Prince William Was ‘Crestfallen’ After Hearing About Kate’s Cancer News: ‘Devastating for Him’

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00:00How does Kate influence the decisions that William makes on a regular basis?

00:04Because I know they talk a lot.

00:06You can see it even before a speech.

00:09I remember being on that trip to Belize and he was about to deliver a speech.

00:13So I was right. I was on the road to watching it.

00:16And he was looking for not necessarily reassurance, but, you know,

00:22he was just turning to her.

00:23It's a very important relationship.

00:25I think one that's been, you know, they they can do their things on their own.

00:29And when they do it, they do it very well.

00:31But they clearly are a very much would have talked over lots of things

00:35and lots of how to do what the job is entailed and what speech,

00:40which is clear.

00:41He would have got various speeches as he did with her when she was making them.

00:46So I think that they're very much

00:49very close friends and advisors and partners, as well as

00:52lovers and husbands and wives.

00:54Yeah. You know, like you were kind of saying, they presented as such a team.

00:58How do you feel like maybe like her cancer diagnosis is impacting that at all?

01:02If it's made them stronger as a unit, how do you think that's?

01:06He was completely crestfallen, William, when he heard the news

01:09so soon after his father's news, it was devastating for him.

01:14And I think, you know, you can almost imagine the the lump in your throat

01:18or the sort of empty feeling in his stomach.

01:20That's what he would have been going through.

01:22People I spoke to said he was like for that moment, you know, wobbled him.

01:26There's no doubt about that.

01:27He was he was. But she was very stoic.

01:30The king was very stoic.

01:31And I think they both said to him, we now need you.

01:36Actually, very interesting to Camilla was very, very important role model here, too.

01:41And they let him say, we need you now to stand up to the plate.

01:44And he did. I mean, you know, no one can say that he didn't.

01:47And and I think that she has been good

01:51in making sure that that happens and that she's shown

01:54shown him that, you know, she's there for him as well as him there for her.