Catherine, Princess of Wales, Has Cancer

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy, she announced in a video message on Friday, in which she described the past two months as “incredibly tough for our entire family.”

It comes after a period of intense uncertainty about the health of Catherine, who underwent abdominal surgery in January and largely disappeared from public view as she tried to recuperate.

Like the king, Catherine, 42, did not specify what kind of cancer she has, but asked the public and news media to respect her desire for privacy.

Furbag,

Can we finally leave this woman alone?

Surprise! She had cancer all this time! Do the people who have been pestering her to make public appearances feel any shame yet?

Smoogs,

As much as I am opposed to royals, cancer gets everyone. I hope for everyone’s sake cancer gets cured soon regardless of who gets it.it is an awful disease and it’s only getting worse and more prevalent. At least that is my take away.

TokenBoomer,

Who?

Glytch,

Kate Middleton

TokenBoomer,

Unless she solved climate change or is planning to give me healthcare, I don’t care.

Glytch,

You asked, dude. No need to jump down my throat about it.

TokenBoomer,

Sorry

Glytch,

Apology accepted, have a good one.

darkmogool,

who?

Yawweee877h444,

Cancer sucks and I sympathize, but fuck royalty and this celebrity warship bullshit.

TokenBoomer,

Celebrity Warship is a great band name.

AeonFelis,

No no no. It should be a game show.

jittery3291,

With live ammunition!

ProfessorProteus,
@ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world avatar

I’m right there with you. People need to focus on their own lives and not the private life (and health!) of those who live in the highest echelon.

But also

celebrity warship

🤭

somethingchameleon,

Who… fucking… cares… about royalty?

FiniteBanjo,

About 84% of UK Citizens hold an opinion on them, and 1 in 3 of them answered survey saying they are very important.

Personally, I’m halfway across the earth from them but I still get a little giddy when one of them dies or is close to dying. When I was young I was ambivalent but the more I hear their opinions about the lesser people the more I see them as enemies of mankind.

some_guy,

Who cares.

Blackmist,

Apparently all the people saying she was dead and it was a body double at the shops.

I suspect most of them work for The Sun.

Mycatiskai,

The exact post I was looking to up vote.

GBU_28,

No one should. Cancer is a boring, private thing. It’s a family matter.

BluesF,

She’s even explicitly stated she wants to be left alone with her family to recover. I mean, fuck the lot of them, the leeches… But also, yknow, she’s human and suffering and just leave her alone for god’s sake.

TokenBoomer,

Media manufacturing consent. Wonder what else they manufacture consent for?

I_Has_A_Hat,

Remind me, was her saying she wants to be left alone before or after weeks of them saying “everything is fine and you’re crazy if you suggest otherwise” and releasing obviously fake pictures to try and convince people?

I promise you, people would give a lot less of a shit if they had just said so from the beginning rather than lie and try to hide it. No one gives a shit that the King has cancer either.

kylie_kraft,

I hope the conspiracy theorists who were spinning tales these past few weeks feel super awesome about this

Raxiel,

They’ll be spinning up a new one about how it was “Saint Meghan” that gave it to her.

grue,

“Random nobody has cancer, news at 11”

GregorGizeh,

Thats a bit heartless. I wouldn’t mind the royalty nonsense being abolished but I still am saddened when someone struggles with cancer, it’s such a brutal disease, especially for someone so young.

somethingchameleon,

People get cancer every day.

grue, (edited )

No good reason for it to make the news, though.

If objecting to this article is “heartless,” then what’s really heartless is not putting out headlines for every single other person who gets cancer. WTF did this person ever do to earn the recognition that everyone else hasn’t?

GregorGizeh,

They haven’t done anything. They are just celebrities, which is why they are in the news. You may find celebrity culture stupid (as I do) but that’s how our society is. Are you equally upset with the news reporting on a random musician with cancer?

grue, (edited )

Exactly my point: society is wrong. Thinking that this person is somehow more deserving of attention – let alone sympathy – just because she’s “royal” is fucking perverse!

GregorGizeh,

Thinking they don’t deserve any when they have fucking cancer is probably a bit more perverse.

grue,

So, again, where are the headlines for everyone else who has cancer? Are you saying they’re less deserving?

GregorGizeh, (edited )

I don’t understand what your argument is. Obviously we can’t report on or care about every single person on the planet, regardless of how deserving they may be.

