#Pray for Catherine

[trexalicious]

Pray for Catherine

Dear Heavenly Father, We come before you with heavy hearts, lifting Princess Catherine up to you in prayer. In her battle against cancer, we ask for your divine guidance, strength, and healing touch. Surround her with your comforting presence, Lord, and grant her the courage to face each day with faith and determination.

May your love be a source of hope and encouragement, sustaining her during moments of doubt and fear. Bring peace to her heart and mind, knowing that she is never alone in this journey. Provide her solace and strength during her treatment. We ask for wisdom for her medical team, that they may provide the best care possible.

Grant Catherine and her loved ones strength to endure the challenges ahead, and may they find solace in your unfailing grace. May your healing power flow through her body, restoring her to full health and vitality.

We entrust Catherine into your loving hands, believing in your promise of restoration and renewal. In your mercy, hear our prayers and bring comfort to her spirit. Amen.

[trexalicious]

This! Perfectly said...👏👏👏👏👏

It was always going to end this way. The truth about Catherine Middleton’s absence is far less funny, whimsical, or salacious than the endless memes and conspiracy theories suggested.

In a video recorded and broadcast by the BBC, the princess says she has cancer and that she had retreated from the public eye to deal with her condition, while attempting to shield her children from the spotlight.

Instead, she had to contend with the internet giggling about whether she’d had a Brazilian butt lift.

My colleague Helen Lewis summed it up succinctly this afternoon: “I Hope You All Feel Terrible Now.”

What is there to learn from such a sad situation? The internet is made up of people, yet its architecture abstracts this basic truth.

As I wrote a few weeks ago, at the center of this months-long story was essentially “a sea of people having fun online because it is unclear whether a famous person is well or not.”

Underneath the memes was always something a little bit gross and indefensible.

Perhaps humans are just wired this way — to gawk and gossip.

There’s nothing new about hounding a member of the royal family or invading the privacy of a celebrity to sell tabloids or go viral.

You don’t even have to be a scold about it: Famous people are wealthy and beloved at least in part because they’re fun to talk about.

Exactly what we do and don’t know about their internal lives is part of the allure — the discourse comes with the territory to a degree.

But Catherine Middleton, of course, is a human too.

During this saga, I kept thinking about the reappraisal of Britney Spears in 2021, as well as the backlash toward past media and tabloid coverage of her rise.

A New York Times documentary dredged up old coverage of Spears from the mid-aughts, showing a young woman clearly in distress, being picked apart by glossy magazines.

Her suffering became entertainment. The response to this film was swift.

Some of the people and institutions that had shamelessly delighted in her pain backtracked: Glamour publicly apologized to the pop star on its Instagram account, noting, “We are all to blame for what happened to Britney Spears.”

Contrast the Spears reckoning with the Middleton drama and, if you’re being generous, you can see some of that newfound attitude in the media.

I was struck by Lewis’s observation that “Britain’s tabloid papers have shown remarkable restraint” throughout this mess.

Progress, perhaps, but what’s also telling is that they didn’t really need to do the dirty work: Random people on the internet were doing it for them.

They recklessly speculated, memed, and used their amateur sleuthing and networked faux expertise to concoct elaborate, semi-plausible explanations for her absence.

Was Catherine’s face actually Photoshopped from a Vogue spread? It wasn’t, but the conspiratorial tweet got 51.1 million views anyhow.

Missing from much of the discourse was the idea that its main character was a person who was likely struggling.

In essence, the internet democratized the tabloid experience, turning the rest of us into paparazzi and addled editors workshopping headlines and cover images — not to sell magazines but to amass some kind of fleeting online popularity.

In my least charitable moments, I see this toxic dynamic as the lasting legacy of social media — a giant, metrics-infused experiment in connectivity that has had a flattening, pernicious effect.

In 2021, I interviewed Elle Hunt, a journalist who’d tweeted an innocuous opinion about horror movies one evening and woke up to find she was trending on Twitter, her feeds choked with thousands of furious replies and threats.

When I asked her to describe the experience of becoming Twitter’s main character for the day, she summed it up thusly:

“You’re repurposed as fodder for content generation in a way that’s just so dehumanizing.”

Three years later, these words resonate even stronger.

What Hunt described to me then as “a platform failure,” feels to me now like a learned behavior of the internet, where people, famous and not, are repurposed as fodder for content generation. The cycle repeats itself endlessly.

This afternoon, the memes about Middleton shifted — from jokes about her whereabouts to jokes about how awful it was that everyone had been making fun of a cancer patient.

