Kate spending time with "birth family"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been through cancer with numerous relatives, friends, colleagues and patients (I’ve been in healthcare for a decade now).

Most of the people I’ve known who had cancer while still in their working years continued working, at least part time, while undergoing treatments. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Alex Trebek are two examples of wealthy people who nevertheless worked throughout cancer treatment.

Kate is either taking full advantage of her royal privilege by quitting work entirely, or her cancer is very much more serious than her announcement let on.

np your position makes me so mad. Princess Catherine can do no right by you. We are all different people and need different things. Just because the two examples you give choose differently does not mean that she is "taking full advantage of her royal privilege". Princess Catherine is a human being and we have no idea of what cancer she has or what her doctor's have told her.

You are a pitiful person picking on someone who can't defend themselves.

NP here. Why are you so obsessed with a woman you do not know, at all? A person who chose to have a very public life.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's lovely that she has the support of her family. Why is this a problem?

Birth family is an odd distinction to make . Camilla is by Charles side during his battle with cancer. Where is William?

His excuse this time for not working is the care of the three kids even though no convoys from Kensington Palace were ever spotted driving in the last few months to the kids’ school and/or activities. He’s living alone there

Yes, exactly. If William is not with his sick father or sick wife, but is taking time off… What the hell is he doing?

That’s the question I’ve asked even before this ordeal. William barely works. What he does with his time is a mystery. I know he’s hated as the spare but Harry actually worked . He served in the army when he didn’t have to and Invictus Games about wounded veterans is a bigger initiative than anything the heir has done . Nobody knows what William does with his time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been through cancer with numerous relatives, friends, colleagues and patients (I’ve been in healthcare for a decade now).

Most of the people I’ve known who had cancer while still in their working years continued working, at least part time, while undergoing treatments. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Alex Trebek are two examples of wealthy people who nevertheless worked throughout cancer treatment.

Kate is either taking full advantage of her royal privilege by quitting work entirely, or her cancer is very much more serious than her announcement let on.

Most people work because they don't have a choice - they need their income and health insurance. Surely most would rather be resting and spending time with their family, and also getting some TLC from their parents etc if possible. Most people would love a leave of absence from work if available and they could afford it.

RBG should have retired much earlier, clearly. Not the best example.

[Anonymous]

I think the monarchy might die with lazy William. Charles and his siblings outwork the future king even in their twilight years.

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It will especially die if William did something to Kate like leave her. He’s a man of leisure who sees her as a commoner but his ego probably won’t allow him to see she’s the liked one in the marriage not him. The Heir was historically third place in popularity to Harry and Kate.

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If Kate was a regular Dcum poster discussing how shes a mother of three with cancer and her husband has abandoned her and made her apologize publically for a Photoshop error , he would get tarred and feathered here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's lovely that she has the support of her family. Why is this a problem?

+1 all the people saying she has nannies and paid help... I feel sad for them if they think that's the same as family during an incredibly hard time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Kate was a regular Dcum poster discussing how shes a mother of three with cancer and her husband has abandoned her and made her apologize publically for a Photoshop error , he would get tarred and feathered here

Especially if he was telling her to get to work, cancer be damned.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been through cancer with numerous relatives, friends, colleagues and patients (I’ve been in healthcare for a decade now).

Most of the people I’ve known who had cancer while still in their working years continued working, at least part time, while undergoing treatments. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Alex Trebek are two examples of wealthy people who nevertheless worked throughout cancer treatment.

Kate is either taking full advantage of her royal privilege by quitting work entirely, or her cancer is very much more serious than her announcement let on.

Why shouldn't she? I sure as hell would. Also, as far as I know, RBG and Alex Trebek did not have three young children. You sound like a jerk.

Stop acting like Kate has literally zero help and no privacy. She has an entire private estate on which to roam with cooks, maids and Nannies at her beck and call. She is not some Average woman going through chemo with real life scenarios to deal with.

