LONDON (Reuters) – The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, ended weeks of silence on Friday by announcing that she was suffering from cancer for which she had been undergoing “preventative” chemotherapy since February.
The disease was diagnosed last January after the princess, who is 42, underwent abdominal surgery in London. She had been hospitalized for two weeks and had since undergone a discreet convalescence which has fueled much speculation.
“My medical team recommended that I undergo a preventative chemotherapy program and I am now in the early stages of treatment,” Kate Middleton says in the video, which was produced on Wednesday.
“It was of course a huge shock, and William and I are doing everything we can to manage this in our private circle, for the sake of our young family,” she adds.
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Kensington Palace said chemotherapy began in February but did not specify the nature of the cancer being treated.
Kate explains that she waited to make this information public until the start of the British school holidays, which began this Friday, in order to protect her three children – Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5 years.
(Michael Holden report, French version Sophie Louet, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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