SARAH VINE:?After the 熱狂的興奮状態 over THAT photo, we all 借りがある Kate a big 陳謝… and I 含む myself

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Never explain, never apologise, the old 説 goes. But there are times when one must do both.

We all, to a greater or lesser extent, 借りがある the Prince and Princess of むちの跡s an 陳謝 ? myself 含むd ? for giving them such a hard time over that doctored Mother’s Day photo, 同様に as Prince William’s last-minute 決定／判定勝ち（する） to pull out of his godfather’s 記念の service.

に引き続いて the princess’s 告示 that she is 苦しむing from 癌 and in the 早期に 行う／開催する／段階s of 治療, it’s （疑いを）晴らす what was behind both. Such 破滅的な news is hard enough at the best of times; trying to を取り引きする a diagnosis as 脅すing as this one while also fending off endless 憶測 must be nigh on impossible.

With hindsight, everything 落ちるs into place. The photo, the 記念の service, the muddle over whether the princess would or would not be …に出席するing 軍隊／機動隊ing the Colour. It’s a lesson to us all to not be so quick to jump to 結論s, not to get swept up in 憶測 ? and a salutary 思い出の品 that, for all the 責任／義務s the 王室の Family carry, they are people, t oo, and they bleed like the 残り／休憩（する） of us.

In today’s world, the circumspection that 示すd the late Queen’s 統治する feels an anomaly. We now live in an age of over-株ing, where everyone complains pretty much all the time about the さまざまな 不正s, real or perceived, that afflict them.

We all, to a greater or lesser extent, 借りがある the Prince and Princess of むちの跡s an 陳謝

We now almost 推定する／予想する people to be open about every 面 of their lives, good or bad.

If they 持つ／拘留する 支援する, it somehow feels a little 怪しげな. What do you mean, you don’t want to tell the whole world all about your heartbreak/in-grown toenail/mental health struggles? When it comes to celebrities, 王室のs and 政治家，政治屋s, we feel we almost have a 権利 to know.

It has resulted in a subtle, but 否定できない cultural 転換, one which, when 連合させるd with the 広大な and unrestrained reach of the internet and the 有毒な 影響（力） of social マスコミ, can lead to vicious 嵐／襲撃するs of the 肉親，親類d the Waleses have been 支配するd to.

Someone such as the princess, who’s never once in all her years as a 王室の shown even a flicker of displeasure or uttered a word of （民事の）告訴, is very rare ? 特に in public life. And yet she’s always made herself so 利用できる to the public, not so much by 明らかにするing her soul, as Princess Diana did, but by 存在 the one reliable constant, by always and unfailingly showing up and 存在 on 陳列する，発揮する.

That is why her absence and the その後の 混乱 surrounding the Mother’s Day photo 原因（となる）d such alarm.

For those of us who 支払う／賃金 の近くに attention to the 王室のs, it was all just very out of character. The prince and princess always play such a straight bat: why on earth would they doctor a photo? Something just felt off, and now we know what.

Like many, I felt it was not the princess’s fault (though, characteristically, she took 責任／義務), more a failing on the part of Kensington Palace staff. They should have realised that it would 結局最後にはーなる raising more questions than it answered. Still, the fact remains that the 熱狂的興奮状態 it 原因（となる）d must have been very 苦しめるing to Kate in her 現在の 条件, and for that I am sorry.

Moreover, as a mother of two children who has いつかs had to 競う with the 影響s of life in the public 注目する，もくろむ (albeit on a much smaller 規模, of course), I know how hard it can be to manage the fallout from malicious rumours or the wilful misinterpretation of the facts. No 事柄 how hard you try to 保護物，者 them, you can never 保護する them 完全に.

With hindsight, everything 落ちるs into place. The photo, the 記念の service, the muddle over whether the princess would or would not be …に出席するing 軍隊／機動隊ing the Colour

And there is nothing that 重さを計るs more on a parent’s heart than seeing their child 苦しむ.

That is why those who also need to apologise ? and perhaps take a long, hard look at themselves at the same time ? are all those social-マスコミ 相場師s who fuelled the circus of cruel 共謀 theories around the princess, which 範囲d from the bonkers to the downright disgusting.

However 厳しい the 批評 by the mainstream マスコミ of the doctored photo, nothing （機の）カム の近くに to the rabid 無視（する） for the truth 展示（する）d by online trolls.

Even some celebrities couldn’t resist joining in: Kim Kardashian captioned a 最近の Instagram 地位，任命する ‘on my way to go find Kate’. And there are plenty more who 許すd themselves to be sucked in to the feeding frenzy.

It was （疑いを）晴らす from the princess’s heartbreaking ビデオ message that all this has taken its （死傷者）数.

She looked so very 壊れやすい and 攻撃を受けやすい, sitting all alone on a garden （法廷の）裁判, her 発言する／表明する trembling, 悲しみ in her 注目する，もくろむs, as she explained the circumstances of her diagnosis and the truth about the past few weeks.

Now that we finally see the 十分な picture, it’s （疑いを）晴らす that this 勇敢に立ち向かう and beautiful woman has had just about as much as she can take. The world needs to 支援する off now and give her and her family the space and time to 傷をいやす／和解させる.