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

It's a moot point though because we will never know either way. Some people will strongly suspect they didn't and others will insist they did. Although that would apply to pretty much everything royal related I suppose.

Eh, that would be the, we stand with you, as strong women, comment.
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And all the other sycophantic comments on here.

As for being jealous? 😂
Jealous of what, exactly 😂🤣🤷‍♀️

I'll give you that one but I'm not seeing a lot of sycophantic comments???😂😅😂

I don't remember what was jealous and I CBA scrolling back to look.😜🙄😂

It looks like Catherine has returned to work. The court circular has announced that The Princess of Wales held an Early Years meeting at Windsor Castle yesterday.

news.sky.com/story/kate-returns-to-work-days-after-cancer-treatment-update-13216910

Good news !

I don't understand that at all. It's her name. Simple as that. What would you prefer? The Princess of Wales?

That is good news. I'm glad she's feeling well enough to work.

Calling someone by their actual name, a name that they wish to be known by is now all that’s required to be a fawning forelock tugger apparently.

Actually Harry always used to call her Catherine in interviews. William always calls her Catherine in public. She always introduces herself as Catherine in public. Her mother always calls her Catherine in interviews, and James Middleton just published a book where he calls her Catherine all the way through.

When I type on here I usually type Will and Kate for brevity’s sake but it doesn’t make me pause seeing other people use her full name or her title.

You can’t go by what the media use - she hasn’t been Middleton for 13 years now but the papers still use it because it helps with their SEO.

It’s a weird take from you to call using someone’s name to refer to them as fawning. Huge reach.

I agree that people should be called by the name they prefer, not by some name other people think they should be called! Names are so much part of our identity - it's really important to respect people's wishes about what they want to be called. It can be a sort of bullying/belittling thing when others call you by a nickname they've chosen.

I'm no fan of H and M, but I would never call Meghan 'Megsy'. 'Meg' or similar.

And now Catherine is PoW (not to mention a mature woman and mother - not William's girlfriend) the full name is more dignified and formal. Sorry if that's forelock-tuggingly sycophantic! 😀

Sycophantic comments like how the video reduced them to tears, made them feel so emotional etc.
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I feel reduced to tears thinking about child poverty, pensioners being unable to heat their homes etc.
I don’t feel emotional about a daft video.
I wish her well, of course.
Along with all the many thousands of people in the UK who are undergoing treatment/recovering.

It’s possible to feel emotional about a range of things. It doesn’t mean you have to virtue signal about feeling emotional about child poverty etc. Most people would
of course be touched by issues like that. It doesn’t mean that they can’t feel moved by a video like this. The two are not mutually exclusive. So you can give your vomiting emoji a rest 😆

I think you’re confusing sentimental with sycophantic - some of us have a bit of a weep at the John Lewis Christmas advert each year - doesn’t mean we are fawning over big department stores.

I cry at the drop of a hat for joyful videos like dogs reuniting with their deployed soldier owners or deaf babies hearing their Mum’s voice for the first time.

The big tragic stuff is often too awful to cry over because where would you stop.

Surely calling her Catherine is less sycophantic than calling her HRH the Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cambridge and Cornwall, Baroness Blah Blah etc.?

Glad she is back at work anyway.

I cry watching the London Marathon and the Great North Run, mass participation running events are my achilles heel. I'm weird.

It's really common for people in the public eye to be referred to by a name that isn't what their friends and family might call them. For some reason, Kate Middleton is what has stuck

If I met her in person, I would call her Catherine but I don't especially see the harm in calling her Kate online

See also Fergie, BoJo, J Lo, Sam Cam

Hundreds of years later, people don't get Anne Boleyn's married name right...

You see, I don't consider that to be "sycophantic" at all. No, the video did not reduce me to tears, nor did it evoke any major emotion, but my experiences may be different to other people, and those reactions don't mean that someone is "sycophantic". I think it's bizarre that you feel that way!

I'm not moved to tears normally by child poverty or struggling pensioners. I'm deeply sad and concerned about it but it's usually something truly personal that moves me to tears.

Just the way I am just as it's just the way some people are that the PoW's video made them emotional and tearful. We're all different, and isn't that a good thing?

I was generalising, tbh. 😂
I don’t cry over pensioners not being able to put their heating on, either.

I just don’t get all this adulation for someone who is essentially a stranger to most of us. And a very privileged one, at that.

Not her fault, of course.

I cry at those types of videos, as well.
I get what you’re saying about sycophantic vs. sentimental and believe me, I am majorly sentimental.

The type of comment I’m referring to include ones that said,
“If you’re reading this ,Catherine, as strong women we stand behind you, we support you.”
I’m paraphrasing slightly, as this was way back at the start of the thread.

I just find that type of comment vomit-inducing tbh 🤷‍♀️

She signs herself off as ‘C’ and calls herself Catherine. Therefore I respect her decision and call her by her preferred name. Just like I refer to Harry and Meghan by their preferred names. I don’t like that the media refer to people by the wrong names. It really irritates me when people refer to James Bulger as “Jamie” Bulger.

Just had a look back and there is one comment of this type. Many posts talk about the video not being their thing but they wish her well etc. I think you are imagining that there is a lot of “sycophancy” or vomit inducing posts. I have to say, I wasn’t in any way near tears watching the video, but if people do react that way, I wouldn’t belittle them. Quite a few posters said it touched a nerve because they had been through a similar experience

I just find that type of comment vomit-inducing tbh

Whoever posted that comment is entitled to feel that way, they are just expressing how the video made them feel, as do you who posts vomit emojis, it’s just different sides of the same coin, personally I would avoid threads that gave me such a visceral reaction.

We must have different perspectives because I saw the thread more or less when it first started, and I just found the comments to be very fawning.
It’s fair to say that I’m not a fan of the royal family per se.