A few hours after the Princess of Wales sat alone and vulnerable on a bench and told the public that she was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex released a very simple and compassionate public message: “We wish health and healing for Kate and the family, and hope they are able to do so privately and in peace.” The statement was signed off by both Meghan and Harry. I think it was an elegant solution for a public statement – they weren’t dripping with fake sincerity or pretending that all hatchets have been buried. No matter what, Kate is still a mother to three small children. Which is why I also believe that Harry likely called William and/or Kate too:
Harry and Meghan have reached out to Prince William and Kate after her shock cancer diagnosis. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were understood to have made contact with the Prince and Princess of Wales ‘privately’ last night.
It is not clear if the contact was a phone, video call or some messages of support. The possibility of whether Harry would fly back to the UK is not known.
It was also claimed in the United States last night that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex only learnt about Kate’s condition at the same time the world heard the news. In addition, sources also told the New York Post that the couple had ‘no idea’ about Kate’s illness.
The contact between the two brothers was disclosed by ITV Royal Editor Chris Ship.
Just a few days ago, royal sources were telling People Magazine that the Sussexes were purposefully being kept “out of the loop” on the Windsors’ health crises because of the trust issue. Which I believe, in general – I don’t think that the Sussexes are getting any kind of regular briefings from England, and I totally believe that the Sussexes found out about Kate’s cancer at the same time as everyone else. I would also be very surprised if Harry and his father have had more than a couple of brief phone calls since Harry’s February visit to the UK. But making it about “trust issues with the Sussexes” when Kensington Palace was openly lying and dissembling is pretty rich. Still, I trust that the Sussexes will always “do the right thing,” even if they’re met with incandescent rage and furious briefings at every turn.
After Kate’s video announcement, without skipping a beat, the British media began shaming anyone questioning the palace clownshow while simultaneously writing twenty million stories about the Sussexes and what Harry and Meghan should do or say or how Harry should absolutely fly back to England to be with Kate or something. This piece in the Mail, full of supposition about how Harry should *want* to fly into England to see Kate, is also arguing that the Windsors should go out of their way to punish Harry if he did fly back. The coverage in the Express was even worse.
The news about Kate was released 16 hours ago.
Let's take a stroll through all the ways the Express have trolled Meghan and Harry since the announcement was made…
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REMINDER: The ONLY thing Harry and Meghan have done since Kate's bombshell…
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- King Charles, Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince William, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex on a walkabout to meet members of the public at Windsor Castle in Berkshire following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince William, Prince Harry, Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: Windsor, England, United Kingdom When: 10 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- King Charles, Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince William, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex on a walkabout to meet members of the public at Windsor Castle in Berkshire following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince William, Prince Harry, Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: Windsor, England, United Kingdom When: 10 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- King Charles, Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince William, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex on a walkabout to meet members of the public at Windsor Castle in Berkshire following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince William, Prince Harry, Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: Windsor, England, United Kingdom When: 10 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- King Charles, Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince William, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex on a walkabout to meet members of the public at Windsor Castle in Berkshire following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: Windsor, England, United Kingdom When: 10 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- King Charles, Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince William, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex on a walkabout to meet members of the public at Windsor Castle in Berkshire following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: Windsor, England, United Kingdom When: 10 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Ceremonial Procession of the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown placed on top, is carried on a horse-drawn gun carriage of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, during the ceremonial procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, London, where it will lie in state ahead of her funeral on Monday Featuring: Prince William, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Harry, Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: London, Britain, United Kingdom When: 14 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Ceremonial Procession of the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown placed on top, is carried on a horse-drawn gun carriage of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, during the ceremonial procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, London, where it will lie in state ahead of her funeral on Monday Featuring: Prince William, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Harry, Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: London, Britain, United Kingdom When: 14 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Coffin of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Hall, London, where it will lie in state ahead of her funeral on Monday. Featuring: Meghan Duchess of Sussex, Catherine Princess of Wales Where: London, England, United Kingdom When: 14 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II held at Westminster Abbey in London. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales, Camilla, Queen Consort Where: London, England, United Kingdom When: 19 Sep 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
Direct & classy.
Yes, direct & classy. Even though K may have been trolling Meghan by sitting on The Bench outdoors. Recall similar image with Meghan who addressed the Vaxlive concert a couple of years ago to raise money for equitable COVID vaccines for all. Sounds like K was fortunate in having surgery that may have removed all or most all cancerous or precancerous tissue. Wishing her the absolute best with preventative chemotherapy to prevent further potential cancer spread.
Re: Kate copy keening Meghan’s garden bench, they’ll call us cruel trolls for daring to notice what’s right in front of our eyes. It’s enraging.
Look, I’m not a K fan, but that video was sadly the best I’ve seen her do. She deserves to be left alone for a while. Daffodils in the NLs are one of the flowers used in the fight against cancer. She was possibly sitting on a bench because she’s undergoing chemotherapy at the moment and is not feeling well and that bench is in front of daffodils. And maybe it’s also in appreciation of what Meghan wrote, because she might realize life’s too short? But apart from M, I think that she just wanted a place where that video would reach people.
@ML someone also said that Friday was Daffodil day in the UK which is a day used to raise awareness and money for cancer research. So her placement on the bench makes sense in terms of that as well.
@ML “…but that video was sadly the best I’ve seen her do.”
It just proved that she CAN make a speech when she had motivation & put effort into it. It also proved, during her royal years, she refused to put in works to practice & polish her public speeches. She isn’t a “cannot”, she is a “willnot”.
She got her mole removed from her face – possibly other ones which might explain why she photoshopped her face on the family pic and why people said it wasnt her because the mole is missing.
Except she wasn’t sitting in front of actual flowers, that had to be a green screen. Not a bit of breeze and nothing in the background ever moves. Not once.
Windless days are very much a thing.
One of the articles confirmed the backdrop was a screen which was set up by the BBC team that filmed it.
Re the daffodils, which is somewhere on this thread! The daffodil is also the symbol of the Marie Curie terminal illness charity here in the UK.
I couldn’t concentrate on what Kate said in the video because there was some strangeness about her eyes. I don’t know if it was her reaction to whatever light source the BBC team used for the video shoot or what, but if you watch it again, look at her eyes.
@Yvette, imo, it’s the absence of her normal heavy under eyeliner. She was made up a certain way. I’ve done it myself.lol Drop the eyeliner/mascara or both IS a different look and choice.
@Betsy, windless days are a thing. A quick look at the weather & wind speed in the UK over the last 5 days negates that. It’s fine it was done in a studio situation. It was her best video. Kate is more comfortable in a controlled environment.
The Sussexes comment was very gracious and classy.
@Yvette
I noticed her left eyelid drooped. Then noticed the left side of her mouth opened less than the right. Perhaps a temporary bit of Bell’s palsy?
I believe this. KP leaks like a sieve so any time there is contact with the Sussexes, someone immediately runs to the tabloids. They leaked that they were refusing to tell the Sussexes anything and then leak immediately when there is contact. I don’t think KP knows what is going on at BP so it’s possible Charles already told Harry but KP wouldn’t know that.
@Yvette I noticed the eyes, too. I figured it was because she was wearing very little makeup, but there was something “off” about them.
@Yvette, maybe is the effect of medication for chemo side effects; of which she’s allegedly in early stage. There’s despair in her face. I don’t think she’s as optimistic as she’s saying. She was trying to hold her hands all along to avoid fidgeting and maybe to expose Big Blue. May she heal soon and this ordeal affect her children the least.
If Kate is in early stages of chemo, sadly she’s going to be feeling and looking much much worse in a little while. I thought it odd that she stated she’s feeling “better”.
I’m afraid there’s only going to be more conjecture and panic about her over the coming weeks and months.
They said these few words wishing her good health ( which imo she doesn’t deserve after what she and her husband put Meghan through) and still the BM and kate’s deranged fans are not pleased and have been going on and on about Meghan, some even insulting her cos she dared called their saviour kate . The same people will turn around and preach compassion for kate karma is watching and taking notes
Michelle Obama’s words often come to mind when I think of H&M: “When they go low, we go high.” The Susses’s simple statement reflects this idea. I am still amazed at the British press’s ability to always work insults aimed at H&M into any story about the remaining so-called royals. Khate and Chuckles, like many people, have cancer. Their privilege will ensure they jump the queue and receive the best treatments. Life is short. A cancer diagnosis changes a person. Hopefully, Khate and Chuckles will reflect on their past behaviours and apologize. My spotted heart doesn’t believe they will, though.
I hope Charles is using his convalescence to reflect on what really matters and admit to himself how horribly he treated Harry and Meghan. Once that happens they can all start to heal.
Harry and Meghan are such classy people. I know I could not be this classy after everything those people put me through.
I couldn’t either. Watching rota reporters shame the planet while continuing to abuse Meghan nearly did me in, and I am not, you know, Meghan and Harry. So much class.
It has been interesting watching the rota trying to shame (and gaslight) people. I’ll bet you dollars to donuts they were behind the attempted data breach (which happened in December, which really makes me doubt KP’s timeline).
I also believe there were fears within KP the info medical was leaked, which led to the video, aka the rota rats are giant hypocrites.
I agree &tigermcqueen.
Data breach or the stories about Rose resurfacing? I’m betting on the latter.
Also, let’s get the wording right, Kate does not have cancer, Kate is already cancer-free. She’s receiving preventative treatment to zap out any opportunity for cancer in the future.
None of this excuses Will and Kate’s behaviour or their recent clown-show.
Same Over it! Just seeing the pics of the walkabout makes my left eye twitch. For some of us who are Black women, we relived so much trauma watching Meghan go through it in real time: the undercurrent of violence, the (attempted) financial abuse, the viciousness, the double standards, the manner in which she was vilified for existing in White people’s perceived exclusive space, how she was hated for daring to have nice things (that she paid for) or being good at her job – and how that same viciousness, jealousy, anger, racism was directed at her children. This woman had a real hand in the hate boner that caused Harry and Meghan, and their children, to be in real danger and the threat to them persists today.
