Breathe
By Laura Pérez Cisneros
There are evils that attack evenly, they get into your organism, they surprise you, it is as if they wanted to snatch the helm of life, like a hook to the liver that catches you unawares and yes, it tests your strength, your will to live and your attitude, cancer is merciless, it is vigilant while you battle against it, but even so, with all your fear, you hold its gaze and with a certainty that you do not know where it comes from you say: Here I am and I warn you, it will not be easy to face me.
The British royal family, the oldest and most important on the planet, has not been exempt from that, and it has been not one, but several members of the crown who have faced cancer. The forms and personality of each of them, give an account of how their battles have been.
King George VI was a heavy smoker, he died months after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, an illness he tried not to share with his daughters Elizabeth and Margaret to spare his princesses pain.
Elizabeth 's turn came , when she stepped off that plane from Africa in February 1952, she did so as a queen, a long reign of 70 years awaited her. Already in the final part of her life, Buckingham Palace only referred to her ailments as "mobility problems", one of the traits in the personality of the monarch, was to be stoic and so she applied it, she only shared her pain with those close to her.
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who saw the Queen two days before her death at Balmoral Castle on September 8, 2022, has revealed in his memoirs that the Queen did not die of old age as the official report states, but that she suffered from bone cancer, the world was left with that last image of her smiling, with a kilt, bruises on her hands but committed to her people until the end, her illness was her decision, she did not want it to be public.
The year 2024 has been a year of royal battles, King Charles III decided to change the course of the family history of his mother and grandfather and applied that wise phrase that says: "The king has to be seen to be credible". Charles III a year and 4 months after assuming the throne decided to inform that he would undergo a prostate intervention, his courage touched thousands of men who ran to undergo tests but then announced that he had cancer without specifying where in his 75 years, now with a team of doctors, Charles and Camilla traveled to Australia for an official visit are encouraging news for the health of the monarch.
Also the King's sister-in-law, the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson turned writer and now "Tik Toker", has won 2 rounds, the first a breast cancer diagnosed in the summer of 2023, her new breast she has nicknamed "Derek"; Beatrice and Eugenie's mother says that "he is a new friend who protects her with his shield". Round two was skin cancer. Fergie revealed that the feelings she experienced then were of "emptiness, of absolute fear". "I couldn't express myself, I just closed in on myself, I went back to being a little girl." But having overcome the struggle, the 65-year-old Duchess is back to smiling "It's now that I'm really proud of my scars. They are really important.
What was not expected, after being "media hoopla" by the media, is that the "Crown Jewel", Kate, Princess of Wales, who underwent abdominal surgery earlier this year, also faced a personal struggle, a cancer for which she finished her treatment in the summer.
At this time, the future queen consort has perhaps spent sleepless nights, tears that are kept on her pillow, yes, the fear of those who have lived through this, the fear that comes from seeing that after undergoing studies, your life is stored in a laboratory envelope and is repeated every six months, every year, for life... and not even being a princess saves you from that. These are not fairy tales, these are true stories.
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