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Carole Middleton was 'very worried' about Kate due to lump on her head

Over the course of her past year battling cancer , the Princess of Wales has come to rely on her mother Carole Middleton perhaps more than at any other time in her life.
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I don't know if this is the correct place to post this.

It is good news that she recovered from this and other illnesses but what caught my eye was how amazingly Marlbrough College looks like a twin of Kensington Palace and also she was dating a William doppleganger Willem Marx during this time. How weird!

I think few other schools would necessaerily look so very like it in brick colour, window frames, height. Down House, Beneden, Roedean, the Windsor Schools, CLC, Badminton, St. Mary's Calne, Headington, Tudor Hall, St. Swithens, St. Helen & St. Katherines, Westonbirt, Sherbourne Girls etc and others in the southern UK or about the country don't look like where Prince William grew up nearly as much.
 
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What reason has been given? I truly don't understand her nomination. Unfortunately, she had a really hard year due to her cancer diagnosis and treatment (as undoubtedly many others worldwide) but I fail to see how that could make someone a contender for person of the year.
 
Somebody said:
What reason has been given? I truly don't understand her nomination. Unfortunately, she had a really hard year due to her cancer diagnosis and treatment (as undoubtedly many others worldwide) but I fail to see how that could make someone a contender for person of the year.
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Who knows who is responsible for nominating the "person of the year" at this magazine? Arent' there other international known magazines who nominate people? I guess so. The editors have a meeting to decide who will be on their cover of their next publication and they are discussing it and made that decision. Some of them might have made different suggestions, but as it is (at least I hope so) decided democratically those who were in the majority made the decision.
I have some experience in that field, although not in newspapers but having worked all my life in public radio and tv. You have meetings where several people have to decide what to publish and what not, and also deciding what is relevant and what isn't. That is why the press worldwide is IMO the third power in almost every country. Don't ever underestimate the "power" of the press.
However I agree that there are many more persons in the world who would deserve that attention much more.
 
Somebody said:
What reason has been given? I truly don't understand her nomination. Unfortunately, she had a really hard year due to her cancer diagnosis and treatment (as undoubtedly many others worldwide) but I fail to see how that could make someone a contender for person of the
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It was in connection with the right for privacy for public figures around health matters. Her experience with social media that the press then felt they had to report on led to a media storm. It opened the conversation when are public figures entitled to privacy. It is for others to decide if it warranted a nomination I do not have an opinion one way or another.
 
The Princess of Wales did 10 confortable Apparitions this year during her battle against cancer. The Princess of Wales had also Point de Vue Cover page for the 2024 Events.
 
Somebody said:
What reason has been given? I truly don't understand her nomination. Unfortunately, she had a really hard year due to her cancer diagnosis and treatment (as undoubtedly many others worldwide) but I fail to see how that could make someone a contender for person of the year.
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For TIME, it’s simply about being the most notable person of the year. (‘Who has made the most news?’) Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do. And Catherine had a lot of people talking this year, including all the pre-cancer idiocy.

Dictators have won, several times.
 
Time Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year". I can see how Catherine, Princess of Wales made the Time Magazine list having been a major influence this year re: her cancer diagnosis. This doesn't mean the person is seen in a positive light given historically, Adolf Hitler in 1938 and Donald Trump this year were chosen to be on the cover.

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They released it on 10th Dec lat year so it is late, if they are releasing one at all. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't.
 
I know I am likely to be shot down in flames, but I don’t think this is a good photo of the family. Yes it’s poignant in that it’s lovely that the whole family are together this Christmas with the Princess hopefully on her way to a full recovery, but I wish they’d gone for a more festive feel to the photo this year. I also think it’s not posed in a way that either captures them well or succeeds as a suggestion that it’s a random / snapshot moment when it’s so clearly not.

Kate and William reveal poignant Christmas card Kate and William reveal poignant Christmas card

Edited to say I have just read that it’s a photo capture from the video released earlier in the year, so I guess I should retract what I just written, but I still think it’s not a good photo for a Christmas card.
 
Yes, it's from the video. I agree: I'd like to have seen something with a more festive feel to it. I'm not sure that the boho look works that well on a Christmas card. But it's still a nice family photo :) .
 
jesam said:
Are people going to write this every year.... "I wish they released a card with christmas theme". Royals have NEVER done that.
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The one time I saw a Christmas themed photo card, it was the former King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia's very poorly edited photo card with their grandchildren in the mid-2000's. As far as I know, they've not done a Christmas photo card again. However they typically choose to release one that is about the Nativity.
 
jesam said:
Are people going to write this every year.... "I wish they released a card with christmas theme". Royals have NEVER done that.
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I think it’s more a different picture from what has already been released to the public. It’s a nice picture but I personally will remember this from their video and not as a Christmas card picture.
 
jesam said:
Are people going to write this every year.... "I wish they released a card with christmas theme". Royals have NEVER done that.
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That's not true, there might be different traditions for each family but there are most certainly royals who prefer christmas themed cards. Two give only two examples:
- the Monegask family releases a christmas themed card each year! See for example this year's photo.
- the pictures of the Luxembourg's heriditary grand ducal family are also clearly christmas-themed.
 
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That's not true, there might be different traditions for each family but there are most certainly royals who prefer christmas themed cards. Two give only two examples:
- the Monegask family releases a christmas themed card each year! See for example this year's photo.
- the pictures of the Luxembourg's heriditary grand ducal family are also clearly christmas-themed.
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But it is the British forum that this is being discussed, The British royals usually issue a family photograph .
 
Hallo girl said:
But it is the British forum that this is being discussed, The British royals usually issue a family photograph .
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The claim was that 'royals' don't do that. There are many other royals than the British royals. It's not 'unroyal' to release a christmas-themed photo.
 
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The claim was that 'royals' don't do that. There are many other royals than the British royals. It's not 'unroyal' to release a christmas-themed photo.
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As I said the thread was discussing the British royals , in particular the POW family Xmas card and that the card did not have a Xmas feel to it.
 
Jesam, I make no apologies for saying something others have said previously. There’s absolutely no reason why The Prince of Wales’ family shouldn’t choose to take a different path, just because traditionally British royals haven’t chosen to do this. As the Monagasque family have shown, you can embrace a family theme and make it festive.
 
Elly C said:
Jesam, I make no apologies for saying something others have said previously. There’s absolutely no reason why The Prince of Wales’ family shouldn’t choose to take a different path, just because traditionally British royals haven’t chosen to do this. As the Monagasque family have shown, you can embrace a family theme and make it festive.
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But the fact is that the British royal family doesn’t want to change it, so just accept that they’re releasing a card that isn’t festive.
 
We had news about the King whose treatment will continue in 2025.
Nothing was said for the Princess of Wales 's treatment ?
 
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