‘How fragile is the monarchy?’, Princess Diana’s private secretary issues stark warning [Video]

THE Firm would be “reduced to a shadow of itself” without Kate Middleton, the former private secretary to Diana, Princess of Wales has claimed.

Buckingham Palace revealed that King Charles, 75, was well enough to return to public-facing duties just 11 weeks after announcing his cancer diagnosis.

However, for Kate Middleton, who shocked the nation after revealing that she was undergoing treatment for cancer back in March, her return to public duties has been less clear.

And according to Patrick Jephson, the former private secretary to Diana, Princess of Wales, King Charles has had little choice but to re-think his slimmed-down monarchy.

While it wasn’t long ago the House of Windsor had the longest-reigning monarch in British history in charge, …