Kate Middleton 'wrote every word' of emotional cancer announcement, friend says: report

In the days following Kate Middleton's shock cancer announcement, a purported close friend of the princess is sharing insight into why she chose to be so transparent and how she approached recording a video for the public.

"It allowed her to speak directly to the public who, overwhelmingly, have always been with her and her family and who don’t buy into the noise and gossip," an unnamed friend of the Princess of Wales told The Sunday Times. "It was all her, she wrote every word of it, it came together very quickly," they added of Catherine's emotional message.