Before I get into this week’s Us Weekly cover story, let’s talk about how the Times of London sort of buried this interesting and exclusive information in a story about a cancer charity. The point of this Times piece was to point out that, following the Princess of Wales’s Friday video in which she revealed her cancer diagnosis, a British cancer charity got a lot of emails and support. Then, within the article, the Times noted:
Both the prince and princess are understood to be extremely grateful and enormously touched by the support from the public. Royal sources added that Prince William was “extremely proud” of the courage and strength that his wife had shown, not just in the past week but throughout her ill health.
William was not present during the filming of Kate’s clip, as it is understood that the princess wanted to record it on her own. However, insiders said that she believed her recovery has been enormously helped by the daily support of her husband.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said: “The prince will continue to balance supporting his wife and family and maintaining his official duties as he has done since the start of the year.”
Well, according to TikTok, it’s doubtful Kate was even present during the making of the video, so there. But for argument’s sake, let’s say Kate really did sit somewhere and film this. It wasn’t just that William didn’t sit with her in the video, holding her hand as she told the world what had been happening to her over the past three months. It’s that William wasn’t even present in the background, to give her a hug after her emotional speech. He was in the wind during one of the most emotional and stressful moments of his wife’s life. That’s really weird and bad. As for the Us Weekly cover story, here are the basics:
Kate’s message finally put months of speculation to bed. Though Kensington Palace had announced she wouldn’t return to her royal duties until after Easter, the rumor mill went into overdrive during her public absence. Conspiracy theories — and talk that Kate and William, 41, were having marital issues — ran rampant and only amplified when Kate released a digitally altered photo on March 10, U.K. Mother’s Day. (She later apologized for experimenting with photo editing.)
All the while, the couple was privately reeling. “Kate was shocked when they found the cancer and in shock for a while after,” says the source, adding that the princess and William “were not ready for the diagnosis.” The couple has been trying to process the news in their own time. “The day the family found out was the day William canceled going to the memorial of his godfather King Constantine of Greece,” shares a second source. (On February 27, William pulled out of the service at the last minute due to a “personal matter.”)
Kate is leaning on William more than ever. “William is trying to be there for Kate and helping in every way he can,” says the first source. “He’s been doing schoolwork with the kids and spending time with them in the afternoons and evenings.” While the couple have employed Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo as their nanny since 2014, Kate and William are involved in every aspect of the kids’ lives. According to the source, the children are coping as well as can be expected. “They know their mother is sick and is trying to get better,” says the source.
It hasn’t been easy for the future king. The source says William feels “helpless and scared” and has been asking other members of the family to fill in for him so he can be present at home. It can be a tough ask as the royals are stretched thin lately: In early February, Buckingham Palace announced that William’s father, King Charles III, 75, was receiving treatment for cancer following a planned procedure for an enlarged prostate; Charles’ wife, Queen Camilla, 76, has also been picking up the slack for her ailing husband.
I might have bought the whole “William feels helpless and scared” theory if not for the fact that Kensington Palace dropped the video on Friday and has spent a good four days briefing about how much William hates his brother. The fact that the Sussexes simply made a public statement of support for Kate sent William on some kind of hate-spiral where he’s seemingly making everything about Harry. Also: remember when King Charles first announced his cancer diagnosis and Harry immediately flew to London to see his dad? Something very similar happened with William: he could not STFU about how much he hates Harry, how he never wants to see Harry, how Harry better not try to talk to him. Maybe William’s stress response to a family member’s cancer diagnosis is to “seethe about Harry.” Because it doesn’t seem like William’s response is to actually support his family members. At all.
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Didn’t they say that he was by her side 24/7 and very protective of her.
Like his daily hospital visits, a big fat lie. I think he’s totally the kind of man to ditch his wife when the going gets tough. because I think Kate exists in his mind to elevate him–she’s not a human being in her own right (if lots of nonroyal shlubby guys think this, a man who has been raised to think he’s more important than anybody certainly would). Maybe his frustration is he cant ditch her the way he wants to. But he’s also mad that Harry hasn’t ditched Meghan. And he’s mad that Kate’s getting all this attention that should go to him. And he’s mad that he’s going to be King. And he’s mad that people are criticizing him. And he’s mad that he has to keep his down low on the down low.
The royal institution is getting a future king that it deserves. I don’t know if the British public deserve it, but the royal institution does. I hope there’s a damage control committee on staff. They will be worked vigorously.
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@lanne “But he’s also mad that Harry hasn’t ditched Meghan” 100% – He wants Harry to ditch Meghan so that becomes the main story and then he can quietly also ditch Kate.
So long as Harry remains with Meghan then Harry will continue to look better than William should he decide to proceed with divorcing Kate.
In the event that he remains married, . It would be a reminder that Harry is the one who married for love versus him who married for duty and is in a loveless marriage which he cannot leave because of duty
I don’t know if Wills looks at Kate to elevate him. I think he perceives her as scaffolding-something to give structure. She checks the boxes: wife, mother, dutiful, thin, white.
I doubt it’s much more than that at this point even with her illness and recovery.
I think he is also mad that Kate having cancer is going to put a nail in his plans to ditch her. Even he isn’t so dense to see how bad it would look to dump your wife and mother of your young children when she has cancer.
@LANNE “Kate exists in his mind to elevate him” Nah, he needed to admit himself that he was inferior first to get somebody to elevate him. He doesn’t feel he is inferior (hey, the future King), he wanted a love match but the girls he loved didn’t want to marry him, so he got a not-Diana, and one he though he could control. He was (and still is) so jealous of the “Spare” Harry who married the love of his life AND the hot girl from his favorite TV show.
He has all the money, resources at his dispose; instead of improving himself, he is dead set to destroy his brother and his brother’s family. Such a waste.
PS. No way 3Kate want him there at the recording.. Just look at all the faces (from photos, videos) he pulled whenever she was speaking.
Kate was not present either.
This!
This comment is 🔥. I don’t know what I believe any more, but 🤦♀️ to all of it.
I agree, Robinsons! That video is FAKE. It’s A.I. and i hope more & more people realize that. I’m of the opinion that Kate doesn’t have cancer.—It’s just a convenient excuse to explain away all the weirdness & fakery. What in the hell is really going on????
