Everyone waited Kate Middleton At the Royal Ascot which took place from 17 to 21 June 2025. His participation was given for certain. At the last, however, the princess did not show up, fueling the questions and rumors about her health. The explanations given by the pitfalls can be interpreted in different ways, but this does not justify someone’s alarmism at all. On the contrary, the absence of Kate could be part of the long, sometimes unpredictable recovery plan.
The name on the list
On June 18, Kate Middleton was supposed to attend the second day of the Royal Ascot, an event famous all over the world and highly expected by Royal Family British. His arrival was not a simple indiscretion, since the name of the princess appeared on the list, published on June 18, of the people who would participate in the traditional carriage parade, prelude to the beginning of the races. About twenty minutes after the dissemination of the list, the People reports, the Royal Palace announced that Kate would remain at home.
The Prince William He came to Royal Ascot alone, his carriage that followed Carlo III, Camilla and Prince Saud Bin Khalid al-Saud of Saudi Arabia. The future king was seen conversing with the mother -in -law, Carole Middleton, who arrived at the Royal Ascot together with Alizée Thévennet, wife of James Middleton, Kate’s brother.
The apparently sudden forfeit left fans of the Princess of Walesfomenting a renewed apprehension for his health conditions. The news made all to the first months of 2024, when the tension on Kate’s fate was to the stars due to its prolonged absence from public appointments, after the intervention at the abdomen of January 17 of that year. The announcement of the diagnosis of cancer, on March 22, 2024, silenced speculations and fake news.
Failure to participate in the Royal Ascot He had a great media echo also because Kate had already appeared at the Trooping The Color on June 14 and the Garter Day of June 16. It seemed almost obvious that it was also to the horse racing.
According to the Daily Beast the staff of Building He would have tried confusion and fear to the news of Kate’s forfait. A source said: Everyone wondered: ‘What’s going on?’. A minute before (Kate) was about to go (at the event), the minute later no longer. This is one of the most important days of the year in the royal calendar. Not (decide) on two feet to miss Ascot, for this there was a real feeling of panic. Strangely, the chaotic character of the announcement recalled the harmful days of last year to mind. People were bewildered and worried. “
“Balance”
Other insiders, on the other hand, have brought attention to the need, by the princess, to balance work and rest in this slow recovery phase. The gradual return to the duties of which the tabloids and Kate herself spoke. People specified in this regard: “(The princess of Wales) is sorry that he cannot be present, but those who are close to them specify that he still has to find the right balance while he is committed to return to public duties after the treatment against cancer”. On September 9, in fact, Kate declared that he had finished chemotherapy and on January 15, 2025 he announced that cancer was in remission. However the healing Complete is still a goal to be reached.
Because, then, Kate’s name was on list of the participants on the second day of the Royal Ascot? Many thought that the decision to cancel the commitment was made at the last minute, perhaps on medical advice. This made it think that William’s wife did not feel quite in force to participate, increasing doubts about her real conditions.
In the face of this hypothesis it would be right to specify that the way of the recoveryespecially in these cases, it is not linear, it is not an ideal path without obstacles and requires time. It can also be unpredictable: Kate herself, on June 14, 2024, wrote on Instagram: “I am making good progress, but as anyone who is doing chemotherapy will know, there are positive days and negative days”.
This alternation of good moments and less good moments can also return to the phases following the chemotherapy. A friend of Kate stressed in this regard to the Daily Beast: “From what I know, Kate was basically tired after Saturday’s Trooping The Color and Monday’s Garter Day and failed to face (Ascot). There are good days and bad days, as she herself candidly admitted”. An insider also told GB News: “(Recovery) was not roses and flowers”. All this, however, must not be automatically alarming, anguish.
The royal expert Ian Pelham Turner added to Fox News Digital: “I believe that Kate is still feeling the effects (of care) and, since it is still taking aggressive drugs, the doctors may have said to be careful. We have felt that apparently everything is fine and that Kate is making constant progress, but on some occasions there are still energy drops”. Not to mention that behind the non -participation of the Royal Ascot there may also be another explanation, that is, that Kate may have had a different nature of nature than hers illness. We are in the field of assumptions.
