Kate Middleton announced Monday, September 9, that she has completed her chemotherapy treatment and will undertake a light schedule of engagements until the end of the year.
“Doing what I can to stay cancer free is now my focus,” she said in a video message, about six months after revealing she had an unspecified form of cancer.
“The last nine months have been incredibly tough for us as a family,” Kate said, adding that the “cancer journey is complex, scary and unpredictable for everyone, especially those closest to you.”
“With humility, it also brings you face to face with your own vulnerabilities in a way you have never considered before, and with that, a new perspective on everything,” Kate said.
Slow music plays as she delivers her message via a voiceover on the video which was filmed in several locations including a forest, a beach and a field in Norfolk, a county in the east of England.
At times she is featured alone and at other times she is joined by her husband and heir to the British throne, Prince William, and their three children George, 11, Charlotte, 9, and Louis, 6.
Thanking people for the support she and her family received, she said that “although I have finished chemotherapy, my path to healing and full recovery is long and I must continue to take each day as it comes.”
“I am however looking forward to being back at work and undertaking a few more public engagements in the coming months when I can,” she added.
Kate has made a few public appearances since she revealed she had cancer in a video in March where she said she was undergoing “a course of preventative chemotherapy” on the advice of her medical team.
Kate revealed she had cancer just over a month after Buckingham Palace announced that her father-in-law, King Charles III, had also been diagnosed with the disease when he was hospitalized with an enlarged prostate. The palace has said that he does not have prostate cancer
