Kate’s cancer diagnosis – what we know
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
following her abdominal surgery earlier this year and that she is undergoing preventative chemotherapy.
The news comes after many weeks of speculation about the health of the 42-year-old future queen, who has not been seen on official duties since Christmas.
On the Sky News Daily, Jonathan Samuels is joined by our Royal Correspondent, Rhiannon Mills to discuss how this news will impact the Royal Family and when we can expect to see Catherine resume full duties.
Producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:03.0 | This is Jonathan Samuels with a Sky News Daily, a breaking news episode because we're recording this just after Kate, the Princess of Wales, |
| 1:13.2 | released a video message about her health explaining that she has started chemotherapy after a |
| 1:19.8 | cancer diagnosis. Let's have a listen. I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you personally |
| 1:25.7 | for all the wonderful messages of support and for |
| 1:28.8 | your understanding whilst I've been recovering from surgery. It has been an incredibly tough |
| 1:35.2 | couple of months for our entire family, but I've had a fantastic medical team who have taken |
| 1:40.2 | great care of me for which I'm so grateful. In January, I underwent major abdominal surgery |
| 1:46.5 | in London, and at the time, it was thought that my condition was non-cancerous. The surgery was |
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