In the aftermath of the video with which Kate Middleton revealed to the public that she had cancer , the reactions of the media and of many ordinary people are divided between bewilderment, emotion, wishful thinking and delayed controversies due to the too many outrages on respect for privacy of these months.

While all the leaders of the world send messages of good wishes to Kate, within the dynasty - already tested by the diagnosis of the 75-year-old King Charles III - the family drama seems to offer half a chance of rapprochement with the rebels Harry and Meghan . The glimmer appears between the two sons of Charles and Diana, the heir to the throne William, Kate's wife, and the Duke of Sussex, Harry, her younger brother, protagonists of a long phase of cross-recriminations after the cadet's breach in 2020 from the Royal Family.

What broke the frost was a round of phone calls, reportedly from the USA, where the dukes have been self-exiled for almost 4 years now. Left in the dark about Kate's condition until the end, Harry and Meghan hastened in the last few hours to call directly - it seems - both her and William, to express in person those words of comfort, solidarity and wishes for a speedy recovery expressed in precedence in writing. A signal that adds to the more conciliatory climate of the second son's relations with his father already sealed by the quick visit to London at the beginning of February when it was King Charles who announced that he was struggling with a cancer of an unspecified nature. Diagnosis similar to that revealed now by the Princess of Wales, after two months of secrecy following the abdominal operation - perhaps an intestinal resection, perhaps something else - in mid-January at the London Clinic. And the subsequent biopsy resulted in the heavy verdict made public yesterday, with all-out "preventive chemotherapy" which began (as we now know) at the end of February.

The news dominates the opening pages of all the newspapers across the Channel and there is no shortage of comments in the comments denouncing the allegations and conspiracy theories fueled for weeks by the morbid attention of many and by "web trolls". In any case, the BBC notes how the televised confession to which Kate was forced to ease the pressure is destined to "rewrite the history of these weeks": on the reasons for her silence, the stumbles of palace communication or on certain unexplained disappearances of William.