Kate's New Picture

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Anonymous wrote:Can one of the royal watchers explain to me why Charles is making succession plans? I thought that was all totally spelled out already

To kick Harry out of it

Harry is four people away. Who cares about him in succession?

I know absolutely nothing about royals - but what if something happened to William before George comes of age?

According to the Regents Act, Harry would step in as regent until George turns 18. However, the Act also says that the regent must be domiciled in the U.K., so Harry couldn’t phone it in from California.

This is not true. It would not automatically be Harry and in fact it was recently discussed that it WOULS not be Harry sorry to kill your fantasies of King Harry

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Anonymous wrote:The @BBC Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell after another long night in the rain outside
@KensingtonRoyal

"King Charles informs me that a new plan for succession is being drafted. More than that I cannot say. My lips continue to be tightly sealed"

https://twitter.com/AndrewPMunro/status/1768619227269771507

They're exaggerated what Witchell said about succession as if it's for Rose kid lol. I think it's more to do with a just in case dealing with Charles cancer.

Maybe to remove Catherine’s name as Queen. There’s likely numerous documents to update if a divorce is imminent.

She may have told him before the surgery to do what he must/say what he must and while she recovered they may not be on speaking terms hence the crap photo and faked apology.

Huh. William has been doing a lousy job of signaling and preparing the public for a divorce.

Maybe, just maybe, a divorce is not imminent. How crazy would that be? No divorce! Whoa!

I think it's more likely to remove Harry and Andrew tbh.

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Anonymous wrote:Occam's Razor. Responding to some prior comments:

1) Kate is recovering from a serious abdominal surgery. KP wouldn't have announced such unglamorous news were it not the case. If they wanted an excuse for Kate being out of the public eye, they could've concocted something else.

2) Kate's condition may or may not be related to an ED. But there's no evidence that she's ever had a drinking problem!

3) Years ago, I believed the rumors that William had an affair with Rose. But after Pippa named her daughter Rose, this seems doubtful.

4) KP is not "soft launching" Rose. The reason The Independent ran the feature on Rose is because people are curious about her given the explosion of interest in William and Kate's marriage. Even if William and Rose were having an affair, I seriously doubt they would think now, while Kate is ill, is a good time to gin up some favorable press in William's mistress.

5) The photo of William and Kate in the car was exactly that. After the fiasco over the altered photo, do you really think KP would pull a stunt by having Pippa sit in for Kate in the "proof of life" photo?! Kate is almost certainly looking away from the camera because she is unwell and doesn't want to be photographed, which we already know.

6) KP said from the beginning that Kate would be off until sometime after Easter. So this is not unexpected.

7) The part that is peculiar is KP has not released any credible recent photos of Kate during her recovery, such as the obligatory "looking at well-wishers' cards" photo. This obviously indicates that Kate is feeling quite unwell, likely both physically and mentally.

8) But it does not suggest that Kate was in a coma! Just because Kate has a Spanish nanny doesn't mean that the Spanish reporter is correct. (Hey, I have British family and that doesn't make me an insider.) That reporter has written that Michael Jackson and Princess Diana were murdered...

TL;DR - We haven't seen Kate because she's feeling unwell, likely both mentally and physically. But some of the conspiracy theories are nutty.

This is by far the most reasonable post on this entire thread.

I will add that at William's event yesterday decorating cookies with kids he told them his wife is the arty one in the family and then mentioned his kids were more arty than he is. IN a speech later he also mentioned Kate: She (taking about his mom) taught me that everyone has the potential to give something back, that everyone in need deserves a supporting hand in life," he said. "That legacy is something that both Catherine and I have sought to focus on through our work."

Don't think he'd say any of this if he and Kate were headed for a divorce.

This seems to be a dorecthit back at those claiming they were using the press to throw Kate under the bus.

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He looks so much like his father. Ick.

He looks fine. I'm not even partial to white men, and William looks perfectly fine. He's tall, fit, well dressed, and has some low key BDE. Harry is the one who looks ick.

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He looks so much like his father. Ick. [/quote

He doesn't But it's not a crime to look like your parent.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Prince-William-Attends-Thomas-Kingston-Funeral-Without-Kate-Middleton.jpg?w=900&quality=86&strip=all" border="0" class="embeddedImage" />

This is William at Kingstons funeral from a “traumatic head wound” from “suicide” that happened the same time as “personal matter”

Another low info poster making up facts. Kingston died on Sunday. The memorial for William's godfather was on Wed. Kingston's former ILs both attended. Kingston's death was publicly announced on Wed but was known to the family days earlier.

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Anonymous wrote:Enough with the infighting.

We know Kate is a tough one…this is the woman who gives birth & then 24 hrs later pulls on her mesh underwear, gets a blowout & makeup, & goes out to meet the press in high heels.

So she’s either incapacitated, disfigured, or pissed off. Easter is in 2 wks, we’ll see what develops!

I think she is going to reappear looking like she always does and we will never know what really happened or why they were being so weird about it. Im so curious though! Mostly due to the md photo debacle, prior to that it wasn’t on my radar.

Honestly, I’d be surprised if this all of this was because she was pissed off though. She always seemed to be a rule follower and committed to playing her part. If she really is dropping the ball I imagine it would have to be over something huge

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Anonymous wrote:Occam's Razor. Responding to some prior comments:

1) Kate is recovering from a serious abdominal surgery. KP wouldn't have announced such unglamorous news were it not the case. If they wanted an excuse for Kate being out of the public eye, they could've concocted something else.

