Earlier this year, it was reported that several of the Princess of Wales’ senior staffers hadn’t spoken to their boss for an extended period of time after her abdominal surgery and before the world found out that she had been diagnosed with cancer (which she revealed during a moving video message on March 22). It all makes sense now, but her reported radio silence must have seemed especially jarring to staffers at the time, because she’s typically a “caring” boss who has been known to have a laugh with staffers, former royal butler Grand Harrold said, per OK.
“With Kate, she was just fun to be around,” Harrold said. “The thing I remember is, she was quite caring, asking how I was, how my family were. In parts of conversations, we’d be giggling and laughing.”
