The morning after Catherine, the Princess of Wales, otherwise known as Kate Middleton, announced that she had cancer, the weather in London was bright and clear. After weeks of gray and rain, it felt like spring in the capital. (Later, it hailed.) It was as if the raging fever of speculation about the senior royal’s health since her disappearance from the public eye in January—some of it genuine, much of it gleeful and unhinged—had finally broken. At 6 P.M. last Friday, just as many were heading to the pub, Kensington Palace released a short video on X, formerly Twitter, in which Catherine sits alone on a bench surrounded by grass and daffodils, and calmly explains that she is undergoing treatment for cancer.
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