If this is actually true, and word gets out? The monarchy is OVER. Immediately.
One thing that adds to the fuel of this being AI is not only was he not present, he has not shown any association with her cancer diagnosis. He hasn’t tweeted his support directly, only thru sources. He hasn’t mentioned her cancer diagnosis or sickness and it feels more than just his narcissism. It feels like if the truth comes out he can claim he never said she had cancer or whatever. He is eerily silent regarding her. Not even something generic like I am so proud of her or I am here for her. It’s always thru sources. Just so wierd.
@ecsmom except that Charles has come out and said he’s proud of Kate for putting out that video and Camilla made a few comments today.
so if william is trying to distance himself bc this whole thing is a conspiracy, he’s doing it at the expense of the monarchy itself, which would be a very big problem.
I absolutely agree the video was AI. Kate has never in her entire life read any speech or video message so nicely and evenly. The delivery was perfect, and Kate has never been capable of that. She has a monotonous voice that makes people switch off, the video was warm and held the listeners interest. The tone and facial expressions were even and balanced. Usually Kate is fidgety, her face and body move all over the place, she stumbles and mumbles, she fluffs her words. She slurs words due to trying to sound posh. This video was absolutely nothing like her. I don’t know how anyone can think it was real. Do people really think the first time Kate manages to read well is when she has cancer and is under pressure from being blamed for the frankenphoto and the racist comments? Also the smile was odd, it wasn’t appropriate for the subject matter.
Having said that I don’t think there’s any great conspiracy or that Williams murdered her. I think she’s just put on weight and lost her hair and doesn’t want to be seen. I think the photo in the car with carol did look like Kate but the face was bloated and the hair looked like a wig. An entire wig, not a hairpiece you add to your own hair, or clip on locks. I thought the photo looked nothing like pippa as people were claiming and if they were going to release a fake photo at that point, it wouldn’t have been one that made Kate look fat. I think that’s the real her, and now she doesn’t want people to see her looking bloated. It would also explain Piers Morgan’s news that someone told him she’d lost a lot of weight. They tend to release the opposite of whatever is actually going on.
It is so peculiar that he was not there when she was recording something so important. Very odd indeed. Yet he continues to bleat about the need to take time off to be with his family. Carole is definitely the one providing support not William.
Kate was forced to mention William in the video to quell the rumors.
Kate was in essence telegraphing her fanfiction about how William SHOULD be acting.
If she didn’t say William’s name in that speech then the smoke and whispers would’ve erupted into a raging forest fire.
I am going to lose my marbles if they try and say the only time they could find to film it was during the precious school run. William is such a dick.
Oh yeah, that video was meant to quell all the rumors: about why she was absent for so many months and rumors about her marriage. So, they made sure that Kate wore the ring, and that she mentioned William whether he was present or not.
‘Kate’s message finally put months of speculation to bed.’
It really didn’t.
It certainly didn’t
I am confused – she had an operation for something non cancerous
Post the operation it turned out she had had cancer
But does not now have cancer
Now she is having treatment for the non cancer
Odd
Cancer: her saying she was free of cancer and is just getting chemo for prevention: its putting a wishful spin on things. Which is what I would do if I had young kids…but. Cancer is a microscopic disease. It spreads cell by cell. You can’t see it spread. You can get rid of what you can see, but you cannot guarantee there is no c cancer present at the cellular level, that’s why they give Chemo, as an adjuvant, to prevent it fromregrowing, or spreading. Because that’s what cancer wants to do: spread and regrow and come back again and kill you. So, there is no final word with cancer, one can never really declare victory because it can come back, months or even years later sometimes…and it is always more dangerous when it comes back.
Like father like son
Best husbands ever… not
Everything about the illnesses of Charles and Kate is unprecedented and whacky (in the handling from KP) To be very honest I don’t see William not being a part of the video as a big deal. If I think about it, him sitting awkwardly beside her as she spoke would have been bizarre.
Finally the fluff pieces we expected are coming out. “Nothing to see here, folks! I promise this is super normal!” Does Us Weekly know for sure Nanny Maria is still there?
Like I said, in the other thread, maybe Kate’s performance was unusually good precisely because William wasn’t around.
Maybe she really didn’t want him there, because he makes her uncomfortable to perform or express emotions.
This is likely the case. It was the fact he wasn’t even by her side that proved to me he doesn’t want anything to do with the situation. He could’ve gotten a PR transformation if he just pretended to care about her, but he can’t even do that. This is the man she married and she has to face up to the choices she made. Warts and all.
I have been wondering if Kate actually (shock, gasp) had this video made without consulting anyone in the RF. She is scared and ill, worried about her kids, and all the RF can do is issue obviously fake photos and pin the blame on her? Perhaps illness has forced her to look at her life, realise that she is basically just William’s scapegoat (ref all the horrible conspiracy theories that any half way decent husband would have vehemently refuted on behalf of his wife). If she is attempting to take her life back, stand up for herself, finally, then i applaud her courage.
“However, insiders said that she believed her recovery has been enormously helped by the daily support of her husband.”
“His daily support” is to keep his rage as far from her as possible. It is how everyone stays safe. 🤷♀️
The wording around the part about Nanny Maria was very strange. It just briefly refers to when she started working for them but didn’t elaborate to say that she has been a great help during this difficult time or anything related to what is happening presently. It really serves no purpose to mention her in the article at all.
The rumor is that nanny Maria is no longer working there. Some have speculated that she may have been the source for the Spanish papers.
Kate is also providing him cover in this predictable way:
“The day the family found out was the day William canceled going to the memorial of his godfather King Constantine of Greece,”
Sure. Sure.
Why is everything so weird around these two? The video quality was so off – I get a better video off my iPhone. He’s not there when she records it – is anyone there to support her? I don’t get it – and that’s why there are all these conspiracy theories.
Exactly. Everything they’re getting right now in regards to doubt and skepticism, they’ve 100% brought on themselves. 🤷🏾♀️
Well, if KP wants me to believe that Kate just made that video then perhaps she should have been wearing a brand new, unseen outfit. Not an eight year old sweater that she’s been filmed in before in a similar setting. Her wearing new clothes IMO would have been almost equal to hold up that day’s newspaper.
