"The enormous shock" confessed yesterday on video by Kate at the discovery of a treacherous cancer diagnosis - and shared by all those in the United Kingdom or elsewhere who care about the affairs of the British royal family - dominates the tabloid headlines today from across the Channel.
In the only country in the world, perhaps, on whose front pages the news on the health of the Princess of Wales, wife of the heir to the throne William, precedes those on the terrorist massacre in Moscow.
News which adds to King Charles' tumor and which is also leading the opinion papers: from the Telegraph, which also focuses on "shock";
to the Times, quick to underline Kate's optimism that everything will "end well";
up to the Guardian which vice versa highlights the heavy challenge of the preventive "chemotherapy" to which the 42-year-old princess is now undergoing.
Among the comments, there is ample space for denouncing the allegations and conspiracy theories fueled in recent weeks by the morbid attention of many towards the secrecy and some PR missteps by the palace: attention attributed to "web trolls", without too much self-criticism on the intrusions into the privacy of others practiced regularly, perhaps in other matters, by the traditional press of the Kingdom, tabloids first and foremost.
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The BBC notes in any case how the dramatic public confession to which Kate was forced to ease the pressure (even more so after the denunciation of the attempted spying on her medical records by employees of the hospital where she had undergone abdominal surgery in January, the London Clinic) is destined to "rewrite the history of these months" on what happened to her: on the reasons for her silence, on the difficulties of communication at court or on certain unexplained 'disappearances' of William.
While the conservative Telegraph simply brands the treatment inflicted on Catherine by trolls for weeks as nauseating.
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Troll to whom Rupert Murdoch's Sun - which has sided with Wales from the beginning - now orders them to "be ashamed", while reassuring Kate that "she is not alone".
And which the Mail also targets, not without extolling "the smiles that hide the stoicism" of the princess, the "devastating" impact of her mother's illness on the little princes "George, Charlotte and Louis" or even "the pain of Prince William ": heir to the throne committed to resuming "his duties" while facing "together the battle against cancer of his father and his wife".
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Harry and Meghan's phone calls to William and Kate revealed
Kate's cancer drama, revealed on video yesterday, perhaps opens a glimmer of thaw between her husband William, heir to the British throne, and her 'rebel' younger brother Harry, after a long phase of cross-recriminations following the cadet's tear in 2020 and a breakdown in personal relationships described by many as almost total between the two children of Carlo and Diana.
This was underlined today in particular by the Daily Mail, taking up news reported by the US media, the country in which Harry and Meghan have lived for almost 4 years, according to which the Dukes of Sussex remained unaware of the diagnosis of the 42-year-old Princess of Wales until to yesterday: but in the last few hours they were still quick to call both her and William directly on the phone.
The Mail is unable to confirm whether these were "voice or video calls", but points out that there appear to have been two separate phone calls - to Kate and William - made by both Harry and Meghan.
Phone calls in which those words of comfort, solidarity and wishes for a speedy recovery were expressed in person, already expressed through a note written yesterday shortly after the video was released.
No one goes so far as to predict what these small gestures of human sensitivity may produce in the future, in the context of a Royal Family in difficulty due to repeated health problems in recent months and short of active members in the representation of the monarchy: in particular young figures , after the Sussexes' controversial exit from the scene.
However, the signs add to those of rapprochement already shown by Harry towards his father, the 75-year-old King Charles III: with the lightning visit made to London when it was he who, in recent weeks, announced that he was struggling with cancer of an unspecified nature.
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