‘Terribly hard time’: Royal family is ‘as fragile’ as Kate Middleton is amid her cancer battle
nypost.comVanity Fair that the House of Windsor hasn’t been the same since the future queen consort stepped away from her royal duties to focus on her health.“Without Catherine, it all seems rather flat,” Jephson said in the cover story published Tuesday. “The future of the monarchy is William and Catherine.”“And, as we know from any superficial study of the British royal family, it’s the women who pull the show together, who get out there and make things happen,” he added. “So how fragile is the monarchy?
Well, it’s as fragile as Catherine is, and at the moment, we don’t know.”Middleton, 42, announced her diagnosis in March — mere weeks after King Charles III revealed that he also has cancer.
The 75-year-old monarch has carried on with his royal duties, while Middleton removed herself from the spotlight, although she did attend the Trooping the Colour ceremony on June 15.“The intense public emotion that greeted Catherine’s brave appearance at Trooping underlined her crucial importance to the monarchy,” Jephson said about the Princess of Wales.
He continued: “Without her, the institution would surely be reduced to a shadow of itself. Given the Windsors’ drastically thinned ranks, she is the crown’s best hope by far.
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