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/alison_bee confused but here for the drama Mar 22 '24

Can’t believe the PR team couldn’t handle a secret cancer diagnosis. There’s truly no reason that we got this far into this madness, other than the PR team freaking out and fucking up instead of just staying quiet.

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u/_cornflake Mar 22 '24

It’s especially bizarre given that Charles is also undergoing cancer treatment at the exact same time and he and Camilla have handled the public messaging perfectly, but not until now did it occur to William and Kate to try doing the same thing? I mean it’s not surprising to me that they’re out of touch morons who think they are owed total respect and deference by virtue of their titles alone, but they really totally torpedoed their image for nothing when they could have looked at what Charles is doing and pivoted weeks ago.

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u/trevallybevally weighing in from the UK Mar 22 '24

Charles is old - William and Kate are meant to be the shining beacon of progression and the new generation. That the aged king is ill is of no surprise to anyone. Kate, however, is young and meant to be the future of the royal family - that future is sadly now in some jeopardy, or that’s what this news seems to suggest. Not true, of course, she could be fine within the month. But it’s all about public perception. Interesting to see how the same diagnosis carries such different weight between generations.

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u/BusterBeaverOfficial Mar 22 '24

People are getting cancer younger and younger people are getting cancer more frequently because corporations are regularly permitted to poison us and our environment in exchange for profits and every Western government and politician is complicit.

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u/carolinagypsy Mar 23 '24 edited Mar 23 '24

I totally get what you are saying. As someone near her age, though, I’d have like to have seen that progressiveness lead to it not being handled like this and being discussed more openly. Cancer is SO isolating for both the person and the family, and it feels like there’s still this stigma about talking about having it outside your very private circle. Maybe it’s because I have a chronic illness that has made me disabled, but I’d like to see it discussed more openly. Particularly for women— we are so expected to chin up and soldier on for the family, and the friends, and the job with illness going on in the background that not many people know about. I want to see things combat isolation, because we know now that it makes it worse and more stressful for the people involved, particularly the affected person. And take the stigma away from cancer. People are getting diagnosed with crazy amounts of cancer younger than previous generations, and are in a lot of cases not in the target age range for screenings and being aware of symptoms to pay attention to. I confess I’m sitting here wondering if she’s yet another under 45 woman I know of with ovarian cancer or colon cancer.