Little information has filtered out on the reasons for this operation. Princess Kate, wife of the heir to the British throne William, has been hospitalized since Tuesday in London for a “scheduled” surgical operation, her services announced on Wednesday, specifying that she would probably not resume her public functions before the end of March.
We only know that it is a planned surgical procedure and that it concerns the abdominal part according to the press release published Wednesday by Kensington Palace.
The princess, aged 42, “was admitted to the London Clinic yesterday for elective abdominal surgery,” according to the Palace press release. “The operation was successful and she is expected to remain in the hospital for ten to fourteen days,” it said. The princess is not expected to appear at official events before Easter, the statement said.
As a public figure and the wife and mother of a future pretender to the throne, the princess’s health has always been scrutinized by newspapers and tabloids. Thus, during her pregnancy, her hyperemesis gravidarum was widely publicized. There are also rumors of anorexia which have often been reported about him without any official communication confirming the facts (unlike Stéphane Bern during an intervention on BFM TV in 2012).