WEBVTT - Princess Catherine takes charge

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<v Speaker 1>on the Front. I'm Claire Harvey. It's Wednesday, September eleventh.

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<v Speaker 1>Peter Dutton will launch an attack on Prime Minister Anthony

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<v Speaker 1>Albanezi today, saying mining and resources will be obliterated if

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<v Speaker 1>Queensland's opposition leader, David Chris a Fully has vound to

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<v Speaker 1>to overhaul the state's troubled state run DNA lab if

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<v Speaker 1>his party wins government next month. The bungle was exposed

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<v Speaker 1>at The Australian dot com dot au. A slick video

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<v Speaker 1>featuring unprecedented royal scenes of warmth and family love. It's

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<v Speaker 1>how Catherine, Princess of Wales announced the end of her

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<v Speaker 1>chemotherapy treatment and declared herself firmly in charge. That's today's story, Kate.

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<v Speaker 1>People a obviously incredibly curious about you.

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<v Speaker 2>So let's start with the obvious.

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<v Speaker 1>It's late twenty ten and a nervous twenty eight year

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<v Speaker 1>old Kate Middleton is sitting on a sofar, a giant

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<v Speaker 1>sapphire engagement ring glinting in the light.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a true romantic and yes, of course, yes, yeah, absolutely.

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<v Speaker 1>Weeks earlier, Kate had becoming gay to one of the

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<v Speaker 1>world's most eligible bachelors, Prince William.

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<v Speaker 2>We've been talking about marriage for a while, so it

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't a massively big surprise, but I took her up

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<v Speaker 2>somewhere nice and Kenya and unproposed.

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<v Speaker 1>Before this ITV interview, she was a girl about London,

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<v Speaker 1>frequently papped for the tabloids as William's very patient girlfriend.

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<v Speaker 3>She's been dubbed weedy Katie, what is the girl waiting for?

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<v Speaker 1>After it, and probably for the rest of her life,

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<v Speaker 1>she became the most famous woman in the world and

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<v Speaker 1>the embodiment of Britain's constitutional monarchy. The dress she wore

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<v Speaker 1>for the photo call sold out within minutes. Pictures of

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<v Speaker 1>her blow dry were carried into hair salons all over

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<v Speaker 1>the globe. The Kate effect was on, and then Catherine retreated,

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<v Speaker 1>raising her children, showing up at public events, giving me

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<v Speaker 1>occasional very polite, very guard interview on radio about her

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<v Speaker 1>work as an advocate for mental health or early childhood causes.

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<v Speaker 1>She was enigmatic, a beautiful figurehead who managed to be

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<v Speaker 1>immensely famous while revealing precisely nothing. In the meantime, the

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<v Speaker 1>Meghan markele fame rockets soared and fell back to earth.

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<v Speaker 1>The Duchess of Sussex flamed from joy and gratitude.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, his family has been so welcoming, and.

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<v Speaker 1>A few of them I have to entitlement and despair.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well, I guess, And also thank you for asking,

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<v Speaker 4>because not many people have asked if I'm okay to

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<v Speaker 4>rage concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might

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<v Speaker 4>be when he's born.

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<v Speaker 1>What and now Meghan is making jam that nobody can buy,

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<v Speaker 1>while Catherine has spent the year dealing with a cancer

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<v Speaker 1>diagnosis that has turned her into a kind of saint

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<v Speaker 1>in Britain.

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<v Speaker 5>On the head, there's Saint Catherine, I call her. She

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<v Speaker 5>has undergone such a significant battle and appears to be

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<v Speaker 5>winning that battle, which is so pleasing to everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>Jacqueline Magney is The Australian's europe correspondent.

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<v Speaker 5>We've seen the Royals in a way we've never seen

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<v Speaker 5>them before, to be so open and affectionate and very relaxed,

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<v Speaker 5>and the message that Catherine really wanted to tell everybody

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<v Speaker 5>that she was in control. And I thought it fascinating

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<v Speaker 5>that we saw this picture of her driving the land

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<v Speaker 5>Rover and to me, you know, that signifies she's back

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<v Speaker 5>driving the ship.

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<v Speaker 1>There was a lot of physical touching going on in

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<v Speaker 1>the video. At one point William kissed her on the cheek.

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<v Speaker 1>They're cuddling their children, very affectionate family. Those are behaviors

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<v Speaker 1>that we haven't seen in public from the Wales as before.

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<v Speaker 1>Are they No?

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<v Speaker 5>Usually they always kind of are very carefully not holding

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<v Speaker 5>hands at public engagements. There are no public signs of affection.

