Prince William's Former Aide Opens Up About 'Lowest' He's Ever Seen The Royal
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Jason Knauf worked with the Prince of Wales until 2022.
A former aide and adviser to Prince William has opened up about the exceedingly difficult time the Wales family had last year.
“Within a couple of weeks, if you’re Prince William, you find out that both your wife and your father have cancer,” Jason Knauf told “60 Minutes Australia” in a new interview released Sunday. “I couldn’t believe it.”
When the interviewer asked about Knauf’s own phone call with William after Kate’s shock diagnosis, the former adviser called it “awful ― absolutely awful.”
“It’s the lowest I’ve ever seen him,” Knauf said, before explaining that “the problem was that all this crazy sort of conspiracy theory stuff kicked off in the background, online. ‘Was she really ill?’”
“But [William and Kate] didn’t want to say yet that she had cancer because they hadn’t told the children, and they were still working through how to tell the children,” he said.
