Secret signs Kate Middleton is preparing for life as queen after ‘absolutely devastating’ year: sources

“There is no big reset button to go back to where they were before,” said the friend.
“Cancer is a leveler and every family around the world has someone who has been touched by that disease themselves, so we can all relate to what the Prince and Princess of Wales have gone through.

“But [Kate] has had to process her illness against the gaze of the world.”

Added Vickers: “Her health comes first, that point has been made very effectively — and, of course, her children.”
Kate, we’re told, has been seen privately with her children in the Home Park at Windsor, close to the family’s Adelaide Cottage, as well as on the school run and at school events.

Over the past few months, the 42-year-old royal has also made a few public appearances, culminating at the annual carol service she hosted at Westminster Abbey earlier this month, “Together at Christmas.”
It was an emotional affair, though one guest told us, “You wouldn’t know to look at her what she had been through.”