Process the trauma by questioning, beyond the optimism of the wishes, what has happened and what could happen.
Kate - future queen embedded for years in the image of an icon of style, beauty and youth - has cancer, something that is difficult to accept even today when the old stigma of the "incurable disease" has been scratched and even the royals are called upon to speak about it in public.
And in the United Kingdom, among all those who continue to follow the events of the House of Windsor, it is time to deal with reality: against the backdrop of a country that sees hopes for the future faltering as well as the certainties of the present of the monarchical institution, after the turbulence of Brexit, Covid, the internal repercussions of global economic or geopolitical crises, the signs of the decline of a chaotic Tory power cycle that lasted 14 years and the wait almost to exclusion - without enthusiasm or prospects of ideas really new - of the advent of Labor in Sir Keir Starmer's grisaille.
In the aftermath of the video with which the 42-year-old Princess of Wales revealed the unprecedented news to the public, the reactions of the media and of many ordinary people are therefore divided between bewilderment, emotion, wishful thinking and delayed controversies for too many outrages on respect for privacy in recent months.
While the wishes of the powerful people of the Earth overlap, until they become "prayers" in Joe Biden's message.
And within the dynasty - already tested by the diagnosis of the 75-year-old King Charles III - the family drama seems at least to offer half a chance of rapprochement with the rebels Harry and Meghan.
The glimmer of light appears in particular between the two sons of Charles and Diana, the heir to the throne William, Kate's wife, and the Duke of Sussex, Harry, her younger brother, protagonists of a long phase of cross-recriminations after the tear of the cadet in 2020 from the Royal Family arrived at a caesura in personal relationships described by many as radical.
What broke the frost was a round of phone calls, reportedly from the USA, where the dukes have been self-exiled for almost 4 years now.
Left in the dark about Kate's condition until the end, Harry and Meghan hastened in the last few hours to call directly - it seems - both her and William, to express in person those words of comfort, solidarity and wishes for a speedy recovery expressed in precedence in writing.
No one goes so far as to predict what these gestures of human sensitivity may produce in the future, in the context of a house in difficulty with health problems and missteps, and now short of active members in the representation of the 'Firm': primarily young figures after the Sussexes' repudiation.
However, the signal is there, and it adds to the more conciliatory climate of the second son's relations with his father already sealed by the lightning visit to London at the beginning of February when King Charles announced that he was struggling with cancer of an unspecified nature .
Diagnosis similar to that revealed now by the Princess of Wales, after two months of secrecy following the abdominal operation - perhaps an intestinal resection, perhaps something else - in mid-January at the London Clinic.
And the subsequent biopsy resulted in the heavy verdict made public yesterday, with all-out "preventive chemotherapy" which began (as we now know) at the end of February.
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