Kate's New Picture

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Anonymous wrote:The idea that William wants to divorce Kate because he wuuuuvs Rose is ridiculous. Leaving aside whether there is an actual affair there or not, let’s say it’s true for the sake of argument. That just is not how it’s done in that circle. You stay married to your spouse and keep it discreet. Charles would have stayed married to Diana if she had been more stable and the Queen hadn’t told them to finally end it. Kate is the ultimate NOT Diana. She knows her role. William and Rose know their roles. Kate wants to be queen, and William has the perfect person there for it. If Rose was making noises about wanting to go public, William would throw her aside without thinking about it.

Kate is ill, she wasn’t in a state to put out the usual Mother’s Day picture, and the palace did stupid things.

Agree with this. And this why I neither believe nor disbelieve the affair rumors. Rose and Kate looking friendly toward each other in public doesn't mean anything. Kate is going to be composed no matter what. It would be really weird for Pippa to name her daughter Rose if Rose and William did have an affair, but I can imagine various reasons for her to do it anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who thought the photo was lovely and would have been satisfied to leave it at that until after Easter?

Maybe. If they had simply posted it on their Instagram, which most of us don’t follow, a few people would have thought it was cute, maybe noticed some oddities, and would have been satisfied to leave it at that until after Easter. The problem was releasing it as “news”. And maybe the bigger problem is the combination of arrogance and stupidity behind releasing it as “news”. And the even stickier problem is that they’re attracting a LOT of attention for the wrong reasons without reassuring anybody who might be genuinely concerned about Kate’s well-being.

This is inaccurate. They released the photo on Instagram and Twitter.

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/

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Anonymous wrote:Nurse thinks Kate had a tummy tuck that is now giving her problems because she knows many women who ended up with issues from tummy tucks. I just don't see her ever even needing something like that despite having 3 kids.

No way, no how. Not only was she super thin, but she is super toned too. There is photo evidence. Drop the tummy tuck theory

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lol it is not a tummy tuck. What a stupid notion.

[Anonymous]

I read somewhere that there is tension between Kate and William because of her parents owing millions to their creditors. They lived well beyond their means and now they have no money to pay back their business debt. Apparently it’s not a good look for creditors to be chasing the future Queen’s parents and someone actually put up posters of them owing a lot of debt in their hometown. I never liked her mom. She seems to be such a gold digger. I wonder if she forced both her daughters to marry up and didn’t really care if they were truly happy or not.

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Why does the princess promoter insist “Kate wants to be Queen”? Just because you dreamed and prepped for it all your life doesn’t mean that you could not possibly change your mind. So many broken royal marriages since QE2 married about 80 years ago. I hope Kate is well, we do not know. But I think she’s all out of f*cks to give. She does not need to be Queen if she wants out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who thought the photo was lovely and would have been satisfied to leave it at that until after Easter?

Maybe. If they had simply posted it on their Instagram, which most of us don’t follow, a few people would have thought it was cute, maybe noticed some oddities, and would have been satisfied to leave it at that until after Easter. The problem was releasing it as “news”. And maybe the bigger problem is the combination of arrogance and stupidity behind releasing it as “news”. And the even stickier problem is that they’re attracting a LOT of attention for the wrong reasons without reassuring anybody who might be genuinely concerned about Kate’s well-being.

This is inaccurate. They released the photo on Instagram and Twitter.

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/

That is my understanding as well. They didn't release it as an official palace photo (like coronation, portrait, etc.)

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I think some people here took the Crown as a documentary, rather than a dramatized fictional look at BRF.

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There’s no chance Rose would willingly give up her current situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read somewhere that there is tension between Kate and William because of her parents owing millions to their creditors. They lived well beyond their means and now they have no money to pay back their business debt. Apparently it’s not a good look for creditors to be chasing the future Queen’s parents and someone actually put up posters of them owing a lot of debt in their hometown. I never liked her mom. She seems to be such a gold digger. I wonder if she forced both her daughters to marry up and didn’t really care if they were truly happy or not.

I mean, surely William could settle their debt if that were the case. They have millions/billions. It wouldn’t matter to him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think some people here took the Crown as a documentary, rather than a dramatized fictional look at BRF.

