Live Updates: Here’s the latest on the Princess of Wales’s Cancer news

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy, she announced in a video message on Friday, in which she described the past two months as “incredibly tough for our entire family.”

Her diagnosis follows that of King Charles III, who announced his own cancer diagnosis and treatment in early February. It comes after a period of intense uncertainty about the health of Catherine, who underwent abdominal surgery in January and largely disappeared from public view as she tried to recuperate.

The mood was somber Friday afternoon at Myers of Keswick, a shop on Hudson Street in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood that sells British goods like Hobnobs biscuits, Wilkin & Sons marmalade and steak and ale pie, after Catherine, Princess of Wales, announced that she was being treated for cancer.

Jennifer Myers-Pulidore, the store’s owner, said she had watched the announcement live on Instagram while simultaneously fielding alarmed texts from her father, Peter Myers, who opened the store 39 years ago and is now retired and living back in Keswick, England. As news filtered out about the princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis in London on Friday, just as the sun was setting on a mild spring evening, many expressed their shock and concern for a well-liked member of the British royal family, who is destined to one day be queen.

Buckingham Palace had urged the public to respect the privacy of Catherine as she recovered from a major abdominal surgery in January, but as the days drew into weeks, the rumor mill swirled — with conspiracy theories growing deeper and wilder — about what had been keeping such a prominent member of the royal family out of view.

Since King Charles III and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, each went to hospitals for health matters in recent months, public attention has been riveted on the royal family. The extended absence of Kate from the public eye, especially, propelled a wave of rumors over her whereabouts, fueled further by an edited photo released by the palace. Here is a quick timeline of key moments.