I didn’t just forget it cause one of the perpetrators of all that hate has cancer. I do hope she recovers and William is just awful for throwing Kate under the bus for that picture debacle. He is a terrible person. He was swaying, panicking, looking shook because now he can’t leave her. So I will add I hope she recovers and gets the hell away from William. That’s the extent of my well wishes.
I for one, am not going to be guilted for not liking this woman (even today) after the way she lunged at her SIL at that walkabout (calling riding in a car with her Black SIL the hardest thing she’s ever done – are you kidding me?), the way she delights herself in looking down on POC, the racist messaging of the Caribbean tour, the way she allowed a lie to exist when a simple correction would have changed a narrative that pushed her SIL to near suicide.
Harry and Meghan are better people than I am and no cancer didn’t make me less mad. I hope she recovers, but I’m still mad as hell.
Side Eye, I love your point about William’s sketchy behavior and public drunkenness being due to the fact that now he knows he can’t dump her (at least for a while) which he was totally planning to do. I have been thinking the same thing all weekend.
And your other reminders about Meghan’s treatment at Kate’s hands are so relevant right now. Thank you!
@ SIDE EYE, I am with you on this. I commented on Friday that her diagnosis does not erase her past actions. However, my comment was deleted. I would not wish this illness on anyone, but she is still a terrible person.
Also why isn’t anyone asking KP for an explanation of the farmers market video?
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SIDE EYE, I cosign everything you said and then some.
@SideEye +1 and Amen!
@Dawning. Good question. Its like all of KPs lies and manipulations have been forgotten.
Side eye, lord help me but I agree with you. Everything you said . Her diagnosis does not now make her a Saint she is still a royal Karen .
You have captured so well how I feel about the whole mess @sideeye!
Exactly. Cancer does not discriminate. Terrible people get cancer, too. I still wish her the best possible outcome with treatment. It is an awful, insidious disease that no one deserves.
Completely agree, Sideeye. A diagnosis of cancer does not absolve all the awful things Kate has done to wield and abuse her power and privilege to incite global hate by spreading lies against a Black woman and her babies for merely existing.
Everyone, thank you for your comments and for not bashing me. Although I didn’t marry a prince, this whole thing strikes a nerve. Meghan and I have very similar backgrounds. In my own family there are White people who think it’s perfectly okay to abuse their Black relatives – they never have to apologize and they think the pain they have caused us by being abusive and racist isn’t even real – they never consider it – in their minds we are just packed mules capable of bearing all things – not like the ocean of pain they feel when they get a hangnail. It’s infuriating. I am full no contact with some people in my family and yes, many of them use illness or cancer as a get out of jail free card – well I’m sick now so we can just let bygones be bygones without me apologizing or changing. Um no. No you can’t. And honestly some of them will die without me speaking to them again. I’m okay with that.
Seeing this woman get a pass for all her crap behavior is infuriating. She did not even hold or acknowledge her newborn nephew who was mere feet away from her at a polo match. Her racism is THAT DEEP.
Obviously I need therapy for all the crap my family has put us Black kids through. There’s a reason Karen-ish behavior triggers me the way that it does and I swear White women abusing Black women and especially Black children literally makes my lips purse and my blood boil over. It hits a nerve. I like to think Kate staring cancer in the face will cause her to realize life is short, the crown isn’t worth it, William is abusive and unloving and she needs to make real changes in her life – but I’ve been around long enough to know that most likely will not happen. She is still who she is at her core.
I probably need to stay away from this story cause the media’s gaslighting and the coverage is going to trigger all kinds of anger that I am still processing from my own life experiences.
@Sideeye
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Brava, Side Eye.
All this stuff.
I DO want her to be well at get better because her pain does not help anyone. But going through some s*** right now doesnt erase the racism, the passive approval of hatefulness, and outright encouragement of malice toward the Sussexes and their children. Meghan herself said Kate is a good person, and seems to reserve most of her anger for William, so I suspect she can recognize an abusive situation. But Kate is not blame free.
All I can hope is that being on the receiving end of the “why can’t I do anything right” treatment woke her up.
Side Eye, 100% agree with all you said.
@sideeye much respect- Your post always make me think!
Side Eye, sending you virtual hugs. What you mentioned – that their attitude that because of skin color, people shouldn’t have anything but moreso that they don’t consider them to have feelings or that they have pain has had a great psychological impact on us other than just in familial circumstances. Those black people who may not have white relatives are still impacted but it may not be as readily apparent (the cause) as is the case when they are your relatives. The impact may be crystal clear for you because they are relatives. Still, such things can have an impact on us all in the black community if our parents do not make an effort to make sure we don’t get negative messages about ourselves and our community.
@Side Eye – 100% everything you said. And I wish you all the healing and peace. And for those racist fam members – stuff them!!
Well said, Side Eye! As a Black woman, there’s nothing’s she can do to garner more than a well wish for her health from me.
@ Side Eye, if I were family to Meghan, I’d have been begging for a chance to hold little Archie! I’d have found them a chair, asked if she needed anything and generally just been hovering around them both. I love babies/children and no way would I have been ignoring them.
@Side Eye: 1000 x YES! – to both your comments.
Man, when I read the comments from the first post about this…well lets just say I could not finish…had to take a break. Sooo good to read some comments with a more realistic perspective. Charles’s playbook worked quite well for him so now it’s on to the next reported racist and guess what? It’s all forgive and forget…cause you know – “I’ve got cancer too!” Interesting that the 2 identified racists went into hospital for a procedure and now they both have CANCER. And interesting to see folks practically falling over each other with regrets and apologies and boo-hoo-hoo. I know it’s a horrible disease and I have sympathy for all the commenters here who are experiencing this in one form or the other or have family and friends trying to beat cancer…but those two?
The BM & BRF are loving this as the focus has now shifted and H&M are back in the crosshairs.
I don’t believe any of this fake and manipulated garbage…don’t @ me!
I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, do it for her either after all Kate’s said and done in the past. The funeral walkout photo above also convinced me that the garden video of William and Kate released just before the bench confessional was not really Kate, but a “Kate impersonator.” For one thing, the height difference between WanK never seemed quite as large as it seemed with the couple in the video, and looking at the picture above, I knew that she was not a foot shorter than he was.
RUMORS ON SM STREETS THIS IS AI GENERATED KATE VIDEO. SHE TALKS COMPLETE SENTENCE, NO MUMBLE, NO JAZZ HAND GESTURES, ALSO HER RING KEEPS FADING OUT. THE COMPUTER NERD EXPERTS ARE ON THE CASE.
@Over It you reminded me of when I was very young (like 21) my ex fiancé and former best friend, after cheating on me together, got married within months of the betrayal. They were quickly pregnant and the child was stillborn on my birthday. When someone attempted to make me feel pity for them upon sharing this news, I am (now) ashamed to admit that my response was “Good.” I wanted them to hurt more than they had hurt me. While I know now it was the wrong response, it was still my response. I’d like to think now with age comes more wisdom and grace and I would be able to find compassion for those who have hurt me.
I think of their lost boy every year on my birthday.
@Anon I’m so sorry this happened to you, especially at such a young age. Sending you Love and Compassion. 🙏🏼❤️
So much classier than I would be if I were her, but good for Meghan.
I agree she and Harry show grace and class but I think they’re strategic too. They know the world is watching and they have to do what feels right for them. Sending well wishes should be benign, visiting your father after his diagnosis should not be controversial. I don’t think they dare to do more
Mine would have been, “the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not comment on personal matters except to note that recollections may vary.”
I mean, I wouldn’t, but I’d want to. Shade thrown at trauma is Kate’s karma. Ironically, none of H and M’s fans would like a nasty comment like that, but it was fine for Kate and William and Charles to say about M’s suicidal ideation and miscarriage.
Not one of them said a word publicly about Meghan’s miscarriage.
@Jais yeah exactly. Not sure if it got lost in my comment but I was quoting the RF from two different responses, the “no comment on personal matters” was about the miscarriage.
Hard to believe these people are this cold blooded and the public are fine with when aimed at Harry and Meghan.
H&M have very much commented on personal matters so I don’t think it would go over well. This was the best thing to do. Just say it and not let speculation go crazy and that it comes right from their spokesperson.
It is sickening the way the media slams harry and Meghan. And all of a sudden the dm is aflutter with William being the bestest most supportive husband ever. Ingrid even brings Diana into it. It is time for the Wales and the king to finally call a halt to the media going after harry and Meghan. And of course the stories about Charles adoring Kate is in effect is a dig at Meghan imo
Yeah, I saw it as a dig also. It irritated me no end since he has never put out one word in support of Meghan when she was crying in that documentary about racist attacks, when she revealed her miscarriage (of what would have been his grandchild), when H&M were chased in NYC, when Archie underwent racist attacks by comparing him to a chimp. He’s a tool.
I agree that he’s a tool. But he’s also an opportunist. Right now, Kate is being seen as “oh so brave” and I’ve even seen her referred to as “Saint Kate” for finally coming clean about her health scare. Chuck has been standing by and watching KP/Willnot self-destruct because of their obsession with privacy while being bone idle in the process. And all on the public dime! Now that Kate has come clean, Chuck, the most unfatherly of fathers, has remembered that he needs to be seen supporting his most popular family member who’s also the POW and the mother of three of his grandchildren/heirs! He’d be seen as a cold-hearted cad if he wasn’t seen as supporting her. Now we just need to see his lazy, cheating son do the same thing!
Kate has been a flog for years. They flog women with how perfect silent, tradwife Kate is. They flog Meghan with how much more white and english rosey Kate is. Now they are a little too gleeful to flog the billion or so members of the human race who were confused about her whereabouts.
“Now they are a little too gleeful to flog the billion or so members of the human race who were confused about her whereabouts.” Well said, Snaggletooth.
It’s the gleeful part that should have Kate waking up to the utter mess of her life. They are happy to gloat about your cancer, to shame people. That isn’t support, or love.
