Princess of Wales to attend Wimbledon Men’s Final

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Kensington Palace have confirmed that Princess Catherine will be attending the Wimbledon Men’s Single Final on Sunday.

news.sky.com/story/princess-of-wales-to-attend-wimbledon-mens-singles-final-13177335

I am glad she feels able to attend this. Also did chemo and was hell on earth for me and the odd day you feel well enough to do something is great and helps make it through. I think it's not that common for people to work through it, I certainly didn't got ESA, you get support group, and lived on that. You can also get Pip if badly physically affected and need extra money as well as work sick pay if working at the time and also if not working and no or very low savings UC. The benefits can take a long time to process but they are there. There are also lots of lovely charities who help. I was given a week's holiday in Cornwall in July for my family from one. If you go via Macmillan for benefits they are often rushed through and you see people get them in a couple of weeks. I didn't and took a few months but that's what my savings were for and they back date. The only thing I didn't like was the 14 week rule before you go in enhanced and it was stressful to have to wait an hour on phone lines repeatedly with the claim which regularly cut me off after an hour's wait whilst very unwell. In hindsight should have used Macmillan. NHS cancer treatment was far from perfect but a lot better to have something. My chemo was started after recommended times but good once started. I actually felt luckier to have cancer than a condition were there is little public sympathy like mental health conditions. I am not a royalist but find the attacks on a Mum with cancer unpleasant. Private gets you quicker start dates, nicer rooms but treatment is often not much different and survival rates are only marginally improved. Would be great if we could all have that but would need significant tax rises from the general public which I don't think most want. The wait for diep is bad, my reconstruction op is 2.5 years wait and some are waiting 5 years or so with 1 breast chopped off. I don't regard Wimbledon as work. I think it can be very hard on self employed who have not paid NI.

What a surprise.

It looks like the people who said her attending trooping the colour was so that it wouldn't look so bad when she suddenly appeared to attend Wimbledon, were right. And her also work shy husband will be at the Euros. She's not bothering with the women's final? Just like William didn't bother with the women's football World Cup. What an awful pair.

I have nothing against the woman.

You clearly do or you would have used her name.

She will no doubt be back to her other causes soon enough.

And I bet if she had chosen one of her other causes, someone would have been along to say ‘why not do us/attend Wimbledon/serve in a foodbank’.

Gie’s peace.

@PaintedStones and what a delight you are too

They can't win can they?

At least none of you negative posters have any influence over the pair - thankfully.

What a surprise.

Say the word cunt and as if by magic….

As for not attending early years events would imagine that is medical advice, you are advised to avoid high infection risk events.

The fact that Novak Djokovic may potentially equal Federer’s Wimbledon trophies AND become the holder of the most Grand Slam titles ever probably had more to do with the decision, really. Could be a genuine tennis-history event.

I had major abdominal surgery last August, chemo started start of October to end of December. I had to go back to work after the new year. Back to my physical job, mind you I was put on light duties. Still had to run the household, kids, school, meals. It was hard. The pow has a very privileged life. She’s definitely had it easier than others. But then on the other hand, she’s had cancer, same worries if it will return and so on.

So she's well enough to come out and do the nice things that she enjoys, but far too sick to do the less glamorous day to day stuff? And she's about to have a three month summer holiday? Ok.

She has a the role she does in the tennis association because she likes tennis so much. It really isn't work for her to go and watch the final.

😇 Thanks.

It's true though. Kate's not bothering with the women's final. William didn't bother with the women's World Cup final. Even before Kate was ill, neither of them did much, about 120 or something events per year, many of which were zoom calls and included things like Wimbledon. They're a lazy pair.

Christ alive there are some bitter people on this thread.

If you had the choice of having time off while you had cancer you obviously would pick that option. And if you did do any work at all during that time you'd do work you actually wanted to do, not all of it.

And if you didn't create that kind of life for yourself that you could take that time off, that's on you. Maybe you should have married rich.

thebluebeyond, it was one journalist who works for a rag renowned for stirring up bile and division. The article obviously did it's job

I hope, after all the vile stuff that's been written about Kate while she's been ill, that she has a lovely afternoon without pathetic carping on by people. Won't happen but I live in hope.

It’s been announced publicly…it’s work.

Fair enough. She does support a lot of other charities she could visit though. Never mind, the most important thing is she is getting better. I really didn't mean any harm with my post. But as usual, mumsnetters like to think the worst of other mumsnetters..

Come now, attending a tennis final, and handing out a trophy, is hardly "work".

I don't get why anyone would be angry or bitter about someone attending a tennis match. Get a grip people!

Someone up-thread has made the point that the tennis will go on whether she's there or not but if she went to one of her Early Years events, for instance, there might be more pressure on her to attend and stay the time and more room for disappointment of the folks etc. and that seems to me to be quite a valid point.

I have always wondered how long the prize-presenting royal sits and watches and how often they slip inside to spend a penny or have a drink. I expect they do sit for a long time but surely they do nip off now and again. Wimbledon is used to welcoming VIPs every day so it's no extra big deal to welcome Kate. If she feels a bit whappy at 4 p.m. I expect she could slip off to a back room, and if she really feels she can't stay the course she could quietly go home and someone else can present the trophy. I would think all those possibilities have been thought through and contingency plans are in place.

So, may we agree to differ, because I don't think it's awful that she's going to tennis?

Discussions like this are not really helpful as it’s impossible to compare people’s circumstances. “Most people” undergoing serious health problems and chemotherapy aren’t also globally famous like the Princess of Wales. They also haven’t had to live through a global, organised campaign of abuse either. So you don’t really know what someone in this woman’s circumstances would be able to do b

All of the small charities she could visit would put a lot of work into a visit. Police and security would have to be set up. Royal visits take a lot of effort on the part of the groups being visited. With no guarantee that she won’t wake up feeling shit and unable to go.

Her going to Wimbledon doesn’t take any effort for anyone. Everything is set up already. If she goes great. If she doesn’t the Duchess of Gloucester steps in. Nobody’s effort goes to waste.

Not to mention most visits to small charities are indoors - being outside is safer in terms of not catching bugs and colds.

Do you think Patrons just attend one event a year? Don’t you think that there are other meetings and involvement through the year that the public aren’t made aware of?

Isn't it likely that the reason she hasn't done other visits is because they're arranged further in advance? They seem to be announcing things she's doing very very shortly before they will happen.

Wimbledon is happening either way, and if she can't show up, it's not a huge deal to get someone else to hand over a trophy.

A visit to a charity must involve a reasonable amount of inconvenience, and then potentially be cancelled at short notice the day before if she's not up to it.

Her appearance at Wimbledon can also be considerably reduced if necessary - no need for her to watch the whole thing, she can just do 5 mins of a trophy ceremony. Harder to do that with a charity visit I guess.

As I said, I'd happily abolish the monarchy. But I don't have anything against her specifically, nor do I have an issue with someone with cancer being a bit choosy about what they do.

Quite!