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Anonymous
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Yeah there’s weirdness for sure, but the car pic is real.
A lot of people are going to be disappointed when she shows up like nothing happened after the kids Easter break. |
Anonymous
Um... |
Anonymous
I wondered this as well: what celeb pic out there which is posed like that is NOT edited? Why pull it when all other pics of all other celebs which were edited are out there? |
Anonymous
They have absolutely responded to social media gossip. His alleged affair, (they threatened a lawsuit as well) the gossip surrounding her being more seriously ill, etc. But just poorly enough to not make it better. |
Anonymous
Because KP said it was a current photo of Kate and her kids taken by William, and it was neither current nor a photo of Kate and her kids taken together. This isn't evidence that the press is acting strange, it's evidence that KP is acting strange. |
Anonymous
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This is the timeline of events per article
Dec 22, 2023- Multiple sources report that William and Kate are planning an official trip to Italy in “early 2024.” Kensington Palace does not confirm, but a spokesperson tells the Daily Mail that they “Look forward to announcing the Prince and Princess’ travel plans in due course.” Weeks later, the Sunday Times reports that the trip had tentatively been planned for March. After Kate’s surgery is announced, multiple outlets will report that this Italy trip had to be rescheduled. To some, this is taken as an indication that the princess’s operation wasn’t as “planned” as Kensington Palace might want the public to think. December 25, 2023- Kate, William, and their children are seen participating in the royal family’s traditional walk from Sandringham to St. Mary Magdalene Church. December 28, 2023- An anonymous Twitter account posts video of an apparent royal convoy headed to King Edward VII’s Hospital, allegedly from Sandringham. If #WhereIsKategate has a smoking gun, it’s this video. No royal institution has commented on it and the uploader hasn’t provided follow-up details. December 29, 2023- The official Kensington Palace social media accounts (Twitter and Instagram) share a video montage of the Wales family’s “greatest hits” from the past year. This is the last time that an image of Kate has been shared on Kensington Palace’s official social media. January 9, 2024- Kate’s 42nd birthday. Kensington Palace does not make a social media post marking the occasion, neither wishing her a happy birthday nor thanking people for their good wishes.This is not entirely out of character, as the official accounts did not make posts about her birthday or William’s birthday in 2023 — but her birthdays had been marked by posts from 2018 to 2022. (Also, new pictures of her were released on her birthday in 2020 and 2022.) January 16, 2024- Unbeknownst to the world, Kate is admitted to the London Clinic. January 17, 2024- Kensington Palace announces that Kate is in the hospital recovering from a successful “planned abdominal surgery.” Multiple outlets report that William has canceled engagements and “shifted his schedule” to help his wife and care for their children. Later, multiple outlets and journalists report that this was the only day they were allowed to report on Kate’s health from outside the hospital. (Following the media circus before and after the birth of Prince George in 2013, the Palace press offices have cracked down on members of the media gathering outside hospitals, so limiting the time networks can camp outside the London Clinic isn’t entirely out of the norm.) January 17, 2024- Buckingham Palace announces that King Charles will be hospitalized for treatment for a “benign prostate condition.” According to the statement, he wanted to share his diagnosis to encourage other men with symptoms to get checked. (This is the first of what will be many examples of Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace taking different approaches to how they handle one of their royal “principals” suffering from a medical condition.) January 18, 2024- William is photographed driving to the London Clinic to visit Kate. (This is the only time he is seen visiting his wife.) January 20, 2024- Spanish journalist Concha Calleja reports that, despite Kensington Palace’s claims, Kate was hospitalized on December 28. Calleja says that something went wrong during the postoperative period and claims that Kate is not doing well. (Eagle-eyed Kate truthers immediately seize upon the fact that December 28 is the day that the random Twitter user saw a royal convoy heading to a London hospital. Other royal watchers point out that the Wales’s longtime nanny is Spanish. Calleja’s report is the first real “follow-up” story to the surgery announcement, in the sense that no media outlets have published stories reporting anything besides the official statement. You can normally count on the U.K. tabloids for some sort of wacky speculation when it comes to stories about the royal family, but not this time.) |
