Kate has cancer

[Doseofreality]

Breaking news.

I totally disagree!

Would many men give up their jobs pernanently a few weeks after their wives had been diagnosed with cancer?
I'm sure they'd take compassionate leave or holiday leave, which I presume is what William is doing at the moment.

I realise that financially he's in a far better position than almost anyone if he wanted to resign/abdicate, but that would just cause added turmoil to the whole family at the moment, which I'm sure they could do without.
Besides which, Kate could be in remission in a few months (god willing) and I'm sure they know that. So why would they make life-changing decisions after a few weeks of her diagnosis?

What will the likes of the daily mail report on now Kate has this diagnosis? I think with Kate in recovery and out the spotlight the press will be desperate to find a little colour in our royal family. It seems such a dour sombre spectacle now and is there a point where the royal family can't just run on sympathy alone?

What did you dislike about the message?

I imagine the next thing they'll be doing is digging around trying to find out if Harry regularly parties with P Diddy

I think it's cold and unemotional. It's the bare minimum. It makes no reference to William and their children. They call her 'Kate' when they know that in public she wishes to be known as Catherine. They omitted her title - and come on, 'the Duchess of Sussex' sure gets planted on everything...! It just comes across as insincere too, in the context of the horrible things they have said about her. Pair of hypocrites. They didn't give a damn about her well being when they were firing bile at her from Montecito.

OK?!

I also found the message cold and unemotional. I realise they were in a lose/lose position in sending any kind of message but this was poorly worded.

I agree. As I said earlier, because of their own behaviour, this was a lose/lose situation where they’d be criticised whatever they did.

I still think a brief public statement was probably the least worst option for them- but the wording is very poor.

Referring to her as Kate and the very cold wording - it’s not a great statement tbh.

Would somebody compose on here what they think would have been a better message? Seriously, I'm interested in what they should have said that would have seemed less cold

I'd have gone with echoing her speech so something like "Like many people across the world we were enormously saddened to hear of Catherine's diagnosis. We know this will have been a shock to her, to William and their children G,C,L and their wider families. We hope they are given the time and space to recover and we were heartened by the positivity Catherine expressed for her recovery. We join in with many millions sending our best wishes and thoughts to her"

We are both shocked and saddened by the Princess of Wales's news. We have sent a private, supportive message with our best wishes for a speedy recovery.

That would have been ripped apart - you'd all be questioning why they needed to mention that they had sent a private message, and how dare they describe it as supportive, that's a subjective description not for them to decide.

Just don't do one? They could just stick with leaking (as they also did) that they have been in touch privately. And if they do talk or write about her publicly, call her Catherine or the Princess of Wales.

This one would have been criticised for them saying that they knew it will have been a shock. Kate said that herself in her video...can't they come up with their own wording? Why are they professing to know how they feel when they don't speak to them?

Anything said by H&M would be ripped apart anyway. I'm not fans of theirs at all but they'll never do anything that gains universal approval.

Then you'd all be saying how disgraceful it was that they didn't put out a message.

Who gives a shit really? They are what they are.

Nope. It would have been less hypocritical.

Why would they concern themselves over the woman who William only married because she was suitable, according to Harry...

I don't think it's particularly hypocritical tbh. Def don't get RF fans/bootlickers – Wills and Kate could have a really nasty streak for all they know. (And as a sidenote, without all that arbitrary titles and ill-gotten wealth, would they have the dignity and strength to handle daily life gracefully? Personally I think definitely not – they'd be a council house mess unlike others with aristocratic backgrounds who've actually done something independently with their life. But that's not relevant here anyway)

But as it stands, Meghan has a track record of pathological lies/exaggerations, many hilarious (people worshipping her as an embodiment of Nelson Mandelia on the streets of Africa, NYC car chase – a claim which bewildered actual NYC residents, and on and on the list could go). It's a bit hard not to project a certain image or expect certain behaviour from her.

I don't think they released a statement when Charles was diagnosed, did they? I don't remember anyone complaining that they should've. I certainly didn't. (I might have missed it.)

I don't understand the purpose of a public statement, especially if you're also going to leak that you have been in touch privately.

The public statement was just a reminder that he can want to draw a line all he wants, if you slag people off in a global manner you don’t get to choose the other sides timeline. If something like two cancer diagnoses can’t influence any reconciliation a relationship of any meaning in dead in the water. Why worry about the public reaction of not issuing a statement when you’ve made it clear you don’t consider the relationship important enough to keep it private. The statement was for Harry’s PR not for Kate’s benefit.

I think he told Omid he was immediately getting on a flight to London.

That's what I thought @ajandjjmum
No public statement in support of Charles and nobody cared or said it was "disgraceful". So they could have done the same here. I really don't buy the argument that they had to do it. Just stick with leaking that contact has been made privately.

If they felt they had to announce it ( why?) could they not just have said that they had been in touch privately
There was no need to say the content especially as it referred to the POW as Kate rather than by her title . Given how particular they are about their own titles being used , it’s surprising that they didn’t afford Catherine the same courtesy.

Sweet jesus, is there going to be a Harry Book 2? Please, no....