There is only room in our attention span for the occasional placeholder to care about outside our immediate social circle and family, and we are also naturally inclined to the concept of fame.

So there will always be people of a certain fame who draw the attention of the masses. May it be politicians, celebrities, fucking billionaire scum, scientists, “influencers”, and so forth.

I still don’t think it is morally appropriate to dismiss or talk bad about someone who is struggling with a potentially terminal illness, regardless of if they are famous or not.

grue,

I still don’t think it is morally appropriate to dismiss or talk bad about someone who is struggling with a potentially terminal illness

Then the media should STFU about it, don’t you think?

Apparently there are a bunch of sycophants around here who can’t tell the difference between me saying something isn’t newsworthy and me being “heartless” towards a cancer patient. That’s just fucked-up on their part.

the_crotch,

what’s really heartless is not putting out headlines for every single other person who gets cancer.

Who wants that? Do you? I don’t. If I get cancer I want to be left the fuck alone.

poo, (edited )
@poo@lemmy.world avatar

Wow, lots of royalty bootlickers in this thread LMFAO

edit: keep downvoting, bootlickers - your fake empathy for a terrible person is quite sad

the_crotch,

I guess I just need someone to do something worse than marry into an institution I don’t like before I start wishing painful death upon them. Probably because I’m not a child.

GBU_28,

Miss.

Royalty bad, cancer bad. Both possible.

davepleasebehave,

most of lemmy talks of guillotining rich people, nature takes action and we are all up in arms. it’s just nature happening to one person. she gets special care in a country where the health system has been gutted. I can’t feel empathy

poo,
@poo@lemmy.world avatar

exactly - I guess Lemmy users are just the same old Reddit users… I used to think we had a more logical bunch here but I guess not lol.

azimir, (edited )

Damn. Fuck cancer. I have all kinds of issues with royalty and especially the British royal family, but I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone.

CptEnder,

Yeah I was kinda hoping for some stupid shenanigan fun for why she was “missing” or “replaced” like the royals doing their fucking weird shit. Really fucking sucks she has cancer, no one deserves that. Makes all the funny memes and news coverage feel bad now =\

RunningInRVA,

Do you just expect them to denounce their thrones? We all have issues with them but this is just a continuation of thousands of years of tradition and history. It’s engrained in the British.

CrabAndBroom,

I also wouldn’t wish the British tabloids on anyone. Going through this with every scumbag paparazzi in the country chasing you around, bothering everyone you’ve ever known and camping outside the hospital trying to get the most ill-looking photo of you has to be its own unique kind of hell.

RupeThereItIs,

She chose to become part of the royal family, she knew what that entails.

Frankly being in the tabloids isn’t payment enough for what the get as royalty.

I can’t comprehend why the people of the UK put up with that level of bullshit. The rest of the world gave up on monarchy over a century ago.

xhieron,
@xhieron@lemmy.world avatar

I think the British royal family is a scourge on the earth, responsible for untold amounts of suffering. The UK, British Isles, British people, and world would be a better place without it. I truly hate everything the Windsors stand for, along with their ancestors going back hundreds of years.

But I hate cancer more.

I think it’s possible to have complex feelings about this. Nobody deserves cancer. A lot of the kings of England deserve to have had their heads cut off, but none of them deserved cancer, and certainly not this lady who just lucked and schemed and Machiavellied herself into a life of incomparable privilege inside one of the most powerful dynasties still in existence–the same thing anyone would have done given the chance.

Fuck the royal family. But fuck cancer more. I hope she comes out of it alright, because her husband needs to break the British monarchy, and it would be nicer for him if he had his wife with him when he did.

[American here, if it wasn’t obvious.]

Zehzin,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

It wasn’t obvious. Hating the british royalty doesn’t narrow it down, it doesn’t even exclude Britain.

prettybunnys,

Hating the British royalty actually makes me suspect Britain

Aggravationstation,

Yup I’m British and I can’t stand the whole concept. I’m a republican (don’t freak out Americans, that just means I want Britain to be a republic without a monarchy).

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Yeah i want a free Australia unfortunately until all the old people die it wont happen

Hadriscus,

the issue is that particular demographic is constantly being renewed

John_McMurray,

Lol. A free Australia would mean fixing your government not whining about the monarchy.

Confused_Emus,

Seems to be a common theme for a lot of the big world issues, honestly.