Thank you @christine. There’s a weirdly gleeful tone right? It’s so weird that I’m having to check into this story in small doses. It’s off-putting. Wish all humans and Kate a healthy life free from cancer. But the BM is weirding me the f*ck out. I think they got really embarrassed over the frankenphoto bc it made the monarchy rightly look like a joke. But they’re using a woman’s cancer diagnosis to settle scores. And it doesn’t change that the frankenphoto happened. It’s just bad vibes all around. The monarchy has never been more unappealing.
If William was such a loving and loyal supporter of Kate why wasn’t he sitting on the bench with her ? My husband would have been.
I wonder if someone insisted William not be there because they knew he wouldn’t have the appropriate reactions.
Yes! She looked sad and alone on that bench. My husband would let me do the talking if I wished but would sit there holding my hand. She said Wills was so supportive (or sth like that) and my immediate reaction was “then where is he?”.
Sth is happening with him, no idea what, but second hand comments that Will is so proud? He should be visible and says in those words himself.
You can’t see him cause he’s wearing his magical invisibility cloak. But she says he’s beside her, and we are to believe her, so he must be beside her, wearing his ‘special’ cloak. The cloak only he has, cause he’s special.
Once heard a joke (paraphrased): “we know handi-capable folks have Special Needs. We have Special Olympics for them. There’s also the Special Forces…..say what???”
So William’s military service must have been with some ‘Special’ Forces, right? That’s why he has all those medals. Cause he’s just that special. And that’s why he has a special cloak that makes him invisible to all but Kate. Because he’s special. He’s determined to be heard but not seen, eh? ~ HA!
It doesn’t matter how classy and sincere Harry and Meghan sound and or act. The hateful British and American media will spin and twist their words and actions into something negative. A lot of people on Twitter are saying that Harry and Meghan are furious because Kate will be getting all the attention now. The hatred toward the Sussexes gallops unabated to this very day.
These deranged people are idiots. Who wants attention because they have cancer? Who would be jealous of that kind of attention. Kate is suffering and the derangers are rejoicing because it’s headline news. These people are truly sick in the head.
Well said.
They are better people than I am. I would have been silent as a tomb.
they would have been attacked for that too – they got a statement out quickly and kept it brief, it was smart imo
Agree. We’ve all watched as saying nothing creates a vacuum. KP has been showing that for months. So they quickly made a statement rather than letting a story be created out of some breathless will they or won’t they say something narrative.
I worked a lot in a direct contact with patients reporting adverse reactions to drugs my company sold. Many were angry or scared, so I developed a very impartial, polite persona and never engaged emotionally, answered questions in a purely professional manner, sometimes pretending I don’t hear the insults.
This is what I think H&M are doing – they see a situation, remove emotions and react in an appropriate and polite way. In my opinion, best strategy.
Seriously asking: Why aren’t the foliage moving in Kate’s video? Isn’t it a breezy time of year in England?
The foliage might be stiff.
I’m hoping this community doesn’t devote time to casting doubt on this video. Let’s call off some of the dogs at least. I still think it’s fair to call attention to the remaining inconsistencies, but this video isn’t targetable.
Before, it was mostly royalists and Sussex supporters talking, but now we have antivaxxers, conspiracy theorists, AI enthusiasts, digital artists, photographers, PR experts, doctors, trolls, and non royal watchers of all different types entering the chat. A lot of the noise is coming from them.
The speculations and conspiracy theories are not going anywhere.
It has been INSANE out there, right? If they’re shooting a video with audio, they’re going to try for an area with as little breeze as possible because the wind would cause noise on the mic.
People are going crazy over the use of the term “preventive chemotherapy” and saying it’s proof they’re still lying. I can’t stop laughing at them. In my job one thing I oversee is creating medical information in patient-friendly terms. Yes, the medical term is adjuvant chemotherapy, but when you’re talking to masses of laypeople, you use different terminology because many people will understand it better. You’re trying to communicate a point simply and clearly to millions, not teach a med school class. That was a rare PR win for the palace clownshow.
Clearly we are in the Upside Down, I’m now defending the palace morons.
Well, given their reputation, one can’t help but scrutinize closely for authenticity. If it is true, I sympathize. I wouldn’t wish this disease on anyone.
On another note, the Sussexes are truly classy people. My utmost respect for them.
I do not trust them as far as I could throw them.
It is imperative that proof of life be established for Kate, confirmed by international journalists independent of the palace and Rota system and she be seen by members of the public.
It remains true that Kate has not been seen at a public facing event since Christmas. We don’t know if she is actually in England or elsewhere. Should they announce ‘a turn for the worse’ or even her death there will be no way of verifying the actual time frame of that happening between late December and the present day. I do think that is intentional and this latest video is still staving off nefarious behaviour on William’s part.
That was not Kate in the farm shop. To go to such lengths of deception and provide yet another video as ‘proof’, attributed to BBC Studios rather than BBC News, is cause for distrust. Privacy here serves William. KP has shown itself to be untrustworthy. They have built a steady drumbeat of denouncing anyone who challenges their story as conspiracy theorists even as their previous attempts were false and coordinated through TMZ and American Murdoch publications. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Proof of life for Kate is still necessary.
Skepticism in the face of ongoing lies and intentional deception is not insanity.
Are you seriously kidding me? After the frankenfoto, the farm video, and the questions about who was in the car with her mother and with William, I think people have the right to ask questions about ANYTHING KP puts out. This is the age of AI, and deep fakes, and if anyone has proof that the video is false they should have the right to present such proof, without being called conspiracy theorists. It’s called journalism, and free speech. In America, you don’t need a degree or a license to practice. Just stick your head out the window, look left and right, and report what you see. Given the bottomless well of conspiracy about Meghan that the BM has peddled in, the pearl clutching over people asking legitimate questions about Kate’s absence from public life, irks me to no end. Please, stop!
@Interested Gawker thank you for rightly pointing out that Kate has still not made a public appearance and that BBC Studios is not an arm of BBC News. Can’t Kate just wave from a car window on a public street at this point? She looks fine. If not, why not? It still matters.
@InterestedGawker, for me, this is enough proof-of-life. I agree that everything should be greeted with skepticism, and I think the farm video was at best a money grab by a rando and at worst a cynical attempt to deceive the public once and for all, so you do you. This is just not my particular hill to die on.
I have watched that video several times on YouTube and have noticed quite a bit of inconsistencies – the most obvious is the disappearances and reappearances of Big Blue.
Seriously, watching it at slower speed, you can see it disappearing several times when she moves her hands.
Now, I do harbor quite a bit of resentment of Kate when it comes to actions she performed against, and things she said about, Meghan. But I also have enough heart to hope she regains her health. Cancer is no joke.
But this video still doesn’t act as proof of life to me because of the inconsistencies. She truly needs to be seen in person, with different cameras pointed at her at the same time to consist a proof of life I will not doubt. The Frankenphoto Saga opened the dam in disbelief in me. I just cannot go back and believe anything Kensington Palace, William and most of the rota says.
And, before I am attacked by people saying she is/should be entitled to her privacy in these hard times, therefore owes no one anything, let me point out that she is a member of the British Royal Family. Taxpayers funding her lifestyle have a right to know, and as a Canadian-born, members of the Commonwealth too.
It don’t care about know personal details of her recovery or illness(es). Proof of life, however, should be the bare minimum. One that can be legitimately cannot be argued against.
@Shawna the after all they did that video is also in question. This was by their own doing. When I see her at a public event living her life like before I don’t trust anything coming from any of them and they deserve it.
The video can be criticized and I am going to criticize it. When I first heard the video, I was lying in my bed with my back turned to the TV. I found it odd that her voice was so steady. When I finally saw the video, I thought the lighting was very odd as was the background. The grass was too green, and nothing was moving. Then I wondered why she wasn’t wearing her ring. Then her ring magically appears. Then I wondered why the soft focus lense? Where was William, he should have been sitting there right next to her. Why was her face normal size when it was obviously bloated in the car picture, and too defined and skinny in the video of her walking. I’m calling the video out as a deep fake. I have no problems doing this because KP has been playing us all along and they still are.
Let me clarify, I think all of it should be scrutinized. I just think maybe some people are parsing the term “preventative” a little too much. But that is about the only grace I am willing to extend them: they used the term to describe “adjuvant”. I’m not saying definitively that anything else is true because I don’t trust anything coming from them. At this point, nothing less than a live broadcast without tape delay will do AFAIAC.
My Brit hubs who does not care about the royals and is decidedly not a conspiracy theorist watched the video and his first thought was: are they lying?
I told him probably not bc this is the only Kate speech I’ve seen that’s ever been in one take and good.
So it’s likely it’s true.
But that’s how badly they sha* the PR bed!!
I think it’s def ok to speculate that BP was finally like shut it down! And this was the solution. KP could never architect something this complex. Anyway, I tend to think this is what’s up. But the speculation comes from their own gross mismanagement.
It’s not offside for the public to doubt- as my husband said- what possible other excuse would garner sympathy’ and be unimpeachable?
Dawning – after all the fakes I think it’s a reasonable question. BBC said it was filmed against a floral backdrop – maybe that meant a literal backdrop. There’s other questions too on twitter x.
But I do believe the message this time.
And didn’t the BBC actually take the video and have charge of its release? Not KP clownshow.
I’m giving the video some tiny benefit of the doubt. But…false in one, false in all. In my 43 years on earth I have always, always found this maxim to be true.
The video was filmed in a studio with a backdrop. The lighting is studio quality. Acknowledging that is not putting doubt on the content of the video.
ETA: just rewatched. There’s a tweet sound of birds at the very beginning and again at the end but not during. That’s an easy edit in post to add a soft audio track. Not a conspiracy theory. It’s fine that this was done in a studio.
Or a green screen. Nothing wrong with that.
I didn’t know that it was filmed in a studio..I thought it was in their garden 🤔
The fact that the video has left room for speculation is just … bonkers facepalm. I believe what Kate says. If it’s just a fake backdrop, that’s acceptable, as you say, and remarking on its being filmed in a studio is not creating a so-called conspiracy theory.
