Kate's New Picture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

My coworker's job isn't to appear at public functions and in the press, and she surely didn't get pictures of herself in international press within hours of giving birth. I think I would have noticed. I don't think this is really comparing apples and apples.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

False comparison - My coworkers aren’t hoarding the country’s wealth. Coworkers and monarchs alike are deserving of medical privacy, but the palace’s actions in this situation have been suspicious, and the public deserves a higher degree of honesty than what they’ve been given.

DP. No, they actually don’t. I’m sorry her privacy rankles you, but you’re not owed any explanation at all.

+1

No one here is entitled to anything from her.

[Anonymous]

We don’t know King Charles’ medical condition and nobody cares. We know he had a procedure with prostate and cancer but it’s not prostate cancer apparently and we know nothing else besides that. Nobody is clamouring to know more because he isn’t photoshopping pictures of himself and not seen for 4 months except for in cars with his head turned away. If that was so, there would absolutely be chatter or conspiracies that Charles is dead and they’re pretending he’s alive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

If I received an email that a coworker was out for 2-3 months for a medical procedure, I would wish them well and demand nothing.

If a month later my coworkers husband was supposed to attend some event involving the company and he cancelled at the last minute with no explanation whatsoever except to say "don't worry, Jane is fine," I'd think that was weird but go back to work.

If a couple weeks after that, I received an "update" on Jane featuring a heavily photoshopped picture of her with her children, where her children were wearing clothes almost identical to my coworkers Christmas card from last year except for some changes that looked clearly faked via editing, and accompanied by an explanation that this photo had been taken days before by her husband, I'd be on Slack with my colleagues unpacking the whole thing and struggling to get work done because, uh, this is getting very strange.

If Jane then sent a follow up email stating that sometimes she gets overzealous with photoshop and apologizing for any controversy, but no other information, I'd continue to scratch my head and I feel certain my colleagues and I would be combing over these missives trying to figure out if there is some kind of hidden plea for help in them.

If the next day Jane's cousin posted a photo of Jane and her husband to Facebook, only the husband was fully visible and Jane was turned almost completely away from the camera staring at a brick wall, I'd immediately text my colleagues with "WFT is going on, should be be doing something to help Jane."

If a week later our boss came into the office and was like "oh you guys don't worry, I saw Jane and her husband at Foxtrot on Sunday buying specialty jams, she seemed fine," I'd say "I will believe Jane is fine when I see her thanks, but also what kind of jam, I love jam."

I mean, if you want it to be a real analogy.

[Anonymous]

I think people don’t realize it’s not Kate’s medical condition and it’s gritty details people are concerned about. They just want to know that she’s alive and well.

Half the conspiracy theories don’t even think Kate had a medical condition or was hospitalized and that it was a smokescreen for divorce /taking the kids and defecting from royal life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

If I received an email that a coworker was out for 2-3 months for a medical procedure, I would wish them well and demand nothing.

If a month later my coworkers husband was supposed to attend some event involving the company and he cancelled at the last minute with no explanation whatsoever except to say "don't worry, Jane is fine," I'd think that was weird but go back to work.

If a couple weeks after that, I received an "update" on Jane featuring a heavily photoshopped picture of her with her children, where her children were wearing clothes almost identical to my coworkers Christmas card from last year except for some changes that looked clearly faked via editing, and accompanied by an explanation that this photo had been taken days before by her husband, I'd be on Slack with my colleagues unpacking the whole thing and struggling to get work done because, uh, this is getting very strange.

If Jane then sent a follow up email stating that sometimes she gets overzealous with photoshop and apologizing for any controversy, but no other information, I'd continue to scratch my head and I feel certain my colleagues and I would be combing over these missives trying to figure out if there is some kind of hidden plea for help in them.

If the next day Jane's cousin posted a photo of Jane and her husband to Facebook, only the husband was fully visible and Jane was turned almost completely away from the camera staring at a brick wall, I'd immediately text my colleagues with "WFT is going on, should be be doing something to help Jane."

If a week later our boss came into the office and was like "oh you guys don't worry, I saw Jane and her husband at Foxtrot on Sunday buying specialty jams, she seemed fine," I'd say "I will believe Jane is fine when I see her thanks, but also what kind of jam, I love jam."

I mean, if you want it to be a real analogy.

I don't think about my coworkers that much or follow them on Facebook. But, you do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

If I received an email that a coworker was out for 2-3 months for a medical procedure, I would wish them well and demand nothing.

If a month later my coworkers husband was supposed to attend some event involving the company and he cancelled at the last minute with no explanation whatsoever except to say "don't worry, Jane is fine," I'd think that was weird but go back to work.

If a couple weeks after that, I received an "update" on Jane featuring a heavily photoshopped picture of her with her children, where her children were wearing clothes almost identical to my coworkers Christmas card from last year except for some changes that looked clearly faked via editing, and accompanied by an explanation that this photo had been taken days before by her husband, I'd be on Slack with my colleagues unpacking the whole thing and struggling to get work done because, uh, this is getting very strange.