Right. Like what the heck possible explanation could there be for him not being there that is in any way normal??? THEY scheduled this. THEY controlled who could be there. He has nothing on his schedule. There is absolutely no good reason for him not to be there. It’s insane.
This. Weird is the word. I don’t believe KP is telling the truth, but I also don’t believe they have the brains or the long term thinking to pull off the things the conspiracy theorists are saying they did.
Where was the video released? I know they released it first on Twitter (which automatically compresses stuff to hell), but have they actually released the non-compressed video, or is it only available to view on social media?
There’s a lot of weird stuff around this, but pretty much all Twitter videos look like that.
Of course it’s lazy at best that they didn’t upload the high quality 4k video to a hosting site and give the link privately to news organisations.
The main broadcast channels here in the US carried it and the quality seemed fine to me there.
I’m watching the video on twitter now, and about 20 seconds in, the quality definitely improves, not sure if that’s just how the video uploaded or what. The weird filter and the glitchiness goes away.
I think he is also mad that Kate having cancer is going to put a nail in his plans to ditch her. Even he isn’t so dense to see how bad it would look to dump your wife and mother of your young children when she has cancer.
The video was weird because it’s A.I. It’s fake. When recording a video of Kate talking, why would they have a fake background & add in fake background nature sounds? After being busted for all the fakery & lies lately, they would make sure there was NOTHING fake in it if they were just recording a simple straightforward video of Kate sitting on a bench talking. But yet we get more fakery. And then there’s the issue of how FAKE her face looks. Her eyes don’t look right; there’s little glitches when she’s speaking. This would NOT be the case if it was a real video. It’s just more fakery. (Just like the farm video, which was so obviously NOT Kate.) These people must think we’re all stupid! I don’t even believe Kate has cancer.
What in the hell is really going on????
The biggest shock for me was that I could understand what the heck she was saying. For once she didn’t sound like she had a mouth full of marbles!
The ironic part about the “We want privacy!” thing is that…I mean, now that the world knows Kate ain’t dead and is dealing with a personal health crisis, they’re giving their “best wishes” and moving on?
So what’s with all the stories and commentary NOW? Y’all said nothing to see here so nothing to see here! Get back to “work” SMH
As if we need more evidence for the fact that Will is the worst husband ever.
At least Charles seemed conflicted about being a terrible husband.
And either not interested in pretending otherwise or (my take) some competent PR professionals took hold of the situation last week and cut Will and his KP circus out entirely. We’ve seen with Camilla that the palace can put on a show of spousal support perfectly well. They are just choosing not to do so for William.
It’s wild that a racist middle-class party girl like Kate ends up supporting the monarchy with more strength while ill than the hereditary future King of England does on the daily. William is such a horrible brother, son, and husband, I can’t imagine him being a good father, much less head of church and state.
I think their marriage is a mess, and I also think that he might be one of those men who doesn’t want to be around the sick wife.
I keep seeing that factoid about deadbeat husbands leaving the wife during or after a health crisis being much more common than you’d think or hope.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
Unfortunately I experienced this.
Within 2 weeks I have to undergo to an abdominal surgery, total hysterectomy, and I have been dumped in September because “I don’t want to take care of you” …it’s tough.
But in my case I can consider myself lucky, as I don’t have to deal with a 45yo baby.
@Eleonor, I am sorry you are going through this, and wish you health and strength and a fast recovery.
@Water Lilly
Thanks!
I am starting to see the end of this mess, which despite everything, is a relief 🙂
Yes, regardless of the state of their marriage prior to the diagnosis, and regardless of his status as heir to the throne, I doubt he’s immune to the common male impulse to dump the partner when she gets sick, particularly where the man perceives the cancer as “sexual,” i.e., breast or reproductive.
Eleonor, I am sorry to hear about your experience but I’m glad you’re starting to see the end of the mess and that you can take care of yourself without also having to take care of a man-child.
@eleonor, I congratulate you on losing 150+ pounds of BABY FAT before your surgery, and wish you a quick and complete recovery.
Spending time with them afternoon & evenings.
Because normally, he wouldn’t. He’d be elsewhere because they are separated.
There is no other logical reasonable explanation to any of this behaviour from KP.
He wants out, & now really can’t because optics.
That he wasn’t even present when she filmed this, is despicable. Separated or not, she’s the mother of his children.
I loathe him. Her, I feel pity & she’s pathetic. But him, I actually loathe.
ITA – he’s not supporting her, in fact its obvs that he’s hardly around her. A divorce will happen – I give it a year but in the meantime he public appearances will be stage managed/controlled by him and KP.
I know comments here have been how can they roll out a divorce while she is battling cancer, but I agree. Everything will be controlled by Wills and KP – especially Kate’s participation or lack there of. And this could be a possible way to roll out the divorce: that all this royal life of work has taken a toll on her and she wants to bow out of it all together and thus a soft launching of a separation – ultimately leading to divorce.
@kokiri -Kate in her desperation to hold onto William will do anything to please him – hence the reason she actively hated on Meghan.
If the opposite was required , then she would have morphed into being besties with Meghan.
I also believe that it was Wilnot that made the racist statement but being she is more liked than Willnot she had to take the fall along with KC3. She was likely named as they probably planned of coming up with lies to obfuscate and render useless any claim of racism.
Kate’s continual absence & her sudden reappearance & claims of having cancer was to counter any of the negative press from the racism claims, Andrew’s indiscretion and the fallout of from the doctored mother day’s pics.
Bingo!! The gaslighting mission has been accomplished. The RF are now on the right footing with KC3’s getting positive pass coverage & Kate being positioned as a strong female leader.
Meh—there is no rage like that of a pick me, trad wife, foot-soldier-for-patriarchy Karen, who isn’t getting the promised prize for annihilating herself. Kate was told she was entitled to limitless privilege because of never putting a foot wrong, yet her husband constantly humiliates her. I think her hatred for Meghan comes from a very, very genuine place of nastiness within Kate herself.