This is such a teachable moment for thinking broadly about what is acceptable versus unacceptable image/video manipulation or suggestion or what have you. I’m risking hyperbole here, but speaking as a literary historian of the early 20th century, this is culturally a *media* moment like the Titanic going down. Newspaper readers didn’t know what to think, and lots of misinformation circulated. It’s a flashpoint that makes possible a lot of useful conversations that need to be had. So even though I’m sympathetic to K at this very moment (NOT KP, NOT William), looking at this as a cultural moment, it’s going to be important even considered apart from the issues related to British monarchy continuance and H&M.
Exactly. It was BBC Studio, not news, and I’d bet it was a backdrop. that would make sense if you look at the lighting on Kate.
I noticed right away how the edge lighting was so strong but the direct light so soft. It’s hard to get that in direct sun even if the sun is the edge light/hair halo. I’m positive they used even soft box studio lights (inside or out) to get the soft look for her.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was shot in studio for her comfort and to control the lighting. They obviously used a teleprompter and she did really well and it’s 100% her IMO.
Weirdly, if you look at the photos used by the British tabloids of that video, they added lip gloss and eyelashes to her face in an attempt to make her look healthier. Not sure they can deal with the assignment here.
@Shawna – I agree so much with your comment about this being a teachable moment. Multimedia is entering unprecedented territory with Ai, and no image will ever be published in it’s original form, but we can still parse a message to determine what’s honest and what isn’t.
When the rota wanted to claim that Harry & Meghan’s baby announcement was a lie because of a potentially fake tree in the background, that was a key example. The tree wasn’t the message. The pregnancy was the message. If someone claimed the pregnancy was faked (no one made such a claim), that’s a story. The tree is not the story, so focusing on an irrelevant element of the image was the worst kind of spin.
Likewise, touching up a photo to make a complexion more youthful, hair more bouncy, is problematic if you’re selling face cream or shampoo. But altering a photo to falsify an event occurring on a specific day, that’s a news story.
@SHAWNA everyone has the right to their own opinion and I am not going to suggest your opinion is wrong or needs revision. You are welcome to accept this video as proof of life. That is your right.
I am going to reiterate what I have believed from the beginning of all this.
Releasing that video footage is not proof of life, it is not verified by the presence of other people who can interact with her in real time nor is it witnessed by spectators that we can see and agree they were all where they said they were at that given time.
I am ‘a royal watcher’. We’ve evolved past waving a blood stained sheet to prove the wedding night was consummated but that attitude still colours a lot of the BRF’s actions. A photo call and limited questions filmed by news providers was the way this was handled for the sake of history and posterity and was an agreed upon reality. The walkabouts were also providing a glimpse of the royals that people could trust.
Proof of life and the veracity of the story was requested even before Kate ‘left the London Clinic’, even before the Mother’s Day photo, before the farm shop. It’s even more important all these months later.
Kate (and her children) have not been seen or heard from since December.
I tried posting a response to Shawna regarding BBC, but it ended up down bellow. I agree, Shawna is entitled to believe KP. But the rest of us have an equal right to a healthy dose of skepticism, given their record of lying and fakery. That BBC is involved is no consolation. BBC has agreed to allow the royal family full editorial control over all material covering them. How is this objective?
Hi Dawning. It depends on the day here. It’s been largely damp and still, so the non moving foliage didn’t bother me! I think the video is real.
@InterestedGawker, @Proud Mary, ITA being skeptical is the right way to go in general. I’m venturing to say that I believe the basic statements in the video…because I’m surprised by the video itself being believable. If someone says that the script on the video allowed prevarications, yes, of course, that’s how these people work, and it’s rude and wrong. But the basic facts I’m gonna accept here. There’s shady sh*t that matters for individual people and for history that’s blurred here. I assume they’re still dissembling to some degree. But I am accepting the basic gambit.
For those in the British press who are wondering, that statement confirms that Harry won’t be visiting Kate but he and Meghan wish her well. It has been interesting to see the press react to Kate’s announcement and the blatant omission of the ordeal that Meghan went through when speaking about the rumours and conspiracy theories that surrounded Kate.
And the derangers go on about how close will and Kate were with harry until Meghan came along. Even though harry denied that spin about his alleged closeness to William and Kate.
What does it matter if he was or wasn’t anyway? Does being close to a brother mean that he was never allowed to marry and become closer to his own wife and children? They are ridiculous.
Equality I agree. William wanted to break harry and Meghan up from the get go. He had no business doing so for obvious reasons. The queen should have put William in his place.
Their statement was perfect – not fake, not gushing, just an expression of goodwill and hope that she is able to deal with her illness in peace.
I am LOLing at the people who are mad that they called her Kate. Im sure she still goes by Kate even if she’s been trying to push Catherine for years.
I liked H&M’s statement. Clearly, they had to make one, once the news hit; even KC made a statement! Time to ignore people complaining about it (yet again).
I’ve noticed that “don’t call her Kate—her name is Catherine” ridiculousness as well. Harry calls her Kate. Uncle Gary calls her Kate. Tatler, the magazine aimed at a certain rich, British, estate-owning class refers to her as Kate quite often. Her MIL was also referred to as “Di.” Or by her maiden name, Di(ana) Spencer back when she was married to KC. Calling her Kate is not problematic.
The way these royalist bootlickers run around trying to control the masses in what they are allowed to say online is truly fascinating. Can you imagine spending your days and nights yelling at strangers, “Her name is The Duchess of Sussex, not Meghan! Use her proper title!”
Watching those same people immediately pivot from “nothing is wrong wait till she breaks the internet on Easter!” To “ Meghan will be so jealous of Catherine’s cancer!” was truly an education in how deranged these people are.
H&M could have addressed Kate as HRH God’s Perfect Gift to the Royal Family and the derangers still would have been mad.
Your comment wins the internet for today @QuiteContrary 😀
It’s a decent and loving gesture, they also reached out privately but still they get dragged for it – damned if they didn’t and damned if they did. They have shown more class than many of these so called Royal supporters and UK journalists.
The reaction of the Wails derangers is just shocking – both at this and the initial announcement. It’s a terrible illness and am glad it was caught early for her, she will be ok. Chuck has been getting his treatment in relative peace and privacy since his announcement. It would have been the same for her and her family if they had been a bit more transparent. I understand why both with the kids being so young and Chuck’s announcement but they should have shut down all the chatter sooner.
It’s now obvs that it was not Kate in that farm video (that KP said was legit and then backtracked) – wonder how long it will take for the person who shot it to be outed as an opportunist who used doubles.
To iterate – I wish her a speedy recovery from the chemo treatment it can be brutal.
The Sun Editor Victoria Newman was on a BBC political morning show still trying to pass the woman in the farm video off as Kate. She said it was a planned set up between the Sun and the palace making sure that they were “seen”. She thinks the world is stupid.
So the invisible contract at work. No legitimate newspaper would involve itself in a “planned setup.” The BM owns the Windsors.
Wait, really? The Sun’s editor admitted it was a setup? Why on Earth would KP do that knowing Kate was going to soon make a public announcement?
I mean, the vibe they’ve given is “it was always the plan to say something as soon as we figured out a few things with the kids.” This would mean the video was a last minute decision (fueling my theory they went public because someone, aka the rota rags, got their hands on medical records).
This is exactly why proof of life is necessary for Kate. This EXACTLY why shouting down and trying to shame concerned observers into silence is wrong. I understand that individual sites can choose not to host speculation but a cancer diagnosis is not an excuse to continue ‘hiding’ the POW under the guise of ‘her’ privacy. Both QEII and CIII have shown themselves to their subjects in public facing events while dealing with serious health issues, KP should be no different.That woman in the farm store was not Catherine and if that was actually William as The Sun insists that video was real that means the heir to the throne committed more fraud over and above the Mothering Sunday photo.
Time for me to say again that Newton was speaking with one of my least favorite journalists, Lauren Kuenssberg. The grace she gives Victoria Newton is fascinating who btw is named in Harry’s case for invading his privacy through illegal means. So for her to preach now is something to behold. Anyways, LK had Newton on the day after her paper the sun ran clarkson’s disgusting article and despite it blowing up into a huge story, Kuenssberg didn’t say a word about it or question Newton. And here she’s letting Newton wax poetic about how they’re protecting Kate’s privacy. It’s such a stitch up. I’ve had to distance myself bc it’s hard to watch that level of bbc and tabloid coziness. That said, Newton says that they informed KP of the video and they were okay with the Sun running it. Which we knew bc otherwise KP would have said no as they did with the car photo and Kate’s mom. Now just bc KP said they were not going to object to the Sun running it does not mean it was real or that KP was saying it was real imo. They’re wording everything v carefully.
@Jais
Sometimes I feel guilty for just how much I dislike Laura Kuenssberg, and then I remember she’s a terrible journalist and Tory stooge, and feel less bad.
Don’t feel guilty. I think it’s okay to deeply dislike a journalist when they’re so obviously biased and clearly go easy on tabloid editors while going hard on others, especially the ones who are not Tory.
I suspect that they only released a statement because they were being hounded by BRITISH reporters for comment. More like they issued a response to the numerous queries from reporters once and for all.
Funny how the reporters who were demanding to hear Harry and Meghan say something about Kate did not once ask the palace what they had to say when Meghan spoke about her suicidal ideation and miscarriage. They either called her a liar or didn’t care.
Personally, I would have said “We don’t comment on personal matters” as the palace frequently said, or issued the same statement as they did on this occasion, but left Kate’s name off and simply said “the family” as they also did.
Meghan and Harry are the epitome of grace and class. The leftover royals don’t deserve any attention from them.
Harry and Meghan are the bright lights in that family. Kate is blessed to have their healing thoughts directed toward her.
Right? They’d be really good people to have in your corner going through a traumatic time. It would have been so great for the children to have Uncle Harry around to talk to.
Showing solidarity for Waleses’ privacy plea was a nice touch.
Amazing. Somehow the palace staffers who made all of this as big a mess that it is are escaping criticism from the rota as they go after the conspiracy theorists who went off the rails because the poor staff work created the environment. Reason is obvious — invisible contract– but outrageous nonetheless.
