On Tuesday, the Princess of Wales visited the cancer ward at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Kate’s office confirmed that Kate had been treated at the same hospital last year, and that’s where she had been “smuggled in” to receive chemotherapy treatments. Kate made some strange comments during her visit with cancer patients, but royal reporters quickly swooped in to do damage control and massage the message. The message? Kate is fine, she’s in remission, but her “new normal” means that she’s still not going back to work in any way, and how dare you question any part of this story. Interestingly, People Magazine has published several exclusives about Kate’s visit, and I suspect that Kensington Palace organized these pieces with palace-selected people and palace-enforced talking points. One woman who met Kate declared that Kate doesn’t have to tell people what kind of cancer she had:
Kate Middleton’s visit to a London hospital where she had cancer treatment last year made a real impact, but one cancer patient says there’s no need for the royal to disclose her diagnosis. Angela Terry met the Princess of Wales during her emotional stop at The Royal Marsden Hospital on Jan. 14, and exclusively tells PEOPLE that Kate’s presence provided a huge boost.
“She was there to say thank you to the people who had looked after her, talk to patients who were in a similar situation,” Terry tells PEOPLE. “It was a great message of hope because she looked so well. We don’t need to know what cancer she had. We just know she’s been through surgery, she’s been through chemo — and one year later, my goodness, look, she is here.”
Terry, 71, was diagnosed with EGFR-positive lung cancer in 2019 and serves as the non-executive chair of EGFR Positive UK, a charity for mutation driven lung cancer. She was at the Royal Marsden for treatment on Tuesday when she met Princess Kate, who unexpectedly stepped out there to “show her gratitude to the incredible team, but also highlight the world leading care and treatment the Marsden provides,” a Kensington Palace spokesman said.
“It was a great message of hope because she looked so well. We don’t need to know what cancer she had.” Eh. Kate and King Charles have both declined to talk specifics about their cancer diagnoses, but Charles has done a lot more to show that he’s receiving treatment and that his cancer and the treatment has knocked him on his ass. Charles, to me, is more realistic and relatable than the conspiracy of silence around Kate for the past year. Meanwhile, People Mag did another exclusive about Kate telling a cancer patient that she didn’t use the cold cap:
Kate Middleton’s hair has long been a hallmark of her style, and during a visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital, a cancer patient revealed that the princess shared she “didn’t have to have” cold cap therapy—a treatment that helps reduce the risk of hair loss—during her cancer treatment.
Katherine Field, a patient undergoing cancer treatment who met Princess Kate during her visit, tells PEOPLE that they discussed cold capping — a scalp cooling system that can help reduce hair loss during chemotherapy, according to the American Cancer Society. Field, who was wearing a cold cap at the time, said the conversation added a personal connection to their encounter.
“I hate it, but I think it is working. Today there is a little bit of hair coming out, but I’m just trying to delay it,” Field, an art historian and curator, tells PEOPLE. When asked if Princess Kate mentioned using a cold cap, Field shared, “She just said that she didn’t have to have it. For her to lose her hair, which is so iconic, would have been awful. Everyone loves her hair!”
In retrospect, I think one of the craziest parts about Kate’s situation is that she actually looked quite ill in 2023 and her use of wigs was quite noticeable, and then when she “came back” to public view in June of last year – when she was apparently going through chemo – she looked worlds better and a lot healthier. She was practically glowing at the Wimbledon men’s final last July. And yes, the situation with her hair is certainly interesting.
