Kate releases video message saying she is having preventative chemotherapy after cancer was found in tests.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    517·
    8 months ago

    Best of luck to her.

    And how idiotic the frenzy over a photoshopped picture where a sleeve was changed…JFC. Focus on important stuff.

    Now can the press leave the woman alone?

    Gawd, just saw a Cate timeline on CNN, so I guess the answer 8s no.

    • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      361·
      8 months ago

      It broke the rules the image publishers set, was issued a kill notice (pull) and no one knew the extent to which it was edited. The lack of communication after drove speculation.

      Regardless, fuck the monarchy, the amount of attention they all get is ridiculous

    • Maestro@fedia.io
      191·
      8 months ago

      On the other hand, how dumb do you have to be to photoshop a picture and release it like that? That’s just asking for the frenzy.

    • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
      66·
      8 months ago

      If you want a private life you pull a Harry and Meghan and tell everyone to get lost. But she has chosen her path and her health is a matter of state. So no, she is not entitled to privacy on the matter.

        • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Sure! That’s the great thing about being a private citizen. You can live your life, go on shows, go on private vacations etc. Because it’s your life and you can choose how to live it.

          If you are taking on a role of state leadership you don’t get to do those things.

          You have a privileged role with access to roles, and wealth, and information, but the trade off is that your life is not your own. Your health and relationships and connections are a matter of national interest. So you don’t get to slip off for a weekend without telling people where you’re going. And you don’t get to hide medical diagnoses and medical treatment.

    • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
      56·
      8 months ago

      It’s kind of her job to be in the media. If the press leaves her alone she will be out of a job.

        • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
          45·
          8 months ago

          No she is a member of the Royal family. Only death removes her from that.

          I think it’s a curse and it’s shit. But that’s the world we love in.

          It is the only way the royal family continues to exist by being in the media.

          • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
            5·
            8 months ago

            Such a curse to live an easy life with unimaginable wealth.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      112·
      8 months ago

      No, she must be having a zombie affair with Queen Elizabeth the first. I won’t be falling for your reasonable explanations!

  • EssentialNPC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    8 months ago

    Sincerely, I wish her the best. I know it is common to jump in with hate-the-rich feelings here, but I don’t know of anything she has done that makes her deserve cancer. Cancer sucks. The flight is awful, and once it is done you don’t get to know if you are actually better for a long time. For the rest of your life you get to carry physical and emotional scars from the fight.

    I did this fight. I would wish it away from anyone except the most evil. I hope her treatment and recovery are as smooth as possible.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    303·
    8 months ago

    wish her the best; nobody deserves cancer and hope treatment goes fantastically.

    but not looking forward to be lectured by a media that spent a year harassing meghan markle out of the country on how we should be giving her privacy during this time.

  • jaschen@lemm.eeEnglish
    101·
    8 months ago

    I wish her the best. I lost my mom to cancer and watching it consume her was the worst.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    93·
    8 months ago

    I keep forgetting that princesses are real and not just a thing parents call their kids or creepy guys use derogatorily to women at work. It’s kinda weird to think about a princess having cancer too, not very fantasy novel. I don’t know anything about her but that probably is enough reason to assume she doesn’t deserve it. If only we could give it to someone more deserving of such a condition, someone constantly in the news for bad shit, not naming any names…

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      161·
      8 months ago

      She had surgery about 6 months ago and hasn’t been seen in public since. Conspiracy theories started spreading about why she hadn’t been seen in ages, so a week ago or so they released a very Photoshopped photo of her and her kids that was so bad it had to be retracted and fuelled the conspiracy theory stuff even more.

      And now I guess finally they’re admitting it’s cancer. They could’ve handled this whole thing a lot better.

      • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        8 months ago

        It hasn’t been 6 months. She was seen on Christmas. Then nothing and sometime in late January they announced she was having a planned abdominal surgery and wouldn’t be in public until after Easter.

      • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        So was the photoshop thing to cover up that she had cancer or was it more of a touch up removing blemishes kind of thing that went wrong?

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Conspiracy theorists online claim she might be dead and the Queen killed her from the grave or some world-is-flat crap

    • TheMinions@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      TL;DR

      it’s been a while since she had been seen in a photo.

      The palace released a photoshopped pic, AP pulled it since photoshopped items aren’t allowed by their guidelines.

      This is the official response from the palace after a few weeks and a lot of conspiracy theories.