I agree with you, It was William that made the comment. Kate took the fall because William has to be protected.
Exactly, Jemmy! Isn’t it a bit too coincidental that the two named “Royal Racists” both suddenly have cancer?!—And it was discovered in the same way (during a planned surgery), at the same time, and at the same place!! Charles probably really has cancer but i don’t believe Kate does. “Stricken with cancer” is the perfect excuse to explain away all of the fakery, lies, & odd behavior. And it has worked.—The public has all gone “Oh okay THAT explains it. Poor Kate!”. But some of us don’t believe it and i really do think that more & more people will come to that realization too when they look at all the fakery.
jemmy, Bone Idle has shown by what she’s done in public how she feels about Meghan. I do think she was correctly named as one of the racists–I also believe there were more than two.
Why doesn’t anyone know of her friends? If she really has any, we would know about them. As far as I can tell, she doesn’t think women are worth the effort. She doesn’t want competition.
@JEMMY But she was the one caught on tape of having repulsive reaction to POC.
No mention of being there in the mornings, giving them their breakfast. I’m willing to bet because he doesn’t live with them.
Every time I see a noticeably photoshopped image of K like this US weekly cover, I will think of the Mother’s day Frankenphoto.
This cover is practically a frankenphoto in and of itself. That picture is photoshopped to hell and back.
Me too!
This looks like when you take a photo and then digitally turn it into a ‘portrait’ (my friend did one from a pic of our cat to make it look like an oil painting, it’s brilliant).
I’ve already posted under different articles what I believe: kp tries hard since January to create the impression that everything is alright with Kate and there’s nothing to see there…they desperately wanted us to see her interacting with others, thus the photo with her children for mother’s day, the photo with William where we can’t see her face and the video at windsor farm with probably an impersonator…they are trying hard to create a narrative that Kate’s is with her family…the only photo that they didn’t allow was the one with her mother…so for me, this is the only true one…I believe th Kate is very ill and frail whether from cancer or something else that they don’t want the public to know…and she’s definitely not with William and her children…I believe she’s with her mother somewhere abroad…
I actually, at the time, did believe that it was her in the car with her mother, and am still leaning in that direction. But they’ve muddied the water so much that I’m not even sure what to believe anymore. Perhaps that’s the intent.
Sound reasoning and highly plausible, @FIRSTCOMMENT. The Carole-in-car photo that they deny is likely the true one.
CRex has been seen in public since his cancer diagnosis and is maintaining some semblance of King-ly activity. Kate? CRICKETS. Now that her secret is out, wouldn’t one expect to see her waving from a car or now issuing an authentic photo with William actually by her side saying thank you for the good wishes? SOMETHING? CRex’s parallel cancer journey proves that it isn’t necessary to hide. Processing shock is totally understandable, but sometimes it helps to go about your daily business to deal; it takes your mind off things, even for a few hours.
Totally agre. And it would give a sense of normality for the children.
Also, from what we have been told (hitting pause on all my skepticism here), Charles HAS cancer and is being treated while Kate HAD (her words) cancer that was found in something that was removed. Both difficult to process but different situations, seeing their behaviours reversed would make more sense.
I know this might sound tin foil hat but have a much loved family member undergoing palliative radiotherapy right now. They said Kate’s been loosing weight a long time. it might just be that so much trust has been lost that no one expects KP to tell the truth but they are wondering if Kate is also undergoing palliative care.
re Sylandria – I keep going back to how thin/drawn Kate began looking last fall around the time she started wearing unusually obvious hairpieces. All these strange things that don’t add up. It’s not really our business, but that fact doesn’t make them make sense, either.
@forgot I’ll just add that it actually is the business of the British public if a member of the RF is terminally ill. Somehow it must be managed without being unnecessarily invasive of privacy, but this is a responsibility of public figures that are not dictators.
It may be from the way KP operates that they reject constitutional monarchy framework, but that is also a matter for public interest.
@forgot my username: That is exactly the time that I started wondering if something was seriously wrong – though I thought it was stress or dieting at the time. When they announced her surgery, then I assumed that she’d had chemo treatments ahead of the operation to shrink a tumor. It doesn’t match up with KP’s statements, but their version of reality is very suspect!
I agree Harper. It’s because none of this has been real. I think the latest Kate video is A.I. The farm video was obviously NOT Kate. The photos have all been fake. (A lot of people believe the one of Kate with her mother is real, but i don’t think that one is real either. There’s a LOT of weirdness with that one too. And it looks nothing like Kate to me. But it does look like Pippa.) I don’t think Kate really has cancer. It’s ALL fake. They’re desperate and backed into a corner.
“He’s been doing schoolwork with the kids and spending time with them in the afternoons and evenings.” So is that to say that was only Kate doing that in the past? Not something he didn’t already do? As an excuse to not work, it’s pitiful since full time workers do these things all the time. Do people in the UK really buy that the royals are spread thin when you consistently get news of their vacations and not news of much work?
They also went off message. Bc I thought William was doing ALL the school runs. They forgot to mention the morning ones…😂
Also, millions of parents work full-time and don’t spend time “in the afternoons” with their kids, AND THAT’S TOTALLY FINE. The kids have a babysitter, or they go to an after school program, whatever. And this generally doesn’t stop even when one parent is sick.
A loving husband would be at his wife’s side always. That William didn’t even accompany Kate to the studio is terrible.
Can you imagine Harry if Meghan was diagnosed with cancer? He would be glued to her side.
Most definitely.
She’d be begging him for a little space! “I’m just taking a shower; I’m okay.” *Harry keeps hovering*
@Shawna I’m not sure he would even let go of her hand to let her shower, LOL.
Can you imagine the hysteria from Salt Isle if Meghan made this kind of video and Harry wasn’t present to support her?
Pegs is a loving husband, he called her an uber!
Peg can’t be counted on for anything unless it’s for himself. He wasn’t there because didn’t want to be. This he is so supportive of his wife is complete nonsense. Also there are so many people diagnosed daily with cancer. I’m tired of them writing about it as if nobody but Can’t has ever been diagnosed. I myself was and believe it or not it was not the end of the world. Don’t come at me with we all handle things differently I’m well aware of that fact but the way the write about it is ridiculous.