I never watched the Crown but it’s know that the firm had a hand in it and William has copped to watching it. So, if anything, it’s a sanitized version of actual events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read somewhere that there is tension between Kate and William because of her parents owing millions to their creditors. They lived well beyond their means and now they have no money to pay back their business debt. Apparently it’s not a good look for creditors to be chasing the future Queen’s parents and someone actually put up posters of them owing a lot of debt in their hometown. I never liked her mom. She seems to be such a gold digger. I wonder if she forced both her daughters to marry up and didn’t really care if they were truly happy or not.

I mean, surely William could settle their debt if that were the case. They have millions/billions. It wouldn’t matter to him.

And Pippa!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who thought the photo was lovely and would have been satisfied to leave it at that until after Easter?

Maybe. If they had simply posted it on their Instagram, which most of us don’t follow, a few people would have thought it was cute, maybe noticed some oddities, and would have been satisfied to leave it at that until after Easter. The problem was releasing it as “news”. And maybe the bigger problem is the combination of arrogance and stupidity behind releasing it as “news”. And the even stickier problem is that they’re attracting a LOT of attention for the wrong reasons without reassuring anybody who might be genuinely concerned about Kate’s well-being.

This is inaccurate. They released the photo on Instagram and Twitter.

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/

I think they both released it on instagram and twitter and issued it to news agencies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read somewhere that there is tension between Kate and William because of her parents owing millions to their creditors. They lived well beyond their means and now they have no money to pay back their business debt. Apparently it’s not a good look for creditors to be chasing the future Queen’s parents and someone actually put up posters of them owing a lot of debt in their hometown. I never liked her mom. She seems to be such a gold digger. I wonder if she forced both her daughters to marry up and didn’t really care if they were truly happy or not.

They sold the business and the new owners assumed the debt. The posters were the related to the new owners being mad about the deal and how the Middletons may have been dishonest. Right now they don’t have any of that business debt. Personal debt, maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The idea that William wants to divorce Kate because he wuuuuvs Rose is ridiculous. Leaving aside whether there is an actual affair there or not, let’s say it’s true for the sake of argument. That just is not how it’s done in that circle. You stay married to your spouse and keep it discreet. Charles would have stayed married to Diana if she had been more stable and the Queen hadn’t told them to finally end it. Kate is the ultimate NOT Diana. She knows her role. William and Rose know their roles. Kate wants to be queen, and William has the perfect person there for it. If Rose was making noises about wanting to go public, William would throw her aside without thinking about it.

Kate is ill, she wasn’t in a state to put out the usual Mother’s Day picture, and the palace did stupid things.

Agree with this. And this why I neither believe nor disbelieve the affair rumors. Rose and Kate looking friendly toward each other in public doesn't mean anything. Kate is going to be composed no matter what. It would be really weird for Pippa to name her daughter Rose if Rose and William did have an affair, but I can imagine various reasons for her to do it anyway.

Pippa was photographed at platinum jubilee events while pregnant with Rose, as she and their parents especially have always been shown supporting Kate at royal events. The planting of Rose as a “rival” in tabloids began years before, right after she was partnered with Harry at a state dinner in 2017 (she was married and a mom then too). Rose’s son was next to George participating in ceremonial events during Charles’s coronation. At some point in the year before the coronation, Kate was photographed at a music festival on the property of Rose and her husband; they were also in the photo, chatting with her ina small group. This is all actual factual info. There is NFW Pippa would choose the name Rose if it was coincidentally also the name of William’s side piece. There is no way Kate would be voluntarily hanging out after hours with the lady banging her husband.

I agree that divorce is unlikely not because of that so much as the total lack of comparison between William, Charles, and Diana and Kate. Charles had his Oxford degree and his study of Welsh well under his belt when he married Diana; she was comparatively undereducated. Kate was apparently the superior student to William, she is not a kid in terms of an age gap, and there wasn’t a decade-long one who got away in their background. I didn’t know until relatively recently that Camilla is a giant, obsessive reader, so staying in with a drink and a book is her thing; she and Charles had a ton in common always, apart from whatever attraction. There’s little to indicate that gap in the current Wales marriage; Kate is as game and athletic as William in their photo ops; she’s not limited intellectually. There just seems like a wishful thinking component to the Rose rumor to me, YMMV.