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Anonymous
Hospital can be for anything (see theories above - pregnancy, etc). Photoshopping indicates Kate was unwilling to play KPs game. Refusing to do anything the firm requires until an agreement is hammered out. Personally, I think she did have surgery, she is recovering, she didn’t want to do a new pic for whatever reason she wants (when you go out on medical leave in the regular world there’s a zero contact rule. No obligations of the employee to do anything). And for unknown reasons, someone didn’t like her face on the older pic they chose and someone started tweaking it. I think it was a sloppy post and the pr people who should review it didn’t. |
Anonymous
Too late for that. He must be chiming in at this point. |
Anonymous
It’s all speculation. But there were ambulances and official statements that Kate had surgery and would step away for 4 months. That always seemed like a looong time. The Mothers Day pic “proved” that “Kate” (or her people) couldn’t/wouldn’t manage putting out a current pic. Then “Kate” apologized but still has not current pic. Then there’s a semi-official shot of her in a car looking away from William and at brick wall. Many theories. If nothing else, their PR people are terrible at their jobs. |
Anonymous
Ok I’m sorry I am new to this thread. Didn’t know this theory had already been presented. If it makes you feel better PP I stand with you on this! |
Anonymous
+1 to be expected they would go to boarding school |
Anonymous
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Let’s be crazy and assume she is dead. Why the secrecy? How has nobody spilled the beans?
Let’s get crazier and assume it was William who did it and they want to spare him from prison time. Will Kate just live out a life forever in hiding? Will she disappear forever? I mean, let’s have fun. Walk me through this. |
Anonymous
She doesn't really have any leverage. Charles himself is divorced. Allowing (or planting) negative stories about her in the media does not suggest she is in the power position. More likely she is being pushed out. |
Anonymous
But why the shiftiness from hmtye family? |
Anonymous
He did. He just said, again, that he's not stepping down. Cancer or no cancer. He is the King. Not William. |
Anonymous
Are you denying that there is a school called Eton and that PPs have unusual insight in the British public school system even if they themselves are American, have no children, and think Kate is comadead? How dare you. |
Anonymous
This is a really good primer that will also clarify a bunch of stuff that gets muddy on the thread (including WHY people are worked up about this, and for many/most people, it's not because they are conspiracy theorists but because the palace's behavior here is weird): 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/ But regarding the royal rota deal, the gist of it is that the BRF tightly controls information that they release about the royal family and their press office(s) (different palaces have their own press, so William & Catherine have a different press staff than Charles & Camilla) do not operate as a typical government press office. Nor the way celebrity press works. The royal rota is a select group of reporters who are permitted at events and photo ops (like the one of the King and Camilla when he was released from the hospital) and who then share their info with the rest of the media. Only UK media outlets are on the royal rota, and it includes tabloids like the Daily Mail, which is something Harry and Meghan have complained about, because it is a bit odd that the royal family would preference access to the family for tabloid that have a history of writing highly critical things, including many lies, about the family. But it's basically an open secret that the BRF has arrangements with these publications, including and perhaps especially the tabloids, to supply them with a steady stream of royal info and drama IF the royal family can have some control over what is published and what isn't. And the royal rota largely complies, including legitimate outlets like the BBC and the Guardian. So for instance, the family has a gag order on "unapproved" paparazzi photos of members of the family when they are "off duty." Sometimes the palace will authorize such photos and may even set them up and alert media outlets that royals will be in a certain place at a certain time (for instance, as a way of getting a photo out of an ailing royal to reassure the public they are okay, as has been done in the past with the QEII and Prince Philip). Any paparazzi photos of the children are under the gag order, which is why you never see photos of the kids unless the family approves of them. The photo of Carole Middleton last week with someone who might be Catherine (but also might have been Pippa) was explicitly banned, for instance. It was taken by an American outlet (TMZ) and has been broadly picked up by other foreign outlets, but all UK press have complied with the palace's gag order request, and you will not see that photo in any UK publication, even the tabloids. This is because they know if they want to stay in the rota, and in the palace's good graces, they have to play by the palace's rules. That's the gist of the royal rota, and why many people are suspicious especially of how Catherine's absence is being handled in the UK press. But I highly recommend reading the article/interview linked above, which also gets into how the palace leaks/plants stories in the press, and how the way this has been handled for Catherine since January is unusual, catching the attention even of many who are accustomed to how the the BRF and UK Press work. Something is amiss. |
Anonymous
Agreed. Idk why people suddenly think Kate is okay with having her reputation dragged through the mud. I do think she's leveraging for whatever but she's in the place of power. |
Anonymous
| Maybe she got a facelift. 3-4 months is what it would take for things to settle down with that and it would explain the reluctance to be photographed. I bet it’s a simple explanation like that. |
Anonymous
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Some of y’all are way too invested. It’s weird for those of us that are mildly rubbernecking.
Stop bickering. It’s boring. |
Anonymous
I think the fact that she signed up for this suggests the Eton theory is wrong. Like someone 100 pages back stated, she seems like she was build in a lab for this life. No way would she throw such a public fit about something totally expected, no matter how displeased she was about it. |