Kate Middleton: The bench that unites the members of Britain’s royal family

A simple bench chose or to announce that it has, breaking up scriptology and also shocking international public opinion. Sitting on the bench, she announced through a video message that she was diagnosed with cancer and undergoing preventive chemotherapy to deal with it. The choice of the 42-year-old princess of Wales to use this simple setting, addresses the sentiment of the British, while sending an important message to each home in the United Kingdom. It was “a scene with which any family could identify,” said an expert on Kate Middleton’s image sitting on an external bench in Windsor Castle, in a spring sunny afternoon to make this shocking announcement. Kate, the bench and multiple messages Royal biographer Phil Dampier, speaking to Daily Mail, reported that “the narcissis in the background” and the “simple wooden bench” composed “a setting with which each family could identify as regards its own gardens”. “I thought it was done brilliantly, because it was in such a nice, relaxed, informal environment,” he added. Kate Middleton wore a striped sweater and jeans, giving a simple tone to the video in what Dampier described as an announcement entirely sudden and unexpected. He noted that, “there were moments when her voice trembled”, but the princess of Wales still “seemed to be in control” and “to persist in events”. “I think it was the right combination to pass a serious message, but not to be too dramatic,” he appreciated. A message from Catherine, The Princess of Wales — The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) The choice to film the video outdoors an hour when the sun was shining, helped the cancerous future queen pass the message, “that we face it and hope it is in good condition,” he argued, explaining: “I think if he had sat behind an office and inside, in an official setting… it might have been a little more grim”. Another royal analyst, Richard Fitzwilliams, described the announcement as “deeply touching”, adding: “It was not done in a palace room in Windsor Castle, it was on a simple bench. It could be in any park.” “There is a feeling that it was identified with all who have this disease and are vulnerable, there is no doubt about it,” Fitzwilliams concluded. In fact, many previous photographs and videos of Britain’s royal family focus around a bench. The late Queen Elizabeth was photographed with her children, Princess Anna and the current King Charles, in 1952 sitting outside at Balmoral Castle. Diana and Charles took a simple family photo with then young Prince William on a bench in Kensington Palace gardens. A more recent family photo was taken for Charles’ 70th birthday in 2018, with all of them in a wooden seat. But Megan Markle also released a children’s book of images in 2021 titled “The Bench” (The Pagaki), which was inspired by Prince Harry and their son Archie. Finally, the throne’s successor, Prince William, was immortalized in 2023 in a similar setting, marking his five-year schedule for the housing issue in the country.