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- LONDON, ENGLAND – JANUARY 14: Catherine, Princess of Wales hugs Rebecca Mendelhson during a visit to The Royal Marsden Hospital on January 14, 2025 in London, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales have today become Joint Patrons of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust following a visit by Her Royal Highness to the hospital’s Chelsea site. The Princess’ own personal cancer journey saw her receive treatment from The Royal Marsden. The Royal Marsden opened its doors in 1851 as the world’s first hospital dedicated to cancer diagnosis, treatment, research and education.,Image: 953488961, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson/Avalon/Avalon
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- LONDON, ENGLAND – JANUARY 14: Catherine, Princess of Wales during a visit to The Royal Marsden Hospital on January 14, 2025 in London, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales have today become Joint Patrons of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust following a visit by Her Royal Highness to the hospital’s Chelsea site. The Princess’ own personal cancer journey saw her receive treatment from The Royal Marsden. The Royal Marsden opened its doors in 1851 as the world’s first hospital dedicated to cancer diagnosis, treatment, research and education.,Image: 953489870, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson/Avalon/Avalon
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- The Princess of Wales during a visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, where she received her cancer treatment, to personally thank staff for her care. The Prince and Princess of Wales have become Joint Patrons of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, the specialist cancer hospital which treats over 59,000 NHS and private patients every year. Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 14 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales during a visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, where she received her cancer treatment, to personally thank staff for her care. The Prince and Princess of Wales have become Joint Patrons of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, the specialist cancer hospital which treats over 59,000 NHS and private patients every year. Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 14 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales talks with members of staff during a visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, where she received her cancer treatment, to personally thank staff for her care. The Prince and Princess of Wales have become Joint Patrons of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, the specialist cancer hospital which treats over 59,000 NHS and private patients every year Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 14 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales during a visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, where she received her cancer treatment, to personally thank staff for her care. The Prince and Princess of Wales have become Joint Patrons of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, the specialist cancer hospital which treats over 59,000 NHS and private patients every year Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 14 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales during a visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, where she received her cancer treatment, to personally thank staff for her care. The Prince and Princess of Wales have become Joint Patrons of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, the specialist cancer hospital which treats over 59,000 NHS and private patients every year Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 14 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Not all chemo causes your hair to fall out. My dad was on chemo for leukemia and never even felt sick or lost his hair.
This. It really depends on the cancer and type of chemo. For instance, for colorectal you’re probably keeping your hair. For breast cancer, you’re not. Family and friends going through various types haven’t always lost their hair.
I was about to say the same thing! I have a friend who was diagnosed with rectal cancer last year & she didn’t lose her hair, but she had awful stomach pain due to the chemo. Thankfully my friend just found out this past week that she is cancer free!
Actually, you don’t lose your hair for all chemo concoctions that treat breast cancer, either. But then again, I’m not convinced that she had chemo or that much of that mop on the top of her head is hers. Would love to see her lose the sausage curls of comfort and embrace a more powerful, mature image. But alas, I think she prefers the girlish lazy mean girl persona.
10 1/2 yrs ago I had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Philadelphia+ Chromosome, and I lost my hair twice: Once during the first round of chemo to knock down the cancer, and then again a few months after, during Consolidation Chemo to prepare for my stem cell transplant.
In *most* if not all treatment, you *will* lose at least a little bit of your hair if not all your hair. I just don’t buy that Miss Keen didn’t have any hair loss, and kept enough fullness to even meld with wiglets. If *nothing* else, her hair would’ve been brittle and broken from the chemicals of chemo, especially if it was a cancer that kept her out of the public eye for an entire year.
Just not buying what they’re trying to sell.
And I was told to stay OUT of the sun!
Chemotherapy is a non-specific term that could refer to any number of drugs used to treat cancer, and not every Chemotherapy drug results in hair loss.
Chemotherapy regimens for breast and colorectal cancer can both involve chemo drugs that have almost 100% certainty of hair loss. “The red devil” chemo can be effective for advanced cases of breast and colorectal cancer. Cold capping can reduce the blood flow to the scalp and reduce the impact of strong chemo drugs on those hair follicles.
Chemotherapy regimens are prescribed based on the specifics of the cancer, and generally speaking the most powerful drugs are most likely to result in hair loss.
Good wigs are expensive and someone with money would have less problems than the average person getting a wig.
Did your dad spend lots of time in the sun during chemo?
I think the reason Kate’s appearance raises eyebrows (including keeping her hair and now saying she didn’t use a cold cap…both which can be entirely normal like you said) is because so many other things done or said don’t add up. The math ain’t mathing.
I don’t think he did. Just the type of chemo he had.
I’m with you the math ain’t mathing. I lost every hair on my body. I do know that not everyone loses their hair but there are other things she has said that don’t add up.
I lost my hair in places and it definitely thinned. While I noticed most people didn’t. Other than my main boss and husband most people in my direct orbit had no idea what I was going through. I did have bad days though. My case was not typical and I wasn’t exactly comfortable talking on it at the time.
Kate makes me uncomfortable though but I can’t quite put my finger on why.
