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News.com.au
3 days ago
- Health
- News.com.au
True extent of Kate's cancer battle revealed
On June 15 last year Kate, The Princess of Wales really put the 'trooper' into Trooping the Colour and appeared at the annual celebration of the sovereign's birthday, despite being in the middle of chemotherapy. She wore a suitably formal hat and waved with her signature aplomb. But what no one knew at the time was that underneath her Jenny Packham dress there was a port in her chest. A port is a medical device used to draw blood and give treatments, including intravenous fluids, blood transfusions, or drugs such as chemotherapy and antibiotics. Now, new details have come out about how 'serious' the princess' 2024 health battle was with it being claimed she 'is fortunate' to have survived. Holy hell. Buckle up - the word 'serious' is going to appear in this story a lot. Until now, the severity of Kate's 2024 fight has never been revealed, with details hither too thin to the point of non-existence. Kensington Palace has remained firmly tight-lipped about what sort of cancer she had and it was only in January that the world learnt she had been a patient at Chelsea's Royal Marsden Hospital. (During an emotional visit there in January she talked about the 'secrecy' of her treatment and having to use side doors for 'so many quiet visits'.) Kate at Trooping in 2024 might have looked as we have always seen her - perfectly turned out and doing some Olympic-level smiling but behind the scenes, she was reportedly going 'to hell and back'. On Tuesday the Daily Mail 's royal editor Rebecca English published a shocking report offering details about what the princess was privately enduring. Even before the dreaded 'c' word entered the picture, per English, the mother-of-three was 'seriously unwell' in the 'run-up' to having 'serious' abdominal surgery in January. In March, as Kate herself announced that testing 'after the operation found cancer' and that she was having chemotherapy. And then comes a bit of a blank in the Kate story. It would be six months before she and husband Prince William and their kids filmed a dreamy video meditation on life, love and the healing power of family and a nice old gnarled oak, in which she announced she had finished her treatment. The Mail's new report offers details about those mystery months and the severity of what Kate faced. According to English, when she began treatment last year, she 'was fitted with a semi- permanent 'port' into her chest. 'This small device was inserted under the skin and kept in place until her treatment (delivered via the port through a special needle and a thin tube in vein close to the heart) was over, several weeks later.' It was, the veteran royal editor writes, 'a literal lifeline - which offers no cast-iron guarantee of success, even if you are a royal.' The princess, per English 'is fortunate to even be speaking of recovery' today. The severity of Kate's illness has not been detailed before. This startling new report comes a week after the princess reportedly triggered 'chaos' and 'panic' inside the palace after pulling out of Ascot only half an hour before she was set to arrive at the generally set-down-in-stone event. Royal staffers, The Daily Beast 's Tom Sykes reported, were left 'bewildered and worried' by the dramatic change with rumours briefly swirling around that Kate 'either needed to see a doctor or had been rushed to the hospital.' The Princess of Wales' withdrawing from the event, a source told English on Tuesday, 'is a good reminder that she was really seriously ill last year and underwent a significant period of chemo…It can take years [to recover]'. Similarly a 'well-connected' source has told the Beast's Sykes that the Ascot mini-debacle was 'a wake-up call, not a one-off' and that Kate 'is recalibrating her entire life' after a 'horrific' few years. What that practically means is that Kate is 'expected Kate to dramatically scale back her public appearances for the rest of the year,' per the Beast. Expect the princess to be seen at Wimbledon, starting June 30, and during the French state visit in July, but we could be in for a very Kate-lite year. English reports that while an overseas tour 'cannot entirely be ruled out' it seems unlikely. In November Willliam will be off to Rio de Janeiro for his Earthshot Prize awards but he could well be travelling solo. The princess possibly going is officially still 'TBC', she reports, 'but my gut feeling is probably not.' As English reported earlier this year, the Princess of Wales has 'been to hell and back'. But what has become clear in the wake of the Ascot mess is that there is 'back' and there is 'back'. How long until the princess is ready to return to anything like per-cancer workload is the great unknown. We will next see her courtside at All England Lawn Tennis Club and after that toasting the Macrons but after that, the next Queen is set for a hopefully unbothered Wordsworthian summer stint in Norfolk and Scotland of long walks and lounging about in appropriately elasticised trousers.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Kate's mini-me: Nine times the Waleses won at twinning as pictures show a masterclass in mother-daughter style
As the Princess of Wales stepped out for this year's Trooping the Colour she was a vision in aquamarine with by her side, a mirror image in miniature. Dressed in complementary outfits, the mother-daughter duo made a striking statement of unity and style.
Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Kate Middleton shares sweet message for Prince William's birthday - and reveals new puppies
Kate Middleton has shared a sweet birthday tribute to her husband Prince William as he celebrates turning 43-years-old today. The adorable image shows the heir sitting in a field, while playing with a group of small puppies, whose mother is believed to be Orla, the Wales' family dog. In the image, the father-of-three is dressed casually, wearing jeans paired with a long-sleeved green button down shirt, as the puppies crawl over him sweetly. The photograph is accompanied by a caption from the Princess of Wales and other members of their family. It says: 'Happy birthday! Love C, G, C, L, Orla and the puppies!' It follows an earlier tribute to William shared by his father King Charles, in which the monarch shared an unseen image of the heir as well as a sweet message via the Royal Family 's official X (formerly Twitter) account. In the somewhat casual photograph, the Prince of Wales is seen looking pensive as he sits outside in a rural setting. He is dressed in a button down pale blue shirt, as well as navy slacks - and in what may be a controversial move for some, he wears a very light beard. The image was accompanied by a simple caption which read: 'Happy Birthday to The Prince of Wales!'. The Prince of Wales has enjoyed a busy week in the lead-up to his birthday after last weekend's Trooping The Colour and joining the Royal Ascot carriage procession on Wednesday. However, he wasn't joined by his wife at the Berkshire racecourse as expected after she pulled out of the event at the 11th hour. She was said to be 'disappointed' at not attending the famous social and sporting occasion with her husband Prince William and the King and Queen. Racegoers had been hoping to see the Princess after the Prince of Wales was named as one of the figures awarding race prizes during the second day of the meet. Ascot officials had confirmed at 12pm that the Princess was due to be in the second carriage in the royal procession with William, in a published carriage list. But less than half an hour later, Kensington Palace confirmed just before 12.30pm that Kate would not be attending - and a revised carriage list was published by Ascot. MailOnline understands the Princess was 'disappointed' not to be in attendance 'but she has to find the right balance as she fully returns to public facing engagements'. In the past week Kate has attended three high-profile events - Trooping the Colour, the annual Order of the Garter service and a visit to a V&A storage facility in London. It is a tradition for senior royals to have their birthdays marked with the release of photographs and messages. Last year, Kate delighted royal watchers with the sweet portrait she shared to commemorate her husband's birthday. The fun portrait showed her husband excitedly leaping in the air with his three children. The image showed the family dressed in casual clothing - with William sporting a hoodie and shorts - as they grinned mid pose for the snap, taken by Kate in Norfolk in May 2024. Kate accompanied it with a caption that read: 'Happy birthday Papa, we all love you so much!.' The post comes almost after the Wales family were seen at Trooping the Colour - the annual celebration of the monarch's official birthday. William played a starring role in the event, riding on horseback alongside Princess Anne and the Duke of Edinburgh. And he was elaborately dressed for the occasion, donning the Full Ceremonial Guard Order of the Welsh Guards, and a bearskin hat. The prince also donned the Most Noble Order of the Garter Sash with the Lesser George and a Welsh Guards Sword. His outfit included his four, full size medals - the Gold, Diamond, and Platinum Jubilee medals, plus the Coronation Medal. Meanwhile, his wife and children travelled by carriage. Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales was born second in line to the throne at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, at 9.03pm on June 21 1982. He weighed 7lb 1 1/2oz and was the first-born son of the then-Prince and the Princess of Wales. At just nine months old, he accompanied his parents on a six-week official visit to Australia and New Zealand, which was a break from tradition with royal babies usually left at home in the care of nannies. His mother Diana, who separated from the then-Prince of Wales in 1992, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. William was just 15 and his brother Prince Harry 12, and the boys walked behind the princess's coffin during a funeral procession through London. The prince met Kate Middleton at St Andrews University in Fife, and the pair married at Westminster Abbey in 2011 after dating for more than eight years. They welcomed their first child George in 2013, followed by Charlotte in 2015, and then Louis in 2018. After the death of the late Queen in 2022, the King announced in his first historic address that he had made William and Kate the new Prince and Princess of Wales. William has a long-running rift with his brother the Duke of Sussex, with no sign yet of a reconciliation. The fallout originated ahead of Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, and worsened after the accusations Harry publicly levelled at his brother in his double tell-alls: his Netflix documentary and his memoir Spare. Despite years elapsing since that time, the once reportedly close siblings are still estranged from each other. Since becoming the Prince of Wales, William has kept himself busy with some major initiatives. In 2023, he launched Homewards, his five-year drive to eradicate homelessness in six locations around the UK. And he has continued to work on his other passion projects, which include raising mental health awareness, and the Earthshot Prize, his £50 million environmental competition to find solutions to help the planet.
