The Crown will not let anything leak from the medical file of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, who underwent a successfully planned abdominal operation on January 16, 2024 – except that it is not cancer. We only know that Prince William’s wife was hospitalized in London, and that she will have to stay in bed for 10 to 14 days, before convalescence of two and a half months.
The memory of Jacintha Saldanha’s suicide
And while the tabloids across the Channel are panicking, the specter of Jacintha Saldanha resurfaces… She was the nurse in charge of Kate Middleton, in 2012, at the King Edward VII hospital. “A terrible memory…” recall our colleagues from Le Parisien. Indeed, at the time, when Kate Middleton was pregnant with her first child, Prince George, she suffered from debilitating nausea. While she was hospitalized, an Australian radio station called the hospital switchboard, posing as Queen Elizabeth II, to find out more about her medical file.
Kate’s nurse had been fooled and provided information. On December 6, 2012, as Kate Middleton finally left the hospital on the arm of Prince William, the radio station issued a brief apology for “any inconvenience caused” by their actions. St James’s Palace also said it did not blame nurses for their role in the hoax.
46 year old mother
Sadly, on the morning of December 7, 2012, Jacintha Saldanha was found dead by security personnel and other staff on the hospital premises. Mother of a 16-year-old son and a 14-year-old daughter, she committed suicide out of shame…
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