Rod Liddle: UK Correspondent on Princess Catherine announcing she's completed chemotherapy

The Princess of Wales has announced she's completed chemotherapy, calling it a relief.  

In a personal video released by Kensington Palace, Catherine says her focus is on staying cancer free, and she has a long path ahead to full recovery.  

She also says she'll undertake more public engagements in the coming months.  

UK correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking the video has gone down well.  

He says Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has wished her all the best and is glad she's through her chemo, and all people would likely think the same. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do the UK, we go around little very good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Mate, Good morning to you mate.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
How's the video going down on your particular part of
the world.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's difficult, it's going down very well. And the Keir
Starmer has wished Kate all the best and hope she
recovers from cancer very quickly and is gladually through her chemo,
and most people, what all people assume would would think
the same thing. But there is the question that's been raised,

(00:28):
I suppose over here is that we were never really
told and there's no great reason why we should be
the very very seriousness of this illness right at the outset,
and it was held from the public for quite a
long time, and it clearly, given the course of treatment,
given the state that Kate is now in, was a

(00:51):
rather more grave case of the illness than we had expected.
And obviously everyone now wishes to the She's made a
couple of public appearances, she's said that she's going to
do a number of light appearances in the next a
few months, so she's clearly not back to full speed,

(01:11):
and she said she's going to focus on recovering and
preventing cancer from coming back. But it must have been
an appalling time for her. She says, you know that
it has been incredibly tough for this last nine months,
and of course nine months takes us back really to
slightly before we knew anything was wrong, and I'm sure

(01:35):
it has been and all one could do is just
wish her every best wish in the world.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Couldn't agree more, And given that we don't know what
we were dealing with, and cancer is a difficult thing
at the best of times, she does look at I
think she looks remarkably well, doesn't she.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
She looks incredibly well given that this was one is suspected,
one suspects it quite advanced stage of cancer, and that
she has undergone this treatment and that she is now
focusing on banishing the cancer from returning. Yes, she does
work very well, and she's looked well on the couple

(02:14):
of public appearances that she's made in the last month
or so. But it has been a terrible time for
the royal family, you know, with the King himself suffering
from cancer and we don't know how well he is.
It seems to be slightly less serious in his case.
And then in the background, the troubles murmuring on with

(02:39):
Harry and Meghan in the States, and that issue never
really resolved, and I don't think it ever will be.
And of course the question of that large oath Andrew,
who seems to have been given his ambition noticed by
the King.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yes, exactly what what I mean? This thing has gone
on for months? Does he ring Andrew up and go
by the way? You can't stay by the way, I've
seen the peckers around, I mean, and he just what
locks the door and refuses to leave.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I think it's something like that. You know, Andrew lives
in the Grand Lodge in Windsor. Windsor has its castle,
of course, where the important people stay, but there are
also it's kind of like a center parks for royals.
There's various other little kind of outlets where they all
hold up. And he's got this lodge and has been

(03:32):
told he's got to get out of it or pay
the costs. And assume, I assume that King has acted
precipitously now to say you are out, in order not
to fall foul of the Labor Party or the Labor
Government's new Charter on rented accommodation, which comes into effect
quite soon and will banish people like King Charles from

(03:56):
evicting people from their own as if their lodgers.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Right now in Sport Lee Carsley last night I saw
of this was leading into the weekend. I think from
memory he wasn't going to sing. I take it he
didn't sing. Has he been sacked, hung drawn, quarted? What happened?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
He's been sacked, hung drawn and quarted by the Daily Mail,
but not by anybody else in the country, I don't think.
And his passion is his passage to becoming England manager properly.
His only interim at the moment has probably been helped
by stuffing Ireland to literally have been about five or six.

(04:34):
He kept his lips very firmly sealed. And it's just
such a quirk of fate that he would, in his
first job as England manager be brought up against the
team Ireland for whom he played forty times, because he
is Irish by dint of the fact that I think
he once got a postcard from someone who lived in
Cork and that Whippy is about it. It's roffl fewer

(05:00):
feathers than you would have thought. There is a sort
of outrage on the far right and amongst the and
of the days within the Daily Mail. You know, this
man shouldn't be But we've had managers before, Fabio Capello
who did murmur during the national anthem. We god knows
what he was murmuring. And Senor and Ericson who perhaps

(05:22):
whistled the national anthem as he was sort of squiring,
or Rika Johnson around town. But you know it is
it seems to be an absurdity that you would expect
an England manager to sign up to everything, and especially
to an anthem scribbled down in seventeen forty four by
anonymous peoples and which has got words with which no

(05:45):
one today would properly agree with.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
All right, Mike, we'll catch up those. I appreciate it.
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