Feel Sorry For Catherine! Kensington Palace’s BIG ANNOUNCEMENT About Her Royal Duties In 2025

Katherine, Princess of Wales, spent the better part of 2024 recovering from an undisclosed type of cancer. Her plans for 2025 are being formulated, and they reportedly won’t include public duties as expected. Yeah, you heard that right. Although the palace made her return to public life clear, the decision won’t be exactly what the public wanted.

In December 2023, the princess was basking in the success of her annual Carols concert, a cherished tradition where she defied norms by collaborating with both children and animals. Little did she know, within weeks, she would be thrust into a brutal year that would push the royal family to its very limits, teetering on the edge of crisis.

As 2024 dawned, it brimmed with promise and hopeful imagery, but harsh reality soon struck, shattering those illusions. The Wales’s work slate was wiped clean. A reported possible tour of Italy was, of course, scratched. Any other events, such as maybe accompanying Prince William to Cape Town for his Earthshot Prize award, were also scrapped. It was around this time in 2023 that the princess last traveled overseas with her husband, and we don’t even have a single picture from that occasion to show for it.

Somehow, the Wales family, including their children, managed to stealthily sneak off for a snowy getaway in the French Alps resort of Maribel. Currently, there are no plans yet for any full-scale foreign royal tour for them to make together. But according to royal editor Rebecca English, Prince William will undertake a handful of solo foreign visits in the coming months. Another sign of Catherine’s progress.

Speaking about the princess’s health journey, it serves as a great reminder to us all that a process of recovery can come in fits and starts, and also that there’ll be events she can attend and others she can’t. For anyone going through that kind of treatment, there’ll be events they may have to miss. Certainly, for someone like the Princess of Wales with three young children, there’ll be events she won’t be able to attend in the short term. But we hope to see a long-term return to public duty.

In January last year, Katherine was hospitalized for planned abdominal surgery, and then she essentially disappeared from the public eye, sparking one of the most surreal and bizarre chapters in modern royal history. Conspiracy theories about her whereabouts tore across social media, growing wilder and more hysterical when she and William were videoed visiting a Windsor farm shop in March.

Then came Mother’s Day in the same month, and what should have been a sweet family shot, one that would have put an end to the fevered madness, only blew up in the princess’s face. The image was soon slapped with humiliating “kill notices” by major photo agencies, thanks to Catherine’s amateur photo shopping efforts.

Less than two weeks later, everything changed again. The internet didn’t just break—it resoundingly snapped—when the princess revealed that her doctors had discovered she had cancer, and she was about to begin preventative chemotherapy. Luckily, by September, came a bookend: a video, nearly excessively sentimental, professionally shot, a three-minute declaration that the future Queen was cancer-free.

The story is far from over. Earlier this year, a Buckingham Palace insider told me, “My understanding is that people are going to have to get used to seeing a lot less of Catherine. The priority for her now is going to be the family and the children. Like lots of people who have a brush with mortality, she’s going to prioritize the things that matter to her from now on—in her case, that means her kids.”

Are you ready for quite the side-serving of irony here? Consider the parallel between the Wales’s individual plans for the year and what has been going on with those who must not be named in California. While our working royals are bringing joy to the people on Christmas Day, Megan’s out there running on the beach. Honestly, it’s a bit much.

What gets me is how Megan tried to paint the picture of being so restricted when she was part of the royal family. As for the whole “blending in” narrative, anyone who knows the royal family knows that the late Queen Elizabeth was famous for her bright colors. She wore them so people could see her in a crowd—so she could be visible for the people who came out to see her. But somehow, The Duchess twisted that into some sort of restriction or oppressive story.