Kate's New Picture

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Anonymous wrote:The paralyzed comment is interesting. The way she was seated did look odd and you could see something like that being something they’d cover up for a while…but I also can’t imagine her siblings would have been off vacationing normally if she had an accident if that magnitude.

One thing is that for everyone saying nothing is up, “something” is obviously up at this point. Whether it’s health or personal, major or minor we don’t know. I think some of these really elaborate theories seems outlandish and also think there’d be more leaking if some were true (there clearly are staff, drs, etc who know what’s up).

Oh cmon. She isn’t paralyzed. It is pretty obv and pretty much confirmed this picture was more or less either taken in the a few months ago AND photoshopped a ton.

There is talk of the photo of her actually being a 2016 Vogue photo. (Vogue Magazine Cover)

That is strange. If she had abdominal surgery her current face should be fine for photos.

Steroids, stroke

Not facelift? Post-facelift creates "puffiness" like allegedly Madonna and allegedly Amy Schumer. Kate would be smarter than them and not go out in public too early.

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Anonymous wrote:The Daily Mail has a graphic with the "16 issues with Kate's Mother's Day photo" but I don't know how to share the image
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13184915/Kate-Mothers-Day-photo-PR-nightmare-Palace.html

I find the apology by princess Catherine really inauthentic. She edited the photo herself? She has time to be doing that? The edits aren't like removing a pimple or smoothing lines, they are putting different photos and together and realigning whole body parts. This has to be someone in the media team or a staff person. But somehow they think it's better if she takes the blame herself? I don't get it

the frankly insane behavior from the Kensington Palace press office, and to me that's where the drama is. If this were really just about a medical issue and recovery, and nothing more, I don't think we'd be getting weird contradictory messages from KP, and they wouldn't have tried to doctor a 5 month old photo and pass it off as new (and no, I don't believe that Catherine randomly decided to change all the colors/patterns in the photo for fun before posting it herself to their official Instagram page and distributing a copy to news agencies on her own).

This is not about invading the privacy of a woman having a medical issue. It's about a powerful, wealthy institution behaving in an erratic and suspicious way that raises questions.

That would be more believable if you were actually screaming about where Charles is, what his treatment plan is and where his face is.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel absolutely terrible for her. She was loved, glowing press, then she needs serious surgery and people now hate her with a passion, speculate she's suicidal, anorexic, beaten by her dh, dead...I cannot imagine the toll that takes on someone. It's worse than the Meghan and Diana shit really, because it's about a person's health, not supposed bad behavior with staff or affairs.

I don't think anyone hates her. I also don't think she's reading or watching any of it, and I doubt the kids are exposed to it either.

I can see how some of this would be burdensome but I actually don't think it's as bad as what happened to Diana or Meghan, because in both of those cases the family declined to protect or defend them from the press attacks and speculation. In some cases members of the royal family or their staff even encouraged or planted rumors about both of them. The press also treated them fairly terribly, but I think the thing that hurt them both was having the family throw them to the wolves. Both women also get trashed for being "too public" and talking to the press too much, but one reason they both wound up doing that is because they felt the need to defend themselves against lies and insults that were "leaked" to the press from the BRF.

An interesting thing about this whole situation is that there is none of that. Catherine is being defended and protected by the family. No leaks. It's interesting given their history.

So interesting - and to what do we owe the different treatment? Let's check in with Celia Walden of the Telegraph, who just released an article titled “Shameful Speculation about the Princess of Wales’ Health has to Stop” yet when MM had Archie, her piece said “Meghan Can’t Demand Privacy for baby Archie while asking the public to fund her family’s lifestyle.” So which is it?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel absolutely terrible for her. She was loved, glowing press, then she needs serious surgery and people now hate her with a passion, speculate she's suicidal, anorexic, beaten by her dh, dead...I cannot imagine the toll that takes on someone. It's worse than the Meghan and Diana shit really, because it's about a person's health, not supposed bad behavior with staff or affairs.

Oh please. No comparison with Diana who was driven by the press to death in a tunnel, or to Meghan who had to leave the country.

Your fawning adoration for Kate it's toe-curling. I bet you subscribe to teen magazines too.

So this is all your perverse way of getting payback?

yes, orchestrated by trump's people to get his trials and Katie Britt out of the news cycle.
see how crazy you sound?

