Prince William is calling 2024 the most “dreadful” year of his life following the respective cancer diagnoses of his father, King Charles III , and his wife, Princess Kate Middleton . “It’s probably been the hardest year in my life,” William, 42, admitted in a candid interview from Cape Town, South Africa at a Wednesday, November 8 Earthshot Prize event . “So, trying to get through everything else and keep everything on track has been really difficult.
” He added, “I’m so proud of my wife, I’m proud of my father, for handling the things that they have done.” “It’s been brutal,” the future monarch said. Buckingham Palace announced Charles’ cancer diagnosis in early February.
More than a month later, Kate sat down for a video in which she revealed that, after months of speculation, she had been undergoing chemotherapy for a cancer diagnosis. (Neither have disclosed the type of cancer they were diagnosed with.) While Charles’ treatments are still ongoing, Kate shared publicly in September that she had completed chemotherapy .
“She’s doing well,” the Prince of Wales shared. William’s candid chat came on the tail end of his trip to Cape Town, South Africa for this year’s Earthshot Prize ceremony , which was held on Wednesday, November 6. “I’m really pleased with the progress we’ve made so far,” William said of the initiative, which he founded in 2020.
“We’ve built something from scratch. It’s a global environmental prize. It t.