Kate Middleton
Kate Middleton made her first post-hospital appearance alongside David Beckham on Sunday at BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year Awards.
The expectant Duchess of Cambridge was on hand to present Tour de France champ and Olympic Gold Medalist Bradley Wiggins with this year’s top prize.Nurse Jacintha Saldhana, who killed herself after taking a prank call involving Kate Middleton, reportedly criticized hospital staff in a suicide note she left for her family.
The 46-year-old mother of two left three letters, according to the New York Daily News. One condemned her co-workers for the way she was treated after the incident, a second note described the aftermath of the hoax from her perspective, and the third detailed funeral arrangements.Conflicting reports are circulating over Jacintha Saldanha’s condition when authorities arrived at her suicide scene in London on Friday.
Initial reports from Sky News indicated she might have still been alive, while others like the New York Daily News say she could have been dead for some time.The Australian radio station that employed the prankster DJs is giving $500,000 to the family of Jacintha Saldanha, the hospital nurse who purportedly killed herself after being duped by their call about Kate Middleton’s condition.
Australia's 2Day FM released a statement today saying it hopes to "help [Jacintha] Saldanha's family with the support they need at this very difficult time."Although DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian have gone off the air after news that nurse who took their prank call at Kate Middleton's hospital had died in a suspected suicide, the radio station is not firing them.
According to the Daily Mail, Rhys Holleran, the chief executive of Southern Cross Austereo, which owns the station, said that Greig and Christian were “completely shattered” by the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha in the wake of the prank.A nurse who handled an Australian radio station's prank call regarding Kate Middleton’s pregnancy has died of a suspected suicide, according to reports.
A throng of reporters and photographers greeted Kate Middleton and Prince William as they left King Edward VII Hospital in London on Thursday morning. The pregnant duchess, who was being treated for acute morning sickness, smiled and waved at the crowd as she clutched a small bouquet of yellow flowers.
Middleton, 30, had been in the hospital since Monday after a bout with hyperemesis gravidarum. According to Nick Loughran, Assistant Press Secretary to the royal couple, Kate “will now head to Kensington Palace for a period of rest. Their Royal Highnesses would like to thank the staff at the hospital for the care and treatment The Duchess has received."





