See, to me this is strength.
It sounds like you are ok now, & I’m glad for that Susan.
Kokiri thank you. Ive been done with chemo for two years and now I take a pill to lessen the risk of it coming back so I’m a survivor.
I agree the way the British media writes about her cancer diagnosis is insensitive, demeaning and insulting. Especially if this is mop up chemo.
I’m so glad you are doing well.
“Not present” seems to be the norm for William. It would save paper to only list the times when he’s actually present.
I’m not shocked he wasn’t there considering he’s been trying to divorce her. While sure those plans are on hold for obvious reasons, he’s not about to step up as a husband just because of this.
Same. Not shocked. They possibly have not been living together ever since the move to Adelaide. They possibly spent very little time together except for school events and public events. He’s not going to start now. I’m not saying he doesn’t want her to get better but if they are separated in a way in which they actually despise each other, it’s probably not helpful to have him close anyways.
Maybe she told him to take care of the kids, now that she has to focus on her Health. Alas he is completely exhausted from being with the kids. And that after only a couple of weeks plus plenty of staff.
It makes sense that he lets the world know that he wasn’t there. If something regarding the inauthencity of the video gezs discovered and published, he can’t be blamed and kate has to take the fall again on her own.
This!!!👆👆
Oona, Exactly! The video is FAKE; it’s A.I. William doesn’t want to be associated with it when people realize it’s fake. Just like how he threw Kate under the bus for the “FrankenPhoto”.
Yikes! Super embarrassing for US Magazine with such a gross breach of journalistic ethics. Disgusting. Not ONCE in this piece were Meghan and Harry mentioned! Matters not that it wasn’t about them, I don’t make the rules, I just follow them. I’m sure one of their respected colleagues from across the pond will gently remind them of their lapse in journalistic judgement. What a colossal embarrassment! I mean, now how are we to know the manner in which M&H caused William to have to miss the “filming.” We know it’s their fault, and it’s egregious that US didn’t tell us how. Now I have to go and do “my own research.”
Love this!
Me too!
holy photoshop on that cover!
This line – “He’s been doing schoolwork with the kids and spending time with them in the afternoons and evenings” – um, okay? How is that different from what he normally does, since he works around 30-45 days a year. So are they telling us that William isn’t usually around for schoolwork and to spend time with the kids in the afternoons/evenings?
I cannot believe he wasn’t even there when she shot the video. Like, they wouldn’t have to insist so much that he is a supportive husband if he was actually showing support.
And I don’t believe for a second that they found out about Kate’s cancer on the day of the memorial service. You’re telling me it took 5 weeks to get the results for the future queen? Nah, not buying it. I think they’re just going to rewrite a lot of history to use cancer as an excuse for everything.
It would be sad if the reason why the children always look so happy with William is that he’s only really there when he’s being photographed.
Perhaps the screwy timeline is that she has been battling cancer since the wigs started, and they thought they’d conquered it (chemo to explain bedraggled hair/looking more tired/getting thinner), and then the post-surgery “discovery” is actually that it had recurred? But they didn’t tell us about it until now — although it seems odd they wouldn’t have made the play for sympathy at the first opportunity, instead of waiting so long. None of the possible timelines makes sense, frankly. Hope she recovers for the sake of the kids.
Willy has no idea how to support anything or anyone.. but his willy.
I hate to be such a wet blanket this early, but the article makes it seem like her cancer is terminal. Peg is helpless and scared? Or maybe US weekly is being overly dramatic.
I hope they’re being overly dramatic. It’s clearly a puff style piece. That said, we have no way of knowing. I hope she recovers and heals.
I was just coming here to say the same thing. They are being vague about the cancer but what if it’s something like stomach cancer, which is incredibly hard to treat and is always terminal. And they aren’t exactly truthful so even if it’s something like colorectal, which is treatable if caught early, if it’s advanced then there’s not a good prognosis. Just the language they are using makes it sound like it is a bigger deal than they are presenting. But again, their credibility is shot so who knows what to believe.
Please think before you bandy around phrases like “always terminal”. It really isn’t & your blithe assertion could be incredibly upsetting for anyone affected.
So “Will wasn’t there” combined with “Kate wrote the speech herself!” are both trying to distance Will from the video. My guess is they’re still not sure if they’re going to get away with it and so they want to hedge their bets.
What a tangled web we weave…
Also, they’re 100% trolling her with that photoshopped to tha gods pic, lmfao.
The stark difference between the photo of her sitting next to William and the US Weekly cover is crazy photoshopping. How can someone so thin have such a jowly face?
Genetics , happens to the best and worst of us. Can we stop with haggard and jowly and all of the other shit on women for physical features they can’t control comments?
Signed, my jowls.
yea, my photoshopped comment wasn’t about face-shaming, it was more about USweekly’s creativity. For anyone looking at that cover ‘PHOTOSHOP’ immediately springs to mind, which would remind anyone that’s been paying attention of the photoshopping scandal.
But actually, that cover combined with the article referring to the mother’s day frankenphoto scandal as just a “digitally altered photo” and Kate “experimenting with photo editing” might actually be a strategy, trying to subliminally link the type of over-airbrushing photoshop of the cover with the type of “experimenting” Kate did (which is false). Those types of considerations are a factor for these editorial decisions, as farfetched as that may sound.
Agreed, Sunday. Plausible deniability. The FK had nothing to do with this. He did not contribute to the announcement. He wasn’t even there.
The back-and-forth is really interesting here. After a few days of William being praised as the best, most supportive, protective husband ever, now we’re getting “actually, he wasn’t even in the vicinity” when she made the video. It’s like someone is annoyed with the William-as-protector narrative and wants people to know that he’s actually callous and dismissive towards his ailing wife.
As I’m not a doctor perhaps some of the commentators here would know if it’s usual not to receive test/biopsy results a month+ after surgery? If Kate had surgery mid-January and got the results at the end of February, that would mean that it took 1.5 months to get the results, which seems rather a long time to me. IMHO, this timeline just doesn’t make sense but again I’m not an actual doctor.
