Princess Kate announced today, based on her doctors' indications, that she is technically "in remission from cancer", a disease that was diagnosed in early 2024 and which forced her - until last September - to undergo months of heavy preventive chemotherapy, amid fear and suffering.
The epilogue of "a brutal year", in her own words, entrusted to a liberating statement symbolically released by Kensington Palace a few hours after a visit, marked by gratitude, made by the Princess of Wales, consort of the heir to the British throne William, to the oncology ward of the Royal Marsden Hospital in London : the health facility in the heart of Chelsea where, as revealed only today, she was treated for cancer. "A relief for me to now be in remission - reads the text signed by the future queen, fresh from having celebrated her 43rd birthday on January 9 as a sort of rebirth after a very tough 2024, also marked by the parallel diagnosis of a tumor of an unspecified nature made to her father-in-law, the 76-year-old King Charles III -. I remain focused on recovery because, as anyone who has had the experience of cancer knows, it takes time to adapt to a new normality ".
The statement opens with a "heartfelt thank you" from Catherine to the staff at the Royal Marsden, for "looking after me so well over the past year". A thank you, the Princess of Wales writes, extended to "all those who have silently walked alongside William and me as we went through this". "We could not have asked for more. The care and advice we have received during my time as a patient has been exceptional", she continues, adding the hope that she can now use her "new role" as patron of the hospital, assumed alongside her husband, "to support its research and clinical excellence". But also "to promote the wellbeing of patients" still struggling with the disease and "of their families" and to help "save more lives".
(Online Union)
