Kate Middleton's cancer: an announcement that responds to a “dictatorship of transparency”, judge Stéphane Bern. “We have the feeling that we lack the strengths in this royal family,” confides the host of Europe 1.
The announcement will have at least served one thing, he concludes: to make cancer, which affects many Britons, “more familiar to people’s minds”. The British royal family finds itself in an unprecedented situation where two of its most important members must battle cancer.