My guess is there are a lot more moving pieces than we know about . We know she had a surgery and we know there was cancer and chemo . We have no idea if findings from the surgery prompted additional testing that discovered cancer and changed the original treatment plan. Since we don’t even know what type of cancer , it is safe to assume we have very few of the actual details.
All of that to say the biopsy may
Not have come from the original surgery so not knowing when it was done we can’t say how long it took to get results .
Normally should take anything between 1-3 weeks but shorter if it is serious as the patient would need to commence treatment immediately
Her being the future queen would mean that those time lines would be shorter. Having said that it could be the first result came out as indeterminate which necessitated further tests.
But again, the turnaround would be a lot quicker given who she is
Personally I think the cancer is a cover up for other ailments that might have been present.
I’m saying this as someone whose parent died of cancer… did she not present it as she does not have cancer now? So why are they acting like she’s currently fighting a cancer battle? I understand you’d be shocked but wouldn’t you be relieved it’s all out (if that’s true)? I’m so confused
People are reading too much into her saying they found she “had” cancer. Many British people would use “had” even if they still had it. It doesn’t mean she doesn’t have it now.
I’ve noticed a difference in the way british and Americans use the past tense. A Brit might say “I was adopted” and Americans jump on them and say “why would you say you *were* adopted instead of I *am* adopted, aren’t you still?” That’s just the way (many) British people talk.
I might say I woke up this morning and found I had a bruise on my leg. It wouldn’t mean I didn’t still have the bruise.
From the moment the drs told me they thought there was something wrong to the moment they told me I needed major surgery was 3 months, during which time I had 22 biopsies of various sorts. It was only after a major incisional biopsy that they decided they had to operate & it was only a couple of weeks after that they discovered invasive cancer. So it can take several months. & just to stress that wasn’t because nothing was happening – I was in the hospital at least once a week for all those months. Tough time.
So it really can happen.
After all that stress and waiting, I hope that you’re okay now Pip!
Thank you for sharing your experience, Pip. Really insightful. Best wishes. Sparrow.
What a scary, difficult time for you, Pip. I wish you all the best.
This is all getting too strange to follow anymore. So many loose threads. The only consistent part of the narrative is William screaming how much he hates his brother and his brother’s wife.
And we can’t be sure anything ascribed to Kate actually is coming from her, presently. I’m sure at times they’re using sentiments she’s expressed in the past. But William and the KP machinery have too much power to speak for her.
And as the forging of Harry’s signature on the bullying statement demonstrates, William won’t hesitate to speak for others when he has the opportunity to serve his own interests, even when it’s possible to later call him out for lying.
Harry did call him out and there have been no consequences whatsoever. None. We sure could use Hannah Waddingham to march down the street crying “Shame Shame Shame” for that. But Hannah showed up for a cute photo op instead.
I find it challenging to believe someone so obviously emotionally constipated with his wife in public as William is can be fantastic support for her right now.
He is clearly not well himself. I don’t think we can really know why, right now. But he looks aged and strained and “off”. For anyone else we could safely assume it’s because he’s distraught over his wife’s illness. But in this case? Who knows?
I miss counting the buttons. This stuff is just too weird.
@SK, points for the perfection that is “emotionally constipated” 🤣 You are a wordsmith!
Thank you Water Lilly. Unfortunately I can’t claim credit for the “emotionally constipated” descriptor. I am pretty sure it’s been used on this site before, though I can’t quite recall the last time I saw it.
I agree with you. William is cracking like an egg. I believe his mental health issues are the foundation of the whole KP extravaganza of errors and the root cause of his crumbling marriage. He wants out and away from all of this. He has no idea how to be supportive as it has never been demonstrated to him by his emotionally constipated father.
He didn’t want this to be revealed. He’s staying radio silent while the media and Kate claim he’s supportive because he wanted to keep up the illusion that everything is fine. This absence and silence is him throwing a tantrum about the fact that he can’t leave her without looking like a complete jackass. He’s stuck for the foreseeable future…it’s gonna be interesting to see how he acts over the next few weeks and months.
Agreed @Beach Dreams. I think that’s the real reason he was swaying/drunk at that ceremony weeks back. I think that’s when the diagnosis really came out and he realized whatever mean plan he had to dispose of Kate, could never happen.
‘He’s stuck for the foreseeable future…it’s gonna be interesting to see how he acts over the next few weeks and months.’
This is another reason I believe that whatever cancer Kate is fighting, she isn’t in any imminent danger. Any cancer is awful, but if it were one of the aggressive cancers, like ovarian, surely Egg would be able to pull things together for whatever timespan, at least for the sake of his children? I get the sense he’s trapped, because his all-important ‘family-man’/ ‘he’s better than his father’ persona would be shattered if he were to divorce her now.
Good point Caroline. Although he may be so ineffectual he can’t pull it together even for a short time. His focus may be elsewhere
Lemme get this straight: he wanted to be with her so badly, he skipped his godfather’s memorial (even though he missed the funeral, even though she had already known about the presence of cancer for a few weeks at the time), but he doesn’t want to be with her when she tells the world of the cancer??!
Right? Make it make sense. There’s no way that was the reason for his skipping out on the memorial service and the press said at the time it hadn’t anything to do with Kate. The man who bailed out of a memorial 45 minutes beforehand supposedly because of his wife’s cancer would certainly have appeared at her side during the video, if not by her side at least behind-the-scenes. They’re all a bunch of lying liars who lie.
Nope that was definitely not why William skipped his godfather’s memorial service. When he was seen in public soon after the memorial service, he had bruising on his neck. (It almost looked like someone had had their hands around his neck.) I wonder if maybe he skipped the service because the bruising was fresh at that point and he didn’t want it to be seen? This was just after Thomas Kingston’s sudden death.—Not that i’m saying William had anything to do with that.—But it’s just interesting. (It WAS bizarre though how William issued a statement saying that the reason he skipped the service had nothing to do with Thomas Kingston’s death.—When nobody was even thinking that at that point!)
The guy was also day drinking and yukking it up with a couple of celebrities in a bar the next day in Wales, so it’s obvious that whatever reason he skipped that memorial was not out of concern to be with Kate.
