Kate Middleton Shortlisted For Person Of The Year After 'Random' Year
Princess Kate Middleton he has now been nominated as one of the candidates Time the magazine's prestigious Person of the Year title.
Since 1927, Time pick a person, group or idea to make the biggest impact – whether positive or negative – in the past 12 months. Although he won last year Taylor Swift enjoying an outstanding year, as he took the medal Seasons global tour, the singer is surprisingly not on the 2024 shortlist. Instead, Princess Kate has been nominated for the honor along with nine world figures from politics and business as a billionaire entrepreneur. Elon Muskpodcaster Joe Roganthe Meta magnate Mark Zuckerberg and the incoming president Donald Trump.
The shortlist was revealed on NBC Today show this morning – Monday, December 9 – the winner will be announced on Thursday.
Ironically, 2024 was the year Kate was supposed to be out of the public eye. He started the year behind closed doors, leading to speculation that he was unwell. Later in January, Kensington Palace announced that she had “scheduled abdominal surgery” and would be out of the public eye until Easter. However, the princess spoke to the world ahead of schedule, in March, to shut down ongoing speculation about her health, announcing on camera that she had been diagnosed with cancer.
Since then, he, the husband Prince William and their children, Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6, have appeared in public several times, most memorably in a moving video released in September to acknowledge the completion of the princess' chemotherapy. The family of five was photographed loving and playing in nature on the beach in Norfolk, England.
The royal couple also appeared in a video ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, wishing Team GB athletes well as they compete in Paris.
Since then, the princess has returned to many of her usual public engagements, most recently stepping out on Friday, December 6, for the annual Christmas carol service at London's Westminster Abbey, wearing a festive red coat.
“I didn't know that this year would be the year I just had,” he told the singer Paloma Faith at the event. “Unplanned. But, I think a lot of people this year had such a hard time.”
Kate has been praised for the way she handled her shocking illness and raised awareness of how cancer can affect anyone.
He previously appeared in Time 100 Most Influential People list in 2013, and runner-up for Person of the Year in 2011, the year she married Prince William.
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