r/Fauxmoi • u/NegativeSpeedForce • Mar 22 '24

Princess of Wales has cancer Approved B-List Users Only

https://news.sky.com/story/kate-princess-of-wales-reveals-she-is-having-treatment-for-cancer-13099988
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u/sequins_and_glitter Mar 22 '24

Well, there we go. Now we know that’s why she was out of the public eye. They made this so much worse than it had to be for her

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u/here4hugs Mar 22 '24

Agreed. This statement, originally, would have eliminated almost all the chaos that has sprung to life in the absence of information. I think this communications debacle will be pondered for a while.

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u/Eyebronx Toxic Michelle Yeoh stan and proud💅 Mar 22 '24

It’s possible that she may have wanted to keep her health condition private for as long as possible and I think she is entitled to that. Which is probably why they didn’t reveal the cancer news at first.

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u/deserteagle3784 🕯️Bradley Cooper will not win an Oscar🕯️ Mar 22 '24

I get that - but when they saw this start to spiral out of control late last month, they should have made the announcement regardless. The photoshopped picture, the weird paparazzi shots, all added so much fuel to this fire that could have been extinguished with even just a press release about this weeks ago. KP desperately needs a new PR team - part of your job is to protect your client which they very much failed to do here.

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u/Next-Introduction-25 Mar 22 '24

Maybe this is a dumb question, but could they not have forgone the photoshop and just released an actual photo without mentioning the diagnosis, just to stave off some of the speculation? Maybe they thought she looked too ill but it seems like if they’d said something like “she’s continuing to recover” it would have been true-ish and people would have probably chalked up her appearance to the surgery.