I also wanted to add that I saw on Twitter some of the rota rats trying to make this statement seem as if Harry and Meghan are using this to talk about their own lives and own agenda. But it’s really not. It’s a case of Harry and Meghan wanting the Waleses to have the same things they want for themselves. That fairness and altruism is not something that the Waleses or tabloids would understand, though.
Nice statement by H&M and I’m sure they reached out privately, too.
So, now that any and all criticism of and reporting on the RF is off limits in the name of “decency,” it’s time to start bashing H&M again.
The Sussexes did the best they could in this situation so l think it was appropriate to make a statement without going overboard. I just find it disgusting how the vitriolic hate against them is starting up all over again.
The abuse of the Sussexes is just so vile. I truly hope they never go back there. No Harry pitching in to help his family in any way (not that I believed that narrative anyway) and no hosting of the Invictus Games in England.
Kate can certainly manage this situation however she likes (including not being in contact with her brother and sister-in-law), but you do understand that Harry and Meghan are not the toxic ones in this equation, right?
We’ve seen “fans” of Kate and William wishing death on Meghan (even since Kate’s video) and we’ve seen the English press wishing almost the same on her – and not once has anyone from that family spoken up in her defense. Meghan has publicly gone out of her way multiple times to offer compassion to Kate but not once has Kate or William (or Chuckles or any of them) done that for her.
Sorry this was in reply to a vanished comment
Exactly right.
I have ZERO grace left for that K woman after seeing how her fans’ disgusting behaviors toward Duchess Meg since her cancer announcement. You, your mother & your husband spend, what, 7 years, cultivated these “fans” & bots targeting a kind-hearted do-good biracial/black woman. K, or C, whatever you want to called yourself, you are in God’s hand now. I only wish the best for the 3 children: G, C& L.
Yesterday Kates “fans” were threatening Archie and Lili in print.
Will the media call them out? Will Kate and William ever speak up in defense of innocent children? Crickets.
William using the public sympathy from Kate’s cancer to immediately recharge his bullying campaign against Harry via Meghan. He has nothing public to say in support of his wife and but all this effort to send the trolls out for the Montecito royals. All the conspiracies about Kates disappearance were actually commentary reflecting how horrible William has been the whole time to her. Its obvious he blames the American duchess for this bad pr. But we know it was really him who made the comment about Archie’s melanin yet he continues to throw Kate to the wolves and Meghan under the bus to protect himself.
William is out of control.
I always thought it was william. Was it, and not kate?
I’ve been reflecting on all of this. Words cannot describe the horror that is cancer. I was shocked and saddened when Kate announced her diagnosis. 100% she deserves the peace and privacy to get through this horrible and traumatic time.
What I am also saddened by, but not
surprised by, is that Kate’s cancer diagnosis seems to be being exploited by
the “firm” as an opportunity to once
again, create a hero and a villain. Making
Kate the saint and Meghan the sinner.
Making it okay to compare Archie to a
chimpanzee and bully Meghan to the point of suicidal ideation, but not hold KP accountable for exploiting Meghan to squash the Rose Hanbury story or for the Franken photo.
It feels like a vibe of, “oooooh! Don’t you all feel bad? See, she’s had cancer the whole time! Now she is the saint and can do no wrong and you are all the sinners especially Meghan.” By doing this. By exploiting Kate’s cancer diagnosis to create a hero/villain narrative they insult
anyone who has ever had cancer.
The palace, hellbent in creating this hero/villain story is treating Kate’s cancer
diagnosis like a freaking gift horse to that narrative. It’s f@#$Ed up! It’s disgusting and it’s just plain wrong.
Kate Middleton has not been someone whose side I have been on as she has done evil towards a Black American woman and her family. She didn’t show any care or compassion for Meghan when she was suicidal. She had no problem with her brother inlaw, Meghan and her nephew’s security being removed essentially leaving them for dead, and we could go on and on and on.
Then when KP was struggling with the messaging, and they get bad press and online trolls, yeah, it felt good, because they did this to others. It was schadenfreude as they say. Then, they come out with, “nope! She has cancer guys. Dont you all feel bad for actually giving KP a taste of their own medicine?”
I can not like a person’s behavior towards another and think they should be held accountable for that behavior while also not believing this person deserves fricken CANCER and deserves peace and privacy as they heal.
I feel awful for Kate Middleton. I can’t believe they made her do this all by herself. Cancer is unimaginably horrid. And, if the BRF and the BM continue to exploit her cancer to reinforce the hero/villain narrative then they both aren’t giving Kate the peace she has asked for and should absolutely be held to account.
Outstanding post Slippers4life. Thank you.
💯 Slippers! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Bravo Slippers👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@slippers4life – Great commentary. You expressed the ambivalence most of us probably feel. I am sad for what K. is dealing with but unfortunately it was always obvious she & W. didn’t like Meghan and weren’t going to even try to get along with her or allow her to exist in that family in peace and dignity. I feel sorry for K.’s health situation at the same time that I don’t think she conducted herself with any kindness towards her own sister-in-law. Hopefully this experience will change how she feels about or treats H & M, but we’ll see.
Exactly this. I can’t say what the BRF are doing right now, but the BM are already exploiting Kate’s illness. They know that direct reference is off limits, so they choose to violate her privacy through bashing H&M – i.e. “Aren’t H&M horrible for doing X, when Kate is suffering from cancer.” We’re in for months and months of this behavior.
Slippers4life makes a great point about the hero/villain narrative they are now constructing before our eyes. And the royals and their sycophants are literally exploiting Kate’s diagnosis to advance this agenda. Yet, H&M, along with the rest of us who are not forgetting what has happened since January, are being portrayed as the evil ones.
The one thing is people who weren’t paying attention before are like wth is going on why is the BM so full of hate for H and M no wonder they left!
So really, as awful as it is, they aren’t doing the Royal Family any favors with their hate. Just making the whole little island look sad and pathetic at this point, which brings me no joy as I have family, friends and colleagues there.
If my sister had been going through something like this I wouldn’t be out posing for bikini shots on the beach, but what do I know. The way Pippa was behaving was one reason people were questioning how serious Kate’s situation was.
Oh, and Sunak, as well as the Bidens, also referred to her as Kate. I assume that was irrelevant to the loonies on social media, it only matters what the Sussexes did.
Well said, Slippers!
Excellent post expressing whatever everyone on this site is feeling…
Yes the Sussexes are direct and classy which is more than I can say for the Wales who smeared and doubted Megs suicidal ideation that she was going through along with all the lies and smears.
Nothing else is necessary other than sending well wishes. Waleses have made it abundantly clear that they are not close to H & M nor do they want to be, so why on earth would Harry fly back to see Kate…
Well, given their reputation, one can’t help but scrutinize closely for authenticity. If it is true, I sympathize. I wouldn’t wish this disease on anyone.
On another note, the Sussexes are truly classy people. My utmost respect for them.
I don’t think there was anything wrong with your observations at all, given how KP has been manipulating images so far in an effort to regain control of the narrative. Apparently, you were also proven right, as some above said that the statement was in fact filmed in a studio. It’s just that, this time, the element of artifice was not the most important factor, the person talking in real time was. I think this is what people have been saying for months, as long as there is some truth, whether it was through a written message, or video, it would not matter. I also don’t think that there’s any reason to rewrite history at this point. Besides, that’s what the BM are busy trying to do.
I’m glad I’m not on social media, because I knew as soon as this announcement came out the hagiography of Kate would begin. I hope she does get peace and privacy because I’m sure she’s terrified right now staring down her mortality in a way she probably didn’t imagine she would for another 30 or 40 years. That being said it does not erase any of the horrible things that she has done especially in relation to Meghan over the past half decade. The BM will probably end up over playing their hand on a rare PR win for them by going after two people who are saying and doing nothing. Like someone said before this isn’t just royalists and Sussex squad anymore other people will notice the hypocrisy.
I hope Kate makes a full recovery, certainly for the sake of her young children. That said, now that Kate has experienced in these last few months some of what the institution is capable of, which is actually 1/1000 of what Meghan has gone through over the years, I also hope Kate is granted the grace of reflection, and carefully considers the part she played in making things so much worse for Meghan. Don’t really expect it though.
It was a good classy message.
Cancer is truly a life changing experience, and most people that have gone through it will tell you they are not the same. I hope that this experience teaches them humility, compassion and kindness towards others.
After the cancer announcement it was disheartening to witness the amount of hate and abuse directed towards Meghan and her children. I don’t believe that that I even seen that kind of hate before it was different. I seriously reserve all my good wishes. They deployed the international bots with every possible hate, vile and disgusting comments towards Meghan. Unbelievable!
The king is too busy talking about his adored Kate instead of looking out for the rest of his family.
The same king who didn’t say anything in support of his other daughter in law who suffered a miscarriage or during the constant attacks towards her ..yeah, Meghan and Harry are far better people than all of them
The guilt trip by the BM is meant to shut down PhotoGate, but it’s not working. Response on X from most posts is no apologies calling out KP’s and Kate ‘s actions and demanding apologies for Meghan. I threw my two cents in. A Squaddie brought this image in showing the public support after Kate’s announcement https://twitter.com/KajolMomento/status/1771860628434554880?t=Zb-nBE091N2nCjfTwgIF7g&s=19 Also questions are being raised about that video.
Apparently theres a post by Peter Hunt with a clip saying Victoria Newton from the Sun saying that KP tacitly signed off on that weird market video and they got the ok to run it. There was a lot of palace/press collusion managing this whole thing , which is why they’re so mad about social media messing up their narrative.
It’s not only the Photogate issue ..there’s also the video clip issue that everyone simply ignores while it’s quite obvious that “Kate’s “energy and image in the video is totally off judging by her appearance on the BBC video. They purposefully tried to gaslight the public many times in the two months since Kate’s surgery…I don’t fill guilty for wondering where was Kate after photogate…they are the primary responsible for the chaos created…
I’ve been thinking a lot about that children’s story the past couple of days, “Peter and the Wolf” I think it’s called.
Anyway, Meghan and Harry are much better people that me but I already knew that.