Anonymous
It was the first sighting of a Princess that had been ill...there were huge ramifications to the monarchy and the people they serve, regarding getting it right. She's not simply an American or English celebrity. |
Anonymous
I agree the car photo is real, but I do question whether it was taken recently or in December. It’s an odd coincidence that Will just *happened* to be wearing the same tie in this photo as he was on Christmas (and Kate is obscured so it’s difficult to see if she is also wearing a hat as in Christmas…). Even the Post article is oddly vague, stating he got the shot of the car leaving Windsor castle for a “royal event”. If it was Monday, why not just say for the Commonwealth Day Service? |
Anonymous
Nope. Sigh of relief. |
Anonymous
You guys aren’t getting it. The Mother’s Day photo wasn’t “edited” in the way you’re thinking. They either spliced in different images of the kids/kate or completely retouched a photo from 2023 to pass it off as something more recent. This wasn’t some innocent contouring or lighting changes. |
Anonymous
And I will be permanently bummed that KP threw Catherine under the bus. |
Anonymous
+1 AP doesn’t pull photos bc they are edited - they published Kensington Palace’s holiday photo with the weird 3rd leg photoshop. They killed it bc the degree of editing was such that it becomes questionable that the photo represents what they (Kensington Palace) says it does - particularly because merging was done on Kate’s head/face. They cannot knowingly publish what may or may one a deep fake. The fact that KP won’t supply the original only supports their decision. |
Anonymous
Just to expand on this point from a PP: that Nielsen Labs article upthread noted how the behavior of the UK press during all this is interesting, because they've essentially toed the party line on Catherine, including the tabloids. Not only are they not publishing "Where is Kate???" stuff like you might expect them to, but they aren't even publishing puff pieces like "How Kate's Staying Fit During Her Recovery" or "Friends Say Kate's in Good Spirits, Anxious to Get Back to Work." This indicates a fair amount of collaboration between the press and the palace in terms of coverage. That planted photo of William and Catherine in the car yesterday backs this up -- it helps the palace with their storyline (Catherine is fine and recovering, William and Catherine are fine and happy, etc.) and doesn't do a lot for the newspapers because it's a blurry photo from a distance -- it's not really a big get. And the UK press, including the tabloids, also complied with the palace's request that they NOT publish the photo of Carole Middleton and someone who appears to maybe be Catherine from last week, even though that photo is much more likely to draw eyeballs. So my question is this: What has Kensington Palace promised the UK press corp, including the tabloids who are notoriously rabid for royals content, to get this level of compliance with an effort to keep Catherine and whatever is going on with her under wraps? Because I do think they have been promised something. My guesses: - Healthy pregnancy, and promised pregnancy and new baby content, pregnancy is high risk because of Catherine's age and they don't want to publicize it given the risk, so she is essentially going into hiding until she's in her third trimester. - Some kind of new role or initiative for Catherine that would be unprecedented for a Princess consort or Queen consort, that will ramp up as William and Catherine take on larger roles as Charles gets older. - Harry and William reconciling details. - OR a bunch of leaked dirt on Harry and Meghan from KP. I do think they've been promised something. That's why no leaks, very little speculation in most of the UK press, compliance with use of images, etc. UK press is in on it, which has created the info vacuum into which the foreign press and online sleuths have stepped. |
Anonymous
This is pretty much what I figured: "It’s worth noting that a lot of the conversation was initially driven by pro-Harry and Meghan accounts, and many of the darker conspiracy theories (the ones described as “deeply sinister and highly libelous” by the Daily Mail) seemed to originate from those online spaces." |
Anonymous
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This is a major reach but I’m sorta into it.
https://x.com/eloisehendy/status/1767333815393874018?s=46&t=LrNUXUfApHHcCAWJyNQ_qg |