Aggravationstation,

Yup, I’m dealing with the same old people pretty much.

JimboDHimbo, (edited )

As an American, I can tell you that we don’t know how to not freak out, and we’re liable to shoot you for asking us not to.

Aggravationstation,

Sorry, I forgot. I must now get shot in the leg as recompense.

borari,
@borari@sh.itjust.works avatar

Hating the British royalty specifically also makes me think British. I’m quite disappointed more people don’t hate monarchy in general though.

I guess in 2024 nobody believes in divine right, and I recognize that the monarchs in the vast majority of countries with active monarchies have only ceremonial power, but i still struggle to understand how people in the Commonwealth realms, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, etc., are cool thinking that some rich fuck is somehow better than them or important in any way just because their ancestor was the last person sitting on the throne when everybody decided they weren’t playing the game anymore.

Is it something where they appreciate the tie to history? Even so why would you want a tie to a history that said your ancestors were intrinsically lesser than just because they didn’t have as much land, as big a sword/army, or as much money to pay off the church?

Zehzin,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

Rich leeches with ties to the government rarely stop being leeches unless they’re universally hated

Hadriscus, (edited )

Really ? anyone ? I dig your nuanced opinion, but a life of royalty is close to the bottom in the list of things I want

Tolstoshev, (edited )

Buckingham palace was until recently lying and saying it wasn’t cancer so why should we believe them now?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,

So was it really Kate playing with photoshop on Instagram someone impersonating her?

IvanOverdrive,

I’m sure she has people to do that for her. Maybe designers not trained to make fake images under scrutiny, but I doubt she made that photo. She’s a royal after all.

Confused_Emus,

Yeah, that photoshop story didn’t make any sense to me when it came out. My immediate thought was that it sounded silly to think the royals touch up their own photos - that are mostly taken by professional photographers to begin with.

GBU_28,

Why would you care

themeatbridge,

Beelieve them, don’t believe them, who gives a shit what you believe? You’re not entitled to know everything.

SnotFlickerman,

I mean, I know the Crown is always full of shit, but…

Giving her time to process the diagnosis herself and then giving time for her to be able to talk about it with her kids before it hit the tabloids is at least respectable, even if it was handled terribly.

Zehzin,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

Any shred of empathy leaving my body when something bad happens to royalty

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9fa106d9-3782-42ed-97dd-85b700594587.jpeg

wildbus8979,

Can’t believe the amount of bootlickers here wishing her well. Bro, she’s a monarch, she belongs in a guillotine.

warm, (edited )

Jesus fucking christ man. How fucked in the head are you?
Her having cancer is no worse than any other person getting cancer, I agree it's not exactly news or worth being upset over more than anyone else getting it, but don't wish death on people, thats just psychoward behaviour.

cygnus,
@cygnus@lemmy.ca avatar

Every group has its Robespierres.

wildbus8979,

Jesus fucking christ man. How fucked in the head are you? Hitler having cancer is no worse than any other person getting cancer, I agree it’s not exactly news or worth being upset over more than anyone else getting it, but don’t wish death on people, thats just psychoward behaviour.

the_crotch,

I’d imagine hitler gettng cancer would be significantly better than any other person getting cancer.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry… are you comparing Kate Middleton to Hitler?

wildbus8979,

No, I’m saying not wishing ill on people isn’t an absolute. And yeah, I wish ill on hereditary supposedly demi-gods. So sue me.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

She’s not a “hereditary supposedly demi-god.” Firstly because no one in Britain thinks of the royals that way and secondly, because she married into it, so it wasn’t hereditary for her.

But sure, don’t let her decide who she gets to love and marry.

wildbus8979, (edited )

It doesn’t matter what people think, this is how monarchy works. And sure she married into it, so did Marie-Antoinette, and her kids will inherit it, so that point is moot.

FlyingSquid, (edited )
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I see. So it’s okay to be happy about her cancer because her kids inherit a figurehead position with no actual power due to who she married.

wildbus8979, (edited )

Don’t worry, I wish it on her kids (when they grow up) too!

And no, it’s not true that the British Crown has no real power. They fair regularly influence legislation directly, and foreign policy in more indirect manners.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Because they chose to be born?

wildbus8979, (edited )

Because they choose not to renounce to their inherited powers, sure.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry… you know somehow that they won’t do this and so because of that, you wish cancer on them?