Feeling bad about the memes tweets immediately became a meme unto themselves.

Despite the tone shift, the reason for these posts is the same: They’re a way to take a person and repurpose their life for entertainment and engagement.

If this sounds exhausting and depressing, it’s because it is.

But the internet is also too big to be one thing. Clicking through social media this afternoon, I saw dozens of heartfelt testimonials, apologies, and well-wishes for the princess.

For a moment, from my perspective, it felt like watching a collective of people come to their senses.

A recognition, perhaps, of the humanity of the person at the center of the maelstrom.

Then, only a few seconds later, I saw a different post. It was a screenshot from the blockchain platform Solana, where users can create their own cryptographic tokens for others to invest in.

The name of the token in the screenshot is “kate wif cancer,” and its logo is a still of the princess sitting on a bench, taken from this afternoon’s video.

The coin’s market cap briefly surpassed $120,000. Only six minutes later, the price had cratered — the result of a standard memecoin sell off.

An awful thing happened. Some people made a joke about it. Other people made some money. And then everyone moved on.

NOTE: Edited

[trexalicious]

This photo has clearly been edited/manipulated as that's not what Mrs. Harry looks like in unfiltered real life. Blurred perfection with no trademark freckles, no wrinkles or even pores. So where's the outrage? Where's the 'this photo has been manipulated' label? #MEDIA HYPOCRISY

[anonymous-stawberry]

This is so beautiful 😍

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

[trexalicious]

And this is how you Royal...❤ #Pray for Catherine or leave her alone

The Princess of Wales. 🙌🏼💐

[apenitentialprayer]

detail of Catherine's Father Finds Her Praying With The Dove of the Holy Spirit Above Her Head

God is, in fact, continually creating you through all your experience, and you are the indispensable co-creator.

- Thomas Hart, "What to Expect in Christian Spiritual Direction"

[trexalicious]

Dear Princess Catherine, In the face of your battle with cancer, your strength shines like a beacon of hope for many. Your courage in the midst of adversity is truly inspiring! Please remember that even on the darkest days, you are always surrounded by love and support from those both near and far. Your strength, resilience and determination are qualities that will carry you through this journey. Stay strong, keep faith, and know that you are cherished beyond measure! Sending you endless encouragement, prayers, and positive energy as you navigate this challenging time. 🙏

[little-bunny-in-space]

Dear God, my lovely Father,

I jus a babey….

[trexalicious]

Where's the outrage? Where's the media? Oh that's right Christopher 'witchunt' Bouzy only goes after anyone who disagrees with Mr. and Mrs. Harry...

SUSSEX SQUAD Bot Army’s Targeted HATE Campaigns against ROYALS

[reireichu]

We’ll forever have the scars.

Part IV - patron saint of my demise.

“You look so much like your mother in that light, especially with that temper. I wasn’t expecting that.”

“I’m sorry, do I know you?”

“That’s Daemon,” Aegon says flatly. “My uncle.”

The fact that I had to put a tag for “daemon being daemon” is the biggest red flag I could wave and yet here we are, folks.

Honestly at this point, everyone needs therapy. It’s a modern!au why isn’t ANYONE IN THERAPY??????

Read more madness here on AO3.

[sweetbunanarchy]

But uh yeah...girls-

[trexalicious]

❤ Her sweet brother

😢

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Catherine's Good News 🎗

Curable Cancer 🎗

no metastasis 🎗

lymph nodes = cancer free!!! 🎗

margins = cancer free!!! (margins of removed malignant tissue are cancer free) 🎗

malignancy was isolated to 1 area & surgically removed 🎗

adjuvant treatment offered as an option in lower doses of systemic poison to prevent recurrence 🎗

Catherine will overcome this malignancy 🎗

Catherine's bad news 🎗

cancer is out however pathology revealed cancer cells had "access" to her lymphatic channels 🙏

preventative chemotherapy is still poison🙏

Adjuvant Treatment will guarantee zero recurrence

[anonymous-stawberry]

Caption in this post spot on ❤️

[fideidefenswhore]

not for this to be the hill i die on or whatever but oh my god, ‘her parents were the catholic monarchs’ is not an argument. what is there to suggest her parents were any more against sin/more pious than arthur’s? catherine would later complain that during fasting periods at the tudor court, you could not receive meat to consume ‘even if you were dying [...] they look upon anyone that eats it as heretics’ , which suggests the early tudor court might have been even more rigorously catholic than her parents by comparison, at least in some respects...