How Kate Middleton & Prince William’s Kids Are ‘Learning & Adapting’ To Her Cancer Journey

How Kate Middleton & Prince William’s Kids Are ‘Learning & Adapting’ To Her Cancer Journey

I’d say 204 was the hardest year I’ve ever had. Prince William is opening up about his wife Kate Middleton’s cancer journey and how they’ve navigated her illness as parents. On the October 3rd episode of Apple TV Plus’s The Reluctant Traveler, hosted by Eugene Levy, the Prince of Wales shared some good news about Kate’s cancer diagnosis. Although the Princess has not publicly shared what kind of cancer she has, she did say at the beginning of this year that she’s in remission. This last year, your wife and father have been ill. How are things now, first of all? Yeah, things are things are good. Um, everything’s progressing in the right way. Um, which is all good news, but it’s um yeah, it’s been I’d say 2024 was the hardest year I’ve ever had. Um, trying to sort of balance protecting the children, Katherine. Um, my father needs a bit of protection, but he’s, you know, he’s old enough to do that himself as well. But it’s important my family feel protected and have the space to kind of, uh, process a lot of the stuff that’s gone on last year. William also made rare comments on his family life and revealed how his three children, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louie, and Prince George, are dealing with their mother’s illness. How did that affect the children, if I may ask? Everyone has their own coping mechanisms for these sorts of things and children are constantly learning and adapting. We try to make sure we give them the security and the safety that they need. Um, and we’re very open family, so we talk about, you know, things that bother us and things that trouble us, but you never quite know the knock-on effects it can have. And so, it’s just important to be there for each other and to kind of reassure um the children that, you know, everything’s okay. The 43-year-old royal spoke to how both Kate and his father, King Charles’s cancer diagnosis made 2024 the quote hardest year he’s ever had and how the shock of it all affected his perspective on life. We’ve been very lucky. We hadn’t had many illnesses in the family for a very long time. My grandparents lived to the, you know, the high 90s. So yeah, I think when you suddenly realize that the uh the rug, if you were, the metaphorical rug can be pulled from under your feet quite quick at any point. You maybe think to yourself, it won’t happen to us. Um we’ll be okay because I think everyone has a positive outlook. You’ve got to be you’ve got to be positive. But when it does happen to you then um yeah then it takes you into some pretty you know not not great places. You know life is sent to test us as well and it definitely can be challenging at times and being able to overcome that is what makes us who we are. [Music]

Prince William is opening up about his wife Kate Middleton’s cancer journey and how they’ve navigated her illness as parents. On the Oct. 3 episode of Apple TV+’s “The Reluctant Traveler,” hosted by actor Eugene Levy, the Prince of Wales shared an encouraging update on Kate’s cancer diagnosis. The Princess revealed at the beginning of this year that her cancer is in remission, though she has not publicly shared what kind of cancer she’s battling. William also spoke to how their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, are navigating this challenging time. “Everyone has their own coping mechanisms for these things, the children are constantly learning and adapting,” he said. “We try to make sure we give them the security and the safety that they need and we’re a very open family, so we talk about the things that bother us, the things that trouble us. But you never quite know the knock-on effects it can have.”