Anchor breaks down what she seen about Kate’s message

Catherine, Princess of Wales, just revealing that she has been diagnosed with cancer and that she is in the early stages of treatment. The 42 year old just shared her diagnosis in a video message that lasts about 2 minutes. I want to show that to you now.

I want to take this opportunity to say thank you personally for all the wonderful messages of support and for your understanding. Whilst I've been recovering from surgery. It has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family. But I've had a fantastic medical team, have taken great care of me,.

For which I'm so grateful. In January I underwent major domino surgery in London, and at the time it was thought that my condition was non-cancerous. The surgery was successful, however, tests after the operation on cancer.

Had been present. My medical team therefore advised that I should undergo a course of preventative chemotherapy and I'm now in the early stages of that treatment. This, of course, came as a huge shock, and William and I have been doing.

Everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family. As you can imagine, this has taken time. It has taken me time to recover from major surgery in order to start my treatment. But most importantly,.

It has taken us time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that's appropriate for them and to reassure them that I'm going to be okay. As I've said to them, I am well and getting stronger every day by focusing on the things.

That will help me here in my mind. Body and spirits. Having William by my side is a great source of comfort and reassurance to, as I said, love, support and kindness that has been shown by so many of you.

It means so much to us both. They hope that you will understand that as a family, we now need some time, space and privacy while I complete my treatment. My work has always brought me a deep sense of joy and I look forward to being back when I'm able.

But for now, I must focus on making a full recovery at this time. I'm also thinking of all those whose lives have been affected by cancer. For everyone facing this disease in whatever form, please do not lose faith or hide.

You are not alone. You are not alone. One of the right decisions. Royal correspondent Max Foster. Max, I know you've been hearing more over the course of this hour. What is the latest? It's interesting you watch that video. You know,.

This is a big thing for anyone to do, but it isn't always comfortable in the comments and things like that. And that was a big set for her and very powerful. And she would have made that decision. She would have had to sign off on it. I want to do it in this way. I want to do it on my own.

I don't need Prince William in this. I need to own this. So I think that would have taken a lot of building up to another explanation for why we haven't seen much of her recently. But we've just heard from Buckingham Palace.

The spokesman just sent me a note about the king from the king. So His majesty is so proud of Catherine for her courage in speaking as she did following her time in hospital together. His Majesty has remained in the closest contact with his beloved daughter in.

Law throughout the past weeks. Both Their Majesties will continue to offer their love and support to the whole family through this difficult time. I think it was quite a unique experience, wasn't it, for Kate and Charles to be in hospital together and having.

Pretty similar experiences going into one procedure and coming out with a completely different diagnosis. But he's very much, you know, looking at that video she put out today and really paying tribute to her and the way she speaks of the children.

And clearly he feels that she's getting all of her priorities right there Anderson. You know, Max, it's so interesting. You know, there has been so much, obviously consternation and, you know, conspiracy theories about about Katherine.

Over the last two weeks or more. It's in a moment like this when you really see you know, this family that so many people see from afar and see on balconies and riding around in carriages and big celebrations, you see that.

Them very much as human and very much as as mortal. And, you know, she is a young woman sitting on this bench telling the world this extremely personal diagnosis. Yeah. I mean, I.

Think this is part of the shock, isn't it? Because you do realize they are vulnerable like everyone else. But the, you know, projected as this brand, which is sort of invincible in a way. It's been around for a thousand years.

And we're so used to the queen being around for so long. And shortly after King takes the throne, we find like he's got cancer. And the thing about Kate, she's this, you know, this vision of vibrancy. She's very sporty, she's very energetic, she's very dutiful. You know, she's,.

You know, a fantastic mum from everything that I've seen really hands on. And it's I think it's a shock, you know, in the book, you know, when we heard that the queen was ill,.

That was a shock, even though she was so old. But it's just this vulnerability, someone that's in your life, you don't know them personally, but they've been part of your life for so long and they might not be there. And then you kind of figure out,.

You know what, if Charles and Kate weren't there, It's that sort of processing. So I think it is very personal for a lot of people. And as Kate spoke to in her video, I think about other people who've suffered cancer. This is something I really saw.

When the queen died that, you know, people connected with that moment because through people who've died in their own lives, and I think people now will be thinking people who've suffered from cancer in their own lives and, you know, look at Kate's,.

Someone that's vulnerable to that, someone you wouldn't expect to be vulnerable to any sort of illness. It's just this vision of vibrancy. So, I mean, you know, let's set up and as far as I'm concerned about the distasteful, upsetting conspiracy theories that boiled up.

In recent times, they now have a reason for why we didn't see them. Interesting. But pretty much the only thing I didn't see online in recent weeks was speculation that she could have cancer.

But I think everyone needs to step back a bit and really think about not just what they're putting online, what they're consuming online, and, you know, just sticking to the facts on CNN. You know, we've had lots of discussions about this.

You know, we want people to get the facts. And this is an incredibly hard story to tell because there have been so few facts, but now we know why we weren't being given information. I think it's understandable that you'd want to protect your kids,.

Frankly. It's such a just a sad, sad turn in in this. And obviously, I mean, people around the world are going to be watching and praying for for Katherine. It was heartbreaking to hear. It was also painful to watch, I think. But for me,.

The strength that she showed, as Max was saying, the decision to present what was going on in this manner to be on her own, because Prince William could have been next to her supporting her, and she chose to do it on her own.

She somehow managed to combine Regal with vulnerable in a way that she does so well. I'm just as human. I think, for anybody watching and I know you showed that video, that moment when she described the huge shock and we know when you're nervous.

And your throat goes and your voice goes. And the moment she took that inhalation to say it, she was controlling her emotions in that video. So I find it quite emotional to watch the strength that she showed there. But also.

And I think this explains a lot of what has been speculated over of what we've discussed in the past few weeks is that the children came first. They were in school. She chose not clearly to take them out of school in some way and to keep their lives.

As regular as they could throughout this process. And now they've broken up for a holiday and they can deal with it themselves. This will send and has sent a sort of global bombshell around the world. Now, the kids don't have to face the questions.

Because we know what children are like. They can ask the question again. It's also just a reminder of the just the kind of humanness of, you know, there existence that they're worried about what other kids in school will be saying to their children in school.

They're in school. It's a fairy tale family in so many ways. There are royal family. She's so regal, she's so perfect. But in the end, they are five people and there are three very vulnerable children in this, and they pick their time.

I think, very carefully. I think what's also so deeply heartbreaking about this is, as Max has said, what they've been through with all the wild speculation and the the sort of traumas and the criticism and the photographs and things.

And actually what it was was a woman dealing with what is clearly traumatic surgery and now recovery and then chemotherapy. I mean, for anybody. And it's most of us whose lives have been touched in some way by cancer,.

What this very royal but also very human family is going through is a big challenge and they need the space now, is she asked for. But I will say one more thing again, coming back to being a princess at the end where she said and you repeated the line,.

You're not alone if you're out there also suffering with cancer, you know you're not alone, princess, too. The beginning and the end there, I think. Well said.

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