IT WAS the last thing anyone was expecting. The royal family is full of drama, sure – but this?
Kate in hospital for two weeks and out of duty until at least Easter? The Princess of Wales had always seemed to be the picture of robust good health so the news that all was not well in her world came as a shock.
The announcement had barely been made before the palace dropped another bomb: King Charles had an enlarged prostate and would be out of action for a few days while he had a “corrective procedure”.
We may never know what happened to Kate – all we know is she needed abdominal surgery, that her condition isn’t cancerous and that she requested “her personal medical information remains private”.
But the fact that the palace took the step to announce she’d be incapacitated for months and then made Charles’ highly personal issue public indicates a “tonal shift”, royal experts say.
In the past, royal health issues were kept as private as possible – and if they did emerge they were given a vague but positive spin. Yet Charles said he wanted to be
