Princess of Wales: surgery and recuperation

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No thread yet?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68009259

Just read this in the Telegraph.
Hope things have improved now.
Glad PPs who have had surgery there have had a good experience.

"The London Clinic is an unusual choice for the Princess, who was admitted to the King Edward VII Hospital - long favoured by senior royals - when she suffered with Hyperemesis Gravidarum during pregnancy.
A Care Quality Commission report published in December 2021 following an inspection of The London Clinic, found that its surgical services “required improvement”.
The surgery’s leadership was found to be “inadequate” with frequent concerns being raised."

Oh, I’m only here for the grubby speculation.

Do wish people would stop saying ‘She’s young’, though. She’s 42. Middle-aged.

@Waxwin9 the posters claiming ED are saying it with certainty, the others are speculating. Neither are kind but there’s a difference between the two.

I agree that a royal family is anachronistic.

I have an issue with the tricoteuses who make smug speculations.

Update:

Kate is ‘doing well’

Jesus it’s unnerving. It’s very restrained and not exactly reassuring.

Doing well has made me more worried. We expected her to be doing well, that is the very least we can expect at her age, the fact they felt they needed to say only that is very strange.

You are being ridiculous.

She wasn't born into the RF, she walked into it with her eyes wide open. Speculation and scrutiny is part and parcel. She chose her life

Speculation is very normal when minimal information is provided. Whether admitted or not, even those who berate others for speculating are commenting having opened and read the thread anyway!

Speculation fills a vacuum. Nothing wrong with it, it happens. It should not be disrespectful though. I have to admit to being very curious about what the reason for her surgery is. I doubt I am alone.

I think we all realise that we are different and will have different experiences but someone the age of Kate and as fit as she is should no way be in hospital for that length of time for a hysterectomy or need to recuperate until Easter. It's not like she does a hard manual job 5 days a week is it?

I don't think I am clever or heroic just very lucky to have had such an easy time when I had a hysterectomy and I was no way whatsoever as fit as Kate is.

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As she hasn't been seen in public since Christmas, I wonder if they had hoped to manage whatever it is conservatively / medically, but had to resort to surgery as that didn't work.

I hope she recovers soon.

‘Unnerving’ and ‘worried’?

Are you really that concerned about a complete stranger. I can’t fathom.

Well yes, she is the future Queen, and the mother of three children. I am finding the language from BP unnerving. I really think she is not in a good way.

Well to move the subject away from K …

… there is a sure fire way of stopping people speculating and commentating on the private lives of the RF and that is to change to a republic.

And then they can all go away and live their lives in private and not have their births, weddings, funerals, dysfunctional marriages and illnesses written about or speculated upon.

Speculation is very normal when minimal information is provided

Particularly when it's the future queen, she's in for longer than you might expect, it's happened suddenly, engagements for at least 3 months are being cancelled, and her husband's engagements have (I think?) also been cancelled.

It's not a run of the mill happening.

Then you've got the King announcing upcoming prostate surgery on the same day.

I think his surgery was very much planned and an announcement made ready, and I think hers seems like it was one or two steps down from an emergency, hence an announcement afterwards.

This.

Kate gave birth to George the week I had my son and I was watching the breathless TV coverage feeling incredibly thankful the world wasn’t monitoring my fanny in the way they were monitoring hers.

I wish her well with her recovery.

Totally bonkers.

Kate has next to no engagements as it is, she's notoriously lazy. I should think they've only had to cancel a very small number. And William is quick to jump on the bandwagon too, given the huge amount of staff they have to step into the breach. It's all very suddenly dramatic. Perhaps it's the outcome of a Cobra type meeting at the Palace and they're all just going to enjoy room service in hospital for a while followed by not even the tiny amount of 'work' that they currently do, all the while hoping that this might finally distract from PA.

I mean the 'hyperemesis gravidarum' was a whole lot of rubbish. Kate had morning sickness - not pleasant but not the same as hg.

Please stop.

Do you know her personally? Are you her doctor?

You sound nice 🙄

The royals get best care best doctors lovely private hospital suites give over they have the best of everything

How the bloody hell do you know?

I don’t get this “Kate is lazy” schtick.

William and Kate have clearly learnt from generations before them that shit, absent parenting in the RF has a damaging effect. They state clearly that they wish to enjoy raising their kids alongside engagements.

Last year Kate carried out 134 engagements, William 175. That’s around the equivalent of a 3 day week for her and a 4 day week for him (if you took 4 weeks annual leave into account). Would people they were rather shitty parents like the Queen was? Barely seeing her children in the pursuit of ‘duty’?

I know the symptoms of hg. And the difference between that and ordinary morning sickness which usually abates around the time Kate was out and about and clearly doing perfectly well. Apparently Carole got hysterical.