Last year completely upended Prince William and Kate Middleton ’s life as they knew it: in a year William called “brutal” last November, both his wife and his father, King Charles, were diagnosed with cancer.

Kate Middleton and Prince William are now stronger than ever. From 2020 to 2025, the couple has been faced with a slew of challenges that have threatened to rock the foundation of the monarchy. Recent years have seen the deaths of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II take place,

They might not be a couple famed for their public displays of affection, but after the intensity of the Princess of Wales’s and King Charles III’s cancer battles, it has now been revealed that Kate Middleton and Prince William are, in fact, in a new phase of their lives.