Now you're really losing it.

point made

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing that makes sense is something about how her face looks, for a finite amount of time since she’s expected to return to public duties at a set, predetermined date.

"After Easter" is actually fairly ambiguous. It means not before but does not in fact give a "set, predetermined date." People need to learn to read for what is NOT said.

Saying that she will return to her public duties after March 31 seems fairly definitive to me.

They had an appearance scheduled for June that was later cancelled.

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I can't keep up with all these posts, but apparently there is now a twitter/X "community note" about the car photo. From December, not yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does Kate even have to bargain. Assuming this is divorce. They have enough money to ensure she will always be secure. They can amicably divorce and the kids will be fine. If this is all about custody that seems ridiculous- the kids are accustomed to parents traveling and being raised by nannies already. Not much will change. And Kate could even become more famous and wealthy after divorce so money cannot be the issue. I don’t understand what she needs a bargaining chip or leverage for ?

Just curious, other than being mother to the future king, what would make her become more famous? She has no personality and other than fake smiling and playing with her hair, she doesn’t really seem to have any skills.

+1, Catherine is not a dynamic, engaging person. The most powerful thing about her is the image she projects in her role as William's wife, but if you take her out of that role, I think she quickly becomes incredibly boring.

Financially I think she'd at least initially be fine in a divorce because the kids are young and she'd get a good settlement and tons of child support. But I do think she might struggle after they are grown, as Fergie has, because these people lead extremely lavish lifestyles and I don't know that Kate is capable of living simply enough to make a settlement with the family last the rest of her life. Maybe. She doesn't strike me as the most practical or frugal person.

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Anonymous wrote:the UK press don't believe she had surgery at all, there is a witness to the fact she arrived at London Clinic, walked thru the front door and out of the back into a car to rehab.

This is def true and they’ve been gagged so can’t publish until news breaks in other mediums

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Anonymous wrote:Why does Kate even have to bargain. Assuming this is divorce. They have enough money to ensure she will always be secure. They can amicably divorce and the kids will be fine. If this is all about custody that seems ridiculous- the kids are accustomed to parents traveling and being raised by nannies already. Not much will change. And Kate could even become more famous and wealthy after divorce so money cannot be the issue. I don’t understand what she needs a bargaining chip or leverage for ?

Just curious, other than being mother to the future king, what would make her become more famous? She has no personality and other than fake smiling and playing with her hair, she doesn’t really seem to have any skills.

+1, Catherine is not a dynamic, engaging person. The most powerful thing about her is the image she projects in her role as William's wife, but if you take her out of that role, I think she quickly becomes incredibly boring.

Financially I think she'd at least initially be fine in a divorce because the kids are young and she'd get a good settlement and tons of child support. But I do think she might struggle after they are grown, as Fergie has, because these people lead extremely lavish lifestyles and I don't know that Kate is capable of living simply enough to make a settlement with the family last the rest of her life. Maybe. She doesn't strike me as the most practical or frugal person.

Kate will be forever known to have been the prettiest Queen in history. This appeals to the sense of narcissism all humans likely have within.

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Anonymous wrote:They should just come out and talk about the complications post surgery and ask for people to respect their privacy and that the return of Kate to public life may be longer than initially thought. I think people could respect that. Many folks are saying at some point in her recovery, she’s had a stroke, which has Complicated things

No, she shouldn’t reveal private information because people are nosy jerks

The intrigue into the British royal family is why they’re still around. Otherwise, who cares about them visiting daycare, churches, etc. they can’t have it both ways.

Exactly. They're a huge draw for visitors from all around the world to come to England, and spend buckets of money. If they were just another rich family, the English economy would certainly be hurt.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing that makes sense is something about how her face looks, for a finite amount of time since she’s expected to return to public duties at a set, predetermined date.

"After Easter" is actually fairly ambiguous. It means not before but does not in fact give a "set, predetermined date." People need to learn to read for what is NOT said.

Saying that she will return to her public duties after March 31 seems fairly definitive to me.

How so? All we know is to not expect her before April. Easter Monday is after Easter. Christmas is also after Easter. They’ve also removed her name from promotion for a military parade on June 8th.

