Middleton announced a new role as Joint Patron of The Royal Marsden Hospital, where she underwent chemotherapy last year.
Kate Middleton is on the road to recovery.
The royal revealed she is officially in remission from cancer in a post to the official Prince and Princess of Wales Instagram account on Tuesday. She first revealed her diagnosis in March 2024.
“It is a relief to now be in remission and I remain focused on recovery,” she wrote. “As anyone who has experienced a cancer diagnosis will know, it takes time to adjust to a new normal. I am however looking forward to a fulfilling year ahead. There is much to look forward to. Thank you to everyone for your continued support.”
The Princess accompanied the post with images from her first official engagement of the year – a visit to London’s Royal Marsden Hospital.
“I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to The Royal Marsden for looking after me so well during the past year,” she began the post. “My heartfelt thanks goes to all those who have quietly walked alongside [Prince William] and me as we have navigated everything.”
The March announcement of Middleton’s diagnosis quickly extinguished a firestorm of rumors that had whipped up about the health and well-being of the Princess. At the time, Middleton hadn’t appeared in public since the previous Christmas. After the Associated Press had to take down a Mother’s Day photo of Middleton and her family that was proven to be digitally altered, concern morphed into full-blown conspiracy theorizing.
Middleton eventually revealed that a January 2024 abdominal surgery uncovered evidence of cancer, leading her medical team to advise preventative chemotherapy treatments.
Celebrities from Blake Lively (“photoshop fail“) to Andy Cohen (“That ain’t Kate“) who made jokes about Middleton’s absence from the public eye issued apologies after the revelation of her diagnosis. She made her first public appearance following that disclosure in June at Trooping the Colour, a ceremonial parade in honor of King Charles’ birthday.
Middleton also took the opportunity of today’s remission announcement to make a second announcement – “my new role as Joint Patron of The Royal Marsden.” She expressed hope that her appointment to the position will “save many more lives, and transform the experience of all those impacted by cancer” by “supporting groundbreaking research and clinical excellence, as well as promoting patient and family wellbeing.”
In a second post from The Royal Marsden, Middleton meets with patients undergoing cancer treatments, praising in the caption “the work of a hospital that has done so much for so many.”
