Because of her high-profile status and the scrutiny around her health, Princess Catherine‘s cancer battle looked a lot different than your average patient.
As Perezcious readers know, Kate Middleton shared her diagnosis early last year after tons of conspiracy theories about her health and whereabouts. She never said what form of the disease she was facing, but she underwent several months of treatment before concluding it in September. Just earlier this month, she announced she is in remission.
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To celebrate, the 43-year-old visited the London-based Royal Marsden Hospital where she was “quietly and privately” treated, and it was a really enlightening moment for her. To see patients gathered together for their treatment when her journey was so isolating was eye-opening, a close royal source told People on Thursday:
“Going through the back door unseen while going through the treatment must have been pretty lonely. When you see these other people when they’re having their chemotherapy, they were doing it as a group, with a support mechanism.”
Cancer is so difficult. Having to deal with it while trying to hide from the paparazzi and the crazy conspiracy theories at the time must’ve just added so much stress. We’re sure she had plenty of support in her private life, but having to hide probably made her feel so alone in the process.
Kate even reflected on this during the visit, telling a patient per the outlet:
“I had to do it privately and quietly, but being on a ward like this has to be reassuring in a way.”
Even just the simple act of entering through the front door rather than a private, secret door in the back, was revolutionary for the Princess of Wales, who said via DailyMail.com:
“Coming in the front entrance here, having made so many quiet, private visits, actually it’s quite nice.”
It’s clear community deeply matters to Prince William‘s wife, and connecting with other cancer patients has been important to her since this journey began. It’s too bad she wasn’t able to have that community experience amid her own treatment, but the whole experience has seemingly opened the mother of three up in new ways, royal historian Dr. Amanda Foreman told the outlet:
“What the treatment has done is remove a filter and create this immediacy between her and the public. I can’t think of a working royal who has ever done that.”
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