch the daily mail royal show on YouTube with Richard Eden and Rebecca English, it's obvious a few royal reporters have an in with some of palace aides.I'm surprised it took them this long to get that information.
Does he have connections with Camilla?
I think people suspected Anne was a source for Revenge so maybe her (or both?)
Oh wow, I never thought of Ann as a source for Bower!
Actually, it’s not. Respected reporters and journalists generally know more about what’s going on with the royal family than they divulge. And this information is often coming from press secretaries and staff, not through surreptitious means.
Pippa has been holidaying with her family in St. Bart’s and looked very relaxed and happy, if Kate was seriously in harms way I can’t imagine her sister would be holidaying so far from home.
I think this is spot on.
I completely agree with this. Those sisters are close and I just can't imagine Pippa jetting off to the beach with her family if Kate's prognosis wasn't good.
YUP!
Agree 100%. They’re quite close & it’s doubtful Pippa would be so carefree & happy on holiday if Catherine wasn’t stable & on the mend.
Totally agree with your summation. And the regular, uninformed masses don’t realize that no one sees them in the papers while they take the entire month of August off every year. Obviously, Kate has something serious going on, and for someone to have a serious surgery for the first time in their lives they just don’t know how quickly they will recover so I think the Palace probably wanted her to lean to the longest possible timeline in order to avoid this general internet stupidity. Her going public the next day after giving birth is a clear and obvious public duty for the Crown, but also for her child, to spare them from crazy paparazzi. Having her own surgery for her own health is really up to her and I’m sure she chose the most prudent course of action.
I have been a loyal fan of W&K for 20 years but I think they (or at least he & their team) are making PR mishaps and it is actually harming their reputation—even if the most absurd social media speculation is wildly untrue. William needs to be seen, especially in wake of the worrisome diagnosis of his father which drives home the point that William WILL be king and maybe not in such a very long time. They aren’t private citizens as much as they seem to want the freedom and privileges of private citizens. They also enjoy the perks & protection of royalty and with that actually comes some obligation. It simply doesn’t inspire confidence for William to completely disappear. I have started to really wonder if he even intends to take the “job” (of monarch) when the time comes. Maybe he really doesn’t want to? If not, should he have stepped aside and let Harry have it, then? I don’t think that would have been better, but it seems evident that he isn’t fully on board with the requirements of such a public role.
I meant to also say, this could’ve been handled SO much differently with better communication and more savvy PR. Her absence wouldn’t be that alarming if it weren’t accompanied by the complete shut down of their whole operation. (Their social media team could’ve been posting various curated posts and so on.)
What are the mishaps? I think the Palace was clear from outset. I was astonished only at the two medical announcements on the same day.
I agree - William has also been to several engagements since the initial KP announcement...Aside from cancelling last minute for that funeral which wasnt an official engagement.
Well he’s made 7 appearances in 2024. That’s pretty close to stepping away.
They have been taking the corporate route, which means public engagements are all business. Anything not involving their work is off limits. Just a theory.
I mean it’s a theory. It IS a hereditary monarchy though so their actual life and health are relevant. I’m not out here saying what Kate’s surgery was should be announced, or that she should have weakly smiling photos from her sick bed leaked or anything absurd like that. But I feel like their staff should have carried on, keeping visibility (even if using recycled footage!), staying ahead of the rumor mill, not acting surprised that people are anxious and dismissing every question as crossing a line. And while I know many people are not in agreement with me on this, I think William could’ve nipped a lot of this in the bud by stepping out a bit more. Considering his father’s diagnosis hits the reality home that William will be king and perhaps in not such a very long time, I do think he could’ve managed things in this time with a bit more shrewd PR. I totally respect that he’s stressed. I would be too. But I also know that in real life, people often have to do at least some work even if their spouse has had surgery. And particularly considering the nature of his work, I just think he could’ve handled the optics differently without actually having to have done many more engagements.
I think we just have a society that doesn’t understand privacy anymore, and that some people actually enjoy and value privacy. This whole thing also highlights the huge gap between royal watchers and the general public, and how it definitely impacts how the royals are perceived publicly. Baffling to me… Perhaps the palace could change the way they do communication and PR because it’s clearly problematic/confusing for the general public. But that’s an issue for another time.
Yes, communication and PR is utterly abysmal and that is what’s causing the controversy. Whether or not she needs to recover from surgery isn’t the actual driving force behind the controversy. It’s the radio silence, William bowing out of obligations at the last minute, no explanation ever given, just pretend no one notices. They need a better PR approach.