Nor be AT the hospital while she’s having “major abdominal surgery??”
I hold firm that this whole mess wasn’t started with the mother’s day photo, but rather William only going to the hospital once while she was supposedly there for two weeks. ONCE!
I hope Kate is setting up her future in a way that brings her joy. William has absolutely shown her who he is through all this, and she’ll be a lot happier in life if she accepts it. He ain’t changing.
Just another sign that they’ve been separated for years. He doesn’t think of her as his wife anymore. If he did, he would have been sitting next to her on that bench, holding her hand.
Let me guess, this was done while he was psyching himself up for the school run. #eyeroll
I don’t know when Kate filmed, so I’ll guess somewhere between 18-23 March. I’ve checked the Times’ Court Circular that period.
Would anyone be surprised to learn that KC3 performed more engagements (6) in that time frame than Billy Idle (2)?? What a lazy disgrace William is.
Question…. if she had surgery in December… or was it January? That story kept changing… Why did they only find out about her cancer at the end of February? The biopsy would’ve been done immediately. The news would’ve been discovered within hours or (maximum) days after. Not a whole-ass month or two. I’m still calling bull dookie. The math isn’t mathing. Sorry… correction… the maths aren’t mathing
Her body had to heal before chemo was started
The timeline for finding the cancer does not make sense to me, but the delay before starting chemo does because she had to recover from the surgery first.
I do not believe for one minute that they are living together.
They’re separated, and that’s why KP were so desperate to cover up her cancer. They hoped she’d make a full recovery and be able to be shoved out for Easter, or Trooping at the latest, without anyone ever knowing.
Because otherwise why would they not use her cancer diagnosis for good press? This announcement is the single greatest press she’s ever had. She’s untouchable now. No more complaints about her lack of work ethic. No more complaints about anything, lest you be cast as Person Who Criticises Brave Cancer Patient Kate.
There’s no reason to keep it secret, especially to this degree of cover up with the fake photo and all the rest. Unless they want to push her into the background and stop her getting good press and sympathy.
My tin foil hat says Won’t does not care. He is off with his mistress. He tried to make it seem Can’t was fine, then BP stepped in and said no. He is off throwing a tantrum with mistress and BP took over, hence the wonderful dil articles and the video
I agree Debbye. Whatever’s gone on William’s focus is elsewhere. Someone is distracting him
I think it was good he wasn’t on the video. This is her illness first and foremost – she’s a person in her own right, before being a wife and mum. William would’ve been a distraction and his behaviour picked over. Better to let her talk about herself. I admire this video. The nonsense leading up to it – the franken and skippy – were utterly ridiculous and actually offensive to the British public.
I agree. At the moment, in this particular context, Kate is, and should be, the centre of attention. She is the one with cancer, and she is an individual person in her own right not just someone’s wife or mother. Any married-in wife, especially one from a lower class than the high and mighty royals, has enough identity issues in that relationship and she deserves to be able to make her own statement about it alone without her husband there steal any of the attention. I am assuming, of course, that Kate wanted to do it alone. If she wanted him there
for support, he should have been there.
Also, from personal experience I can imagine her wanting to be alone. Though others react differently, I have always found it easier to control my emotions – retain the stiff upper lip – about something very painful to me if I am alone and allowed to control the conversation so I don’t break down. If my husband is present offering comfort I tend to lose it.
The source says William feels “helpless and scared.”
Maybe working would take Willy’s mind off of his worries (which 100% are for himself — and how this is affecting “meeeeeeee” — not for Kate).
The fact that he wasn’t there when Kate filmed that video is just more proof of his weakness and self-centeredness.
Of course he wasn’t there, he was off doing the school run for the kids /S
I am not really following Kate timeline but didn’t she say she found out in February? When was king C memorial? Also william was by her side for the news so he cancel going to the service, yet he has zero problem leaving her side to go day drinking. This palace of lies is just getting taller and taller.
I am not really following Kate timeline but didn’t she say she found out in February? When was king C memorial? Also william was by her side for the news so he cancel going to the service, yet he has zero problem leaving her side to go day drinking. This palace of lies is just getting taller and taller. Also Kate doesn’t need anyone to hold her hand , she is steely remember? Camlia reminded us of that just yesterday. And judging by the sanctions hit pieces against Meghan through her uncle and the British media, I would say that Kate heart of steel is just fine
Bone Idle said she ‘had’ cancer, which would lead you to believe that this was why she had an operation–they knew before they went in. She starts chemo when she’s healed enough. After her chemo (10 weeks? anyone have any ideas?), she will be able to rest a little before starting engagements again.
I’ve known others who have done the same. Except, they continue working while they have chemo. They would be affected by the chemo for a day or two and right back to the office. I’m not saying that’s what she needs to do. I do, however, expect her to have some respect for the people in the UK who cannot get the type of medical that she is getting because of her wealth. I also do expect her to acknowledge that by having a housekeeper, cook, nanny, etc., is a privilege that others don’t have and how hard it must be for them. Why are the bm and brf telling us that we have to be caring, supportive and sympathetic to someone who has a life that few have? We get it. She’s a child and must be treated like one.
I would never wish cancer on anyone (I’ve had two family members die of cancer), but I’m more than a little insulted that Bone Idle’s cancer is the most horrible thing in the entire world. No, it’s not. She will get better-she told us so. She’s extremely fortunate.
