Prince William Guest-Edits Country Life, With Catherine Interview on Nature and Recovery

Prince William has guest-edited an issue of Country Life, the long-running British magazine about country houses, gardens and rural life. Guest-editing means he acted as editor for that issue, helping to decide what went into it.

The issue includes an interview with Princess Catherine, conducted by the nature writer Robert Macfarlane. In it, she talks about her connection with the outdoors. She told the magazine that nature was her sanctuary during her cancer recovery.

She also described what she was told in hospital. Her recovery, she said, would not be a straight line. There would be good days and bad days, and it would take time. Hello! magazine reported on the interview.

Catherine was treated at The Royal Marsden, a London hospital and cancer centre, in 2024. The treatment was for a form of cancer that has not been disclosed, and it included chemotherapy, a course of drugs that attacks fast-growing cells. In January 2025 she announced that she was in remission, meaning there were no signs of the disease.

Her recovery has also gone into fundraising. In June she completed the National Three Peaks Challenge, a walk up Britain's three highest mountains, to raise money for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's new Centre for Holistic Wellbeing and Recovery. The centre is designed to support patients on wellbeing and recovery alongside medical care.

In September she returned to The Royal Marsden. During that visit she spoke to a patient, Sam Suriakumar, who is 41.

The Country Life interview is Catherine's own account of recovery, set in the outdoors and in her words. The magazine's wider issue, shaped by Prince William as guest editor, is built around the countryside he has chosen to showcase.