Eduardo Alvarez
Updated Saturday, March 23, 2024-00:16
United Kingdom Kate Middleton reveals that she suffers from cancer detected after her operation and is receiving chemotherapy
Reactions 'You should have privacy to focus on your treatment,' says PM
Chronology Two months of rumors, conjecture and conspiracy
The operation for
Kate Middleton
to make a smooth return to public activity has failed. He was scheduled to attend the Easter Sunday mass on March 31 along with the rest of the royal family in an operation that sought to leave behind the serious crisis of credibility in which
the British Monarchy
has been plunged
since the announcement of the abdominal operation of the Princess of Wales. Finally, it has had to be Kate herself who has had to talk about her illness, a cancer for which she is being treated preventively
with chemotherapy
. She has done it in an emotional video that definitively settles any theories and rumors about her health and the stability of her marriage. Not even the video released a few days ago by
The Sun
, in which the Princes of Wales were seen walking after shopping in a store in Windsor, managed to put an end to so much nonsense. On the contrary, there was speculation that she was a double who appeared agile and smiling.
Kate's announcement is an example of how far their insistence on extreme privacy has gotten out of hand.
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Editor: EDUARDO ÁLVAREZ
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Kate has cancer and it has been absurd to hide it
The crisis leaves the Crown machinery very affected. And
criticism of the senior servants of Buckingham
and Kensington
has begun to intensify in the media , first incapable of avoiding the shaking of the institution, and then of coming to grips with speed and effectiveness.
Today the people most trusted by the king and his successor are in question.
The British Royal Family has about 490 full-time employees. An army that includes all types of professionals,
from experienced diplomats to cooks or lackeys
. Charles III came to the throne in the fall of 2022, upon the death of his mother, applying an adjustment of a hundred workers in an attempt to rationalize and economically adjust the House. Virtually all the servants of Clarence House - the residence from which the monarch and Camilla
have not yet moved
- were found on the street, since Buckingham's staff could suffice.
Charles III
appointed as personal secretary the person who had been performing that role alongside him as Heir, Clive Alderton. It is the
highest-ranking
position in the Monarchy
, responsible for ensuring that everything runs smoothly and for the relationship between the Crown and the Government and other State institutions. But, in recent days, Alderton has been criticized for not having been diligent in putting things in order and not spreading the impression that the Monarchy is without a helmsman since the sovereign's cancer was announced. And, if that were not enough, although
all Crown employees are subordinate
to him, it has become clear that the Kensington team seems to work on his behalf. The failure has been absolute.
Prince William in his last institutional appearanceGTRES
The biggest darts, of course, are being taken by Guillermo and Kate's assistants, who have only been in their positions for a very short time. It is of special interest to note here that in the autumn
the resignation of the experienced and highly regarded Jean-Christophe Gray
, who has been William's private secretary for years,
was made public .
Key figure who has advised him on his steps in the institution's complex transition process that began at the end of the reign of Elizabeth II. Gray did not reveal the reasons for his departure, but it seems that it was due to the fact that the Heir no longer trusted him in the same way due to his desire to give a profile to his role quite far from the uses and customs of the Crown -
with great obsession with privacy
and showing himself as a modern and professional prince who chooses his institutional actions more selectively. William signed an executive director as CEO as if Kensington were a business corporation, with orders to report directly to the princes and not to Gray, which would have strained his patience or his pride. And, while his departure is being finalized, the Heir
signed former diplomat Ian Patrick in February
, who will presumably have the duties of the prince's right-hand man.
Everything has coincided with the fact that Kate also has a new private secretary, Lieutenant Colonel
Tom White
, harshly questioned after what happened these weeks. Just like the head of Kensington Communications, Lee Thompson, a brilliant young man with a meteoric career in multinationals who
was signed by the Palace
less than two years ago to revive the image strategy of the Princes of Wales after the bad taste they left in their mouths. the blunders on his trip through the Caribbean.
Cover of the tabloid 'The Sun' with images of Kate and Guillermo walkingGTRES
The Communications team at the official residence of the princes lives on a volcano. And internal
confrontations have crept in
that suggested that Guillermo and Kate were not willing to abandon the information lock that has proven so counterproductive, ignoring the recommendations of their assistants. BBC journalist Helen Wade revealed this week that the princes, in any case, are unhappy with their team's strategy and that one person had been fired, for whom a replacement was already being sought.
The Daily Mirror
, for its part, reported that
two public relations experts
have recently been contacted by the Palace to address the new strategy that has been launched with Kate's announcement. If the British Monarchy has experience in anything, it is overcoming crises.