It may only be halfway through January, but the two opposed branches of the younger royal family have both made their first significant public statements of the year. Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex came forward with a typically tone-deaf and self-aggrandising attack on Meta, which ended with a plug for the Archewell Foundation and reminded us all, after a relatively quiet 2024, how irritating their presence in public life continues to be. And then the Princess of Wales, who quietly and stoically spent much of the past year undergoing cancer treatment, visited a hospital and, matter-of-factly, announced that her illness is in remission.
Kate’s visit to the Royal Marsden was inevitably an emotional affair
Princess Catherine, or Kate as everyone would rather refer to her, has been the royal family’s greatest asset in what has been a difficult and stressful period. She has overcome accusations of being a Stepford Wife, smiling and waving on command, and although there have been the usual unpleasant murmurings that her illness was a fabrication to conceal some nefarious plot, most right-minded people would find her actions considerably more admirable than those of the other members of the family she has married into – not least her brother-in-law and his wife.
Her visit yesterday to the Royal Marsden, where she underwent treatment for cancer, was inevitably an emotional affair.
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