Kay Burley has reached out to Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, after she announced her cancer diagnosis in a video message which was played before the Six O'Clock News on Friday.
The 63-year-old Sky News presenter revealed that she is supporting her sister, who is also battling cancer, in a message directed to the royal who has was thought to be returning to public duties after Easter before the heartbreaking announcement yesterday. Kay has had her family battle cancer on numerous occasions and she took to her Instagram Stories on Saturday morning to share a selfie with her sister Jacqueline, who is also fighting the disease.
Kay captioned the snap with a message to the Princess of Wales : "Thoughts with Kate and her family and hugs to all families who are dealing with the spectre of cancer in their family. Especially my baby sister, Jacqueline, who has been stoic in her determination to take on a disease that claimed both my mother and my grandmother."
Kay Burley poses with her sister, Jacqueline, who is battling cancer (Instagram)Kay and her sister were full of smiles in the photo and Kay added: "Doesn't she look fabulous in her wig?" Kay has had a long established heartache with the disease as she has lost five close family members to cancer, including her mum, Kath, in 1993 and her grandmother, when Kay had only just become an adult.
Mother-of-three Kate revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy treatment after major abdominal surgery - though she refrained from saying what type of cancer she has.
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Kay Burley has reached out to Kate Middleton after her cancer diagnosis (Sky News/Youtube)In the video, which was said to have been recorded on Wednesday, the future queen said: "In January, I underwent major abdominal surgery in London and at the time, it was thought that my condition was non-cancerous. The surgery was successful. However, tests after the operation found cancer had been present. My medical team therefore advised that I should undergo a course of preventative chemotherapy and I am now in the early stages of that treatment."
Chris Ship, ITV News royal editor, has suggested that Princess Kate chose to share that she's undergoing treatment for cancer in a video message as a way for it to be "personal". During the ITV News, host Charlene White said about Princess Kate's video announcement: "It's a moment she chose to do on video, which is very different from doing it in a written statement. What can we read into that?"
Chris responded: "If you look back to how the King revealed his cancer diagnosis earlier this year, it was in a statement from Buckingham Palace. Kate has done it, I am told, in a video form because she wanted to do it in the most personal way possible. Yes, of course, it helps to silence all the conspiracy theorists as well, but she wanted to do the video message and it was a very moving message too. And she wanted to make that very personal statement herself."
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