If i was dying or extremely ill I’m sure i would be wondering how to spend more time working and less time with family. Priorities.

I think you don’t know what you are talking about, poster.

Again, I’ve worked with many people who battled cancer and also family and friends.

Maybe you’ve never been unemployed? Unemployment quickly becomes demoralizing for people who are used to having purpose in their lives beyond family life.

You seem to be trashing the people in this world - many of them, including people I’ve dearly loved - who choose to keep working and striving and who take purpose and hope from that work, hope that they will beat their cancer and life will return as much as possible to normal.

I’ve been doing a lot of hospice work in recent years and I can attest, it is very depressing sitting around waiting to die. I’m sure Alex Trebek and RBG both knew at some level that the odds of beating their cancers were very, very low - but they kept working not because they didn’t love their families enough to want to spend time with them but because work gave them purpose and meaning and made them feel alive and hopeful.

Don’t call me a jerk for pointing out that many, many people who could afford to go home and sit on the couch and think about their cancer choose instead to keep working up to the end or as close as they can to that point. If John McCain hadn’t kept working, millions of Americans wouldn’t have healthcare today - that’s a far better legacy than watching reruns while waiting for the reaper. I don’t think his family begrudged him the time spent working at the end of his life.

For most humans, the striving to work and contribute to society is an imperative that feeds their souls. I can’t really think of any layabouts rich or poor who I would wish to be if I could trade places with anyone. Maybe that’s just the kind of person you are, but it’s not the only kind of person to be and there is nothing shameful in wanting to strive right to the end of things.

Hers is an extremely public-facing job, and ppl are so blessed with her appearance. It's not a WFH corporate job or the like. It would be the worst match for this health crisis.

I don't see anything depressing about the time off when you have 3 young kids. To be an old person living alone, sure it's probably better mentally to keep working.

Her actually job is also not anything like John McCain was in terms of importance, get a grip.

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Are there any good links?

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Anonymous wrote:But saying birth family excludes William, why would they say that?

It doesn’t exclude William. The same article says he is taking more time off. Birth family just means she’s also with her parents and siblings, not the extended royal family.

No, it excludes William. It would have said Prince William and her family. He is not holed up at her parents home with them.

He was at a football game yesterday with George. Look at the photos.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's lovely that she has the support of her family. Why is this a problem?

Birth family is an odd distinction to make . Camilla is by Charles side during his battle with cancer. Where is William?

His excuse this time for not working is the care of the three kids even though no convoys from Kensington Palace were ever spotted driving in the last few months to the kids’ school and/or activities. He’s living alone there

Yes, exactly. If William is not with his sick father or sick wife, but is taking time off… What the hell is he doing?

He’s at FA Cup with his heir.

Can they really never wear shorts and a polo? Or pants and a polo - maybe it was cold today.

You know very well if they did wear shorts they would be coitized for that. They are working so that is the uniform they wear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If William isn’t working, he isn’t dropping kids off to school, and he is not with Kate or the Middletons, what is he doing ?

MYOB

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been through cancer with numerous relatives, friends, colleagues and patients (I’ve been in healthcare for a decade now).

Most of the people I’ve known who had cancer while still in their working years continued working, at least part time, while undergoing treatments. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Alex Trebek are two examples of wealthy people who nevertheless worked throughout cancer treatment.

Kate is either taking full advantage of her royal privilege by quitting work entirely, or her cancer is very much more serious than her announcement let on.

Why shouldn't she? I sure as hell would. Also, as far as I know, RBG and Alex Trebek did not have three young children. You sound like a jerk.

Stop acting like Kate has literally zero help and no privacy. She has an entire private estate on which to roam with cooks, maids and Nannies at her beck and call. She is not some Average woman going through chemo with real life scenarios to deal with.

Yes it isn't private when people like you who have zero idea of what is happening make disparaging remarks. Or the British press talk about her. So she has help her kids still need their mother.

[Anonymous]

Some interesting and weird stuff here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KateMiddletonMissing/s/nREP0AcoL2