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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, we work on Saturday morning to the news that

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Speaker 2: Kate Middleton has a very serious illness.

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Speaker 1: In fact, this is how she announced it in a video.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you

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Speaker 3: personally for all the wonderful messages of support and for

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Speaker 3: your understanding whilst I've been recovering from surgery. In January,

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Speaker 3: I underwent major dominal surgery in London, and at the

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Speaker 3: time it was thought that my condition was non cancerous.

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Speaker 3: The surgery was successful. However, tests after the operation fund

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Speaker 3: cancer had been present. My medical team therefore advised that

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Speaker 3: I should undergo a course of preventative chemotherapy, and I'm

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Speaker 3: now in the early stages of that treatment.

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Speaker 2: It's brought up a whole lot of emotions for people,

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Speaker 2: hasn't it, including people like us or me who had

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Speaker 2: been kind of speculating on what the hell had happened.

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Speaker 2: Some people have apologized for speculating. What's interesting is, of

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Speaker 2: course our everyone was concerned for Kate. They've done surveys.

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Speaker 2: She's the most trusted royal People don't trust the royal

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Speaker 2: family in light of Diana, in light of Harry's book,

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Speaker 2: and the insights that were in there. So when she

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Speaker 2: was missing.

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Speaker 1: In action.

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Speaker 2: And they put up that strange photo and then blamed

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Speaker 2: her for the photo shopping, people were genuinely concerned for Kate,

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Speaker 2: saying what actually is going on? And they treated Charles

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Speaker 2: cancer quite differently to Kate's scenario, And I get how

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Speaker 2: terrifying it must be for Kate to learn this news,

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Speaker 2: mother of young children, all of that, what they did

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Speaker 2: with Charles, he said, I have cancer, and then people

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Speaker 2: have given him privacy to deal with that. And now,

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Speaker 2: of course Kate will be given that privacy because she

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Speaker 2: has said, here's what is actually going on when she

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Speaker 2: had just not been there and the Palace kind of

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Speaker 2: fed misinformation. It made people think, well, what is going on?

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Speaker 1: What is it here?

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Speaker 2: So everyone's heart goes out to Kate. Everyone's heart goes

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Speaker 2: out to anyone dealing with all this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: But people who've been speculating on what had happened to Kate,

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Speaker 2: some people are chiding them, saying, see, but it was

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Speaker 2: all really about where is Kate okay? And why is

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Speaker 2: the Palace not being honest with us? Whether we like

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Speaker 2: it or not. She is a public figure and she herself, says,

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Speaker 2: I know I'm a public figure that she is not

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Speaker 2: just the future Queen of England. She is our future

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Speaker 2: the wife of our future head of state. She is

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Speaker 2: head of he's going to be our head of state

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Speaker 2: while we are a monarchy. So now, of course, every

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Speaker 2: it's human nature. Okay, we know we're thinking of you.

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Speaker 2: Will give you some.

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Speaker 4: Spaces and the social media these days. In the old

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Speaker 4: days we just relied on the magazines or the TV

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Speaker 4: and that would be it.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what they've said, is at Buckingham Palace and

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Speaker 2: Kensington Palace, have tree did this the old way? They

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Speaker 2: didn't see the storm coming, that social media would create.

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Speaker 4: Social media just does that. It's you know, And I

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Speaker 4: got off Twitter or ex or whatever the hell it's

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Speaker 4: called now some time ago, and my life is not

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Speaker 4: any poorer because I'm not on it.

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Speaker 1: But see, this is the thing. People had genuine concern

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Speaker 1: of all the royals. They love her.

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Speaker 4: The natural theories, whether they were joking or not. But

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Speaker 4: I remember I actually said on this very show, I said,

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Speaker 4: it's probably something quite serious.

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Speaker 2: Oh, no one ever disputed that she wasn't well, no

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Speaker 2: one ever disputed that it was how the story was told,

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Speaker 2: how we were told to feel about it, We're made

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Speaker 2: to everyone loves Kate and then suddenly there's no information

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Speaker 2: for three months.

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Speaker 1: How serious is this illness? What is going on?

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Speaker 2: This could have been handled better, I think, But of

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Speaker 2: course everyone's now wishing her well, and absolutely rightly so