Kate and Prince William are the parents of Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte.
"This of course came as a huge shock, and William and I have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family," Kate said Friday of her diagnosis, which she said she received afterin January. "As you can imagine, this has taken time. It has taken me time to recover from major surgery in order to start my treatment.
Kate's decision to wait until Friday to publicly announce her diagnosis was likely made with a priority of protecting her children, according to ABC News royal contributor Victoria Murphy."Their children, George, Charlotte and Louis, have just broken up for their Easter holiday," Murphy said Friday.
The type of cancer Kate was diagnosed with has not been disclosed. A Kensington Palace spokesperson said Friday that Kate commenced a course of preventative chemotherapy in late February. "They've been considering how to talk to their children about it, bearing in mind that their children go to school, they go to school with other children, they interact with the children," Murphy said. "Even things like telling their children something like this and then asking them not to talk to anyone about it is a difficult thing to do, so all of these things will have been going on in their minds.
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