Yahoo
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Prince William & Kate Middleton's Kids at Trooping the Colour 2025 Have Fans Saying the Same Thing
Prince William & Kate Middleton's Kids at Trooping the Colour 2025 Have Fans Saying the Same Thing originally appeared on Parade. and appeared with their three kids—, 11, , 10, and , 7—at the 2025 Trooping the Colour. And their rare joint appearance left fans saying the same thing. On Saturday, June 14, the Princes of Wales and his family stepped out for the event celebrating King Charles III's birthday. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Middleton, 43, rocked a robin egg blue outfit and hat as Prince William, 42, donned a traditional military uniform. Meanwhile, Princess Charlotte donned a light blue dress, while her brothers wore matching black suits with white undershirts and red ties. After the procession from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade and back, the royal family stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch the Royal Air Force flypast. There, fans noticed the young royals' sibling antics as they waited beside their parents and other family members. After Trooping the Colour 2025 ended, royal fans took to X to share their favorite moments involving Prince William and Kate Middleton's kids—and many agreed that Prince Louis stole the show. One X user wrote alongside the brothers riding in a carriage, "Prince George and Prince Louis cracking up about something. 😂 He's a class act!😁🥰." In response to a different photo of Louis, another X user shared, "Prince Louis is always so adorable." A different royal fan wrote, "Prince Louis' little teeth are stealing the spotlight today. That cheeky smile is just too cute!" Someone else on X pointed out a photo of the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, writing, "You know Prince Louis said something funny here. So adorable! 🥰." Yet another X user noted a sweet moment involving the monarch and the young prince. "There's a lovely bond between Prince Louis and the King," they declared. "Meanwhile, someone else on X declared, "I love Prince Louis so much #TroopingTheColour," of the 7-year-old turning back to gave the crowd one last wave before leaving the balcony. , 40, , 43, and their two children, , 6, and , 4, did not participate in the Trooping the Colour festivities amid Harry's ongoing rift with the royal family after stepping back from his duties and moving to the U.S. Next: Prince William & Kate Middleton's Kids at Trooping the Colour 2025 Have Fans Saying the Same Thing first appeared on Parade on Jun 14, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 14, 2025, where it first appeared.
Telegraph
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The off-Broadway play imagining Prince George as gay
Last Saturday, Prince George cut a dignified figure as he joined the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the Trooping the Colour ceremony. But, across the Atlantic, a very different picture is being painted of the future king in a controversial new off-Broadway play with a gasp-inducing title: Prince Faggot. Canadian writer Jordan Tannahill 's highly speculative royal romp, which this week premiered at Playwrights Horizons, is set in 2032 and sees 18-year-old Oxford student Prince George, nicknamed 'Tips' (played by British actor John McCrea), return home to introduce his Indian boyfriend Dev (Mihir Kumar) to the Prince and Princess of Wales (African-American actor K. Todd Freeman and transgender actress Rachel Crowl). Dev is nervous, quipping that George's parents might fear 'We've got another Meghan'; Prince Andrew also gets a name-check in the context of the royal family's fraught history. Tannahill's juicy drama then envisions the tabloid feeding frenzy that follows their relationship going public (including fury from Piers Morgan), and internet comments such as 'Glad someone's adding some spice to that Yorkshire pudding'. Audiences at Prince Faggot must place their phones in lockable Yondr pouches to prevent anyone taking pictures or videos. The reason for that soon becomes apparent: McCrea and Kumar appear naked during graphic sex scenes. They experiment with poppers, acid and S&M fetish: Prince George appears in bondage and shares a kinky fantasy of being walked like a puppy. Prince George also imagines communing with the ghosts of former allegedly gay monarchs: Edward II, Queen Anne, James I, and Richard the Lionheart. Tannahill wraps in postcolonial angst too, with Dev fretting: 'Getting f---ed by the Prince