The tone of comments on Catherine’s looks are bonkers. I am not a royalist and would happily see the lot of them in the tower but to talk about a woman who has had major surgery and aggressive chemo in the last few months as haggard, as if that is some kind of moral failing, is disgusting. What should she look like?
On another thread, a cancer survivor who had cosmetic treatments to address the damage chemo did to her has been called vain and accused - by a woman proclaiming to be a feminist - of supporting the pornification of women, for caring about her appearance.
Women cannot fucking win when it comes to how we look even when we are cheating death.
When I was undergoing chemo I was mocked for having moon face, for growing excess hair and told it was ‘a pity you put on so much weight. You had a nice figure before this and you’ll never get it back’. As if the joy of being alive when I was told I would likely die was now marred by being ‘fat’ because I’d gone from size 10 to size 14.
Charles may be King but he has a right to privacy when it comes to his body and his treatment. Even if he announced it tomorrow it wouldn’t stop speculation. People would regurgitate facts and figures and previous case of the same disease with countdowns and predictions and the ins and outs of what was happening to his body, and poring over his appearance for signs of decline. Having cancer is bad enough without that level of intrusion.
Whatever else the monarchy owes us, the gory details of their bodily functions is not one of those things.