Prince Harry and his wife Meghan wished on Friday the “healing” of Princess Kate, suffering from cancer which she has just revealed.
“We wish health and healing to Kate and the family, and hope that they can recover (in a) private and peaceful manner,” they said in a statement sent on behalf of the couple, who live in California .
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The British royal family is having an extremely trying start to the year: a month and a half after the announcement of Charles III's cancer, Princess Kate, the wife of her eldest son William, said on Friday evening that she too had this condition. disease.
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Kate Middleton: the princess announces that she is suffering from “cancer”
Before Charles and Kate, Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew, also said in January that she had malignant melanoma, a serious skin cancer.
At odds with his family, against whom he has increased attacks, in memoirs and a documentary broadcast in 2022 on Netflix, Prince Harry renounced his royal obligations and settled with Meghan in California since 2020.
In February, the Duke of Sussex traveled alone to England after his father, King Charles III, was diagnosed with cancer.
He then said he was “sure” that this illness could allow reconciliation within his torn family.
Last public appearance of the two princes in 2022
His return to London had raised questions and speculation about a possible rapprochement, or at least a meeting, with his older brother William, with whom relations have broken off.
But the meeting with the Prince of Wales did not take place.
The last joint public appearance of the two princes, united after the death of their mother Diana in 1997, dates back to September 2022, for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
If the king continued to express affection for Harry, for example telling him of his “love” in his speech the day after the death of Elizabeth II, his brother did not seem to have digested for being harshly panned in Harry's autobiography, "The Substitute."
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The Duke of Sussex is particularly critical of his eldest, whom he describes as angry, and recounts his pain at having been his “shadow, (his) understudy, (his) plan B” all his life.
It also implies that William did not marry his wife Kate for love.
In this book, Harry believes that his brother never liked his wife Meghan, whom he considered “ill-mannered and aggressive”.
In March 2021, Harry and Meghan also dealt a hard blow to the monarchy, during an interview on American television.
The couple said a member of the royal family questioned the color of their son's skin before he was born, as Meghan was mixed race.
They have since denied accusing the family of racism, and spoke of “unconscious bias”.