Kate Middleton, will she be Time’s person of the year?

It’s there too Kate Middleton in the list of candidates including Time will choose its Person of The Year 2024. The magazine has already identified the CEO of the year (Lisa Su) and the athlete of the year (basketball player Caitlin Clark) and now there is great anticipation for the most representative character of 2024. The Princess of Wales made the shortlist for having sparked a «public debate on privacy and health for public figures», reports the magazine, which has been “electing” the character of the year since 1927.

Kate Middleton has returned to her public commitments after a very difficult year.

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The reasons that led to the name of Kate Middleton are undoubtedly valid, in the most difficult year for her, the one in which she was diagnosed with a cancer which inevitably distanced her from public life. English and they didn’t want to know. Did they have the right, because the princess is a public figure, or was it more her right, like anyone else’s, to protect herself and her family regardless of her role?

The British, for whom privacy is an inalienable right despite there being no law that mentions it, were satisfied with knowing that the princess was being treated, but abroad the attention was decidedly more morbid.

Prince William, Princess Kate and their children Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte
Kate Middleton reveals: «I finished chemo, the last nine months have been incredibly hard. Cancer is complex, scary and unpredictable.”
In a touching social video in which she appears with her husband William and their three children, the princess revealed that her path to complete recovery, although she has finished the chemo cycles, is still long: “I have to continue to take each day as it comes”

Whatever way you think, Kate Middleton would seem to have a good chance of being “elected”, perhaps not so much for the public debate, but more for her messages of resilience (a very overused word but in this case more than fitting). The last, the best, arrived at the beginning of last September, with the announcement of the end of chemotherapy: «To all those who are continuing their journey against chemotherapy cancer: I remain with you, side by side, hand in hand. From the darkness can come light, so let that light shine», the touching and heartfelt words of the princess.

Kate Middleton really made an impact on people during 2024, because with her words she became a symbol, a patient like all the others who entrusted herself to treatment hoping to get well. There is no fight against cancer, you cannot fight against something that does not depend on your will, but there can undoubtedly be empathy, the kind capable of binding unknown people who find themselves in the same storm. And this was very clear in the princess’s last message, because without hypocrisy Kate described cancer for what it is: “Complex, scary and unpredictable.” And it was this sincerity that brought her closer to the world like never before.

Kate Middleton at the Christmas concert in Westminster on December 6th.

Kate Middleton at the Christmas concert in Westminster on December 6th.

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The princess with her husband and children.

The princess with her husband and children.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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