And even if they don’t do that… what exactly would they have done in their lives that would justify a horrible, slow, agonizing death?

We don’t do that to multiple-murderers in most countries.

wildbus8979,

I said when they grown up.

And I agree, the guillotine is faster and more humane.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Again- what would they do to deserve a guillotine? They would not be absolute monarchs. The power invested in the British crown is negligible.

So what in specific would they do to be worthy of execution or cancer besides be part of an archaic system with no power attached to it?

It’s like you don’t even understand what the point of the French Revolution was.

wildbus8979, (edited )

The power invested in the British crown is negligible.

They literally amend laws on a whim and dictate foreign policy. I wouldn’t call that negligible, no.

You keep saying the crown has no power, this is patently false.

theguardian.com/…/royals-vetted-more-than-1000-la…

telegraph.co.uk/…/queen-ultimate-example-soft-pow…

newrepublic.com/…/charles-coronation-power-britis…

Not to mention that symbolism matters.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Did you actually read that second article? If so, can you tell me why what happened in Ghana was a bad thing?

wildbus8979,

Does something bad have to happen to acknowledge influence?

FlyingSquid, (edited )
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I would think that if you were arguing for why every single descendant of Queen Victoria and their spouses deserve a horrible agonizing death, you would use examples that didn’t show them doing things that were a net benefit.

cmbabul,

I’m not gonna sit here and defend the tankies in hexbear but I find sh.itjust works and kbin to have just as many shitty extremists like that piece of shit with no empathy. They never get called out like the others but I have blocked far more accounts from those two feds.

magnusrufus,

I’ll pile on the confirmation bias for sh.itjust.works being full of either awful or idiotic users. Not all of them and maybe not even most of them but enough of them that it’s left a very noticable impression.

cmbabul,

There’s certainly a chance that it’s just the landing spot for hexbear alts but still, it’s a problem

wildbus8979, (edited )

Well I did give you two more articles to read that clearly demonstrate it but you simply chose to ignore them. Plus whether or not it benefits them directly is besides the point.

It’s up to y’all to prove that these leeches are a net positive to society at large.

Nevermind the strawman that I want them to have agonizing death. I clearly stated that the guillotine would be preferable. Fast and efficient.

You can go now, it’s already asking a lot to interact with bootlickers, but I won’t tolerate people who act in bad faith. Bye! 👋

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Plus whether or not it benefits them directly is besides the point.

I see, so you don’t think her going to Ghana benefited Britain, which is what I asked you about. Interesting that you claim that I’m acting in bad faith after saying that…

wildbus8979, (edited )

Again you are putting words in my mouth. And refuse to address the points that don’t back up your point of view. All while moving the goal post of the original point.

Y’all do understand what eat the rich means, right?

Psssssht psssssht. Can you hear that? It’s my can of SycophantBeGone.

aoidenpa,

I thought they meant it when they said eat the rich. They were just memeing?

wildbus8979,

It would appear so. I’m not surprised tbh, but still disappointed.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I see, so now you’ve moved beyond hoping descendants of Queen Victoria and the people they marry get cancer and now hope that anyone above a certain income level gets cancer.

Which is weird, because just a few posts up you said you wouldn’t want her kids to get cancer if they renounced the monarchy… even though they would still be rich.

And I’m the one arguing in bad faith?

Also, you said you were going to stop talking to me and you’re still talking to me.

warm,

Not worth arguing with them honestly. Either a troll or some serious mental issues.

warm, (edited )

I hope you get the help you need, you are clearly very troubled. It's never too late to reach out for assistance.

wildbus8979, (edited )

I’m fine thanks. Down with the monarchy! Long live the free people. Up the RA!

I think it’s y’all who are troubled, venerating hereditary demi-gods.

Confused_Emus,

Godwin’s Law wins out again. Congrats on your original argument.

Gork,

She luckily has access to the best medical care you can find in the world. Can’t say the same for most of the rest of us peasants if we get struck by cancer.

agressivelyPassive,

Depending on the type of cancer that might still not help. Pancreatic cancer is pretty much a death sentence unless it’s detected very early.

Pistcow,

The great equalizer next to home built submersibles.

somethingchameleon,

Downvoting this just because I don’t want peasants to think this is a win for them.

lennybird,
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

Huh… Maybe that’s the point of mosquitos.

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