Princess kate of england biography of abraham

There is no good way to break bad news, but some ways are more testing than others. Some people, whether from cowardice or an excess of bravery, refuse to break it even to themselves. The toughest of duties, it is widely agreed, has to be the delivery of dark tidings to loved ones, but, in the wake of a statement made by Catherine, Princess of Wales, on Friday, we can now think of something worse. Imagine having to share your bad news with millions of unknown ones—fascinated ones, prurient ones, pitying ones, or pitilessly mocking ones, none of whom you personally know, and all of whom either yearn or presume to know you, from the inside out. How do you begin to break such news without breaking up?

The statement was filmed outside, with Kate sitting on a bench, in uncertain sunshine, calmly disclosing to the camera that, having endured abdominal surgery, in January, she was now undergoing “preventative chemotherapy” for an unspecified cancer. “I am well and getting stronger every d

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