On a personal level - and this is all about two deeply personal royal crises - the Princess's diagnosis has also served to bring the King closer to his elder son and even closer to Catherine.
Windsor will be witnessing a very different sort of Easter this year. Last time, we saw a full turnout of the Royal Family in the spring sunshine at St George's Chapel. The chief concern back then was the countdown to the Coronation.
To listen to some of the commentariat this weekend, you might imagine that Buckingham Palace staff are in a bunker pondering an existential crisis. However, both the King and the Princess of Wales have made it very clear that they are not merely coping. Rather, they are looking ahead with a purpose and a resilient frame of mind.Within the King's household, the recurring worry is how to reduce a workload which he himself has no inclination to reduce. For amid the gloom, he has been greatly buoyed by a number of factors — as well as the sackloads of 'Get Well' cards from around the world.
He has long admired the way she has endured the brickbats of royal life, mellowed his son and heir, raised his grandchildren and built up an in-depth portfolio of charity work. The day after the recording, he also invited Catherine to lunch at the castle, no doubt by way of reassurance. Throw into the mix the row over the edited Mothering Sunday photograph plus news of an investigation into a potential data breach of her medical records — a thoroughly distressing thought for anybody — and you have layer upon layer of added stress at possibly the most stressful time of her life.
Ron Allison, then press secretary to the Queen, once told me that, although rumours abounded, the Palace had held the official announcement back to March 19, 1976. That, too, was the Friday on which the couple's young children broke up for the Easter holidays. Amid much political and global turmoil, the King has delivered the all-important continuity which monarchy is supposed to represent.
And when that led on to a cancer diagnosis, there was no attempt to obfuscate. The King was going to change the way he performed his duties rather than the duties themselves. Not a single core constitutional role has been affected. He is holding more audiences in person, not just with the Prime Minister but ambassadors, too. Plans are afoot for what Palace staff call 'a gentle ramping-up' as we approach the busiest period in the royal calendar.
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