As a cancer survivor I agree she makes me uncomfortable and I think it’s the cagey “I want your sympathy for my cancer but don’t you dare ask me for any information. Sympathy only!!!”
Correct. My SIL had both chemotherapy and radiotherapy for cervical cancer and did not use a cold cap or lose her hair.
My husband was on Cisplatin chemo for throat cancer — he did not lose his hair, nor did he have to avoid the sun. He got blood clots in his arms from it – from the wrist to the armpit and had to have them removed — and he lost 90 pounds due to the radiation — but he had hair.
Whatever she used or not, the truth with any complex treatment is that they have side effects. If it is not hair, then it will be skin. If not skin then stomach pain. If not stomach then constipation. Somehow people experience uncomfortable consequences. Her double mc-mumbles are too complex.
Exactly.
I’ve lost very little hair, most of it now happening at the end of my chemo, but it’s very dry and brittle so I’m conditioning like crazy. If she had any hair loss it’s covered up by extensions and wiglets. Other than that, with her stupid comments about ports and getting lots of sunshine, nothing adds up to her cancer story, NOTHING. As for her swanning into a cancer ward unmasked full of people either actively receiving chemo or having just received it, it’s proof positive she did this just for a well timed photo op in light of the Sussex’s recent positive coverage of Meghan’s show and their public service for victims of the LA fires.
Yes Jaded she did go in without a mask!! I go once a year now for my check up and I go in with a mask so as not to bring in something to those going through chemo. You see in the pictures that she hugs a woman who pulled her mask down!!! Too many things not adding up. I didn’t lose my hair till the end of chemo. It started while I was on chemo but right after being finished it was gone. I have very thick hair so it took that long.
I firmly believe there’s a special place in he11 for anyone that would knowingly lie to cancer patients…just sayin’
Not everyone loves her hair style and imo it is so not iconic. Being a so called working royal is not about hair styles. It is not just bad for keen to lose her hair it goes for everyone.
Yeah, that this educated woman–art historian and curator!–gushed that nonsense about Kate was 🤮.
I see why it’s taken Kate a year before she met with cancer patients or been to a treatment center. Things aren’t adding up and the walking back from the BM immediately after this visit probably means they know it too.This might be the last time she’ll do something like this. No wonder she’s had someone with her at engagements up until this point.
I am not convinced that Kate had a cancer severe enough to warrant her abrupt post-Christmas disappearance. I sincerely believe she had a very low-grade skin cancer removed prior and her disappearance was due to being assaulted by William and needing emergency treatment, and she used the messaging of caaaaancer to negotiate a future-queen deal with William and make any attempts for him to divorce or sideline her almost impossible.
You have really have gone down the rabbit hole.
Why is it such a big deal for her to disclose the type of cancer? It seems like a natural topic to arise in a visit to a cancer treatment facility.
Agree. You would think you would want to bring awareness to the kind of cancer you had and help people with noticing certain symptoms. The whole messaging with this is off.
problem is not ‘Cold Cap’. It is actually ‘Kate Cap’, Millions of lies, excuses and mis-information.
People suspect more and more when KP tries to over exaggerate her. Tons of articles aren’t necessary for just one visit. She didn’t accomplish anything more than an ordinary person. She just visited and thanked the staffs. That’s enough. More articles means more boring, more suspicious, more uninteresting. Stop making massive Internet/social media pollution KP.
#stop-kate-cap
I, for one, would be very interested if the type of cancer she had was “fictional cancer deployed to divert attention from some unpleasant situations maybe having to do with different social or even health matters”. But that’s just me, others may not care.
Why try to create a narrative that is clearly not true – don’t get trapped in the hole.
I suspect that if she actually had cancer, it might have been anal cancer. She would probably consider that to be too “icky” to be public.
I roughly agree. I think whatever cancer it was, it was related to her GI system in some way and she thinks it would be embarrassing or gross to have that out there.
WaterDragon, I have thought the same thing. Its one that is probably the most ’embarrassing’ to have. Of note: a friend of mine who is in remission from anal cancer didn’t lose her hair during her chemo. But there’s a big asterisk next to y thoughts here, as I remain firmly in Team Fictional Cancer to Divert Attention.
Imagine the good she could have done by being open and honest about the type of cancer she had, and raising awareness.
