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Over two years since Kate Middleton publicly revealed that she had been diagnosed with cancer, she is opening up about her recovery in a rare interview. Prince William acted as a guest editor for the UK magazine Country Life, and in the issue, his wife shared what a doctor warned her as she began her journey recovering from cancer treatment.
According to Kate, healing hasn’t been “linear” for her in the past couple of years, even though she’s been in remission since January 2025.
Kate shared what she was told by doctors while undergoing treatment.
Kate has never shared what type of cancer she faced (or any of the finer details of her treatment or her recovery) but she has shared comments here and there about her health.
This time, she’s getting a little more personal, telling the magazine about a conversation she had while she was hospitalized.
“I was told in hospital that my recovery would not be linear,” she said. “There will be good days and bad days, that it will take time. This is the same in nature. It shows us that periods of rest, reflection and renewal are equally as important as moments of growth.”
She said nature has played a big role in her recovery.
One of the things Kate has been very open about is how much spending time in nature has helped her in her recovery, and she emphasized that point in her new interview, sharing how nature has given her “hope” during a difficult time.
“I find hope in the lessons nature teaches: that, despite the challenges life may throw at us, we are not alone and that we’re interconnected with something bigger than ourselves,” she said. “Nature reminds us that change is inevitable.”
Kate continued, “We might not be able to have certainty or control every outcome, but we can do the small things, and those small things add up and do make a difference, if we nurture what is around us and have faith.”
Kate called healing a ‘collective experience.’
At the end of the interview, Kate said that discovering how much different parts of nature must come together for a common goal has given her hope in “the darkest of times.”
“It is actually very simple,” Kate told the outlet. “It’s spending quality time with each other, taking time to pay attention to the world around us, noticing ourselves and reconnecting to the things that matter to us. The things we have instinctively known since we were a child.”
‘That’s why nature has felt so important to me — it is a quiet teacher,” she added. “Sometimes, when life is very loud, a quiet teacher is exactly what we need.”
Here’s hoping Kate continues to heal.
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