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Anonymous wrote:Her appendix burst and caused some complications. Most plausible explanation. Nothing to see here.

KP said she'd need months and months of recovery (so, no, nothing simple) and Will would pull back his schedule too. They've invited the scrutiny by being terrible at their jobs.

Is an appendix burst, it isn’t simple at all, it can be extremely complicated. First you can become septic. It means on open belly operation, sometimes they have to remove parts of intestines or other organs involved, it can be very hard to wash out and they sometimes have to leave belly open for an extended time. Even once closed, it could mean IV/central line nutrition for an extended time if there was bowel involvement, weeks of IV antibiotic therapy.

A burst appendix is not a “planned” surgery. It is a life threatening emergency. Not what happened here

That might have just been the narrative as to not cause panic. It may have been an urgent surgery, thus some planning, but not yet an emergency. Sometimes it may not appear to have burst and then they get in and see it has leaked. Or it could have been an emergency but they didn’t want to say so.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel absolutely terrible for her. She was loved, glowing press, then she needs serious surgery and people now hate her with a passion, speculate she's suicidal, anorexic, beaten by her dh, dead...I cannot imagine the toll that takes on someone. It's worse than the Meghan and Diana shit really, because it's about a person's health, not supposed bad behavior with staff or affairs.

I don't think anyone hates her. I also don't think she's reading or watching any of it, and I doubt the kids are exposed to it either.

I can see how some of this would be burdensome but I actually don't think it's as bad as what happened to Diana or Meghan, because in both of those cases the family declined to protect or defend them from the press attacks and speculation. In some cases members of the royal family or their staff even encouraged or planted rumors about both of them. The press also treated them fairly terribly, but I think the thing that hurt them both was having the family throw them to the wolves. Both women also get trashed for being "too public" and talking to the press too much, but one reason they both wound up doing that is because they felt the need to defend themselves against lies and insults that were "leaked" to the press from the BRF.

An interesting thing about this whole situation is that there is none of that. Catherine is being defended and protected by the family. No leaks. It's interesting given their history.

I don't see her being defended. I see botched communication after botched communication. And yes, she can't talk back as freely as the future Queen even if she wanted to.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel absolutely terrible for her. She was loved, glowing press, then she needs serious surgery and people now hate her with a passion, speculate she's suicidal, anorexic, beaten by her dh, dead...I cannot imagine the toll that takes on someone. It's worse than the Meghan and Diana shit really, because it's about a person's health, not supposed bad behavior with staff or affairs.

I don't think anyone hates her. I also don't think she's reading or watching any of it, and I doubt the kids are exposed to it either.

I can see how some of this would be burdensome but I actually don't think it's as bad as what happened to Diana or Meghan, because in both of those cases the family declined to protect or defend them from the press attacks and speculation. In some cases members of the royal family or their staff even encouraged or planted rumors about both of them. The press also treated them fairly terribly, but I think the thing that hurt them both was having the family throw them to the wolves. Both women also get trashed for being "too public" and talking to the press too much, but one reason they both wound up doing that is because they felt the need to defend themselves against lies and insults that were "leaked" to the press from the BRF.

An interesting thing about this whole situation is that there is none of that. Catherine is being defended and protected by the family. No leaks. It's interesting given their history.

So interesting - and to what do we owe the different treatment? Let's check in with Celia Walden of the Telegraph, who just released an article titled “Shameful Speculation about the Princess of Wales’ Health has to Stop” yet when MM had Archie, her piece said “Meghan Can’t Demand Privacy for baby Archie while asking the public to fund her family’s lifestyle.” So which is it?

I mean obviously they protect the people they think are "one of them" and they don't protect people perceived as outsiders. The family is vicious to anyone they deem doesn't belong.

But in particular I find it interesting that when they want to lock things down and prevent leaks or keep someone protected from the press/public, they can. It really demonstrates the degree to which they threw Meghan, and Diana before her, to the wolves. If the family had wanted to protect those women, they could have. They just chose not to.

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Anonymous wrote:~Allegedly~ they were completely unaware of the controversy over the pictures until late Sunday night. So they’re “not paying attention” to social media.

Then PR team definitely needs to be fired. It’s their job to stay on top of this. Do they didn’t alert KP that there is potentially an issue brewing with pic?