I am sometimes quite shocked at how much detail people share online about their lives...every hurt, worry, concern, troubling event, you name it, they post it. So I think it's difficult for some people to imagine going through something difficult and not wanting to share it publicly.
Yes, it has become completely common place to overshare. Not to mention that many people actually seek fame and exposure and might not even understand why someone like Kate (who has endured public exposure her whole adult life) would try to avoid it whenever possible. I think many people think it must be great to have Kate’s level of fame without even thinking of the negative consequences. Hence the criticism and conspiracies against her.
I’m confused- they put out on Jan 17 that she’d be out until early April and they’d update if needed. How is that ‘confusing?’
I agree that she needs time to heal physically and mentally. She did this when George was born and came back stronger because of her time away from the public eye. We should remember that her brother dealt with serious depression issues and with intense therapy and his family’s support, managed to recover and have a happy family life. I’ve blocked a lot of negativity from my social media so the only Kate hysteria I’ve seen are folks commenting on the conspiracy theorists. We’ll see Kate when she’s ready and not before.
I agree, I just think it could have been handled better from a PR standpoint. Rather than “two of the principals will be effectively disappearing and their entire communications team will go dark for an extended period, have a nice day.” OF COURSE that’s going to invite speculation and gossip, including of the ugly variety. They could’ve handled it better.
I think William was only absent from public duties for 2 weeks. He came back once the King announced his cancer diagnosis. I’ve definitely seen Insta stories so I wouldn’t say their communication team has gone dark. Also this is their job and like any job when you are dealing with a medical or family issue it is normal to take medical or family leave.
There’s no reason whatsoever for their full time comms & PR staff to take a break however. I honestly do not think there’s any problem with Kate taking HOWEVER much time for a medical situation, and William limiting engagements to close to home. But their staff isn’t THEM. Their staff could have kept right on promoting the causes the Prince & Princess support, reusing footage, and so on. They could have been proactive with communication to nip some of the gossip in the bud. This comes across unprofessional on the staff’s part. And William bowing out of his godfather’s memorial service right beforehand didn’t help their already foundering image. I’m not just speaking for myself. I WANT them to succeed and this just doesn’t look great. It’s not been handled super professionally. And that’s more on their staff than on them.
William has done a total of 7 engagements this year. That is very close to being absent from public duties.
Yes.
The entire communication team has NOT gone dark. People have seen the king, the queen has been out ALOT, Anne, Sophie and Edward are doing regular engagements and when William has been out, their team has been posting.
I’m referring to KP, not BP. Also they have a full time staff. Even when Kate is out sick and William has been doing less, the full staff doesn’t need to go silent. I think it HAS been poorly handled. There has been somewhat widespread criticism for YEARS about their hot & cold social media work. You can disagree but it’s been out there— including from supporters. For a long time, I was scandalized that even their supporters would have criticisms, but I can now see that standpoint. If they want to take a more “business/CEO” approach to royalty (as has been stated in the last couple years), then their social media should reflect that and should be more professional and less spotty. There are often many weeks between posts. Again, you are free to disagree but this isn’t just my opinion.
Let’s agree to disagree. IMO, we live in a world where the public think they ‘deserve’ more than I think they do. If the KP team had stated differently then they did I’d be disappointed, I have assumed there would be little activity until April.
We can absolutely agree to disagree. I actually have no issue with Kate being absent until April and although I think William has complicated the issue of speculation by cancelling one or two things at the last minute, my issue is much more with how their staff is handling it. Imagine a corporation and the boss had to step away for major surgery. You wouldn’t expect the rest of the team to fumble and stop work.
Other than the memorial service, what other last-minute cancellations has he done?
Spot on, as always. It is indeed worrisome.
It's remarkable how many people figure that the BRF, who already live their entire lives in a fishbowl and essentially die on the job, owe them not just all of the public moments, but some of the most intensely private ones as well.
I do suspect some of this frenzy has been whipped up by overseas family members who not only are taking advantage of the current vacuum, with Kate recuperating and the King in treatment, trying to dominate the news cycles, and also making known their availability to return temporarily to “help”. So it’s also interesting to see that William pulling out of the memorial service — a private extended family event, by the way, and not official KP/BP business — all of a sudden has various mouthpieces like Lainey Lui questioning W’s “readiness and/or reluctance” to work; the upshot being that if he’s reluctant and not ready, maybe someone else might be both ready AND eager, however temporarily. This frenzy strikes me as organized and directed, and not at all organic, and there are certainly two beneficiaries to all of this.
