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Catherine, Princess of Wales, Has Cancer (www.nytimes.com)

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy, she announced in a video message on Friday, in which she described the past two months as “incredibly tough for our entire family.”

It comes after a period of intense uncertainty about the health of Catherine, who underwent abdominal surgery in January and largely disappeared from public view as she tried to recuperate.

Like the king, Catherine, 42, did not specify what kind of cancer she has, but asked the public and news media to respect her desire for privacy.

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[-] xhieron@lemmy.world 134 points 7 months ago

I think the British royal family is a scourge on the earth, responsible for untold amounts of suffering. The UK, British Isles, British people, and world would be a better place without it. I truly hate everything the Windsors stand for, along with their ancestors going back hundreds of years.

But I hate cancer more.

I think it's possible to have complex feelings about this. Nobody deserves cancer. A lot of the kings of England deserve to have had their heads cut off, but none of them deserved cancer, and certainly not this lady who just lucked and schemed and Machiavellied herself into a life of incomparable privilege inside one of the most powerful dynasties still in existence--the same thing anyone would have done given the chance.

Fuck the royal family. But fuck cancer more. I hope she comes out of it alright, because her husband needs to break the British monarchy, and it would be nicer for him if he had his wife with him when he did.

[American here, if it wasn't obvious.]

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago

It wasn't obvious. Hating the british royalty doesn't narrow it down, it doesn't even exclude Britain.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 53 points 7 months ago

Hating the British royalty actually makes me suspect Britain

[-] Aggravationstation@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 months ago

Yup I'm British and I can't stand the whole concept. I'm a republican (don't freak out Americans, that just means I want Britain to be a republic without a monarchy).

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[-] borari@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

Hating the British royalty specifically also makes me think British. I’m quite disappointed more people don’t hate monarchy in general though.

I guess in 2024 nobody believes in divine right, and I recognize that the monarchs in the vast majority of countries with active monarchies have only ceremonial power, but i still struggle to understand how people in the Commonwealth realms, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, etc., are cool thinking that some rich fuck is somehow better than them or important in any way just because their ancestor was the last person sitting on the throne when everybody decided they weren’t playing the game anymore.

Is it something where they appreciate the tie to history? Even so why would you want a tie to a history that said your ancestors were intrinsically lesser than just because they didn’t have as much land, as big a sword/army, or as much money to pay off the church?

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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 108 points 7 months ago

She luckily has access to the best medical care you can find in the world. Can't say the same for most of the rest of us peasants if we get struck by cancer.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 39 points 7 months ago

Depending on the type of cancer that might still not help. Pancreatic cancer is pretty much a death sentence unless it's detected very early.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 56 points 7 months ago

Who cares.

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

The exact post I was looking to up vote.

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[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago

Man, cancer will go for anyone. I hope she makes it through, especially for the sake of her children.

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[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Damn. Fuck cancer. I have all kinds of issues with royalty and especially the British royal family, but I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 35 points 7 months ago

I also wouldn't wish the British tabloids on anyone. Going through this with every scumbag paparazzi in the country chasing you around, bothering everyone you've ever known and camping outside the hospital trying to get the most ill-looking photo of you has to be its own unique kind of hell.

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[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Yeah I was kinda hoping for some stupid shenanigan fun for why she was "missing" or "replaced" like the royals doing their fucking weird shit. Really fucking sucks she has cancer, no one deserves that. Makes all the funny memes and news coverage feel bad now =\

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[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

Any shred of empathy leaving my body when something bad happens to royalty

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 months ago

Can't believe the amount of bootlickers here wishing her well. Bro, she's a monarch, she belongs in a guillotine.

[-] warm@kbin.earth 60 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Jesus fucking christ man. How fucked in the head are you?
Her having cancer is no worse than any other person getting cancer, I agree it's not exactly news or worth being upset over more than anyone else getting it, but don't wish death on people, thats just psychoward behaviour.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

Jesus fucking christ man. How fucked in the head are you? Hitler having cancer is no worse than any other person getting cancer, I agree it's not exactly news or worth being upset over more than anyone else getting it, but don't wish death on people, thats just psychoward behaviour.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Sorry... are you comparing Kate Middleton to Hitler?

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

No, I'm saying not wishing ill on people isn't an absolute. And yeah, I wish ill on hereditary supposedly demi-gods. So sue me.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

She's not a "hereditary supposedly demi-god." Firstly because no one in Britain thinks of the royals that way and secondly, because she married into it, so it wasn't hereditary for her.

But sure, don't let her decide who she gets to love and marry.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It doesn't matter what people think, this is how monarchy works. And sure she married into it, so did Marie-Antoinette, and her kids will inherit it, so that point is moot.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I see. So it's okay to be happy about her cancer because her kids inherit a figurehead position with no actual power due to who she married.

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[-] warm@kbin.earth 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I hope you get the help you need, you are clearly very troubled. It's never too late to reach out for assistance.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm fine thanks. Down with the monarchy! Long live the free people. Up the RA!

I think it's y'all who are troubled, venerating hereditary demi-gods.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Godwin’s Law wins out again. Congrats on your original argument.

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[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

Every group has its Robespierres.

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

Cancer sucks and I sympathize, but fuck royalty and this celebrity warship bullshit.

[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

I'm right there with you. People need to focus on their own lives and not the private life (and health!) of those who live in the highest echelon.

But also

celebrity warship

🤭

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[-] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

I hope the conspiracy theorists who were spinning tales these past few weeks feel super awesome about this

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[-] subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

Damn shame, for her or anyone with cancer. I had a friend, quite a while ago, in her 30s. She developed ovarian cancer, and it took her out in short order. You never know, best to enjoy every day.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 32 points 8 months ago

Oh no. Anyway.

[-] somethingchameleon@lemmy.ca 28 points 7 months ago

Who... fucking... cares... about royalty?

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 14 points 7 months ago

About 84% of UK Citizens hold an opinion on them, and 1 in 3 of them answered survey saying they are very important.

Personally, I'm halfway across the earth from them but I still get a little giddy when one of them dies or is close to dying. When I was young I was ambivalent but the more I hear their opinions about the lesser people the more I see them as enemies of mankind.

[-] poo@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wow, lots of royalty bootlickers in this thread LMFAO

edit: keep downvoting, bootlickers - your fake empathy for a terrible person is quite sad

[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

most of lemmy talks of guillotining rich people, nature takes action and we are all up in arms. it's just nature happening to one person. she gets special care in a country where the health system has been gutted. I can't feel empathy

[-] poo@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

exactly - I guess Lemmy users are just the same old Reddit users.... I used to think we had a more logical bunch here but I guess not lol.

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[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

She is the wife of Prince William, who is currently next in line for the British Royal Throne for those who do not know.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

"Random nobody has cancer, news at 11"

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

As much as I am opposed to royals, cancer gets everyone. I hope for everyone’s sake cancer gets cured soon regardless of who gets it.it is an awful disease and it’s only getting worse and more prevalent. At least that is my take away.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Who?

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Kate Middleton

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Unless she solved climate change or is planning to give me healthcare, I don’t care.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

You asked, dude. No need to jump down my throat about it.

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[-] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Buckingham palace was until recently lying and saying it wasn’t cancer so why should we believe them now?

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago

Beelieve them, don't believe them, who gives a shit what you believe? You're not entitled to know everything.

[-] SnotFlickerman 22 points 7 months ago

I mean, I know the Crown is always full of shit, but...

Giving her time to process the diagnosis herself and then giving time for her to be able to talk about it with her kids before it hit the tabloids is at least respectable, even if it was handled terribly.

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[-] darkmogool@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago

who?

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