“It’s fair to say the past few weeks have had a rather ‘medical’ focus,” he said, joking that he had come to an event for health care workers “to get away from it all.”
Like so many people around the world impacted by illness, William, 41, and his wife Kate Middleton, 42, who revealed that she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy for an unspecified cancer, are trying to stay positive. Keeping their three children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5, feeling loved and secure during Kate’s convalescence and recovery is their highest priority.
When Kate’s doctor advised her of her condition following abdominal surgery in late January, she thought of the children first. “That’s why she didn’t want to share the news publicly,” explains a royals insider. “Her main concern was that they would hear about her illness from other children or overhear adults discussing it.” Instead, Kate and William made the united decision to release the news after their children began their Easter break from school.
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