The Rota tried this same tactic when Harry flew to see Charles. Endless articles about him grandstanding and interrupting and not being wanted. Now he and Meghan make a simple statement and its the same thing, nothing but vitriol. They will never be happy until Harry “apologizes” and divorces Meghan. Obviously William is behind this because no sane person would think this way. And because he now has endless dollars to fund this madness, I expect it will continue as long as he does. I hope that the Sussexes can continue to carve out a bubble of peace in the midst of this. My prayers are for them.
Amen to that.
It’s weird, isn’t it? If my spouse suffered from cancer, I would be fully occupied him with providing the comfort and courage to fight it and not attacking my brother no matter what he has done…
It was a brief and very appropriate statement for the situation. Of course the usual suspects were foaming at the mouth that they said anything at all while ready to condemn them if they said nothing. They may not have known what exactly was going on but they probably suspected it was very serious. Anyway I think it was appropriate to issue the statement so quickly.
The Sussexes should’ve kept quiet and left the BM to flail uselessly without anything evidenced-based to report on.
You think by not saying anything publicly, that’ll go unnoticed?
Meghan and Harry have been castigated time and time again for doing the right thing and for being better at it.
Talk about obsessive bullying and unhinged conspiracies, the royal reporters do it better than anyone else.
I think Willy and Kate still are eyeing the US market for a royal takeover. The US is ripe with billionaires to finance their foundation/trust. The US is rich and full of Americans dying to have royalty in their society or at least that what’s a lot of Brits think.
But first how to get rid of the pesky brother with a capable wife? Amp up the attack. The royals already have NYT and WaPo on their side along with Fox, TMZ, People, US Weekly, along with many others. As PoW, Willy boy has access to cash and governmental resources to do so. Even American President has to be nice to him.
The British royals always wanted America. The UK is a social and economical mess and the Tory’s control about to be flipped. The Murdoch empire along with American right wing news media (Sinclair broadcasting, X, FB) want to dominate and control the social and political process in the US like they do in Britain. The royals dovetail nicely with building that rigid hierarchy and formalizing the acceptance of special rules for special people. The royals can join the billionaire club here.
Yes, W&K are jealous and the British media’s hatred for H&M is real. But it has a purpose too. That’s what this is all about.
That “the royals already have Washington Post and NY Times on their side,” is news to me. Where’s the evidence of that? Washington Post recently published two satirical cartoons poking fun at the Kate situation, and the NY Times reporting has been pretty objective; they even published an op-head that laid bare the desperate treatment of Meghan compared to Kate. I could be wrong, but I don’t see it. Even TMZ, which is Murdoch own, was on the verge of exposing the farm video as fake, and did a documentary on the situation that seemed to really scare the royal family into putting out this latest video.
Take a look at yesterday’s WaPo. It had 6 or 7 articles about Kate. They were all defending Kate for wanting privacy, and how gracious she has been. Describing her with steely spine, as a young mother battling cancer and internet bullying, etc. The Post and the NYT had their columnists go on a screed about how awful people on SM and the net are for doubting her, speculating, and making memes.
You know when Post matches the Daily Mail with number of articles, the Post has gone tabloid. The comments pretty much trend with “leave her alone” and “internet triolls.”
Neither the Post or NYT addressed the fact that each paper was running a column or more a day about Kate the last three weeks. The tone and content of these articles were like any you find in the Telegraph or The Daily Mail. They were deferential. No hard question asked. They glossed over her photoshopped incidence as if it’s something everyone does.
The Post had 6-7 articles devoted to Kate yesterday. That number of articles is like the Daily Mail. All very deferential and defended Kate from internet trolls. They made the bad guys here the public. Both NYT and WaPo went on a rant calling the public and anyone who took an interest and was discussing all the confusing things during the last 2 months as trolls, cruel, etc. It was quite astonishing given that both of these papers devoted quite a bit of column and reporters to Kategate.
The 2 big dailies wrote many stories about Kate and then got angry at people for taking an interest? Both papers treated the photoshop incidence as if this is something everyone does. I couldn’t tell if I was reading the Telegraph or the Daily Mail.
WaPo didn’t have that many articles covering the Russian bombing and Gaza yesterday. It was such a huge difference in news coverage.
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Check the many (6-7) Washington Post Kate articles yesterday. Check today’s NYT columns about Kate.
The new CEO of WAPO is a former tabloid editor I think? He was named in Harry’s court case against the Sun. Which looks really really bad for WAPO. Maybe that’s why?
I forgot about that Jais, you’re right. But prior to the Kate cancer video, the Wapo was making fun of William and Kate, and even posted a cartoon making fun of the Daily Mail’s coverage of missing Kate. I guess it’s a bit of a mixed bag for now.
@Proud Mary, I understand where you are coming from. The Washington Post didn’t really report much about the royals in the past. But this year, the coverage was amped up.
It wasn’t until I was reading an election article and several comments noted the new CEO and the shift in tone. I did an on-line search and lo and behold, the new CEO was a former top executive in Murdoch’s media empire. He worked with Rebecca English, the Daily Mail chief editor. He started beginning of 2024. I was shocked but Jeff Bezos hired him to make more money.
So I guess the Post is sliding into tabloid style coverage. The NYT has been leaning more conservative or more bothsidesing with change of management the last few years. It was criticized for sloppy journalism by other news outlets over Gaza coverage and the union is protesting the treatment (targeting) of some of its staff.
This is sad news because I grew up reading both papers.
I’m not sure about this. I don’t think donations to a foreign charity are tax deductible. There’s the American Friends of the Royal Foundation, but they seem pretty small and haven’t attracted much money in the 10+ years since they were founded. And I don’t see how giving William any money can affect anything in the US. For one, all the Murdoch efforts haven’t made William more lovable, influential or even noticeable to the US audience – and, for another, William would just take any donations back to the UK with him.
Murdoch empire owns TMZ and the Sun. Check out the bio of WaPo’s CEO.
I think Kaiser wrote about William’s Eathshot and his connection with Bill Gates and Bloomberg. This was when hot Willy was attending the UN summit (not) and running in Central Park.
As far as X goes, Linda Y (who does whatever racist fascist Elon tells her to) put out a statement about the conspiracies about Kate needed to stop.
So to your point about billionaires siding with other billionaires at least on X, the sympathy is one sided and for other autocratic billionaire power types like Kate.
Linda didn’t mention how “X” wants to be seen as legit news and yet is banning journalists while holding up palace propaganda as real.
Sorry, I’m a bit tired. I meant the Post’s new CEO worked with Rebekah Brooks back when she was editor for Murdoch’s News international. She’s now CEO of News UK, which publishes The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement. She’s good friend with David Cameron.
Once you dig into media, politics, and monarchy, it’s amazing the closed ecosystem that house the players. They move around and do well on both sides of the pond.
I really feel like this is yet another example of the abuse of Meghan. Meghan was tortured by the British media, AND CONTINUES TO BE. Kate was the premier beneficiary of this abuse. Meghan was suicidal. Not one ounce of sympathy from William and Kate. If anything, they directly contributed to that abuse: “recollections may vary.” But Meghan must be made to send grace to the English rose, as if it’s required. What’s the difference between these two women, that one deserves to have her humanity recognized, and the other does not? Don’t tell me, I know.
BTW: I don’t believe Kate. I’m not saying she doesn’t have cancer, but I don’t believe the story she told is true.
It just occured to me that Kate may have Crohn’s Disease, which can often require the removal of the most damaged part(s) of the intestine, as it did a several people I know. The inflammation of Crohn’s Disease can lead to cancer. This would explain the very serious abdominal surgery, the long recovery time, and the discovery of cancer in the removed part of the intestine.
I think the new wave of Sussex bashing is meant to deflect what the video means: the Waleses are locked in ’till death do they part. They made sure Kate was wearing Big Blue when she announced her cancer diagnosis. If there was any thought of divorce it’s out of the question now. William can’t remarry unless he’s a widower are this point. A mistress is a non starter in this day and age. Given the Windsors’ history there’s possibilities (see George V).
If a divorce was going to happen its been pushed back a few years – if he wants out he will get out, eventually.
As for the video – if it was him/them as the Sun is proclaiming then it suggests that her video announcement was a last minute thing to get ahead of a potential leak of her medical records. It’s clear that is not Kate in the video, its 2 different women as Kate was frail looking in the announcement vid.
The thing that made me cackle is the “with William by my side”. Someone on Twitter used the expression “Checkmate” and I agree. He had been greasing the wheels to sever relations with the help of his friend Jason Knauf who is back in the fold, as apparently is Christian Jones.
Separation? Check. Single-dad roll-out? Check. Telling everyone that his estranged wife is well on the way to recovering and will return with a bang at Easter? Check. Back it up with a fake video? Check. And she comes out with a video (timed to drop during the US news hours, not the UK’s) which puts an almighty spoke in his wheels. Rivetting stuff.
I can’t wait to see what happens next.
William will continue to do what he wants. Maybe an official divorce isn’t on the table right now, but he is not going to be the devoted husband, I mean he couldn’t even pull it off with a hospitalized wife.
That he wasn’t sitting next to her on the bench is a sign that he couldn’t be trusted to look like a supportive and loving husband.
William will just doing what he has always been doing. He’s even getting flowery coverage from bootlickers like Eden who are praising William despite the fact it was his wife who is dealing with the cancer scare.
I’m glad H&M put this out publicly. They would have been subjected to hate either way but now it leaves no doubt that they’re classy compassionate humans. The media can tear them apart all they want and people who eat that hate up can continue to do so but the rest of us can see that they’re good role models on how to adult responsibly and show basic courtesy – something which KP isn’t capable of but expects. I bet they ride the sympathy wave to no end even after exhausting all their goodwill and flubbing every opportunity they had to handle this and every situation after this. It’s just a double standard for the white royals…
Here is the thing, I am sure both Meghan and Harry made peace with who their families are. When they send good wishes, they are doing it because it is right thing to do, not because they deserve it. Both KP and BP used Meghan as a human shield. No doubt they knew she was suicidal because of it, but didn’t care. Meghan knows this, I don’ t think she expects them to change. They have built their new life away from them. I can’t even imagine how Harry feels waking up every morning, not being a part of this abusive firm anymore. He probably asks himself why he didn’t leave sooner like any person who escaped an abusive relationship would.
