The secrecy surrounding the disease Wale’s princess and his state of health continues to generate discomfort among the British and also in the national media. This Tuesday, the absence of William of England at the funeral of Constantine of Greece, a solemn event that brought together all European royalty, has raised alarm bells again. Buckingham Palace has been forced to give explanations, but a brief “Kate Middleton is fine” is not sufficient.
It has been a month and a half since there has been a single image of the princess. They announced her admission to the London Clinic to undergo scheduled abdominal surgery without further details. She spent thirteen days in the medical center and was transferred to Adelaide Cottage, her country estate, under strict security measures. There is no diagnosis, there are no recovery guidelines, there are no medical reports reporting on the evolution of the one who, in the future, will be queen of England. Nor photographs, not even of a friendly nature, with her children, her husband or reading the letters she receives daily with wishes for recovery, like the ones we saw less than a week ago from King Carlos III, moved among so many displays of affection. The concern is increasingly evident: what is happening with Kate Middleton?
Chance has caused the princess to fall ill at the same time as her father-in-law and the informative treatment of Charles III’s illness has been diametrically opposed. His position, obviously, is not the same, but in his case they did announce that he suffered from cancer, that it was diagnosed after his prostate operation and that he began medical therapy that would keep him away from public life for several weeks. Afterwards, we have been able to see the monarch on several occasions entering and leaving the hospital, as well as in a private audience with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Just five days ago, Buckingham Palace distributed some images of the king in his office, looking good and excited to read all the letters that came to him from all over the world wishing him a speedy recovery.
Rumors do not stop
The lack of information about Kate Middleton’s health has generated confusion, concern and also endless rumors, supported by experts, about what could be the cause of her prolonged absence. The first ones pointed to a hysterectomy, a surgery in which the female reproductive system (uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes) is removed. Later there was talk of Crohn’s diseasea chronic disease that causes inflammation in the digestive tract to which, according to the medical court, a 33% degree of disability in moderate cases and up to 65% in the most severe cases corresponds.
Concha Calleja, an expert on Royal Houses, assured that the princess “is evolving not as favorably as the royal house would like her to be.” And he added: “A proof is that we do not have a single image. It is one thing if he does not come to preside over an act, and another thing is to see a tender image as we have seen of the king (Charles III). This image has not been produced by something”. Calleja reiterates her version that there was “a complication in the postoperative period. The operation was serious in itself, but in the postoperative period there were more serious complications and they had to induce a coma.” Information that has been denied by some media, such as The Times.