has announced that she is suffering from cancer. The Duchess, who had major abdominal surgery in January, said in a video statement released on March 22nd that her condition had initially been thought to be non-cancerous; but that later tests found cancer had been present. She is now in the early stages of a course of preventative chemotherapy. She described the diagnosis as “a huge shock”.
The bigger question is what, if anything, this means for the royals. As heir, Prince Charles had long said he wanted a slimmed-down monarchy. Few would have imagined its working ranks would have shrunk quite so swiftly or under quite such grim circumstances as they have in recent years. A family that for decades had seemed improbably hearty has suddenly started to seem rather less so.
Once, such thinning of the royal ranks would not have mattered much. For centuries, Britain merely had kings and queens: the success or failure of the royal rulers rested on one head alone, that of the monarch. But since the time of Queen Victoria, Britain has not had merely a monarch but a royal family. And the job of the royal family was to put on a good show.
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