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Anonymous
+1 Thanks for the followup on this one. Would love a one-liner or summary under the links. Please and thank you! Appreciate you OP! |
Anonymous
DP. The problem is, even a one-liner can get opinionated and then this turns into the other thread, where the nuggets are buried in "yes she is" "no she isn't" posts. |
Anonymous
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Who are Rose and David Cholmondeley?
https://www.thelist.com/1020945/the-truth-about-rose-hanburys-marriage-to-david-cholmondeley/ |
Anonymous
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Agence France Press guy about the MD photo
https://twitter.com/bbcrosatkins/status/1768304152407351591 |
Anonymous
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Penelope Trunk can be kooky, but she is also often right:
"Even though the Royal Family is so incompetent with PR that they are making themselves look like criminals, I knew right away that Kate is on strike. Why? Because there’s precedent: Months before, the Danish prince Frederick was caught cheating for the millionth time. So his wife Mary took their kids back to her parent’s home in Australia with no return date. Presumably Mary negotiated hard from Australia, because the queen of Denmark abdicated to get Mary to return to Frederick. A few years earlier Princess Charlene of Monaco produced two heirs to the throne and fled home to South Africa due to a mysterious illness. In response, Prince Albert imported his other baby mama and their teenaged son. The people of Monaco weren’t having it; now Princess Charlene earns $10M a year be Prince Albert’s royal consort. Mysterious illness: gone. So Kate’s mysterious illness requiring too many days in the hospital made me think of Charlene. Because like Charlene, the continuation of monarchy depends on Kate. I’m sure Kate is demanding a DNA test of Iris Cholmondeley (picture at the top). And she’s negotiating for full custody of the kids in the event of a divorce. Then William can choose to negotiate with Kate to save the entire British monarchy — or not." https://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2024/03/14/how-to-get-control-of-your-life-and-respect-to-kate-middleton/ |
Anonymous
| Thank you very much, OP! |
Anonymous
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https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/hollywood/i-fully-trust-my-source-spanish-journalist-doubles-down-on-claims-about-kate-middletons-post-operative-complications-despite-buckingham-palaces-denial-1286131?amp
Concha Colleja a Spanish reporter says that Kate was in a coma and almost died. This is what the palace spoke out against. And then she doubled down. She says she has an inside source. |
Anonymous
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Alexandra Petri theory:
https://wapo.st/3wYBJnm |
Anonymous
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Sixteen things wrong with the photo that started the controversy:
https://people.com/kate-middleton-mothers-day-photo-editing-errors-examined-proof-photoshop-found-metadata-8607951 |
Anonymous
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New York magazine article on the photoshopping
https://www.thecut.com/article/kate-middleton-theory-edited-photo-november-fall.html |
Anonymous
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Anne Helen Peterson:
They think this sort of conspiracy-minded gossip, this prattling about, is below them. But in issuing the shoddy proof-of-life photo, they’ve not only legitimized it, but amplified it well beyond any hope of control. Control of the public shape and symbolism of the monarchy is slipping from them, morphing more fully into one, as Tanya Gold so masterfully described earlier this week, of rot and decay. That it took this long might be described as a PR feat. Or, perhaps more accurately, as a story long agreed upon: between those in power and those who benefit from it, between those who put on the costumes and those who reveled in the distraction, between those who drew the curtain and those who politely turned the other way. The agreement has frayed; the story has unraveled. The center cannot hold — at least not for long, and certainly not forever. The Princess will re-emerge. Not as a symbol of resilience or discretion, not as the face of the modern monarchy, but of something darker: a quiet insult, a lie badly told, the end of one manipulated truth, and the beginning of another. https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-unraveling-of-a-royal-fairytale |
Anonymous
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Kensington Palace January 17 statement
https://www.royal.uk/news-and-activity/2024-01-17/a-statement-from-kensington-palace |
Anonymous
This is so helpful, thank you! |
Anonymous
| Don't know if it's one or multiple posters but I appreciate the links! |
Anonymous
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It is reported that Charles will add Edward and Sophie to the list of people who can do his job while he’s unavailable.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/prince-harry-prince-andrew-regency-act-king-b2225284.html |