Everyone close to the Royal Family is delighted that the Princess of Wales has completed her chemotherapy treatment and hopeful that she remains in remission from an unnamed form of cancer.
But the super-slick video that Kensington Palace released on Monday to broadcast the welcome update on her health has divided opinion among courtiers – and provoked scathing backlash from some friends of King Charles and Queen Camilla.
Their Majesties haven’t yet commented on the extraordinary three-minute film – made by Will Warr, who earns most of his money from shooting advertising campaigns for companies including supermarket giant Tesco and delivery service Uber Eats. It showed Prince William and Catherine frolicking on the beach and in woods in Norfolk with their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
But the highly-stylised video certainly laid bare how radically different Prince William and Catherine’s approach to communications has become from the more…