My goodness, how supportive that would have been had she actually spoke those words out loud! She may have encountered another patient with that cancer that day & my goodness, they could have commiserated, bonded, discussed what it’s like to have a cancer that people find ‘icky’ to talk about. Missed opportunities all around!
That’s IF she had cancer. 🙄
Because the type of cancer she had, while caught early, is generally pretty deadly, and they don’t want to scare the children or have her be on death watch by the world. Also, imo it’s very closely tied to her extreme eating disorder.
This theory makes sense to me, and seems equally likely as the theory that she thinks whatever she had is just embarrassing (anal, rectal— words a princess would never say!) or maybe is an HPV/sexually transmitted type.I see the holes in her narrative but I’m more inclined to believe she got experimental treatment in Texas than that she made it all up. But if she did make up cancer, I think it’s to cover up inpatient eating disorder treatment, as that is where I assumed she was when she disappeared. Although she obviously wants to be free of her dumb princess “work” I don’t think that fully explains 2024.
The degree of secrecy seems to me to do little to lower the stigma and myths around cancer. It seems to be sending the message that some types are ‘embarrassing’ or blameworthy and that’s not a good message. The whole saga has been strange. That said, I have known many doctors including oncologists over several decades of my career. While like any other profession they vary, I find it hard to believe that specialists would be complicit in a blatant lie that a patient has been treated for cancer if they knew they hadn’t been.
I don’t think she’s disclosed any names? It’s one thing to thank a hospital generally, which is what seems to me to have been done here. There’s no anecdotes of hugging a nurse that she recognizes, or doing a secret hand shake with a specialist. No specific people are being named so it’s not on them to deny
So after how many years in the job, the UK’s Future Queen is an icon because of…..her hair. (Which isn’t even real IMO).
Wow. What a legacy!
It seems to be about kates hair which is so not iconic. Diana was not praised only for her hair do.she had a real work ethic and worked hard on causes and charities. Kate is so shallow
Diana was praised for the whole package: hard-working, took on unpopular causes, had great fashion sense, beautiful, hands-on mom, etc. Kate has her (fake) hair and the school run.
There’s just something about Kate’s cancer story that’s not adding up. She needs better crib sheets.
I don’t know that Diana was praised for her hair. People loved it & copied it, but nobody to my recollection gushed over her hair. Oh, I met Lady Di today! Her hair was so fab! No, that didn’t happen.
To be fair, Diana also had iconic hair. Obviously she was beloved for other reasons, but her hair was definitely iconic. As was QEIIs and is Camilla’s— because iconic doesn’t mean people want to copy it!
I notice keen is praised for hugging people but when Meghan hugs people dm articles and comments criticize her. Same old same old
As you said, she looked quite ill in 2023. Could she have had chemo much earlier than stated? It’s lie after lie, with more lies to cover up previous lies, so who knows with these people. I don’t like this silly game they’re playing.
That’s it. We don’t know what she is lying about, what something feels fishy. Maybe it’s the whole timeline. She went through it in 2023 and she or even more likely Egg didn’t want to disclose it ever. Then something happened to her so they had to hide her, and they still didn’t want to explain it (frankenphoto, fake Kate video) Then we know they bungled the comms so bad that she had to do the bench video. On the unauthorized car photo Carole looked really pissed, too. Something changed/happened and they decided to use her cancer treatment from 2023, but move it to 2024. Here I am again making up conspiracy theories. They are so bad at this.
We were talking about this yesterday – about the timeline being fudged – and one theory is that IF the surgery was in January (just for funsies lets use that date) and cancer was found, she would have started chemo immediately – not 6 weeks later in March. So if she had chemo for 6 months or so, she might have been done or almost done by Trooping. So when we saw her at Trooping and Wimbledon, she was no longer actively undergoing chemo (hence why there was no visible port in that very slim fitting dress from Trooping) and now its been a year since diagnosis so the doctors have declared her in remission.
to me that makes more sense than the timeline they gave us. But why hide it? In the bench video in March, she could have said “I have been undergoing chemo for two months now” or whatever and it would have cleared up a lot of the questions and a lot of the mystery. One of the reasons so many on here and social media question the cancer story is b/c the timeline does not add up with her appearances and what she has said.
Its not perfect if we assume she started chemo in January, but it makes more sense, especially when we remember last January we were told she wouldn’t be working until after Easter. I wonder if there was some surprise at how both she and William have used this diagnosis to avoid all work since January 2024.