A “prudent” princess
Two days after the forfeit The People reported another version of the facts: apparently Ascot would initially make it public an incorrect list of the participants, “Despite a change made in the presence of the royal”. The situation appears rather confused: it is not clear why Kate would have decided to skip the Royal Ascot and not even when. According to the dynamics of the facts reported by the media it would seem a decision made quickly, a few hours after the event. The sources of GB News insist that Kensington Palace would have notified the absence of the princess in Ascot on June 18, but well in advance.
Among other things, the fact that Ascot published a list on which the name of Kate appeared would suggest that the initial intention of the latter was precisely to intervene. This too, however, does not mean that we must fear for the Health of the Princess of Wales. Whether the choice has been taken in time or suddenly all these doubts are not necessarily the symptom of something more serious.
The former spokesperson of the Regina ElisabettaAilsa Anderson, told People: “(Kate) is becoming prudent, listens to what her body tells her and is gradually returning to public life”. There would be nothing to be afraid of, no conspiracy. The problem would be another: something would have gone wrong in some point in the communication line between Kensington Palace and Ascot. In short, there would have been a “misunderstanding”as Mirror calls it, a communication error. The trouble is that it seems to attend a déjà vu.
Impossible to forget it scandal Of the photo retouched by Kate on the occasion of the Mother’s Day of 10 March 2024. The princess apologized the following day and the press agencies withdrawn the image, but it was now too late. The hypotheses of conspiracy that had already invaded the web in the previous weeks, also due to the silence of the royal palace on the real conditions of the future sovereign, intensified, becoming uncontrollable.
Kensington Palacethe places and events that host the real are always very attentive to the accuracy of the information. However, there is a margin of error impossible to reset and Royal Ascot could be demonstrated by it. For this reason, it is essential to continue to check that the news on the princess (and, in general, on the Royal Family) are communicated and are transposed promptly, in a scrupulous way and that any mistakes are corrected as quickly as possible, also taking into account the speed to which the news, rumors and, unfortunately, also fake news travel. It would be appropriate to avoid another scandal like that of the manipulated photo.
“Operation Reading Bridge”
On June 4, Le Figaro published an anticipation of the new book of the royal expert Bertrand Deckers, “Kate. Le Jour Où …”, published on 11 June 2025. Deckers reveals that all the details of the funeral of the Princess of Wales. The protocol would be called “Operation Reading Bridge”. A name with a special meaning, because Reading (Berkshire) is Kate’s birthplace. It would not have been the latter, however, to choose him, but Prince William. According to the author, the code name would be “Almost a declaration of love” Of the future king towards his wife and would highlight the profound link between the two and the involvement of William also as regards preparation for such a dramatic event.
The timing with which this indiscretion has been published is rather disturbing, perhaps someone could judge it even inappropriate, but this time there is nothing of being alarmed. The royals deal with the details of their funeral with a very large advance, even of decades. In general, Royal Family thinks about the future even in terms of generations, not months or a few years. It is not a question of cynicism, but of pragmatism.
There departure Of a senior member of the royal family it is also a historical moment and nothing can be left to chance. This is a non -procrastinable question, given its planetary echo. Everything about personal feelings must remain private. After all, the motto of the Royal Family is “Never Complain, Never Explain”“Never complain, never give explanations”. Just keeping these words in mind Kate will continue his battle together with Prince William, who “He will fight with his nails and teeth” To protect his wife and help her heal, as a source at GB News said, insisting on the fact that and the princess of Wales Stia “Resembling with all its existence, the entire balance between work and life”.
There is, however, another public appointment that Kate loves very much and to which, most likely, he will try to attend, finding the compromise between duty and rest of which we have
spoken: the tournament of Wimbledon. The competition will be held from 30 June to 13 July 2025. For now there is no official news regarding its presence. We just have to wait and see what will happen.