Two final thoughts. It’s remarkable to see the power of “Never complain, never explain”, and how well W&C have learned its lesson; they’ve been dominating the news without doing anything, and live free in many, many heads. And also, how utterly dispiriting to see how disinformation/misinformation have taken hold in our world, where utterly ridiculous conspiracy theories are shared “for fun” and/or used as weapons, by those who should know better.
My feelings exactly!
Exactly.
Agree with much of what you’ve written, but most of this issue is down to poor public relations handling by Kensington Palace and a failure to adhere to “duty first,” something to which HMTLQ, PP, HMTK, The Princess Royal, and historically most of the older generation of the Royal Family have always adhered.
Had William been undertaking a mainly regular schedule of engagements after Kate went home from the hospital, things would seem more normal. But since he is almost as absent as Kate, it sparks negative press.
I agree with your summation. When Kate was on maternity leave with George we had a few photos here and there but there were none with her out with the pram, visiting her parents (except for the photo a very proud Michael Middleton took), etc. She took maternity leave, end of. As you point out, this was more serious and, potentially more problematic. We all have friends who bounce back after illnesses and I think we also all have friends who take longer. As someone who has just had a bout of illness that has pretty well kept me home and close to the bathroom last week because I "bounced back" too quickly from an earlier illness in February, I say to Kate "take all the time you want and you owe me no explanation." As for William, well, people get sick last minute and he probably doesn't want to give a reading if, mid sentence, he'd have to excuse himself to run to the restroom. Do we need that kind of information? I don't think so.
Are the children back in school? I think that would be telling. How do you instruct children not to talk about what’s going on with Mommy?
Yes the children have been in school the whole time except when they had a February break.
That's an excellent question, Charlene. How do they get the children to not tell their friends what's going on?
Maybe they have, and the families they attend school with have been discreet?
My two theories regarding William pulling out of the Thanksgiving service on Tuesday for King Constantine are that a) either he learned that Andrew would be present and didn't wish to be in his presence (and seeing how Andrew proceeded to act like he was standing in for the King, this would be understandable...); or b) he woke up that morning and didn't feel well. Would any of YOU wake up with (to be blunt) a case of diarrhea and think you could continue with your scheduled agenda? I really don't think it had anything to do with Kate and a possible setback as she hasn't been re-hospitalized and he was seen the very next day. One thing that has amazed me is that no one employed by London Clinic has leaked either the nature of Kate's surgery or exactly what type of cancer the King is being treated for. In this day and age, it's astonishing that no one was tempted by what I assume were multiple inquiries which came with a reward for information. Parenthetically, anyone can SAY they know but if they then don't reveal any details, who is to say that they're not talking through their proverbial hat?
A LOT of people in this comment section are saying he canceled due to diarrhea! Do you all have insider knowledge? Lol
My two cents is that if he had been ill, the KP press office would have said as much. Because that’s easily understandable and a quite normal reason royals have to postpone their own engagements.
Rather, I suspect it’s more likely to do with one of the children. They are known sticklers for their children’s privacy. More likely one of the children was home sick from school, and William may not have wanted to attend because he would have been sat next to Camilla, which would have risked transmitting a virus to his father.
I thought this too at first; but for the service which wasn’t long, he could’ve had their nanny or Carole help with the sick child.
That’s why I specified that it potentially could be related to worries about passing on a virus to the King via Camilla.
If this surgery deals with a life changing condition, such as an ileostomy, there would be significant healing both physically and emotionally, and learning to live with a new reality. Not to mention someone might feel uncomfortable to immediately share something so intimate and private. I follow a man on YouTube who had an ileostomy and had to have it redone because of numerous infections.
My goodness, Tom Bower did say very serious but not fatal! That surprised me. I thought all along that if Kate had a complete hysterectomy, for instance, she would certainly want time to recover as well as perhaps adjust to possible hrt if necessary. No matter what, Kate is entitled to privacy and is perfectly within the stated timeline so, we have nothing to complain about 😊
I’m getting sick and tired of everyone thinking they have the right to hearing blow by blow accounts of Catherine’s recovery. Frankly, I say to these people —— GET A LIFE ! This woman isn’t close to us and we don’t even know her! AND, it was made VERY CLEAR that she’d be out of the public eye until April at least!
EXACTLY!
Thank you for this! I’m so exhausted by the mean-spirited conspiracies floating about. I’ve given up talking people out of believing these things: You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Just as during Covid restrictions , a short video with a few words by Catherine saying how grateful she is for the numerous « Get Better » cards she has received would be enough. And if she looks tired so be it ! She has the right to be ill , period !
Not necessary IMO. You know what would come next …. ‘She looks sicker than she’s saying’…..’wow, she looks ill’ …..’why isn’t she out working if she can do a video’…….etc etc etc.