William in ‘Protection Mode’ After Kate’s Cancer Announcement

William “fully supported” Kate’s announcement

Prince William, the Sunday Times reports, understood why Kate Middleton felt she had to make the public announcement of her cancer diagnosis and preventative chemotherapy treatment, but wished she hadn’t been made to feel that she had to.

“She did it with his full support and advice, he joined all the conversations around it,” a close friend told the Times, in an extensively sourced piece about Kate’s statement and its aftermath. “On every level he wishes she didn’t have to do it. But it was her decision, it wasn’t begrudged, and he fully supported it.”

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