Kate Middleton’s terrible loneliness explained: privately protecting her…

A figure close to the British Royal Family has speculated Kate Middleton must have felt lonely in her battle with cancer as the 43-year-old Princess of Wales had to privately undergo chemotherapy.

The mother-of-three received her diagnosis of the disease in January 2024 and spent the following nine months trying to stave it off, before finally announcing she completed her chemo in September.

In the meantime, she withdrew from the public eye and whilst there were reports she may have lost her hair or may be battling with weight loss and other symptoms of treatment, nobody outside of her circle actually saw her.

Now an insider theorizes that to keep her treatment hush, she must have had to undergo a lot of it without the support of fellow battlers and survivors to protect her privacy at the Royal Marsden Hospital. The insider thinks she must have felt isolated.

“Going through the back door unseen while going through the treatment must have been pretty lonely,” the source told PEOPLE. “When you see these other people when they’re having their chemotherapy, they were doing it as a group, with a support mechanism.”

Princess returns to cancer battleground
Middleton did admit that her treatment was private, although she still had the support of Prince William and their children as well as her own parents; and her parents-in-law, the King and Queen Consort.

On Tuesday, January 14, she returned to the hospital on a visit to the cancer ward to thank the staff who helped her and to try to lift the spirits of those fighting the condition she knows all too well.

“I had to do it privately and quietly, but being on a ward like this has to be reassuring in a way,” the Princess told Katherine Field, who was attending her fourth chemotherapy session for breast cancer. Nonetheless, she thanked the hospital for their efforts.

I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to The Royal Marsden for looking after me so well during the past year,” Middleton said in a statement posted to X.com, formerly Twitter. “My heartfelt thanks goes to all those who have quietly walked alongside William and me as we have navigated everything.

“We couldn’t have asked for more. The care and advice we have received throughout my time as a patient has been exceptional.”