of England? My ancestors would never forgive me.' N'yome Allure Stewart plays a feisty Princess Charlotte (Prince Louis doesn't appear). When her father, concerned about Prince George's explosive fling, says 'Our job is to serve, not to make spectacles of ourselves', she shoots back that they already make a spectacle 'with capes and crowns and motorcades'. Tannahill, an experimental, gay writer, frequently has his 'queer and trans' cast break the fourth wall, refracting their own life experiences through this provocative premise. Stewart talks about earning her version of a royal title at a New York drag ball, and there is discussion around those in power versus marginalised communities. Earnest explorations aside, this is the latest example of a peculiarly pervasive trend: Americans turning our royal family into an explicitly gay soap opera. The jumping-off point for the play is the viral 2017 photograph of the real four-year-old Prince George visiting a military helicopter in Hamburg. The young prince gasped in delight when he spied the chopper and struck a dramatic pose with his hands clasped to his face. Addressing the Prince Faggot audience, actor Mihir Kumar compares the image to a fey photo of himself as a boy, stating: 'We know one of our own when we see one because we ourselves were once queer children.' Internet commentators were certainly gripped by the 'Sassy Prince George' phenomenon. Posts on Twitter (now X) included: 'Prince George is already a bigger gay icon to me than Boy George', 'Do we have our first openly gay royal?', and 'Guys what if Prince George is gay and it causes a constitutional crisis?'. American writer Gary Janetti, who worked on TV shows like Will & Grace and Family Guy, went viral with his spoof Instagram posts imagining Prince George delivering catty zingers to his family – especially Meghan Markle. In one post, 'George' responds to a news story about Meghan doing her make-up in the back of an Uber by sneering 'Does she get dressed in the back of an Uber, too? Because that would explain a lot.' Janetti's work grew so popular that HBO turned it into an animated sitcom called The Prince in 2021, starring Orlando Bloom, Alan Cumming, Sophie Turner and Dan Stevens. Two years later, streamer Amazon Prime Video premiered the film adaptation of non-binary author Casey McQuiston's steamy novel Red, White & Royal Blue, about a gay romance between a closeted British prince and the son of the female President of the United States. Nicholas Galitzine starred as Prince Henry, who bears a physical resemblance to Prince William, but, as the rebellious 'spare' in a contentious relationship, is more obviously inspired by Prince Harry. Perhaps it's the Montecito exile who has turbo-charged this American fascination with royal figures who both benefit from and chafe against their hereditary privilege. Putting a queer spin on our princes allows these writers to indulge in the fantasy of regal luxury – a sort of real-life Disney fairy tale, or a more refined version of their celebrity culture – while also rebelling against it by introducing a transgressive element, and comparing the stuffy Brits unfavourably with the enlightened Americans. In Red, White & Royal Blue, Prince Henry's lover Alex accuses him of being a conformist snob, and the prince eventually confesses that he feels trapped by tradition. Indeed, the disapproving King, Henry's grandfather (played by Stephen Fry), thunders: 'The nation simply will not accept a prince who is homosexual.' In contrast, Uma Thurman's liberal President warmly welcomes her son's coming out, cheerily asking: 'So are you gay? Bi? Fluid? Pan? Queer?', and offering to help him get on the HIV-prevention drug Truvada. Amazon also gifted viewers the bizarre historical fantasy series My Lady Jane in 2024, featuring a gay King Edward VI, plus characters who turn into animals and are 'othered' by society, in another clunky marginalisation metaphor. This trend arguably reached its apotheosis with the horrifically kitsch musical Diana, about the late Princess of Wales, which (dis)graced Broadway in 2021. Although none of the characters were gay, it is unarguably camp trash. Are all of these depictions a grave insult to the institution? Not really. When the material is this navel-gazing, fluffy or downright dumb, it's hard to take it seriously. If anything, it's an odd compliment: a sign that the Americans still can't get enough of our royals, even if they have to view them through a fictionalised, flamboyantly queer modern lens to justify their enduring obsession.
