Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, described her cancer journey as a ‘rollercoaster’ during the highly personal engagement
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Kate Middleton has opened up about her ‘really difficult’ cancer treatment during a highly personal outing to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Wellbeing Garden at Colchester Hospital today. The Princess of Wales, who spent last year going through chemotherapy, gave a rare insight into how difficult it had been to ‘put on a brave face’ in front of her children and the public, despite being ‘not able to function normally’.
Catherine admitted that ‘finding a new normal’ had been a ‘rollercoaster’ over the past months. ‘You’re not able to function normally at home as you once used to,’ she told patients and staff at the hospital, before adding how valuable it was to have supportive spaces to find solace, per MailOnline.
‘You put on a sort of brave face, stoicism through treatment,’ Kate explained. When the treatment is finished, she elaborated, ‘it’s like: “I can crack on, get back to normal,” but actually the phase afterwards is really, really difficult.’
It is an impressively candid revelation from the Princess of Wales, who has opened up before about the difficulties that come with a cancer diagnosis. Indeed, the mocha coloured Blazé Milano blazer that she chose for the ocassion was an especially poignant choice for Kate, who previously wore it during a highly personal photograph back in June 2024, when she updated the public on her health, revealing that she was ‘making good progress’ with her treatment, but that she wasn’t ‘out of the woods yet’.