Breitbart reported that the UK's Princess of Wales was hospitalized this week after undergoing abdominal surgery.

The website noted that a statement was put out by Kensington Palace on Wednesday regarding the 42-year-old princess' condition.

Princess "unlikely to return to public duties until after Easter"

"Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales was admitted to hospital yesterday for planned abdominal surgery," the statement began.

"The surgery was successful and it is expected that she will remain in hospital for ten to fourteen days, before returning home to continue her recovery," it continued.

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— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) January 17, 2024

"Based on the current medical advice, she is unlikely to return to public duties until after Easter," the statement went on to explain.

Royal family has traditionally been reluctant to reveal medical details

The princess is said to be hopeful that "the public will understand her desire to maintain as much normality for her children as possible" and wishes for the details of her medical situation to remain private.

CBS News royal contributor Amanda Foreman pointed out that the statement offered little in the way of specifics, a fact she does not find surprising.

"The tradition has always been to err on the side of caution, and in particular, with the royal family, as we know there were instances in the young princes' growing up where they were incredibly scarred by media speculation about their mother," Foreman was quoted as saying.

The Independent reported that the princess' husband, Prince William, drove himself to the London Clinic in an Audi e-Tron GT Carbon Vorsprung and left through a back entrance.

Prince and princess said to be divided over son's education

This is not the first time the prince and princess have been in the news recently, as InTouch reported earlier this month that the royal couple had argued about their son.

At issue was whether 10-year-old Prince George should attend Eton, the same exclusive British boarding school that his father went to.

"Kate long disagreed with her husband about sending him away, even though it’s tradition," an unnamed source was quoted as telling the website.

"Kate thinks sending him to such a stuffy, upper-crust institution goes against all of their efforts to modernize the monarchy," the source stressed, adding, "She was horribly bullied at her first boarding school, and can’t bear the thought of George suffering through that."