Throughout this ordeal the Princess of Wales has acted with grace and dignity

SIR – My admiration for the Princess of Wales continues unabated (Letters, March 22). In the face of social media trolls and undesirable speculation, she has felt it necessary to reveal very personal details, which most people would be able to keep to themselves and their family.

To my mind, and I am sure to countless others, she continues to uphold family values and to handle whatever comes her way with grace and dignity. We wish her well.

The Countess of Macclesfield Northend, Oxfordshire

SIR – When will it cease – this insensitive, rude, entitled and cruel culture that has arisen over the past few years? The level of criticism and intrusiveness the Princess of Wales has faced in regard to her health has been astounding.

I hope that those who indulged in this appalling behaviour are ashamed of themselves.

Susan Eccles

Tunbridge Wells, Kent

SIR – I have had cancer at the same time as the King and the Princess of Wales. It has been wonderful how family and friends have rallied round while I have been undergoing radical treatment. That – and the efforts of medical teams – have been truly life-enhancing.

I can deal with this illness in privacy and can control the dialogue at my own pace. What has been shocking is how the Princess of Wales has had that control taken away from her by ghastly online and media speculation.

It is telling that, in my own case, I don’t have to reveal everything to everyone. Yet sometimes I wish I had because of human nature. Some people are so self-absorbed that one can experience unkindness and impatience when in discomfort or fatigued by people who have no clue what one is going through.

Modern life is full of intolerance, and this whole episode involving the Princess just shows that some people need to calm down, show more emotional intelligence and be better aware of how their behaviour affects others.

Ben Sington

Taplow, Buckinghamshire

SIR – Yesterday morning I awoke and saw the planet flooded with tears. Men and women – young and old.

Keep going, Kate. The world is behind you and willing you onward. Susan Lyon-Heap

Egerton, Cheshire