Kate Middleton, who recently revealed she completed her course of preventative chemotherapy in September, once left her mother in deep water.
Prince William’s wife Kate has avoided going to hospital for most of her life until recently, having had a previous health scare which reportedly left her mother ‘very worried’.
While she was boarding at Marlborough College, she discovered a mysterious lump on the left side of her head. According to royal writer Katie Nicholl, Carole took her daughter to her family doctor who deemed the lump ‘potentially serious’.
The future princess was operated on within days, but the surgery left Kate with a three-inch scar on her head.
Anne Peaching, a housekeeper at the school during Kate’s time, told Nicole: ‘I remember the incident and the operation. I don’t remember anything on the hockey pitch that had anything to do with the lump.’
He said after a media report that the health scare could be the result of a sports accident.
According to MailNicole writes in her 2013 book “Kate: The Future Queen”, Mrs Patching told her: ‘Catherine was operated on during her period. She returned to school very soon. As always, nothing was a big deal to him. You could never accuse Catherine of being a drama queen, but Carol was very worried, as any mother would be.’
A former pupil told Nicol that the operation was ‘very serious’ and upset everyone, as it came shortly after the death of another pupil, Hugo McDermott, from a brain tumour.
But after the operation, Kate’s scar started to fade and is usually hidden because she wears her hair down.
The spot was first spotted in 2011 when the princess made her first solo royal engagement at a black-tie private dinner at Clarence House.
An official statement explained the ‘scarring related to a childhood operation’, but said the details of the surgery were a private matter.