The Insensitivity of Demanding Photos of Someone Undergoing Chemotherapy

The pure idiocy of wondering why there are no recent pictures of someone undergoing chemotherapy never ceases to amaze me. When people face their mortality, especially after a cancer diagnosis, their instinct is never to go on a photo op; that is very abnormal. Instead, everyone who faces this diagnosis naturally tends to shy away from cameras and the spotlight.

We see many celebrities and public figures disappear for years before we learn that they have been battling cancer quietly. The Queen herself was battling bone cancer quietly and did not make it known. It was only after her death that a friend of King Charles and Queen Camilla revealed it.

We also see our close ones disappear from our lives and isolate themselves from friends and family; all that is very normal behavior. So where are these daft questions about wanting absolutely a picture of Catherine coming from?! What’s so hard to understand about “he had chemotherapy and asked for protection”? “But my mother, but my brother…”.

Pipe down. You are not a public figure and you are not the future Queen of the UK; neither are they. They can have all the privacy they want, and no one will ask about them. Nobody knows them. None of them had to reveal their diagnosis publicly shortly after learning it either.

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Everyone who cares and who has faced such a diagnosis in a family setting understands the need for privacy, understands the trauma of getting such a diagnosis as a young mother and wife, and on her family at large. Everyone who cares understands the need for time and space and that the last thing a woman who faces chemotherapy wants to do is have her pictures taken for the world to dissect her.

The only people who need to know and see her are her husband, children, immediate family, and close friends. That is it.

No one else is entitled to a picture of her or to see her. She is not the King.

She is not the future King either. So spare us the fake sense of entitlement just out of nosiness. If you are serious about her whereabouts, I dare you to file a police report.

There is nothing abnormal in Catherine’s demand for privacy. There is nothing singular in that. That is normal human nature and a coping mechanism when facing this ordeal which is cancer.

Yet, Catherine is bullied for acting like a normal human being; her husband, Prince William, is harassed and vilified for protecting her privacy. It is this harassment that is not humanly logical behavior; that is animalistic behavior.

So when you come to my mentions with your “fake caring questions,” get ready to receive the animalistic answer you deserve. Meanwhile, for those of us who care, we wish the Princess a calm and peaceful recovery surrounded by family and love.