I think she was sick in 2023 (which led to the surgery, potentially for an ED) but I don’t think it was chemotherapy at this point just because I think there is zero chance she would have worked through chemo treatments or a cancer diagnosis.
But, with the way KP lies……
I agree with all the question marks and timeline issues folks are raising – there is still so much weirdness and contradiction.
But one counter argument I’ll add is that it could actually make sense to wait for several weeks to start chemo after the surgery.
When my mom was going through breast cancer, she had to wait a month in between each stage (surgery, chemo, radiation) to allow her body to heal from one procedure before starting the next.
So while a 6-week delay between surgery and initiating chemo seems rather long, it may depend on how her recovery from surgery went (and/or there may be some fudging of dates by a couple weeks, etc. , even with a recovery period after surgery.)
It’s all still so weird though. Especially bc yeah, if she’d have said in that bench video, “I’ve been undergoing chemotherapy for the last [whatever amount of time],” she’d have garnered even more sympathy and I don’t think anyone would have doubted her. Instead she used that weird passive phrasing and terms that made so many think she was faking…and then everything since seems to corroborate the fake theory.
@DK that’s one of the issues with the January chemo theory, lol. It would make sense that she might have had to wait after the surgery depending on what it was and starting the chemo. but we know she had a port and there is no sign of that in either her June or July appearances.
(we “know” she had a port because she said that, so grain of salt there I guess.)
I feel like I have said this a hundred times over the last year, but the secrecy is so weird to me because it really gives the impression they are trying to cover something up. Are W&K both that fanatical about their privacy that they dont want even the real timeline out there? Are they being secretive so they can continue to use it as an excuse to dodge work? Or are they being secretive because they are lying to the public about one (or more) part of this?
Or some combination thereof?
KP has bungled this for the past year and I can’t figure out why.
I actually had to wait 2+ months between surgery and chemo as I had to recover from the operation before undergoing the rigors of chemo. I still maintain the chemo story was spread to conceal an entirely different set of problems — breakdown of marriage, EDs, mental health issues, pick one or all but everything seemed to come to a head and needed to be contained to protect the heir first and foremost. He is entirely complicit in this mess.
While most people do have to wait to get treatment, there is no way kate would have to wait to start it. But I just can’t buy that she will spend all day in the sun at Wimbledon in July if she was still doing chemo. She had to be done by then.
I also believe she did the photo shoot and the video around the same time and just held the video for September because that’s when she would have been expected to return to work. And in that video she said she was cancer free.
@Becks, I don’t believe she started chemo in January because at the time their stenographer said about her surgery that it wasn’t anything cancerous. And, sorry, but I cannot believe that Kate was under treatment for cancer in 2023! If she had, she’d have milked it just as she’s doing now.
Whatever illness she went through in 2023 was not the big “C”. She went to many “engagements” that had crowd. She was giddy at the coronation events, and tried to one-up C &C in unscheduled appearance (Flower Show with lots of kids there.) Summer, the Wails family disappeared as usual. In fall, she debut her new hair/wig style, went to crowded events (to counter 2023 IG). The “flashing” state visit & banquet. Her public image crisis only began very late in the 2023 when “Endgame” was published. She was thin (her choices) & unhappy (purely guessing here), but did not behave like typical person undergoing chemo treatment in 2023. She was not a hard working person like KC3. She didn’t work unless it’s necessary.
That’s the thing in 2023 she was definitely wearing wigs. So is it that she was actually undergoing treatment in 2023 and her disappearance in 2024 was her saying she’s not doing engagements anymore?
And the BM was being coy and a bit catty mentioning that she was doing engagements at a close radius to her home, she was disheveled and holding her middle frequently. The issue, to my mind, is the aggressive need of KP to manipulate BM/social media to insist ‘we’, the public, aren’t seeing what we’re seeing in real time, being shown multiple chimeras presented as real time historical facts that were not ‘real time’ or genuine at all and them maligning people as godless heathens and haters for daring to say so and insisting we’re malicious for pointing out the many glaring inconsistencies. And the unserious nature of ‘Royal watching’ means no media entity has looked squarely at any of this because it’s not deemed important. The implications of the fraud KP has piled up in this situation with no one to answer to or able to demand answers from them is dangerous. If there is no means of independent verification of this situation what happens when the same playbook is weaponized for more serious means?