I can’t wait for Meghan’s new projects. I am focusing on that instead of the screams and kicks of the delusional and hateful island and their bots.
I’m with you. You can’t jerk the public around like this and blame them afterward as a strategy for long. People get mad when they are played for fools.
It’s good to have a community that gets it.
I too wish Kate all the best on her healing journey … but I still remain flummoxed by so many decisions made by both palaces in the last several weeks. I am even flummoxed by some choices in the video. Isn’t there a similar picture of Kate outdoors in the past in a lookalike sweater? You would think they would want to do their outmost to avoid questions about staging/manipulation …
She’s got about 10 of that style of sweater, and it suits her quite well. I imagine it’s a comfortable look for her. That said, she does look quite pale and worn out in this video, whereas she is usually very tanned and sporting much more makeup. If it’s manipulation of something they shot previously that suggests a hell of a lot more foresight than their usual comms suggests.
Kind of sick of the British media to go straight for the “blaming everything on the Sussexes” bit and really annoying that nobody in the royal family is putting a stop to it.
After the last three months I believe NOTHING that comes from them.
Ditto. I don’t doubt the cancer story, but I believe she lied about something, such as the timing of the diagnosis. It’s a bazaar coincidence that she’s telling the exact same story as Chuck. In all honesty, I won’t be surprised if it’s all a lie. And I find their supporters’ vitriol towards the Sussexes just disgusting. It makes me lean even stronger towards believing that this is just all a ruse to deflect from all the negative press. I really seriously despise them all for their hatefulness, including Kate.
It’s a big reason why I avoid SM. It’s tough enough just keeping abreast with current events on top of work and life. We have a good community here and some people brave enough to wade into the muck for the rest of us.
Anyway, I’m off to prep my planting beds, muck (lol) and all 😉
I have been processing what has happened in the last few days .
I feel sympathy for Kate and the children , cancer is horrible .
I will always support Harry and Meghan and their children , they are good decent people who don’t deserve what they were subject to .
However I believe they are happy , fulfilled and and supported in their new life .
I agree that the others are trapped in the Royal Family .
What an awful existence that must be .
Just so grateful that Harry got his family out of that disgusting family .
@Kiit, I am with you on the gardening! Such great therapy for the ailments of this modern age.
I remember the same media lecturing Meghan over privacy issues when Archie was born. She was told that she was public property. That she had to play the game. The double standard is glaringly noticeable after the KP fiasco.
Gosh, this has been so hard to hear. My story mirrors that Kate’s. Cancer found accidentally. Kate and I are similar in age. We both have young children. I’ve also been a patient at The London Clinic where I’ve also received various non-cancer related abdominal treatments/surgeries. I’m further down the road than Kate.
For me, the worst part was the first two months. When we were trying to figure out how to tell the children. We sought advice from my MDT, my GP and my psychologist about how to tell the children about the cancer.
Honestly, it was the worst two months of my life. I will say this now: I have the privilege of the money and connections to have the best cancer care in the world, at the best hospitals. It still does not make this journey easy. So, I hope we can all give Kate the privacy, to navigate this awful journey. Seeing the video of Kate, telling everybody about the cancer was too much. I found it hard enough without the scrutiny of the world. I can only imagine how difficult the last few weeks have been for her and her family. Much love and strength, to anyone who is going through this, whether you are the patient, the friend of the family member supporting us.
People question the timeline., particularly on the other thread … it took 3 months to diagnose me. 3 months of negative biopsies, endoscopies, gastroscopies, imaging. Everyone is different.
Glad you are doing better. Many here have gone through similar health issues so I believe people understand.
People also understand it isn’t invasion of privacy to notify. Whether it’s cancer or some other health issues, people have had to deal with managing work, family, the finances, and the myriads of obligations through it all.
They say illness is a great equalizer. It knows no rank or privilege. What Charles did was a wonderful template on how the royals should manage health news. It’s funny that it took a septuagenarian to teach this lesson. Perhaps experience helps.
Kit: very well said. Most of us over a certain age have, sadly experience of cancer in family members and/or friends, since it is so pervasive. Many of have had to deal with employers while we did so. We all have great sympathy for anyone suffering, and they deserve privacy and healing. An honest and consistent policy, either of silence or explanation, would have afforded her that, from the very beginning.
I hope and pray you will get better and cancer free soon. As a mother with young children you feel for any mother that are facing this terrible illness.
Your message was so nice and such a contrast to all the hateful messages here. You can criticise Kate all you want. Call her out on being racist and her treatment of Meghan. But their kids are innocent and don’t deserve this.
I am sure Harry and Meghan don’t support that kind of behavior seen on the comments here. They are better person than some of these so called supporters who are on the same level of those lunatics fans of Kate.
I think people have rightly questioned the whole approach of KP with all of the deception and lies. Kate allegedly having cancer doesn’t negate that. And if Kate was half the saint that her fans make her out to be she would have spoken out against the abuse of Meghan years ago. Even today her horrible uncle is attacking Meghan and Harry on behalf of the niece he only sees at weddings and funerals. So you know where you can put your wagging finger @Mel.
Yes we to are saddened by the conspiracy theories, horrified by the trolling, how could these disgusting people do this when she is going through something so terrible? What do you mean your not talking about the massive depression that was pushing Megan towards suicide, or the disgusting way the press and the whole Royal family said NOTHING when she and Harry lost the baby she was carrying!! Ah I get you, it only applies to the white princess, who for a couple of weeks, had a very little bit of what Harry and Megan had been going through, and are STILL going through, for bloody YEARS
Tell you what BM why don’t we all stop buying your papers and block your Web pages, maybe THAT will stop YOUR trolling of them, since you think it’s so bad
What gets me is all the pearl clutching from some of Meghan’s greatest trolls. Now, we are to recognize that a woman experiencing illness needs space — she’s human y’all. Puhleez! Like she, Kate, herself was not at all a contributing factor to Meghan’s abuse. I really can’t muster the strength to extend any goodwill towards that person.
Mary Pester, you definitely were right about a big announcement before Easter and that someone was sicker than the palace was letting on. Thanks for sharing the tea when you can.
Love the classy response from H&M and also the breakdown from Hayward. One would THINK, that having two family members diagnosed with cancer would put the fear of Jesus in them and someone would say “enough is enough” – time to stop the hate. But these idiots never learn and keep it going. Charles and William could shut it all down, but noooooooo. I don’t feel sorry for all the shit they find themselves in right now.
As far Kate, I wish her recovery and I hope those kids are ok. The rest of them can keep swimming in the piranha pond.
Straight back to embiggening Kate and bashing the Sussex’s in less than 24 hours.
Yup. Shockingly fast turn around. The gutter press grinds on.
So it took over 60 days for the RF to come up with the excuse that Hate has cancer. If it’s true, I feel for her. But my theory is that it’s not true and that the RF thinks this will get people to back off while something else is going on behind the scenes? This excuse pretty much ties up all the questions and shames anyone who questions it. I will give the RF points for that. Time will tell.
I am think the cancer is legit but that there’s a reason other than the kids for the lies and weirdness. Like William and Kate aren’t together anymore.
People are also ignoring how much of the Where’s Kate? discourse was driven by William’s behavior. Not visiting her at the hospital, saying he wasn’t going to be working until after Easter as well, seeming drunk at an investiture, cancelling the memorial speech, and saying he took the photo that turned out to be fake. If he’d just kept up appearances, filling in for his father and Kate, the whole thing would have been largely defanged.
I believe that Kate is seriously ill…whether it’s cancer or something else equally serious that they don’t want to be revealed remains to be seen…I’m really skeptical about the coincidence of 2 members of the royal family having a serious operation simultaneously and discovering that they have cancer…and after all clownery kp did to gaslight the public and to avoid any sight of Kate(photogate, a probably fake video in windsor farm, Kate’s photo with her mother in which she’s completely different from the video, the photo of both of them in the car in which Kate (?) didn’t show her face…), everybody should be skeptical… I don’t doubt Kate’s last video or the seriousness of her health problem but the whole “mise en scene ” in a studio with Kate alone makes me think that she is not in Britain and that she’s treated for whatever ailing her somewhere abroad along with her mother…
I fear for H&M’s wellbeing these next few months. It’s a classic case of ‘damned if they do & damned if they don’t ‘. If the last 24 hours is any indication, the BM will be ramping up its attacks against them and it will be unendurable. My hope is that the international media will be vigilant and point out any instances of hypocrisy, racism and outright lies in the BM’s reporting of the Sussexes.
You can just see it building can’t you? All that pent up emotion, building up over the last few months of denials and obfuscations from KP, and it all has to go somewhere…so, line up the usual suspects, eh? It might play well in Great Britain, but it doesn’t in the US. Meghan and Harry had nothing to do with this.
My favorite part of H&M’s statement?
The subtle dig of using Kate and not Catherine. That should make William incandescent with rage.
That is not cool, @MsDarcy. No one, especially H&M, is making digs at a woman with cancer. They used Kate because that’s what they call her in private. Even her uncle says Kate. Harry called her Kate since he knew her. That wasn’t an official government statement, it is a health wishes from family member.
I think the use of “Kate” is endearing. That’s how Harry has always called her. Please stop.
I don’t think H&M are the type of people to use “subtle digs” at someone who has cancer. I don’t think they would use subtle digs at anyone. Meghan is a kind person, she has shown it over and over. I wish I could be as kind a person as she is.
It’s a term of endearment -if they had used Catherine it would have perhaps looked too formal for family members, who have long used Kate. Kate is how the know her. It’s not a dig, subtle or otherwise. Looking for a sub text demeans everyone involved.
Very classy response from the the Sussexes. I’m sorry about Kate’s cancer diagnosis, especially for the children. I’m sure she will get the best medical care and will be OK.
Cancer doesn’t discriminate and can strike anybody no matter your social or economical status.