If Jane then sent a follow up email stating that sometimes she gets overzealous with photoshop and apologizing for any controversy, but no other information, I'd continue to scratch my head and I feel certain my colleagues and I would be combing over these missives trying to figure out if there is some kind of hidden plea for help in them.

If the next day Jane's cousin posted a photo of Jane and her husband to Facebook, only the husband was fully visible and Jane was turned almost completely away from the camera staring at a brick wall, I'd immediately text my colleagues with "WFT is going on, should be be doing something to help Jane."

If a week later our boss came into the office and was like "oh you guys don't worry, I saw Jane and her husband at Foxtrot on Sunday buying specialty jams, she seemed fine," I'd say "I will believe Jane is fine when I see her thanks, but also what kind of jam, I love jam."

I mean, if you want it to be a real analogy.

I don't think about my coworkers that much or follow them on Facebook. But, you do you.

Well aren’t you just above it all?


I actually like my coworkers. I’d be worried if they were MIA for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

If I received an email that a coworker was out for 2-3 months for a medical procedure, I would wish them well and demand nothing.

If a month later my coworkers husband was supposed to attend some event involving the company and he cancelled at the last minute with no explanation whatsoever except to say "don't worry, Jane is fine," I'd think that was weird but go back to work.

If a couple weeks after that, I received an "update" on Jane featuring a heavily photoshopped picture of her with her children, where her children were wearing clothes almost identical to my coworkers Christmas card from last year except for some changes that looked clearly faked via editing, and accompanied by an explanation that this photo had been taken days before by her husband, I'd be on Slack with my colleagues unpacking the whole thing and struggling to get work done because, uh, this is getting very strange.

If Jane then sent a follow up email stating that sometimes she gets overzealous with photoshop and apologizing for any controversy, but no other information, I'd continue to scratch my head and I feel certain my colleagues and I would be combing over these missives trying to figure out if there is some kind of hidden plea for help in them.

If the next day Jane's cousin posted a photo of Jane and her husband to Facebook, only the husband was fully visible and Jane was turned almost completely away from the camera staring at a brick wall, I'd immediately text my colleagues with "WFT is going on, should be be doing something to help Jane."

If a week later our boss came into the office and was like "oh you guys don't worry, I saw Jane and her husband at Foxtrot on Sunday buying specialty jams, she seemed fine," I'd say "I will believe Jane is fine when I see her thanks, but also what kind of jam, I love jam."

I mean, if you want it to be a real analogy.

I don't think about my coworkers that much or follow them on Facebook. But, you do you.

Well aren’t you just above it all?


I actually like my coworkers. I’d be worried if they were MIA for sure.

But normal people keep it to themselves. They don't fill in the gaps with insane theories and obsess about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

If I received an email that a coworker was out for 2-3 months for a medical procedure, I would wish them well and demand nothing.

If a month later my coworkers husband was supposed to attend some event involving the company and he cancelled at the last minute with no explanation whatsoever except to say "don't worry, Jane is fine," I'd think that was weird but go back to work.

If a couple weeks after that, I received an "update" on Jane featuring a heavily photoshopped picture of her with her children, where her children were wearing clothes almost identical to my coworkers Christmas card from last year except for some changes that looked clearly faked via editing, and accompanied by an explanation that this photo had been taken days before by her husband, I'd be on Slack with my colleagues unpacking the whole thing and struggling to get work done because, uh, this is getting very strange.

If Jane then sent a follow up email stating that sometimes she gets overzealous with photoshop and apologizing for any controversy, but no other information, I'd continue to scratch my head and I feel certain my colleagues and I would be combing over these missives trying to figure out if there is some kind of hidden plea for help in them.

If the next day Jane's cousin posted a photo of Jane and her husband to Facebook, only the husband was fully visible and Jane was turned almost completely away from the camera staring at a brick wall, I'd immediately text my colleagues with "WFT is going on, should be be doing something to help Jane."

If a week later our boss came into the office and was like "oh you guys don't worry, I saw Jane and her husband at Foxtrot on Sunday buying specialty jams, she seemed fine," I'd say "I will believe Jane is fine when I see her thanks, but also what kind of jam, I love jam."

I mean, if you want it to be a real analogy.

I don't think about my coworkers that much or follow them on Facebook. But, you do you.

I don't think of my coworkers much at all, but if I received a heavily photoshopped and clearly fake photo from a colleague out on leave, claiming to be from a few days before, followed by a hasty mea culpa claiming she just got carried away but nothing else, I'd suddenly be extremely interested in my coworker.

That's what happened here. Many of us were not thinking about or caring about this situation at all until the palace released a fake photo of the princess claiming it was recent, then released, in close succession: a note from her claiming she photoshopped the photo herself, and a picture of the back of her head.

If the intensity of interest in this situation upsets you, I recommend taking that up with KP's press office, which manufactured this entire controversy themselves. The interest and curiosity people are exhibiting is totally normal, not some sign of obsession.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

If I received an email that a coworker was out for 2-3 months for a medical procedure, I would wish them well and demand nothing.

If a month later my coworkers husband was supposed to attend some event involving the company and he cancelled at the last minute with no explanation whatsoever except to say "don't worry, Jane is fine," I'd think that was weird but go back to work.

