Catherine to attend event tomorrow

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

And new photos released. She’s not out of the woods yet

https://news.sky.com/story/kate-princess-of-wales-says-shes-not-out-of-the-woods-in-health-update-as-royal-releases-new-picture-13153098

I confess I might be a teeny tiny bit obsessed. Not with H&M but those who wail about hating and obsessions all the time.

As Janey Katz said, it is clinically fascinating.

Knowing me, Beafyudders
Knowing you, TandleHill squaddies

A-ha.

Lucky you. Sock puppeting is usually an automatic ban. Clearly MN has one rule for some.

Thank you @doublec and best wishes for you. I think you are pretty damn magnificent too. 💐

Also wishing you the best, doublec

I have worked in the past with the cancer charity Look Good Feel Better, which does what is says on the tin - helps people dealing with a cancer diagnosis figure out ways of feeling good about themselves while they deal with the physical and mental impacts of their journey. It’s such a valuable service, because feeing like themselves really matters for people in this situation, as you so powerfully expressed.

https://lookgoodfeelbetter.co.uk/about-us/

Thank you 💕❤️ @MummyJ12@jeffgoldblum@StormzyinaTCup@Beafyudders@BlueParrotRedParrot @Serenster

Seconded.

Wishing you the very best in your recovery @doublec 💐

Agree @BlueParrotRedParrot

and if MN are going to apply the rules in this fashion they could at least be a bit more subtle about it. It’s pretty bloomin obvious😁

I hope you keep well @doublec 💐

@TheFirmBiscuit why did you do it ?

@doublec Wishing you more good days and fewer not so good ones. 💐

Thirded 💐💐

Also had chemo- and did lose my hair - for ovarian cancer. I bet Catherine knows exactly how she’s going to feel at which point in the chemo cycle - and if she can appear well.
She did look even thinner and more fragile.

I wonder if she has peripheral neuropathy in her feet- she was stepping carefully getting out of the carriage.

Absolute kudos to her - she ignores the critics and does her job/ is there for her children. I hope she has a good prognosis.

Any critics should be ashamed. But I have personal experience of people being horrible to me, and it doesn’t actually change when you have cancer.

I am so sorry to hear that @RedRosesPinkLilies

Truly.

I hope life is a little brighter these days for you.

@Beafyudders it isn’t exactly- but hopefully a new medicine is working. Last one wasn’t working - and the cancer was growing.

Any diagnosis of cancer is so scary for people. Anyone being mean about the PoW needs to take a long hard look at themselves

I’ve no words of comfort that will do ye any good or make ye feel better. I have yet to walk in your shoes - though many in my family have. As they have said to me ‘it isnae a fair fecht - it is a sair fecht’ but ye glory on’.

I just hope this bugger (new med) works for you.

💐for you @RedRosesPinkLilies . I hope you have some good people around you too who treat you well and look after you. Take care, and I sincerely hope there will be brighter days ahead very soon x

Thank you @Beafyudders and @BlueParrotRedParrot xx

I attended TOC yesterday.
Catherine would have needed to adhere to the dress code partly being heels for women, lounge dress code. So I would think she was either able to cope, otherwise she would likely have not attended as she would have been torn to shreds by the likes of some had she not adhered to the dress code that everyone else had been expected to.
I know some people "aren't interested in the soldiers" whilst that's your prerogative there are many soldiers (my own sons) who are driven by the sense of a form of public duty, ironically to protect the likes of gobshites who do little else than contribute to immature put downs. Rather than a mature reasoned points of anti monarchy views.
My own views are such that I struggle to some degree with a constitutional monarchy. However after the shit show of governments we've had on the past years and the impact on our country I can't help but feel some admiration for the senior royals.

I am sure they would have made an exception for her if it had been necessary.

You are wrong. The dress code is smart flat shoes OR heels.

https://www.hellomagazine.com/hfm/495493/trooping-the-colour-the-dress-code-explained/

Oh my what revelations - you don't need an eagle eye on here to see it's been a bit of a hen party today.

A parody of a name is quite different from deliberately being a stool pigeon.

As Jeff Goldblum said in Independence Day " Oops"

Who would have been upset or even commented on Catherine's footwear? I know the late Queen had strict (and very old fashioned) rules on what people could and couldn't wear but I can't imagine Camilla being bothered. There's a reason a lot of working Royals are dressing better these days, Sophie in particular.

Who would have been upset or even commented on Catherine's footwear
Plenty of people would have ripped her to pieces if she'd worn flats or even a low heel- have you seen the vile comments on Twitter, there's people on there stating that because she looks well, she hasn't had cancer, she's apparently got a scar on her eye as a result of dv , that she's had a facelift etc

Yes, I thought she looked a tiny bit thinner even, but that's not to be wondered at.
I know people who've had chemo and as I understand it, you feel worse when you've just had a treatment so she probably has a fair idea of which engagements, this summer, might be going to be ok for her.

I have seen Sophie and Anne wear smart flat shoes. Diana was tall and she usually wore low heels.

The neuropathy I have got much worse with the last treatment- so it’s entirely possible her feet are ok ish in high heels. Maybe she’ll change her mind about that in the future and wear wedges again.

Maybe Catherine is trying to maintain a sense of normality - for herself/ her family. With cancer you do sometimes put on a face, at least I do, because endless sympathy can be hard. It maybe just emphasises the negativity of the situation.

I dressed up really well for my nephews wedding - mid-chemo treatments and not long after surgery. New dress (flowing to hide the abdomen), beautiful long head scarf. Everyone thought I looked amazing, but didn’t see the days I spent lying in bed sleeping after chemo treatments, and the nights I spend crying with my sore feet. When neuropathy feet get cold in bed they get incredibly painful.

I actually had forgotten some of that.

So honestly- we should stop over analysing the PoW. I think she’s doing what many people with cancer do - her best to maintain a sense of normality and not give in to the stress/ sadness of having the disease.