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<v Speaker 5>So this shows that they're letting the world into their

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<v Speaker 5>private family time and they're trying to show a very

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<v Speaker 5>effectively show that they are a normal family with much

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<v Speaker 5>love and very close bonds between them all, including Kate's

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<v Speaker 5>mother and father. I think that the Royals are seeing

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<v Speaker 5>that in this world of social media that they need

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<v Speaker 5>to show more of themselves because it's about being seen

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<v Speaker 5>and even showing that vulnerability and that affection. It's winning

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<v Speaker 5>over a lot of people, and people are strongly resonating

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<v Speaker 5>now with the Waleses.

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<v Speaker 1>Catherine has executed a masterful cementing of her authority from

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<v Speaker 1>the moment she announced in March she had cancer.

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<v Speaker 2>We hope that you'll understand that as a family, we

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<v Speaker 2>now need some time space and privacy while I complete

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<v Speaker 2>my treatment.

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<v Speaker 1>On Tuesday, Catherine, now Princess of Wales, released a new video.

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<v Speaker 2>As a summer comes to an end. I cannot tell

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<v Speaker 2>you what a relief it is to have finally completed

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<v Speaker 2>my chemotherapy treatment. The last nine months have been incredibly

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<v Speaker 2>tough for us as a family.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a sleek production. There's beautiful slow motion shots of

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<v Speaker 1>the gorgeous family of five as they frolic in a

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<v Speaker 1>field set to an emotive music track.

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<v Speaker 2>Life, as you know, it can change in an instant

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<v Speaker 2>and we've had to find a way to navigate the

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<v Speaker 2>stormy waters and road unknown.

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<v Speaker 5>It was only just earlier this year, the beginning of

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<v Speaker 5>the year, where we didn't know how sick she was,

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<v Speaker 5>but at the time when she released that photo using

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<v Speaker 5>photoshop of her with the children, and that was released

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<v Speaker 5>to reassure everybody that all was well and all wasn't well.

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<v Speaker 1>The photo was released in an attempt to quell misinformation

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<v Speaker 1>about Catherine's disappearance over the earth early months of twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty four, after what the Palace called planned abdominal surgery.

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<v Speaker 1>She retreated from public life with no explanation. Where is Keen?

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<v Speaker 5>We haven't seen her in three months?

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<v Speaker 1>He was.

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<v Speaker 5>Catherine in a deal done between the Palace and all

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<v Speaker 5>of the media organizations that she would release certain photos

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<v Speaker 5>at certain stages in return for basically a hands off

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<v Speaker 5>approach by the media in this country, and she kind

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<v Speaker 5>of broke that trust because she released an image that

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<v Speaker 5>wasn't true, and so that's why there was such this

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<v Speaker 5>huge furor about it at the time. I think there

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<v Speaker 5>would have been a little bit more sympathy if they'd

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<v Speaker 5>have known how sick she was at the time, and

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<v Speaker 5>certainly there's been some hasty revisions of opinion about what

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<v Speaker 5>went on then. I think the Palace has learned a

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<v Speaker 5>lot from that incident because they've stage managed it very

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<v Speaker 5>well ever since that they've taken back control they've released

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<v Speaker 5>information at a time when they fear that there were

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<v Speaker 5>certain updates that they could provide, and then now to

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<v Speaker 5>provide this very slick video is them taking it another

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<v Speaker 5>step further to kind of show the public that they

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<v Speaker 5>are with the public, that they understand and appreciate the

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<v Speaker 5>public support, and in return, they are going to let

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<v Speaker 5>them in with a little window into their life to

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<v Speaker 5>show them that they are happy and that they're a

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<v Speaker 5>very happy family.

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<v Speaker 1>There's still a boundary, though there isn't there, Jack. We

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what sort of cancer Catherine has or had,

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<v Speaker 1>and she's not obviously going to tell us.

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<v Speaker 5>No, she wants to keep that private, and she hasn't

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<v Speaker 5>released the cancer, but neither has King Charles. We knew

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<v Speaker 5>that he had prostate issues, but that the cancer is

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<v Speaker 5>not prostate cancer. So he also has a cancer that

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<v Speaker 5>we don't know about what the details are, and we

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<v Speaker 5>don't really know the extent of their treatment and what

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<v Speaker 5>it entails.

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<v Speaker 1>Coming out. Why Catherine's candid cancer journey is just what

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<v Speaker 1>the doctor ordered. Don't forget. You can join our subscribers

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<v Speaker 1>right now at the Australian dot com dot au and

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<v Speaker 1>we'll be back after this break.

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<v Speaker 3>I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Let's put it simply,

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<v Speaker 3>and as you can imagine, it was a bit of

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<v Speaker 3>a shock.

