Jason Knauf, who worked as an aide for the Prince and Princess of Wales until 2021, reflected on a conversation with Prince William following both King Charles and Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis in an appearance on 60 Minutes Australia on Sunday,

A former royal aide has spoken on TV about Prince William's devastation after receiving news of cancer diagnoses for his wife Kate Middleton and father King Charles, a few weeks apart. The Sun newspaper reports that Jason Knauf was speaking to Australian current affairs show 60 Minutes Australia when he shared taking an emotional phone

Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton’s former adviser opened up about the couple in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia

"He has lost his mother, he’s effectively lost his brother, his wife’s got cancer, his father’s got cancer, and he’s trying to keep the show on the road," royal expert Robert Hardman wrote at the time in his book, Charles III: New King. New Court. "It could hardly be more stressful."

Prince William was the “lowest I have ever seen him” after the Princess of Wales was diagnosed with cancer, one of his closest former aides has said. Jason Knauf, a former chief executive of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ Royal Foundation, said the phone call in which he learned of the Princess’s illness was “awful, absolutely awful”.