King Charles offers support to Kate after cancer announcement | BBC News

uh Katherine Princess of Wales detailing the treatment she is receiving now let's talk to our health correspondent Katherine Burns who is still with me and um Katherine Kensington Palace calling this a path to recovery the important point where the element of recovery um what do you want say with that well? So it was very interesting that she said that the postoperative test after her successful surgery in January found that there was

cancer

and she describes this as a path to recovery, as you say, and she talks about preventive chemotherapy, that is, chemotherapy is a The general term is basically any drug that targets

cancer

cells in this way, so the hope is that you know that it could be that the cancer has been eliminated, but we can't speculate on those things, we don't know what type of cancer it is .

We don't know what stage she is at, what we do know is that she is now one of three million people in the UK living with cancer and it was very surprising the way she ended the video telling other patients that they are there outside: they are not alone. You know the fact that she is someone with status and prestige in her life that she is being hit by something so common and the hope then is that other people who have bothersome symptoms that they are ignoring will hopefully do well. I'm moving forward. I understand this because we know that early diagnosis is the best possible way to treat this.

Katherine. Thanks for now. Katherine Burns is our health correspondent. Let's bring in Sarah Griswood. Now she is the actual author and commentator. Sarah, good. Good evening, thank you for joining us, so coming is a big shock, but what do you think of the timing of this

announcement

? Well, actually, there's a very strong personal reason for it, obviously, in terms of the need to protect children from the beginning. of the school holidays, but there is also the fact that in recent weeks, but particularly in the days, there has been a really appalling stream of conspiracy theories and very wild speculation on social media, so I think there must be hope and expectation that this

announcement

will at least at least put an end to that and of course produce a huge wave of sympathy for the princess and for the family as a whole, okay, stay with us if you want.

I just want to bring in our royal correspondent, Sarah Campbell, who is with us and Sarah, you have a statement from Buc

king

ham Palace, just this is, yes, this is the spokesperson. I think this just brings um and underlines the fact that, of course, we have two senior members of the royal family who have been dealing with a very similar diagnosis for the last few years. in recent weeks, um, and we have this from a spokesperson for Beckham Palace, Her Majesty is very proud of Katherine for her bravery in spea

king

out as she did after their time together in the hospital because, of course, they were both in the London clinic at the same time in In mid-January, this continues.

Her Majesty has remained in close contact with his beloved daughter-in-law over the past few weeks. Both Majesties will continue to offer their love and

support

to the entire family during this difficult time. Obviously, Her Majesty the King. with his own cancer diagnosis, I am able to understand in a very personal and acute way exactly what his daughter is going through and what she knows, yes, and it is very rare that two high-ranking royals are out of action this way temporarily, absolutely, um, yes, I mean families. You know, two close family members receive a cancer diagnosis at almost exactly the same time.

I mean, it's forgetting the fact that it's the royal family. It is a deeply disturbing and worrying time for the royal family. You know they are grandparents. uh, they're parents, um, they have three young children, um, to think about and they're having to deal with this, um, and, of course, they're hugely public figures, so that, um, spokesperson for Buckingham Palace, again , only the reflections of his majesty, who is going through his. cancer diagnosis his own cancer treatment his majesty is very proud of katherine for her bravery in speaking out as she did he has remained in closest contact with her and both majesties will continue to offer their love and

support

to the entire family during this time difficult Sarah for now, thank you, let's bring on Sarah Griswood once again, author and commentator real and Sarah.

I hope you were able to hear that and the line that stood out to me was: King Charles saying that he is very proud of Catherine in a positive way. to look at it because, of course, we've been talking about the private story, which is absolutely the most important, but there's also a public story that the royal family is facing an unprecedented crisis with two of the four most important members out. of action at the same time and I think this shows that they are very determined to give it the strongest and most positive spin possible, it's not just that they won't be able to be seen in public. massively for quite some time is that they are going through what many people in this country are also going through and they are prepared to share the journey Sarah Griswood thank you for being with us on the show tonight it is good to have your knowledge thank you