Kate's New Picture

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an American. I don’t understand the boarding school business. Don’t you have kids to raise them and be with them?

Plenty of Americans send their kids to boarding schools.

A few do. But practically no one sends their kids to boarding school at 12/13, let alone at 8. I remember articles about Kate’s influential middle class values when they decided to keep George in a day school a few years ago — instead of a prep (pre-prep?) single sex boarding school at 7/8.


Didn't Harry Potter go to boarding school at age 11? He's obviously not American though.


Nor a muggle.
Anonymous
There's a lot of middle aged or older women who have watched too many Disney movies here.

The Firm is a business. The perception of them is how they stay relevant. Their PR strategy is to throw the lower rung royals to the press dogs, to distract from the upper royals. That is why Harry left.
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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Harry’s book Spare mention that house mothers at his boarding school would bathe the younger boys? That seems very creepy. That, and his uncle Charles Spencer’s comments about being abused at boarding school, is driving this. Kate is advocating for her kids and the Palace’s “men in suits” are pushing for boarding school. They are trying to pressure Kate to give in.


If you know anything of well documented British male boarding school--it's the older male/student boarders and teachers you have to worry about. Fwiw, some of the English soccer academies that board young kids were rampant with sexual abuse too.
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Anonymous wrote:The car photo is fake too.

https://x.com/mrliamwest/status/1767559938841231523?s=46&t=QqglXhsgC33LWVa3mC0ZAg


I just saw this and it made me do a double take! very damming


Aside from this one thing that made me question it is her hair being in a chignon on the photo. She often wears her hair down and that seems most likely when she was supposedly being dropped off for a private appt., rather than a fussy chignon when the public obviously wasn’t seeing her.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:It was a colossal PR mistake to not provide more details about Kate’s surgery and health issues. It is completely understandable that she would want privacy but this is all far worse IMHO (and that information will come out eventually anyway). Even if they had simply said “surgery due to complications from Crohn’s disease etc etc, is non life threatening blah blah”. The whole thing was mismanaged from the start.


To have outed herself with Crohn's would have meant (sadly) a future of people speculating about her bowels, her stomach and her wellness for the rest of her entire life. Peoole would be looking for the outline of a bag at all public functions for the rest of her life.. What person on a global stage wants to have people speculate about the condition of their bowels. Really.
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Anonymous wrote:This is a really nice article that lays out how the whole monrachy/press system works. For those of us that need a primer.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/this-is-just-weird-buzzfeed-news-former-royals-reporter-on-kate-middleton-palace-press-and-distrust-in-the-media/?fbclid=IwAR0IUvXPKx0unj3SCEjQntNCQGTi1dC8uVOKLVZximV9ZneLt076ffjBukg


This was incredibly useful, thank you! I learned a bunch of things, but two that jump out:

- KP has blatantly lied about William's health before. Apparently William had a severe case of Covid in April 2022 but when asked numerous times if the Prince had ever had Covid, reps vehemently denied it. It wasn't revealed until November of that year that he'd been sick with it. This is so fascinating to me because I just can't imagine why you would lie about this. Most people have had Covid at least once at this point. It sounds like he was quite sick but was not hospitalized, so one of the "flu-like" cases (mine was similar). Why would you cover this up? I don't get it.

- The details about how when KP is talking to the press or "authorizing" a paparazzi photo or not. I kind of knew some of this (like I knew about the royal rota and about the voluntary gag order on pap photos in the British press) but it was really useful to have it laid out so clearly.

I really recommend reading that whole piece if you are interested in this story, including the interview, as it was very revealing.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The car photo is fake too.

https://x.com/mrliamwest/status/1767559938841231523?s=46&t=QqglXhsgC33LWVa3mC0ZAg


I just saw this and it made me do a double take! very damming


Aside from this one thing that made me question it is her hair being in a chignon on the photo. She often wears her hair down and that seems most likely when she was supposedly being dropped off for a private appt., rather than a fussy chignon when the public obviously wasn’t seeing her.


Take a deep breath. You're getting crazy.

The photographers who took the car picture are not amused by your "sleuthing".

"The paparazzo who snapped the pic of Kate Middleton riding alongside Prince William in a car Monday is speaking out to quash online conspiracy theories that the photo was doctored.

“We don’t change our photos in Photoshop other than adjusting the light levels if necessary,” photographer Jim Bennett told The Post."

https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/world-news/photographer-who-snapped-kate-middleton-hits-out-at-claims-image-was-doctored/
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The car photo is fake too.

https://x.com/mrliamwest/status/1767559938841231523?s=46&t=QqglXhsgC33LWVa3mC0ZAg


I just saw this and it made me do a double take! very damming


Aside from this one thing that made me question it is her hair being in a chignon on the photo. She often wears her hair down and that seems most likely when she was supposedly being dropped off for a private appt., rather than a fussy chignon when the public obviously wasn’t seeing her.


Agree.
Not to mention the hat. I know the royals wear hats to official functions, but for a private appointment whilst recovering from a serious illness/surgery? Weird.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:It was a colossal PR mistake to not provide more details about Kate’s surgery and health issues. It is completely understandable that she would want privacy but this is all far worse IMHO (and that information will come out eventually anyway). Even if they had simply said “surgery due to complications from Crohn’s disease etc etc, is non life threatening blah blah”. The whole thing was mismanaged from the start.


To have outed herself with Crohn's would have meant (sadly) a future of people speculating about her bowels, her stomach and her wellness for the rest of her entire life. Peoole would be looking for the outline of a bag at all public functions for the rest of her life.. What person on a global stage wants to have people speculate about the condition of their bowels. Really.


If she has a bag, people will still look for it and the photographer who gets the best shot will be able to sell it for a lot of money
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Anonymous wrote:I think my favorite part of this whole sage is the foliage queens who noticed the leaves were too green for a winter photo.


Thank you! As a gardener it was one of the first things I called out.


Spring is coming earlier and earlier, here and there. At least until the Atlantic conveyor belt stops and sends the UK into an ice age.

Are you sure the foliage is inaccurate?


It’s not inaccurate. Freakishly warm January in uk. Blossoms out, grass green already in February.
Anonymous
American media doing the dirty work

https://x.com/tudorchick1501/status/1767317162098622875
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Nancy Grace touching down in 3…2…1…
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Can you guys posting X links pretty please give a quick summary for those of us unable to access at work?
Anonymous
Is it the Marchioness of Cholmondeley?

I keep reading it as marionette of chlamydia. 😂
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