2 weeks ago I was diagnosed with skin cancer. That came as a shock because I was focusing on breast health due to my mom having stage 4 breastcancer at 57 and she passed away at 59. I never thought about skin cancer because I’m not a sun worshipper and don’t use tanning beds. Right now I’m waiting to hear from the cancer clinic about an appointment.
Please have your skin regularly examined and stay out of the sun.
It was the right thing to do. If everyone thought that way, the world would be a better place.
Sitting here waiting for the UK media to sling arrows at Pippa and James for going on vacation while their sister was ill…….waiting…….waiting…..crickets.
I said the same thing on the initial post. Thing is I don’t blame her siblings for living their lives. You can’t put everything on hold and they have families too. And this is from people who they supposedly are so close to. They haven’t spent years telling us all they hate Pippa and James with a passion and being around them is the worst thing they’ve ever had to do. That being said you know they will try to make anything they do framed around, Harry and Meghan did, said, launched, or attended this just days, weeks, months or hours before, after, when Kate had a thought about something aren’t they terrible!!!
If she has cancer I hope they caught it early enough etc. Her children deserve having a healthy mom.
Is anybody 100% sure that KP wouldn’t lie to fix their 2 month PR debacle?
No
No. This is where I am at the moment… after soooo many lies, and with the separation evident for ages and talk of divorce coming down the line, plus the absolute silence what the surgery was in the first place and the fuzzy timeline about when it took place. Add to that KP working overtime to seemingly offload Kate and William and the media playing up his single HUNK status and overnight they all start singing from the same hymn sheet saying that LOVE will see them through this crisis and that they are “just like the queen and Philip”… and pushing the line that the world MUST feel bad and apologise for questioning KP’s fraudulent PR attempts? This carefully delivered announcement and the emphasis on William being by her side while sitting alone on a bench certainly was timely.
Unfortunately for them, sad as the news is that she is undergoing treatment to prevent the return of the cancer that the doctors found (she no longer has it, but the reporters are conveniently ignoring this fact), the events of the past few weeks taken together with this video raises more questions than answers and KP and UK media are going to face a massive backlash if they continue to harass people for asking straightforward questions.
One of my dearest and most courageous friends went through late stage inherited colorectal cancer which had metastasized to his lungs, liver and kidney. He’s been cancer-free going on 2+ years now, but it’s a miracle he’s still alive. One of the things that the doctors said saved him was his coffee habit. Our friends are also fairly active, eat well and poitive, which all help, but here’s an English link to the coffee: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/23/coffee-drinkers-much-lower-risk-bowel-cancer-recurrence-study
Coffee: is there anything it can’t do? Lol. Seriously though, it’s not bad for you. Nutrition in general is so important to health. Vitamin D, which people can lack in cloudy climates, plays a very big role in immune system health. I live in the great grey north of the US and supplement most of the year. Helps me dodge the viruses going around. I am sorry to hear about your friend. Cancer has been a thread in my family and I have seen it working as a nurse. Ii have great hope for new treatments going forward. Hope your friend does well.
As we have seen time and time again. All of this sudden adoration for the Wales will go up in smoke soon as more and more information regarding this diagnosis is discovered. They cannot help themselves they trip on their own feet so often in real time. Sitting back watching and waiting for the combustion, which will appear soon.
It’s a good thing that KP admitted that H and M had no prior knowlege of this, otherwise they would be accusing them of leaking it. This constant demeaning of Meghan and Harry when they obviously have nothing to do with any of this, it just plays poorly. At least in the US.
Shawna, the BBC allows the royal family full editorial control over everything they public. The BBC has no credibility in this matter. No British medial outlet can be trusted in their coverage of that family.
That’s a good point.
An honest and sincere message was sent from the Harry and Meghan. I won’t extend any other comment other than to reiterate the one they made. As to any other health issues, be it her hormones or any other internal organs, I am not familiar enough with Kate to comment.
My observations regarding her actions, however, are open to commentary.
Agree!
I made some comments earlier – I didn’t know there was another poster with the same username so I will change mine.
But on-topic I wish not just bodies healed but that ” the heart” and spirit are healed, eyes are opened and amends made. Now that would be a true miracle!
Look, Kate said that walkabout with H&M was the hardest thing she ever had to do. Fate has apparently decided to teach her what hard really is. Am I sad? Sure. Cancer sucks. Am I capable of walking and chewing gum at the same and thus also capable of saying feeling sad for her doesn’t make me like her? Also, sure. One royal expert (Sally what’shername) had an article about how Kate “doesn’t need” the Sussexes sympathy. I think that’s from KP, and if Kate and or Will really feel that bitterly about the Sussexes releasing a supportive statement, well…. the Waleses deserve all the scrutiny.
Do you trust some “royal experts?” Or anonymous source?
By doing so, you fall into their trap and craziness and basically back up the Royals and the royal press’ narrative that the public is full of nuts and conspiracies.
Well certain experts *are* mouthpieces, I think. But yes, my statement is predicated on the assumption the expert is truthful, which may not be accurate.
I am really just interested in how that type of article is a bad look, but nothing is combating it. If it’s not true, then why not release a counter message? They could do that, so I don’t think it’s a trap to believe it might be the truth about Kate feels.
Well these idiots have strengthen the argument to NOT award the Invictus Games to the UK.
“Don’t blame ‘stupid people on the internet’ for palace’s Princess Kate lies:”
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/princess-kate-rumors-palace-lies-20240324.html
I think Kate did a great job with the Video
Best I’ve ever seen her do,
I wish her all the best, as a mother of three children who need her, I hope she has a full recovery
Also, Megan and Harry‘s statement was perfect, short and to the point to provide the least amount of ammo for people to pelt back at them (which will happen no matter what they say, or if they don’t say anything at all)
Saying all of this, I think the blaming of the reading audience who ask questions about the horrible KP comms , franken photo taken by Willian? type of lying lies , grainy pictures , all created all of the questions about the obvious fakes and frauds that were put in front of us & now anyone that asked questions is a troll?
No critical thinking is allowed around the royal family.. only sycophancy … anything else is trolling, they’ve gone back to the usual playbook
The tabs need to stop just stop about the spin of harry and Kate were once so close. It is so grating
Kate is doing preventative chemo. The diseased part was removed and the chemo is just to kill any possible left over cancer cells. They chose to make a huge mountain out of what could have been a tiny mole hill. Either they are criminally stupid or there’s something else going on besides her recovery.
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According to “The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Stand Up to Cancer” TV show, 1 in 2 Britons will be diagnosed of cancer in their lifetime. So cancer is not such a rare disease anymore in today’s society, unfortunately. I’m sending all my good wishes to those brave kids battling cancer.
1 in 2? Yikes! That is a frightening statistic.
Lovely message, but I’m sure they will be pilloried for it and their failure to rush over and hold Kate’s hand. Interesting how Kate is back to being St. Kate again. I doubt that would have happened with Meghan in a similar situation.
The derangers want them to go and get turned away by Kate and william
If it were Meghan with the story of how the cancer was detected sounding similar to KC’s story, she would have been accused of lying and/or stealing the attention from KC or “overshadowing” some royal’s something or other.
HM has always been classy. They also have an Abundance of blessings.
No matter what, the British media and press still drags M’s name to everything.
They can’t even have a headline with just K – M always has to be in it. The obsession and tension, desires (or whatever you want to call it) that country has with M is so unbelievable.
Also the BM will never silence Americans. There’s 300+ million of us and many of us are vocal and we love to question esp if we see something not right. We’re not North Korea like They are. They will never take away our 1st amendment rights.
Their traditional media outlets are also a dying breed and I can see them have less power in the coming years-we already see it happening now as they were not able to control SM-there’s even more people who don’t believe their BS.
It was a classy, brief statement.
Calling the palace’s handling a clownshow is unkind to both clowns and shows. (And I hate clowns, so that’s really saying something.)
I think the Sussexes response to Kate’s cancer was measured and caring-they want her and her family to be able to have a peaceful and stress free period to adjust to the situation-I wish someone with top credentials in journalism-would write a daily blog to show how different the media treats the Sussex family from the Wales family-using smearing tactics to hurt one side over the other. one of the reasons i don’t talk about the Wales family because I have no interest except when it appears they are trying to smear the Sussex family-most of my posts will mostly positive for Harry, Meghan, Archie, Lilibet, and Doria and anyone else who use critical thinking about the media whether in written form or on the internet- as far as social media is concerned unless rules and laws are in place given by Congress-nothing will change no matter if you are royal or not.
Kate should be very afraid. BM & KP are shaming the public for noisily demanding proof of live. Is KP with the aid of the BM training the public to accept Kate’s mysterious disappearance with resigned acceptance?
Run, Kate. You’re in danger.
Mary S – I think you’re 💯 right
Mary, you’re so right, all conversations are being shut down with the label of “trolls” and KP can’t even explain why they faked multiple photos before announcing this, if it was just cancer. It’s like they are trying to gaslight and silence the while world. Whoever says or asks anything is quickly called a Sussex supporter troll and shut off. It’s troubling and make it look weird.
And the horrible comments about the sussexes seem to have intensified.
As in, why fake photos and videos if someone is honestly sick, why go the extra mile for a cover up if there’s nothing fishy going on with the family in the background? I’m just curious. Do they feel the need to be perfect so badly that even a sickness like cancer diagnosis is swept under the rug until the whole world demands answers then they come clean & announce it?
Well, I think that there is a massive power play between K&W and we will be able to connect the dots after some time, maybe years. What is really happening, if both K and C have cancer, what it exactly means (many types/different treatments and prognosis), why C was transparent (or wanted to seem transparent) and why K’s situation was a shit show – to me this statement wasn’t “ah, all clear now” moment. Since she was able to appear on camera, why the Frankenphoto? What was with the picture with Carole? What with Wills dropping her off to private appointment where she looked dressed for an event? Why nobody visited her? Still, so many questions.
My only suspicion and probable expectation is that she is not at the same place as Wills and/or kids.
The Sussexes had to acknowledge this news and I think how they acknowledged was most appropriate.
A perfect response and commendable since the Wales never had the grace to send one to the Sussexes. Trash manners. I also noticed that H&M made no mention of any disease, just wished Kate health and healing.