Last Thursday, March 21—one day before the Princess of Wales announced via video message that she is battling cancer—King Charles traveled from London out to Windsor Castle to have lunch with his daughter-in-law.
Both Charles and Kate are battling cancer—the exact type and stage for both are heretofore unknown and will likely remain so—and both found out about their respective cancer diagnoses after undergoing procedures for other, separate health issues. To some, that Thursday lunch at Windsor Castle symbolized two of the most famous people globally breaking bread; at its core, though, was just a father-in-law and a daughter-in-law, enmeshed in a health struggle neither could have asked for or predicted, making sure the other was doing okay both physically but also emotionally, as the eyes of the world are upon them both.
