Opinion: Kate Middleton’s Video Is About Way More Than Her Cancer Recovery
Beyond the frankly bananas panoply of wheat-fields, intense hand-holding, ecstatic gamboling in forests and on beaches, and standing against trees lit by shafts of sunlight, there are some important codas to make clear when writing about Kate Middleton’s what-the-hell-was-that cancer recovery video.
First, whatever her critics say, she can tell the world whatever she likes how she likes. It is good that she feels so well after completing chemotherapy treatment. Chemo, as those who know know, can be horrible, tough, and variable—each day an unknown physical and psychological rollercoaster. Every cancer patient is different, and every cancer patient can declare what they want to declare in whatever way suits them.
Kate is a public figure, and as such has decided to make an emphatically public statement—in a way and tone no-one would have predicted. The only thing missing in her pop video meets Instagram postcard were animated tweeting birds and deer appearing in the woodland clearing gazing at her adoringly.