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Former royal adjutant Jason Knauf Open about how Princess Kate MiddletonThe health fights affected Prince William.
In an interview with 60 minutes AustraliaThe former senior adviser of the couple remembered the cancer diagnosis of Kate von William, 42, in 2024, which was broadcast on Sunday, February 23.
“If you are Prince William, you will find out within a few weeks that both your wife and her father have cancer. And that’s … I mean, I couldn’t believe it, ”said Knauf.
Knauf said that it was “terrible” to hear the news of Kate’s diagnosis in a personal call with William.
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“It was terrible. Absolutely terrible. It is the lowest I’ve ever seen. The problem, however, was that all these crazy conspiracy theories began online in the background, ”said Knauf.
“Was she really sick? But they didn’t want to say that they had cancer because they hadn’t told the children and they are still working out how to tell the children ” Prince George11, 11, Princess Charlotte9 and Prince Louis6.
Knauf was the communication secretary of William and Kate (43) and too Prince Harry And Meghan MarkleFrom February 2015 to March 2019.
He then served as a senior consultant of William and Kate before he became CEO of the Royal Foundation of the couple from September 2019 to January 2022.
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Knauf’s comments repeated those made by royal experts in US Weekly‘S January title story on The princess returns to work.
Robert HardmanA royal biographer, told Us: “The family was one of the reasons why she announced her illness relatively late a day. It was the last day of school and they thought things normally for the children. “
“The priority was not her public image; The priority was her family, ”added Hardman.
As for William, the said Prince reporters In Cape Town, South Africa, “was probably the most difficult year in my life” in November 2024.
“So it was really difficult to survive everything else and keep everything up to date,” he said.
Kate announced that her cancer was remission on January 14th.
“It is a relief to be in remission now,” she said in an explanation of social media. “And I’m still on recovery. As everyone who has experienced a cancer diagnosis, it takes time to adapt to a new normality. “