Well, I for one have every sympathy for William. Imagine at that age, 40 or 42, finding out that; you can’t control people like you thought you could, all your best laid plans are going to heck, your brother is better looking, smarter, happier and better liked than you, he won’t obey you any more, other people don’t like you and your newspapers and despicable mouthpieces can’t control all public opinion and MAKE people like you and believe what you want them to believe. That there are people in the world who insist on thinking for themselves. That he has dug himself a pretty deep hole. And don’t come for me because of the first sentence: I was being sarcastic. I am agog at how all this is playing out. I do believe he will divorce Kate if he wants to, and he can find a way to play it. I believe what I have always believed, that Kate is in recovery somewhere inhouse and is not available. I have believed for some time that she was in trouble, physically and mentally, and it came to a head, possibly/probably because of Bill. I truly, truly hope she didn’t do anything to herself and that she is ok, and I’m sure wherever she is at, people are talking with her, and I hope they tell her – just let go, and get out of danger, because this is a sparkley, bejeweled, terrible way to live. It is destroying you. I also wonder if Bill’s upset is because, at this late age, he is seeing himself reflected back to him, and he doesn’t like what he sees. I don’t think he likes who he is. I just think he is a mess. He needs to be in recovery also. I have always heard that if there are no consequences, why would anyone change. He has been in an exalted place, and people have always “fixed” things for him: he had no consequences. Why would he change. Yeah, meeting yourself for the first time is not comfortable, but he is suffering some consequences, and hopefully he will use this to morph into a better person. It will be better for all around him.
And still they fking lie, from Kates own hologram sat on that bench, we KNOW she had been told about her “cancer” before then. Honest to god just abolish the bloomin lot of them
Serous papillary carcinoma (the killer uterine cancer, there are several types) survivor here, NED since 2020. It’s the cancer most comparable to ovarian, which I bring up, since ovarian’s included in a lot of the speculation about type of cancer. What I haven’t heard is any discussion of immunotherapy. It’s possible that chemo/radiation is wrapped up and she is now undergoing this treatment — there are many kinds — to increase odds of survival. These treatments can be brutal and also complicated, based on mutations and a host of other criteria you’ve never heard of. It’s not as simple as surgery>chemo>radiation anymore. Women with advanced cancer might undergo one type of immunotherapy drug then get switched to another when that one ceases to work. Cancer markers are a moving target.
Could’ve sworn soon after CNN showed Kate’s announcement last Friday they showed a helicopter and said it was William and Kate leaving Windsor and going to Sandringham for the school holiday. I remember because I was surprised W&K were both in the same place–and seems they weren’t!
Still Weird. All of it.
Any sightings of the children? School?
The children are on holiday at the moment.
Am I alone in thinking that a grown woman might have chosen to do this her own way, without her husband? It’s her body, her illness, her news. I’m pleased she did it like this. Independence and all. Who knows, perhaps this is a first step towards more balance within a marriage that’s rumoured to be blighted by his temper.
Well yes, but wasn’t it mid last year when she referred to herself as “William’s wife” during that walkabout?
If what’s they’re saying is happening is actually happening, it’s great for her if she is taking control of the narrative. IF. And quite frankly it’s a big if.
Something very interesting is happening now. Suddenly, an influx of stories about how Kate is the daughter Charles always wanted (since when, I’d ask?), KP Comms is taking talking point cues from BP (they are in lockstep when we know there has been nothing but discord for months), and a professional message/video was released by Kate with William nowhere in sight. Stories about Kate and Charles having tea together, etc etc.
Kate and Charles are clearly in the same page. And from what I can gather, that page is the one where they are restraining a persistently petulant William. He can’t talk about divorce or his hot single Dad status whilst his poor, loving wife is sick with cancer, now can he? The sharp turn in KP Comms is the biggest tell: Charles is running the show for KP right now, and forcing his ne’er-do-well heir back in line.
How long this can last is the real question.
Weatherby, I agree that Bone Idle is siding with KFC. What happens when KFC dies? Does anyone think that Billy Idle will forget? He will still holds the purse strings, unless KFC leaves her money.
Good point S&S. She needs to be very careful (if it isn’t too late)
And Will still hasn’t been seen as much with other family members – this is still very hinky. Even more now with KC aligning with Kate and no mention of Will.
…the daughter he always wanted…
War of the Waleses lore about Charles and Diana gave out that he was disappointed their second child wasn’t a daughter. That seems a dig at Di and Harry too, not just Kate or Carole embiggening. BP “is” Charles but where is Camilla fitting into all this I wonder? 🤔
The male determines if the child is a boy or girl
Charles did not want to try for a third child.
Well at least he’s not lying about filming the video himself.
William is going to blame Harry for this. If he hadn’t married ‘That Woman’ & left, Kate wouldnt have been so stressed about having to work more & wouldnt have cancer.
I’m just thinking that in that situation I mightn’t want my husband there either. I think I’d hold it together better without him around. I’d appreciate a hug and the well done afterwards though.
I suspect William didn’t even know Kate was filming this video. I also think KP were not informed either and at the time KP were still working on having fakeKate do the Easter walk. As for Kate aligning herself with BP? Imo she’s doing so in hope that will prevent a divorce from happening or it’s to ensure she has a role within the royal family post divorce.
Though how does Charles feel about her taking some of the sympathy away from him? The engagement story was “borrowed” from someone else, was her story about how her cancer was discovered borrowed from Charles? Or is it just a coincidence?
This is my sense: William and Catherine have been separated for quite awhile. Something major went down between them possibly in December. They were getting ready to ease the public into a divorce announcement of some kind since then, including separate statements on various affairs of the world… then she got this cancer diagnosis. Now William can’t leave his estranged wife with cancer since that would be a dick move. She likely won’t take him back though. Some big reveal may come out before too long confirming many peoples’ suspicions of his dark ways.
My sense is that William and Catherine have been separated for quite awhile. Something major went down between them possibly in December. They were getting ready to ease the public into a separation since then, including separate statements on various affairs of the world… then she got this cancer diagnosis. He hasn’t stopped treating her like a doormat, but now William can’t leave his wife with cancer since that would be a dick move. But I bet she feels her marriage is over. Divorce is in the cards. Some big reveal may come out before too long confirming many peoples’ suspicions of his dark ways.
Shocking! Husband who has never seemed present while present in his wife’s presence, wasn’t present during her possible cancer diagnosis video.Buffoons.
I thought the BBC did the video. Would they risk their reputation with fakery?
Maybe people are overthinking this. I still vote for letting her take as much time off from her “Royal duties” as she wants. Take a year’s sabbatical. Take ten years. The planet will continue to spin regardless. Why are people so anxious to push this woman out into the public? She is eminently replaceable in the things she does. She is important and irreplaceable only to herself and her family.
jwoolman, I think she can be gone for as long as she wants. People will ultimately forget about her.