LONDON. Far from “annus mirabilis”, as everyone at Buckingham Palace hoped after a 2023 plagued by the heavy public accusations of Harry and Meghan. This year has started in the worst way for the Royal Family. After Kate’s mysterious hospitalization for abdominal surgery on which silence has fallen and King Charles III’s imminent hospitalization due to an enlarged prostate, here is another serious illness in the family. A new shock for the United Kingdom and for this increasingly fragile and stunted monarchy.
This time, it was her who received a bad diagnosis Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and controversial ex-wife (although still living together) of the discredited Prince Andrew. For her it is an “aggressive form of skin cancer”, as her spokespersons revealed. Just a few months ago, the 64-year-old duchess was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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A “malignant melanoma”
“Following this circumstance last summer,” explains a spokesperson for Sarah Ferguson, “a malignant melanoma has now been found”, the most serious of skin cancers. “Her dermatologist had requested the removal of several moles before she underwent plastic reconstruction surgery following her mastectomy. One of those moles, however, was identified as cancerous.”
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Now, the duchess will undergo new tests to make sure the disease does not spread to other parts of the body. “But the Duchess,” continues the spokesperson, “is happy that her experience can be of teaching to other people. In any case, she remains in good spirits.”
Breast cancer last year
As Sky News recalls, Sarah Ferguson last year she had undergone an eight-hour single mastectomy and reconstruction surgery after being diagnosed with breast cancer during a routine mammogram. Until then, she had not had any symptoms, in fact she would later admit that she was about to give up on the appointment, before being convinced otherwise by her sister. After the operation, the duchess said she was “proud” of the operation: like “a medal of merit”.
The woman, who will be treated by specialist Andrew Furness of the Royal Marsden Hospital (the same one where Gianluca Vialli was hospitalized), has two daughters with Prince Andrew, Eugenia and Beatrice. Just last Christmas, after many years, the duchess reappeared with the rest of the family at mass at Sandringham, on the royal estate in Norfolk. Ferguson had not been invited to a collective event of the Royal Family since 1992, the year of her separation from Andrea and of the scandalous photos of her topless in France with her American lover John Bryan, while he kissed and licked her feet she.
But 1992 was also the “a terrible year” for the Windsors, as Queen Elizabeth branded it: the troubles between Ferguson and Andrea, but also the publication of the explosive memoirs of Lady Diana signed by Andrew Morton, Princess Anne’s other divorce from her husband Mark Phillips, and a bad fire at Windsor Castle. Now, in a few weeks, Sarah Ferguson he is the third member of the “firm” to receive a worrying diagnosis from doctors. Another “annus horribilis” for the Royal Family.
2024-01-21 19:21:15
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