Kate Middleton Cancer: Piers Morgan Reacts With Sarah Hewson

well some extraordinary breaking news

tonight from Katherine the Princess of

Wales who in a very personal video has

revealed that she is having treatment

now for cancer we don't know what type

of cancer but she says that at the start

of a year she had this abdominal surgery

that we know about uh and that in the

process of that uh they discovered that

she had had some form of cancer they

found cancer a cells and she's now

embarking on chemotherapy which she

couldn't do until she' recovered from

the initial abdominal surgery uh she

made a very personal statement in which

she was very open very Frank uh very

courageous and very dignified I thought

also PID great uh tribute to her husband

Prince William who uh let's not forget

is going through the double uh Health

heartache of his father the King Charles

II also having cancer so I'm joined by

Sarah Houston the Royal editor of talk

TV Sarah uh a very busy night for you uh

I think uh from now on but let's just

talk about this remarkable statement we

got wind of it about an hour before it

happened that it was being released I

think initially to the BBC um I was

watching it live when it happened and

there was there was Kate there was

Katherine the Princess of Wales uh in a

a garden setting on a on a bench uh

speaking directly to the world in a way

that I've never seen it before do this

or in fact I can't remember many Royals

ever doing this and being remarkably

candid about what's been going

on yes and this was was a video that was

filmed on Wednesday peers I understand

it was done in one take uh the Princess

of Wales speaking directly to camera and

addressing the public and giving the

details of Her diagnosis which as she

said Has Come As a huge shock to them

she talked about what an incredibly

tough few months it has been for her and

the whole family and she described the

main focus for her and William which has

been a about protecting their children

George Charlotte and Louie and the

reason why this video was released

tonight is because the children broke up

from school earlier on this afternoon

for their Easter holidays and William

and Kate decided that they could then

make this public in the knowledge that

they could Shield their children from it

they've explained it to them in the best

way that they can in the most

appropriate way given their young ages

Katherine said how she has told them I'm

well I'm going to be okay uh and that

she has reassured the children and I

think this statement really summed up

what this family is all about for them

which is protecting those children and

and P we've talked about that over the

past uh few weeks and months that those

three children are everything and every

decision that is made by William and

Kate is about putting those children

first and this is exactly that what it

will do of course it will hopefully put

a stop to the absolute tsunami of

increasingly crazy conspiracy theories

uh and you know I was reminded tonight

that some of the American talk show

hosts in particular have been in the

last few weeks openly mocking the Wales

over their marriage for example that now

looks particularly distasteful in light

of what we know they've been going

through I think there will be some

people feeling mightily ashamed uh for

the way in which they have approached

this over the past uh few weeks in

particular uh peers with that feverous

speculation about where is Kate and

she's explained it very clearly in this

while not directly acknowledging the

conspiracy theories she's made it very

clear that it has taken her time she

needed time firstly to recover

physically from the abdominal surgery in

order for her to be in a state to start

the preven itive chemotherapy which she

now began uh at the end of February but

also to be able to process this

emotionally she talked about what a

shock it had been she talked about the

comfort of having William by her side

again you know speculation about at the

state of their marriage well very very

clear that this has been a couple who

have been very very closely United on

this also those questions over Prince

William's absence from his Godfather's

memorial service we now know that it was

that day when Kate received her cancer

diagnosis shortly before William was due

to leave for that memorial service and

that is why he pulled out of that event

and cited personal matters and that is

why it was such a last minute decision

now at the time Kensington Palace had

had said that Kate was continuing to

recover well and it wasn't clear whether

that decision was made because of Kate

we now know the truth of that that it

was all about uh being with his wife and

entirely the right and entirely and

understandable decision uh to want to

support his wife and also to deal with

his own shock as the news as you said

there's double uh news for him his

father and his wife both now suffering

from cancer could they have handled this

any differently I mean it's been a crazy

few weeks I can't remember anything

quite like this since the days when

Diana was alive um and it's it's a it's

really a signal of just how big a star

in the Royal firmament Kate is and how

important she is to the royal family and

to the brand of the royal family and

indeed the monarchy but some people may

say well could they have said something

a bit earlier to quash all the

conspiracy theories we've had the video

of course of them at a farm shop um we

had the picture taken by Paparazzi of

her in a car going to school with her

mother um and so on should they have

said something earlier or do you think

that given what we now know about what

they've been going through and in

particular what she said about the kids

and wanting them quite obviously I I'm a

father of four kids I would want mine to

be the absolute priority in a situation

like this do you think that this this

has been really what's been going on

behind the scenes the entire

time I don't think anyone can question

their decision making now when Katherine

has set it out so clearly that the

reason why this decision has this news

has been announced now was because they

wanted to protect their children they

had to tell them in their own time they

needed to give them space and time to

process it and they wanted to do it when

they could protect the children and and

I guess preserve them in their own

little bubble away from school away from

the questions that they might be asked

that they wouldn't be there to give the

answers to and and very clearly they've

thought long and hard about how they've

communicated this to the children I mean

little Lou at just five years old uh

George 10 years old that they're not old

at all my children are very similar age

and I can only begin to imagine how

difficult it has been for them to give

the children that news and not to

frighten them to want to reassure them

as Katherine said I told them I'm doing

well and I'm going to be okay and I

think knowing that we can understand now

why they were so desperate to protect

themselves to preserve their privacy but

also let's not forget they didn't know

this initially she had abdominal surgery

on the 16th of January and at the time

before the surgery the tests had not

shown any signs of cancer she then went

in for major abdominal surgery and it

was the post-operative tests that

detected there had been cancer there and

so they've had a double whammy again

here with that first news that she

needed surgery and then to find out much

to their shock that actually she had got

cancer