2) Kate's condition may or may not be related to an ED. But there's no evidence that she's ever had a drinking problem!

3) Years ago, I believed the rumors that William had an affair with Rose. But after Pippa named her daughter Rose, this seems doubtful.

4) KP is not "soft launching" Rose. The reason The Independent ran the feature on Rose is because people are curious about her given the explosion of interest in William and Kate's marriage. Even if William and Rose were having an affair, I seriously doubt they would think now, while Kate is ill, is a good time to gin up some favorable press in William's mistress.

5) The photo of William and Kate in the car was exactly that. After the fiasco over the altered photo, do you really think KP would pull a stunt by having Pippa sit in for Kate in the "proof of life" photo?! Kate is almost certainly looking away from the camera because she is unwell and doesn't want to be photographed, which we already know.

6) KP said from the beginning that Kate would be off until sometime after Easter. So this is not unexpected.

7) The part that is peculiar is KP has not released any credible recent photos of Kate during her recovery, such as the obligatory "looking at well-wishers' cards" photo. This obviously indicates that Kate is feeling quite unwell, likely both physically and mentally.

8) But it does not suggest that Kate was in a coma! Just because Kate has a Spanish nanny doesn't mean that the Spanish reporter is correct. (Hey, I have British family and that doesn't make me an insider.) That reporter has written that Michael Jackson and Princess Diana were murdered...

TL;DR - We haven't seen Kate because she's feeling unwell, likely both mentally and physically. But some of the conspiracy theories are nutty.

Do you have a cite for that? I thought that was actually quite a recent development.

Yes. Official KP statement from Jan. 17. (I follow this stuff.)
https://www.royal.uk/news-and-activity/2024-01-17/a-statement-from-kensington-palace

Cool. I am actually reassured by that. It's less haphazard a progression than I thought.

It; 's a very good and clear statement. I just don't know where Or why it went off the rails. Like really off the rails, and it happened well before the picture gate.

Like how did this happen?

It happened because KP started responding to gossip (the coma thing). I really don’t understand why they did that.

I don’t understand that, either. But it definitely got everybody’s spidey senses tingling, and then they went on to release the fake photo, and it’s snowballed from there.

For me it was when William gave "personal matter" as a reason why he missed his godfathers memorial service. It had been just over a month since Kate's surgery and people were like "What? What's going on? Is Kate Okay?" If he had said something like due to flu he had to cancel last minutes, people wouldn't have reacted that much. There was a thread here at that time too.

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It was also weird that they felt the need to preemptively say he wasn’t missing the service because of the Kingston suicide. Nobody asked? I don’t think Kingston’s death has anything to do with whatever Kate is dealing with, but it added to the weirdness.

yup completely agree

It's not weird when you know that William was close with Kingston and that that was the assumption being made ins some parts.

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Anonymous wrote:The Palace is dumb for putting Easter as her comeback date but now walking back that Kate will be there on June 8th for the Trooping the Colour event.

If she’s not going to be back by June; what gives? It’s either divorce or she’s really ill

The said “after” Easter, that could mean anytime after the end of March.

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I’d be interested to know from the Paps who spend the day looking for Kate and William if the kids are on their regular school schedules. If that changed, that they no longer see them coming and going, then I think the biggest clue to a split is there or that the kids are being cared for elsewhere.

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He looks so much like his father. Ick.

He looks fine. I'm not even partial to white men, and William looks perfectly fine. He's tall, fit, well dressed, and has some low key BDE. Harry is the one who looks ick.

Absolutely nothing about William has ever projected BDE!!

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He looks so much like his father. Ick.

He looks fine. I'm not even partial to white men, and William looks perfectly fine. He's tall, fit, well dressed, and has some low key BDE. Harry is the one who looks ick.

Absolutely nothing about William has ever projected BDE!!

It's not about looks, hun.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d be interested to know from the Paps who spend the day looking for Kate and William if the kids are on their regular school schedules. If that changed, that they no longer see them coming and going, then I think the biggest clue to a split is there or that the kids are being cared for elsewhere.

The kids are reportedly in school. No real way to confirm. Someone posted elsewhere who said they are a parent at the school.

Their school is near Windsor, wouldn't make sense for them to be far away regardless.

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Anonymous wrote:The @BBC Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell after another long night in the rain outside
@KensingtonRoyal

"King Charles informs me that a new plan for succession is being drafted. More than that I cannot say. My lips continue to be tightly sealed"

https://twitter.com/AndrewPMunro/status/1768619227269771507

This is not a legit source. I believe the gentleman you're referring to is retired and the photo appears to be a fake.

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Anonymous wrote:Can one of the royal watchers explain to me why Charles is making succession plans? I thought that was all totally spelled out already

To kick Harry out of it

Harry is four people away. Who cares about him in succession?

I know absolutely nothing about royals - but what if something happened to William before George comes of age?

According to the Regents Act, Harry would step in as regent until George turns 18. However, the Act also says that the regent must be domiciled in the U.K., so Harry couldn’t phone it in from California.

This is incorrect. Charles has updated it to Anne and Edward, removing Harry and Andrew.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/prince-harry-prince-andrew-regency-act-king-b2225284.html