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WORDS: Alice Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-19-at-17.59.55.png” alt=”relaxed woman” title_text=”Screenshot 2024-01-19 at 17.59.55″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n It\u2019s been a worrying week for the Royal family. On Wednesday, separate statements from Buckingham and Kensington Palace revealed that King Charles will attend hospital for an enlarged prostate and Kate Middleton this week underwent major abdominal surgery. Kate\u2019s surgery is said to have been \u2018successful\u2019 and she will be recovering in hospital for 10 to 14 days. Meanwhile,\u00a0Buckingham Palace announced the King will go to hospital next week for the \u2018corrective procedure\u2019, but that his condition was benign.<\/p>\n But amongst all the well wishes and concern, it didn\u2019t take long for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle and Harry, to get pulled into the conversation about the royal family\u2019s health. Despite them being over 5,000 miles across an ocean in Montecito. Since the news about Charles and Kate broke, there have been a slew of headlines and social media trolling of the couple which, once again, feels cruel, predictable and nonsensical.\u00a0<\/p>\n Some headlines this week have suggested that Harry and Meghan have remained \u2018silent\u2019 amid the health struggles of Prince Charles and Kate, because they haven\u2019t (publicly, at least) joined in with the well wishes from other celebrities like Giovanna Fletcher and John Torode. Other headlines have simply focused on how Prince Harry was pictured going to the gym the day before the Palace made announcements about the royal family\u2019s respective surgeries. Some \u2013 really pushing it considering the Palace have specifically asked for the Princess of Wales\u2019 condition to remain private – have even suggested that Kate faced \u2018emotional strain\u2019 from Harry and Meghan\u2019s ongoing royal\u00a0drama in the months leading up to her surgery.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n The first thing to note here is that we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on behind the scenes. Just because there has been no public statement from the Sussexes, who\u2019s to say they haven\u2019t sent their well wishes in private? It also feels unfair that Meghan and Harry are once again being dragged into the conversation. The real news is that Charles and Kate have sadly had to go through serious medical procedures \u2013 not that Harry has nipped to the gym to get his daily step count in. What would a statement have done but spawned a thousand more headlines of speculation and hate on social media, at a time when someone is ill? Every word would\u2019ve been poured over for \u2018hidden meaning\u2019. It seems understandable in that context Harry and Meghan would \u2018stay silent\u2019 in public. For the Sussexes, if they speak they\u2019re centring themselves \u2013 and if they don\u2019t, they\u2019re silent. There\u2019s no winning.<\/p>\n On social media, the vitriol against Meghan and Harry is even more toxic, with some users going as far as to suggest that they bet Meghan was \u2018deliriously happy\u2019 when hearing the news about Kate and Charles. On the other side Meghan and Harry\u2019s \u2018supporters\u2019 on social media have also been posting nasty comments about Kate\u2019s surgery, with one even branding it \u2018payback,\u2019 which of course is horrifying. The Daily Mail\u2019s diary editor Richard Eden summed this up in a post on X, where he wrote \u2018Some of the posts on here about the Princess of Wales’s health problems from #PrinceHarry and #Meghan’s supporters really disgust me.\u2019<\/p>\n Of course, the way some people are hounding Kate after she has gone through serious surgery is plain nasty. But it\u2019s highly likely the Sussexes think this is the case too. We mustn\u2019t forget that they have no control over what their so called \u2018supporters\u2019 say online, and they have previously very critical of the way hate is perpetuated on social media. In 2021, Harry and Meghan abandoned social media all together after becoming disillusioned with all the \u2018hate\u2019 they encountered online.\u00a0To suggest they would in any way sanction messages against Kate is complete fantasy. Again, staying quiet could be a way to keep all of this as low level as possible.<\/p>\n Because given their views on social media, it\u2019s likely the Sussexes would be equally outraged at the vitriol directed towards Kate, especially since they underwent similar experiences themselves. In a podcast to mark World Mental Health Day, Meghan spoke about the \u2018almost unsurvivable\u2019 toll of online abuse and said she was the most trolled person in the world in 2019.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m told that in 2019 I was the most trolled person in the entire world, male or female,\u2019 she said. \u2018Now, eight months of that I wasn\u2019t even visible, I was on maternity leave or with a baby. But what was able to just be manufactured and churned out, it\u2019s almost unsurvivable, that\u2019s so big, you can\u2019t think of what that feels like, because I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re 15 or 25, if people are saying things about you that aren\u2019t true, what that does to your mental and emotional health is so damaging.\u2019<\/p>\n There have also been comments about the Royal Family struggling to fill the gaps at engagements, left by King Charles, Kate and William during their recoveries and caring responsibilities. Of course, this has led some to joke about Harry coming back into the fold (Piers Morgan jokingly asking if he could be \u2018interim King\u2019). But more upsettingly for all involved, some have weaponised the illnesses against the Sussexes, by inferring they\u2019ve abandoned the family and now left them unable to cope and fulfil Royal duties in hard times.<\/p>\n Because no-one actually knows where Harry, William and Charles\u2019 relationship stands at the moment, speculation has been rife not only about whether well wishes have been sent, but how much the Sussexes knew about the procedures. There\u2019s been stories claiming Harry may have heard about Charles\u2019 prostate diagnoses from the media, rather than the Palace itself. That may or may not be, but after all the family has been through, these stories seem difficult to swallow. It isn\u2019t known whether Harry and William are speaking after the rift caused by Harry\u2019s bombshell memoir, Spare, although it has been reported that Harry and Charles are on talking terms. But is it really our business whether Harry has made a phone call to wish members of his family well? Not really. Health is a very private matter as it is, even when it comes to the Royals who live most of their life in the public eye.<\/p>\n So, instead of using this as an opportunity to pry about family feuds or tear down Harry and Meghan even further, why don\u2019t we all just focus on the matter in hand: wishing Kate and Charles a speedy, and healthy, recovery.\u00a0Because if we\u2019re being honest \u2013 and human \u2013 it\u2019s probably likely that\u2019s what\u2019s happened behind the scenes.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n IMAGE: Getty<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a difficult week for the British Royal family, things are only being made worse by bringing Harry and Meghan into the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-news"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"revans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}speculation has been rife not only about well wishes, but how much the Sussexes knew about the procedures<\/h2>\n
is it really our business whether Harry has made a phone call to wish members of his family well?<\/h2>\n