She’s not a private citizen. She’s not even a celebrity. She’s the princess of wales, and literally one heartbeat away from becoming the future queen of England. Every British tax payer is entitled to know about the health of their future queen. Transparency is very important here. Her office or the palace didn’t handle this in the best of ways. All the rumors and speculations could have been avoided if they had just made this announcement back in January.
I understand that she’s going through a lot. I can’t imagine how shocking the news must have been for her and her husband, and she has three small children she had to talk to about this. Very understandable. But once again, she’s not a private citizen. She and the palace has a certain responsibility towards the public. Unfortunately it comes with the territory of being the princess of wales.
If I were to speculate, I don’t even think privacy was the issue here. I think William seems to have more of an old school way of thinking regarding the monarchy and not appearing weak or vulnerable. He’s rumored to have refused to even let the public know when he tested covid positive during the pandemic. Interestingly his 70 something year old father doesn’t seem to think that way.
This announcement was made today because when she made an appearance at the farmers market last week with her husband people immediately started saying that’s not Kate. They realized that the situation was completely out of their hands now and they had no choice but to be open and honest now.
I hope she makes a full a recovery and gets to see her children grow up. I genuinely mean that. I will however say this: Some of the speculations that have been made about her and her husband over the past two months on the internet are now there for everyone to see, forever. No amount of PR and damage control can erase those from people’s minds.
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