Kate Middleton may be past cancer, but her public presence will likely never be the same: royal family expert
announcing she had finished chemotherapy, with a planning meeting for this year’s carol-belting spectacular. (Someone remember to reserve those storybook reindeer again).This is not what it looks like.The most obvious interpretation of this meeting was that it is a nice, clear sign that the princess is on the road back to normal after a year that has up-ended the monarchy and dumped it on its soft head.
But I’m not sure that this straightforward reading is correct.Over the years, we’ve been to normal, bought the T-shirt and Instagrammed it to hell, however, we may never go back there.In recent days, signs have emerged that Kate and normal might have parted ways for good and what could await us in 2025 is a whole new, updated, rejiggered and reworked normal that looks nothing like old times.It goes without saying that with this week’s Court Circular news, clearly the princess appears to be on the up and up.
Wonderful stuff.But even if her “bad days”, as she herself put it back in June, are hopefully waning, any assumption that at some point things will click back into the comfortably typical and predictable, into how things were BC – before cancer – could be just magical thinking.What comes next for the 42-year-old could see her public appearances remain at a fraction of what they used to be, with no foreseeable return to anywhere near the degree of public visibility and level of real world engagements we have been used to.For more than a decade, the mother-of-three stuck to a pretty standard issue royal template.
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