Kate's New Picture

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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.

Lmao I don’t find him attractive but now that you mentioned bde… I don’t totally disagree

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Anonymous wrote:William learned from his father that he could divorce and get his preferred side piece legitimized.

Boys really become their fathers

Wink - but we don't really mean any of this! It's all in good fun!

Yep! Nothing mean or nasty in the above comments. Such fun!

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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.

The personal matter wasn’t what sealed it for me. But the additional comment that the personal matter was not related to Kingston’s death. Nobody mentioned Kingston at that time. I thought he looked very skittish and guilty at Kingstons funeral as well and we never got an explanation for that bruise on his neck at the synagogue. That was around the time of personal matter and Kingstons “suicide” which was also reported in an odd way “traumatic head wound”. Why not just say gunshots?

DP. There’s nothing at all odd about that - this is how suicide by firearm is described. Good grief. What’s it like seeing everything as a conspiracy theory?

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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.

It's certainly consistent with what someone would say if they were trying to deflect that sort of criticism.

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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

If she doesn't go back to looking "like she always does," this extended stretch and the internationally noted faux pas about the photo are going to work against her. The longer this plays out (and the weirder it gets, if it gets any weirder), the tighter the scrutiny will be when she reappears.

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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.

DP. Yeah, but BDE has to come with the implication of BD. He comes across as whiny.

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Anonymous wrote:How can you tell who or how many are posting what?

There are two posters who are emotionally enmeshed with Kate. And multiple posters, I don't think anybody can tell how many, who are here out of fascination about the photo screw-up or for the mystery-solving.

DP. Sticking up for someone when they're being bullied is hardly "emotionally enmeshed." And again, funny that you think only two people have outed you as the queen bee of the DCUM Mean Girls.

LOL, I've posted very little on this thread.

Not engaging with you any more, you're as vicious as you are sycophantic to the BRF. I'm sure Kate appreciates your pit bull service on her behalf.

Speaking of vicious... tell us more about how Kate and William are "getting a divorce," or about his "affair," or their "illegitimate children" or her "eating disorder." We'll wait.

OK, back to say this: the vast majority of us don't believe the divorce, affair, or illegitimate children rumors. It's only your hate-filled, fevered imagination that blames those rumors on every poster here and translates it into spittle the rest of us have to wipe off our laptop screens.

DP. That's a convenient way to indulge in toxicity. "Sure, we're saying toxic things. But we don't believe them so it's okay."

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"It's all in good fun!! And we're so very clever while being toxic!"

Toxic? Just how fragile of a snowflake are you?

It’s so gratifying to know that somehow, karma’s going to come for you and/or someone you love during a really hard time in your life.

I hope you manage to find some personal fortitude and perspective. It would serve you well in life.

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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.

DP. Yeah, but BDE has to come with the implication of BD. He comes across as whiny.

We're talking about William here, not the other brother. Did you get mixed up?

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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.

Lmao I don’t find him attractive but now that you mentioned bde… I don’t totally disagree

Same.

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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.

DP. Yeah, but BDE has to come with the implication of BD. He comes across as whiny.

We're talking about William here, not the other brother. Did you get mixed up?

Wow. You find him exciting -- William? Okay.

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There’s no way the palace would allow this mess to go on unless they can’t produce signs of life , the Spanish journalist was right that she’s in a coma, or Kate is completely done with it all.

Kates staffers told the press today that they haven’t seen or heard news about her and don’t know when she will go back to doing engagements . Well, it’s probably because she’s not coming back and they’re no longer her staffers . They just don’t know it yet .

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Anonymous wrote:Can I just ask if anyone thinks any of rose hanburys kids may be / are likely Williams?

I read she got engaged, married, and announced a pregnancy in 3 days

The daughter is apparently William’s.

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But the fast engagement and marriage could just as well be due to getting pregnant by the man she married, right? What am I missing? Is there some reason the speed of it would have to lead to William as the father?

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The podcast Royally Obsessed (which is a very pro-royals American podcast that is very supportive of Kate and Meghan) had Ellie Hall on this week (the interviewee in that Nieman Labs article that has made the rounds). Very interesting.

One theory she shared (based on her own experience covering the royal beat) is that she thinks the palace promised the mothers Day photo to get UK publications to agree not to publish the photo of Carole Middleton with someone who looks kind of like Kate (I think it's Pippa). This makes some sense to me as that might be why the palace felt pressure to produce a "recent" photo. And it tracks with the decision to plan that paparazzi photo on Monday (when it became clear the MD photo was not a recent photo).

But the part that doesn't make sense to me is why they'd be so desperate to keep that photo with Carole out of UK papers, especially when it was published by tons of non-UK pubs. I just don't get why that would be worth doctoring a photo and lying about it.

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Anonymous wrote:But the fast engagement and marriage could just as well be due to getting pregnant by the man she married, right? What am I missing? Is there some reason the speed of it would have to lead to William as the father?

Rose first had twin sons with her husband. They were born soon after the marriage. The daughter came a few years later, and is William’s.