A recent report has shed light on one of the strangest chapters in modern royal history, revealing how the Princess of Wales reacted.
If you want to be shockingly Californian about the whole thing, this year has been one of great learnings.
We’ve learned that kings are all too human, that Dukes of York are impervious to shame and allergic to dignity, and that Prince Louis will perpetually give great face when released from behind the Adelaide Cottage hedges.
But some parts of this year’s royal story, including the Princess of Wales and King Charles’ battles with cancer, have never been explained.
Now, Vanity Fair’s Katie Nicholl has done some stellar reporting, providing crucial answers to some of the strangest parts of a very strange royal year—and we are only in July.
Everyone, pretend it’s summer again; all beach days and Paddle Pops dripping down our hands.
On January 17, Kensington Palace shocked us all by announcing that Kate, the Princess of Wales, was in the hospital for “planned abdominal surgery” and would be out of the public eye while she recovered.
Only hours later, Buckingham Palace issued a similarly alarming statement about King Charles and his enlarged prostate—words no writer should ever have to type.
While Prince William, in his very rev head-y Audi, was seen leaving the London Clinic during the two weeks that the princess spent as a patient, their three children—Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Louis-of-the-front-page—were not seen once. No one knew why.
Enter Nicholl, who now reports that this was all done intentionally, as the princess “did not want her children to see her in a gown and hooked up to monitors and tubes.”
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