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<v Speaker 1>That's supermodel Elle McPherson. She's speaking with journalist Tracy Grimshaw

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<v Speaker 1>about her new autobiography in an episode of sixty Minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>In the memoir, McPherson revealed she's in remission from breast cancer.

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<v Speaker 3>What were you told needed to happen? Mastect to me? Chemotherapy,

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<v Speaker 3>radiation and hormone replacement.

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<v Speaker 1>Macpherson said she refused those conventional therapies recommended by doctors

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<v Speaker 1>in favor of what she called an intuitive, heart led,

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<v Speaker 1>holistic approach.

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<v Speaker 3>I made a choice to go a more natural root

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<v Speaker 3>in my treatment because that's what really resonated with me.

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<v Speaker 3>I had been really looking at the body as in

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<v Speaker 3>a holistic way, so looking at emotional, mental, spiritual and

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<v Speaker 3>physical well being, and I believe in the body has

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<v Speaker 3>the infinite capacity to heal.

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<v Speaker 1>El McPherson's claim she effectively healed her own cancer was

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<v Speaker 1>met with despair from medical experts and outrage from survivors.

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<v Speaker 1>On cologist said McPherson had, in fact had a lumpectomy,

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<v Speaker 1>a completely conventional treatment, and the chemo would not be

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<v Speaker 1>recommended for her type of cancer anyway. Australian TV legend

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<v Speaker 1>and breast cancer survivor carry Anne Kennelly told The Australian

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<v Speaker 1>she feared McPherson's influences such that someone will die trying

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<v Speaker 1>to replicate her supposed medical success.

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<v Speaker 5>With Catherine. You've seen the shock, the horror, the fear,

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<v Speaker 5>the vulnerability, and then her progress through it. We got

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<v Speaker 5>an update at one point where she said she has

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<v Speaker 5>good days and bad It's a very honest acknowledgment of

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<v Speaker 5>the trauma that she was going through at the time

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<v Speaker 5>and what other people go through.

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<v Speaker 2>Doing what I can to stay cancer free is now

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<v Speaker 2>my focus. Although I have finished chemotherapy, my paths are

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<v Speaker 2>healing and full. Recovery is long and I must continue

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<v Speaker 2>to take each day as it comes.

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<v Speaker 5>And she took a very conventional path, and certainly El

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<v Speaker 5>McPherson took an unconventional path. We just assumed, don't we,

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<v Speaker 5>that she's got the best doctors in the land. She

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<v Speaker 5>can afford the best doctors in the land. She hasn't

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<v Speaker 5>had to go through the NHS system. She's been able

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<v Speaker 5>to afford to go private and so I'm sure she's

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<v Speaker 5>taken the best advice as possibly El McPherson has as well,

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<v Speaker 5>but come to very different decisions.

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<v Speaker 2>To all those who are continuing their own cancer journey.

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<v Speaker 2>I remain with you, side by side, hand in hand.

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<v Speaker 2>Out of darkness can come late, so let that light shine. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think in any way Harry and Meghan have

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<v Speaker 1>been the catalyst for this change in the Waleses that

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<v Speaker 1>they've let the public in a bit more because they

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<v Speaker 1>saw a different way or were criticized for the way

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<v Speaker 1>that they were doing things.

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<v Speaker 5>I think that some of that is true. I used

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<v Speaker 5>to go and watch the royals, especially at Christmas time,

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<v Speaker 5>and Catherine knew exactly where all the photographers were, and

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<v Speaker 5>she would never look at them. She would always look away.

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<v Speaker 5>And I remember one year we saw Katherine and Meghan,

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<v Speaker 5>the whole family, the four of them, walk in and

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<v Speaker 5>none of the photographers got a photo. The only photo

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<v Speaker 5>of the four looking at the camera was by a

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<v Speaker 5>member of the public. And that's because at that stage

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<v Speaker 5>they didn't like the publicity. Since then we've had, of course,

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<v Speaker 5>Meghan and Harry's very public and very different way of

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<v Speaker 5>talking to the world, and so I think that the

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<v Speaker 5>Waleses have really understood that they need to engage more

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<v Speaker 5>with the public and they've taken a different way of

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<v Speaker 5>doing that. But I think that what Meghan and Harry

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<v Speaker 5>have been doing has definitely influenced how the Palace has

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<v Speaker 5>reacted to this.

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<v Speaker 1>Jacqueline Magnae is the Australians europe correspondent. All eyes will

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<v Speaker 1>be on the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

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<v Speaker 1>today in the United States. You can follow it live

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<v Speaker 1>and read all our analysis at the Australian dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>Dou