“It was terrible”: William talks about Kate’s cancer diagnosis
Last year, the royal had to cope with several blows of fate. Now Prince William has given a personal insight into this difficult time.
Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince William, has spoken unusually openly about personal stress in recent months.
At the end of a trip abroad to South Africa, he was asked about the year in which both his wife, Princess Kate, and his father, King Charles III, were treated for cancer.
“To be honest, it was terrible. It was probably the hardest year of my life,” he said, according to the PA news agency. It was difficult to manage everything else and keep everything on track. “I’m so proud of my wife, I’m proud of my father for getting things done,” William was quoted as saying. “But from a personal family point of view, yes, it was brutal.”
“I couldn’t be less relaxed this year”
At the beginning of the year, the royal family made it public that Charles was being treated for an unspecified form of cancer. Later, Kate also announced that she was diagnosed with cancer. She underwent chemotherapy – the completion of which she recently announced in a video.
William was in South Africa without his wife and children for the Earthshot Prize environmental award. At the end of the trip, he spoke to British media in more detail about this year for the first time, PA reported. When he was told that he seemed relaxed, he replied: “I couldn’t be less relaxed this year.”