EDs can cause alopecia. Also corticosteroids are typically given as part of cancer treatments, I take them after each infusion for 4 days. They’re used to enhance the efficacy of the chemo, reduce inflammation, help prevent an allergic reaction to chemo, help reduce nausea and vomiting and improve your appetite. I’m hungry all the time and have gained back all the weight I lost from surgery and becoming very sick from an oral chemo I was given, in fact everyone tells me how healthy I look. Kate is as thin as ever, and if she had been treated for anything cancer or ED-related, getting her to a healthy weight would have been key in her treatment and recovery. But no…yet another thing that makes absolutely no sense.
Honestly, I don’t think we have to know the exact cancer and as people are saying above not everyone experiences hair loss. The sunlight comment seemed like bad advice for people who have chemo so hopefully doctors are clear about that. Do I understand why it’s all so secretive and constant backtracking and defensiveness in their pr? No, I don’t. It just seems like a lot for something that shouldn’t be if that makes sense.
They go on about her hair being iconic when we can see in the photos that she’s wearing a hairpiece on top. The front part of her head has much darker hair than what’s on top toward the back.
There have been lies and omissions for years on this alone. KP isn’t credible and it is sick they are using cancer patients she’s never met before to comment on why she’s being so secretive.
They are not credible. They let people believe the lie that Meghan made Kate cry for years. Most likely cuz they planted the lie. So yeah they’re not credible. I’m fact, they are liars. I just have no idea what all this defensive pr is about. But it’s off-putting either way.
Her hairstyle is definitely a defining visual characteristic of her, this meeting the definition of iconic whether it grows from her scalp or is a full wig.
@Nic919 – She was wearing the same hairpiece for her visit to the Royal Marsden that she wore on the Sandringham walkabout at Christmas. It doesn’t match her real hair.
Iconic means something only associated to one person. Diana had iconic hair once she got it cut.
No one sees a woman with long brown hair and associates that only with Kate. Her coatdresses would be more iconic because no one else wears them.
Thanks, everyone, for sharing your knowledge – I thought chemo always resulted in hair loss, but it seems more nuanced than that. Good to know!
Regardless, Kate has always worn extra hair, whether it’s extensions, wiglets, or whatever. Because of that, perhaps she wouldn’t be that worried about having her, ahem, “iconic” hair change.
Unlike these other patients interviewed in this article (most of whom, I noted, seem to be working full-time while receiving chemo), Kate has the means and access to a team of people to ensure her hair always looks full. I guess everyone else will just have to cross their fingers or start wearing hats.
I think Jay hit the biggest sticking point: people all over the world HAVE to continue working through chemo and do so every day. Kate’s job is notably less demanding and much fewer hours in a day and she just can’t be bothered. Now…she also has to put up with a man/child for a husband and that alone would probably make me less likely to work consistently. She probably can’t outshine him or outdo him (which would be difficult to do since he’s also lazy AF), but I can’t imagine living with him and dealing with him regularly.
There are certain types of cancer and their chemo regime in which hair loss is not a factor. However, who knows if she wore wigs as she’s accustomed to doing.
I’ve thought all along it was either a ‘female area’ type cancer or colon cancer. I still believe it’s a ‘female area’ related cancer and she wore wigs. I know people who have had chemo for those type of cancers and they do lose their hair.
I think that among other things is what has people questioning all of it. Why can’t she do the simplest forms of “work”? People going through much worse with little or help can hold down full time jobs. Should it be that way? Absolutely not but she’s not even acknowledging that. She and the BM act like this is normal and expected. She was also reported as having brutal treatment last year. And yet anytime we saw her or thought we did anyway, she was bouncing around or didn’t look much different. If she had cancer, she whitewashed it. The BM said the treatment was brutal but then she’s out and about looking healthy as a horse. I think that’s what is disgusting and disturbing about her. Way to make other cancer patients feel like they aren’t doing it right or they aren’t blessed or whatever.
If it is a female area cancer, then she likely got it from William cheating, and if they disclosed it, that would be more fodder for the tabloids… 🤔
@Huffnpuff – couldn’t have put it better myself. From the ridiculous shampoo video on, some cancer patients felt they must be lacking in some capacity. It felt like KM was showing off.
