Who’s to blame for harassing a princess when she’s seriously ill? 

The frenzied search for information about the welfare of the Princess of Wales came to a sudden halt last weekend, when Kate revealed she is receiving treatment for cancer. 

Leading up to the revelation, the conspiracy theories about her absence from public view were running wild on social media, between friends and family, and in the mainstream press. 

ABC broadcaster and royal historian Julia Baird explores how we forgot a princess was human. 

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Julia Baird, ABC journalist and royal historian