How Kate Middleton was inspired by a legendary speech by Elizabeth II to announce her cancer in video. Ingrid Seward, author of the 2015 biography of Elizabeth II, The Queen's Speech, explains the similarities.
Kate's gaze facing the camera and her clasped hands, placed on her legs, also recall the image of the queen. The choice, also, to be alone for this announcement, and not surrounded by Prince William and their three children, is very close to the communication strategy adopted by the monarch.