I still don’t get why no one in Brexitannia is interested in following up all the lies FakeyKatie and KP have shared with the public.
FewchaKween is a public servant, funded by the taxpayers with tens of millions £. If I were them, I’d like to know where all that money goes.
Or why Wiglet McButtons had to be smuggled in for treatment, when Royal Marsden says they can apply chemo at home for private patients. QEII had her treatment at Windsor, or in Sandringham, and Harry’s brother mentioned that his wife was being looked after at home.
The way they contradict themselves every time they make a statement.
The newspapers (if you can call them that) are too afraid of being knocked off the RR.
I have a suggestion for an enterprising British journalist, if any exist.
Simply detail all the claims and statements that Kate has made about her cancer. No comment needed. Just put them all in one place and let readers decide if they make sense.
This.
Set aside all the Frankenphoto business to the side.
Look at what KP/Kate said on the record during this whole saga, then quote it all in the order they were announced to the public.
I, apparently, have a lot more hair than the average human and it grows rapidly. Prior to chemo, it was long, stick straight, dirty blond – it would get much lighter and streak in the summer with sun exposure and new growth in the winter would be dark. Prior to chemo, I cut it to a short bob, figuring that would look better and be less traumatic on me and our plumbing when it fell out. When chemo started, I began to lose hair after the first week. Lots. Back to the salon, where my stylist and I toasted each other with champagne as he buzz cut my hair down to half an inch. And then, the hair loss STOPPED. My eyelashes and eyebrows thinned but didn’t fall out. Underarm and other body hair did fall out. But what was left of the hair on my head stayed. Only my stylist and family even noticed that it thinned. BUT it changed almost overnight to a strange burnt orange color. New hair growth, which started during my chemo break for radiation, was white and wiry with a tight wave. I lost no hair during my second chemo 4 month chemo round. At my last appointment, my oncologist told me to schedule an appointment to color it for the next week. It took about a year for the tight waves to relax to a soft wave and by that time I had, by my body’s standards, a full head of thick hair. But the original color never came back. My natural color hair is now pure white according to my stylist. We color it monthly.
So, my point is that even though Kate may not have lost all her hair to chemo, it very likely would have been damaged in some other way.
I’m of mixed views on all the secrecy and lies. Everyone is entitled to a degree of privacy BUT share the type to bring awareness and some hope to others with a similar diagnosis.
Also, this is the mother of the future monarch. I think the public who will be supporting him (or her) should have some idea what ailments he or she may be susceptible to in the future
Whether cancer free, in remission, or living with cancer, this is where she can do the most good. Her critics can rip her a new one all they want–it’s the people facing this illness that will appreciate her most.
I mean, she isn’t doing sh*t and I am not saying this because it is Kate. Charles showed how you can do advocacy while keeping your privacy. We don’t know what kind of cancer Charles has either, but he showed up, he encouraged men to get checked out and there was an increase in people getting appointments for early detection. I don’t like Charles either, but he is the one who is actually doing something.
I am facing this illness, with a poor prognosis I might add, and I am angry and resentful that she is using whatever fakakta, made-up illness she had/has to garner sympathy while doing nothing other than showing up at a cancer ward unmasked for what amounts to nothing but a carefully staged photo op. Oh she can go to glam events like Trooping or Wimbledon but actually putting boots on the ground to do regular advocacy work for the very people who actually have cancer and pay for her luxe, useless existence? Nobody in their right mind appreciates how little she actually does and how much she, William, KP and the rota are all in on the coverup.
Sending well wishes and positive energy to you today, Jaded.
Hugs for your journey
Why would they appreciate her. She goes to Wimbledon and makes it all about her.she can take off from work for long periods of time saying she does things that give her joy.
From what I can tell the people at the hospital who were willing to be on camera appreciated the video. Unfortunately, there are many people affected by cancer. I’m sure there are some out there inspired by Kate. From what I can tell though, even the DM has comments from people who are not inspired by her journey🤷♀️
SHE NEVER HAD CANCER. WAKE UP.
If that’s true, jason, how is it possible that KP and BP are all allowing the cancer story? Kate and company lying to the whole world?? Who has the guts to pull this off and not worry at all that she’ll be found out. I agree that things just don’t add up and there has been lie after lie about who, where and when and what but to announce to the world you have cancer and chemo when you know your doctor knows the truth? It boggles the mind.
