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Tanya Sweeney: In celebrating Kate Middleton’s ‘heroic’ balcony appearance, don’t throw other ‘lesser mortals’ battling cancer under the gold carriage

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Tanya Sweeney: In celebrating Kate Middleton’s ‘heroic’ balcony appearance, don’t throw other ‘lesser mortals’ battling cancer under the gold carriage

Prince William and Princess Kate with their children, George, Louis and Charlotte on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Photo: PA

Finally, after months of speculation (much of it fevered, bordering on unhinged, in some internet pockets), the Princess of Wales made a reappearance on the world stage – her first in almost half a year. “We have to be seen to be believed,” the late Queen Elizabeth II famously noted, little realising how potent those words would be in the year 2024.

After revealing that she is receiving treatment following an unexpected cancer diagnosis, Kate Middleton looked radiant at the Trooping the Colour festivities in London at the weekend, arriving at the ceremony in a carriage alongside her three children Prince George (10), Princess nine-year-old Charlotte and six-year-old Prince Louis. A day prior, she had issued a statement noting that she had “good days and bad days” in the face of her cancer treatment, and that she was “not out of the woods yet”.

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