Catherine Health Update

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

She has released a video to state that she has completed her cancer treatment.

news.sky.com/story/kate-health-update-live-kate-has-new-perspective-on-everything-as-diagnosis-to-remain-private-13211996

I very much hope your treatment goes to plan xx

They shouldn't have felt they need to act out for the camera but after all the wild rumours and theories that were going around after the first statement maybe they did feel they had to "perform"

There were theories that she and William were on the verge of divorce and that the illness was being used to cover it up. Her marriage and her husbands fidelity were bounced around on here like a tennis ball on Centre Court at Wimbledon. It was absolutely appalling

It was the same for my mum. My eldest was just 9 and youngest 3. My sister's children were 4 and 1. My mother was a very young mum when she had me, and she died just before she turned 63. She said several times that she thought she would have seen our children grow up. She never even met my nephews.

I feel so much for both Catherine and William. Her for facing the possibility that she might not see her children grow up, and that must still be there. Him for facing history repeating itself and seeing his children grow up without a mother.

Jeez there are some hateful people out there!

Bullying, clearly!

I hope you are having an amazing time xx

I think two things in this instance are true at once. You can think it’s good that a young woman (any young woman) with a family has recovered cancer and still think the video is not the best and a bit tone deaf.

I read something today (on Twitter and from a very right wing commentator so very ready to accept this is utter BS) that the Mail is switching loyalties from the William and Kate to Meghan and Harry. I don’t read the Mail but can’t imagine for a second that’s true but I think it goes to show the video was a bit of a PR mis step from their comms team.

I don't think it was a PR misstep if it was a paper announcement people would have clammoured she was dead and demanded proof of life a photo would have been picked over a short statement on a bench would again have been destroyed as AI and fake a compilation over several occasions on recognisable public areas is the best option considering how all the others have been received

I read something today (on Twitter and from a very right wing commentator so very ready to accept this is utter BS) that the Mail is switching loyalties from the William and Kate to Meghan and Harry.

The only thing the Mail is loyal to is what will bring it clicks! They run hot and cold on everyone.

Yes this.

I think the tone and style of the video are down to Catherine. We know she is interested in photography and other arts and I believe on this occasion she wanted to say what she had to say in the way she wanted to say it and everyone stepped back and let her. That's why it is different from the usual palace communications.

Thing is, I don’t know why they react to all this. So in March people on MN or Twitter or Reddit were saying she was dead, or in a coma, or getting divorced. So what? No one in real life was even talking about it (not in mine anyway). They should just ignore it but they treat it like a PR crisis.

They did ignore it, remember? It was everyone else who was saying it was a PR crisis (partly because they wanted information and the Kensington palace team wasn’t complying with this demands).

Interesting to see the typical SS style push back on a thread about W&C when H&M are getting terrible coverage worldwide after THR expose.

Plus ca change.

It is a bit weak this time. Half hearted some might say.

I'm actually old enough to remember that time.

It wasn't just on SM.

Articles in all the print media. Stephen Colbert made a comment on his mainstream US prime time TV show. The terrible rumours talked about on The View. Mainstream news media worldwide talking about her.

Please stop trying to rewrite how absolutely fucking terrible and unhinged it all was.

The Mail will write whatever will get clicks.

But judging by current coverage - knives are out for 1 couple, and it ain't W&C.

You are right @MrsFinkelstein

"Please stop trying to rewrite how absolutely fucking terrible and unhinged it all was."

It was only a few months ago and while things tend to fade you suddenly think WTF was actually going on both in the press and on here. I could probably name now the posters who enjoyed each new ludicrous thought, believing the Spanish press etc all the while declaring that KP needed to improve their PR. We all know what they were about and yes it was disgusting.

Ha, seemingly not.

Lord, the Mail are awful.

Did H&M reach out to W&C after the cancer diagnosis? I suspect they didn't

They only found out with the rest of the world and put out a message saying they wished Kate ( even though she is Catherine) health and healing or something similar.,

She’s only Catherine in public though. Harry called her Kate throughout Spare.

That is not the case . Even before she was married she asked her friends to call her Catherine . Yes Harry refers to her as Kate but her preferred name is Catherine . It was noticeable that most other good wishes referred to her as the POW but Meghan doesn’t give anyone their status ( except herself!). Memorably referring to The Queen as Harry’s grandmother and William as your brother . Technically correct but disrespectful especially from someone who expects to be called M’am .

I think the SS will ally themselves to Meghan. They’ll turn on him like a pack of dogs if he says anything negative about her. They’ll also turn on him if she says anything negative about him.

That's true. Plus the Sussexes Head of Global Communications (🙄) said that they gave information to the Mail, among other tabloids.

Please stop trying to rewrite how absolutely fucking terrible and unhinged it all was.

it was madness on here and on all main media outlets not just sites like Reddit .
Colbert , Blake Lively , they all had ago at someone at their lowest.

people were convinced she’s dead, coma , DV victim , substance user , cheated on , not to mention tying it with the tragic passing of Thomas Kingston.
some are even still convinced she has no cancer.

majority of Harrys and Meghan supporters were truly horrible, and when asked why do you have so much hate for a woman at her lowest , they will usually say she it’s karma for making Meghan cry , or because she didn’t support her while she was struggling with depression during her pregnancy , although Harry clearly stated they told no one at that time , and Meghan cleared the crying incident and said Kate apologised and sent flowers.

I don't think the Mail has loyalties.

It publishes the stories that it thinks will sell.

The idea that there are rival camps is misplaced - those who have been following the RF for decades the whole idea of rival camps simply does not ring true (other than briefly, 30 years ago, during the then Wales' divorce).

I don't think this video, even though not to the personal taste of many (I find it a bit too Hallmark) was a misstep. DM isn't being particularly positive about H&M (because of the Hollywood Reporter article, so very obviously not the work of the "British media" or the Palace). There doesn't seem to be any change in the style of coverage of the Wales.

100% agree fits all about what sells. That's why it flip flops so much with the positive and negative articles. They don't care so long as it sells.