I agree with Jason. She never had cancer. And the truth will emerge someday.
Why isn’t Kate being criticized for “cancer tourism” as Meghan was criticized for “disaster tourism?” Visiting people with illness and places where disaster occurred are both considered support and both bring notice to the problems. But unlike Kate, Meghan will a) continue to bring attention to the fires (this is Kate’s one and done with cancer patients) and b) find a way to give donations or start projects which will reap donations to stop the fires (whereas Kate will neither give any donations nor start a project to help (unless you consider a pie chart explaining that cancer is a very serious disease is helpful.)
And how is Meghan a ‘disaster tourist’ in her own home state?!
Kate keeps using actual cancer patients to hide behind and puff up her weak ‘cancer patient bona fixes’
Sorry I’m very sceptical about She was looking at the hospital and asking where she was. It like her team googled some random cancers and gave her some notes. It all seemed very coincidental hr visit was the day before Meghan’s original date for her show. I go with the theory it was a domestic violence event caused by William’s temper.. since then he’s been hitting the bottle hence his weird appearance. Basically the royals are like the BM can’t tell the truth.
For me the weirdest thing she said is that she got attached to her port. That strikes me as really, really not credible and definitely makes me question her whole narrative.
That stood out to me too. It just didn’t ring true.
I wonder if rather than cancer she has an autoimmune disease like Crohns. That would explain the abdominal surgery. Also many autoimmune conditions are treated with low dose chemotherapeutic drugs. But because the dosages are lower, you often don’t experience the same side effects — like hair loss.
EDs have been shown to cause or exacerbate IBD (IBS and Crohn’s) but if this were the case, she would have been under strict medical treatment/psychotherapy to control any eating disorders and maintain a healthy weight and eating habits, none of which is evident. She’s still as painfully thin as she was before all this happened a year ago.
Oh, no, we don’t need to know what kind of cancer Kate had–don’t be silly!–but apparently we do need to know the exact type of cancer one of the patients she spoke with had. Huh.
Her hair is iconic…? To who exactly? 🤣
Rapunzel
I can’t help but think it’s insensitive to rock up to a cancer ward with cascading hair – a stylish up do would be more appropriate. It’s like she is flaunting.
(and I speak as someone who gets compliments on my hair so jealousy of Waity hair is the LAST thing here.)
My first thought too when I saw it. Thoughtless.
I couldn’t agree more.
That was my same thought. So insensitive.
She’s so right, Kate owes us nothing expect when she milks it then the gloves are off.
Everything about Kate makes me yawn and I don’t believe anything about her hospitalization.
Oncology Social Woeker here. There are so many new chemo and immunotherapy drugs on the market today that do not result in hair loss. Many of our patients do not end up losing their hair. Some breast cancer treatments do cause hair loss and it is often the breast cancer patients that cold cap. I think it is especially difficult for breast cancer patients to lose their hair because they may also lose their breast, both of which are often associated with femininity.
Thankyou @STORMYSHAY I have cancer of the red blood cells
I am not on any form of treatment yet it depends on my blood test results if it is above a certain level I have to start on chemotherapy which is by means of a certain drug
I have been told it only causes thinning of the hair and for some peculiar reason ulcer on the ankle skin which is not what the doctors want to see so if that happens I have to come off it
The reason I don’t like is that Cathy, even if she has had no hair loss is the very fact of her parading around with her slim figure and long flowing hair in front of patients who have not only lost their hair, have got obvious rounded bodies because of the steroid drugs they have to take
She has very obviously avoided that as well
After being criticised for saying she needed sunlight (many cancer sufferers questioned this) they’ve now put out a story saying her & William are just back from the cool fresh air of the Alps. Though skiing seems a strange choice as it’s more taxing than any work she does.
Also saying hello and pleased to meet you to the staff who reportedly treated her at the Marsden. 🤔
@Kat — wishing you best of luck in your recovery. I’m on steroids along with chemo in my treatment which thankfully ends next week and I can get my life back on track. Steroids do bloat you up, especially face and upper body, and as you said, there is none of that with Kitty. Cancer my ass…
Just thank you to the comment on this page. I learn very interesting info about chemotherapy. Love and pray for all survivor.