Kate's remarkable video was a Royal revolution, scepter-spinning in its frankness

Somewhere in the oversharing universe of social media, there still are to be found the cranky netizens who suspiciously believe that they aren't being told everything about what really ails Catherine, the Princess of Wales, and that they should be — and while they're at it, c'mon, what's the actual deal about King Charles and cancer?

Just as no facts are ever enough to satisfy conspiracy theorists, no amount of information is ever enough to quench the online gossipy thirst about the royal family.

But the remarkable two-minute, 13-second video of a composed Princess of Wales — the queen in waiting, the wife and mother of future kings — speaking the word "cancer" about her own health has come as close to shutting it down as is reasonably possible.

An in-the-know friend in London told me that the day after the video was released, the rumor mills were stilled. No sniggering jokes now about princely flings and sulky princesses