Editorial: Why Princess Kate’s personal cancer update should provide inspiration for us all

EDITORIAL With autumnal shades and almost wistful overtones, the happy family strolling through the countryside marked a conspicuously different approach to a royal proclamation. Emerging from her chemotherapy battle, target="_blank">Princess Kate’s intensely personal video message last week should provide comfort and inspiration for many New Zealanders. Walking through wheat fields, fluttering butterflies, weeping willows, driving a manual Land Rover, and being kissed on the cheek by her affectionate Prince husband, it was a stark shift from the traditional black-and-white and matter-of-fact press release on royal headed paper.

Catherine, Princess of Wales’ three-minute video, which served to announce her cancer chemotherapy treatment is over, has been widely dissected, with commentators looking for its “hidden meanings” ..