If a couple weeks after that, I received an "update" on Jane featuring a heavily photoshopped picture of her with her children, where her children were wearing clothes almost identical to my coworkers Christmas card from last year except for some changes that looked clearly faked via editing, and accompanied by an explanation that this photo had been taken days before by her husband, I'd be on Slack with my colleagues unpacking the whole thing and struggling to get work done because, uh, this is getting very strange.

If Jane then sent a follow up email stating that sometimes she gets overzealous with photoshop and apologizing for any controversy, but no other information, I'd continue to scratch my head and I feel certain my colleagues and I would be combing over these missives trying to figure out if there is some kind of hidden plea for help in them.

If the next day Jane's cousin posted a photo of Jane and her husband to Facebook, only the husband was fully visible and Jane was turned almost completely away from the camera staring at a brick wall, I'd immediately text my colleagues with "WFT is going on, should be be doing something to help Jane."

If a week later our boss came into the office and was like "oh you guys don't worry, I saw Jane and her husband at Foxtrot on Sunday buying specialty jams, she seemed fine," I'd say "I will believe Jane is fine when I see her thanks, but also what kind of jam, I love jam."

I mean, if you want it to be a real analogy.

+100. Right. Half of these posters freak out about MCPS not providing 90 minute powwows about every school incident in the county , or think somethings nefarious or must be wrong when their 14 year olds don’t have time to chat snd tell Them To stay out of their room .

They’re feigning ignorance about this Kate situation as if nothings suspicious about it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

False comparison - My coworkers aren’t hoarding the country’s wealth. Coworkers and monarchs alike are deserving of medical privacy, but the palace’s actions in this situation have been suspicious, and the public deserves a higher degree of honesty than what they’ve been given.

They aren't hoarding your wealth at all. You are not their public.

Wait what? Of course it’s not my wealth, silly - my ancestors left that country centuries ago and crushed them in the revolution. That doesn’t mean they’re still not hoarding wealth from the public, which they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

If I received an email that a coworker was out for 2-3 months for a medical procedure, I would wish them well and demand nothing.

If a month later my coworkers husband was supposed to attend some event involving the company and he cancelled at the last minute with no explanation whatsoever except to say "don't worry, Jane is fine," I'd think that was weird but go back to work.

If a couple weeks after that, I received an "update" on Jane featuring a heavily photoshopped picture of her with her children, where her children were wearing clothes almost identical to my coworkers Christmas card from last year except for some changes that looked clearly faked via editing, and accompanied by an explanation that this photo had been taken days before by her husband, I'd be on Slack with my colleagues unpacking the whole thing and struggling to get work done because, uh, this is getting very strange.

If Jane then sent a follow up email stating that sometimes she gets overzealous with photoshop and apologizing for any controversy, but no other information, I'd continue to scratch my head and I feel certain my colleagues and I would be combing over these missives trying to figure out if there is some kind of hidden plea for help in them.

If the next day Jane's cousin posted a photo of Jane and her husband to Facebook, only the husband was fully visible and Jane was turned almost completely away from the camera staring at a brick wall, I'd immediately text my colleagues with "WFT is going on, should be be doing something to help Jane."

If a week later our boss came into the office and was like "oh you guys don't worry, I saw Jane and her husband at Foxtrot on Sunday buying specialty jams, she seemed fine," I'd say "I will believe Jane is fine when I see her thanks, but also what kind of jam, I love jam."

I mean, if you want it to be a real analogy.

+1 This is awesome.

[Anonymous]

These comparisons to co-workers are ridiculous. Members of the royal family are NOT similar to co-workers. They are supported by tax payers to represent the state and have public duties. They are responsible to the general public, not to their bosses or their work colleagues.

The better analogy would be to Secretary Austin not reporting that he had surgery for prostate cancer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. If a coworker hard a procedure and took 2-3 months off for FMLA would you demand to know what happened and where they are? It’s pretty safe to assume she isn’t dead. If she were a normal person, she’d likely be out and about on errands and school runs by now. But she'd isn’t and can’t go anywhere without be hounded and having her picture on every front page. Therefore, to recovery, she quite literally has to go incognito.

If I received an email that a coworker was out for 2-3 months for a medical procedure, I would wish them well and demand nothing.

If a month later my coworkers husband was supposed to attend some event involving the company and he cancelled at the last minute with no explanation whatsoever except to say "don't worry, Jane is fine," I'd think that was weird but go back to work.

If a couple weeks after that, I received an "update" on Jane featuring a heavily photoshopped picture of her with her children, where her children were wearing clothes almost identical to my coworkers Christmas card from last year except for some changes that looked clearly faked via editing, and accompanied by an explanation that this photo had been taken days before by her husband, I'd be on Slack with my colleagues unpacking the whole thing and struggling to get work done because, uh, this is getting very strange.

If Jane then sent a follow up email stating that sometimes she gets overzealous with photoshop and apologizing for any controversy, but no other information, I'd continue to scratch my head and I feel certain my colleagues and I would be combing over these missives trying to figure out if there is some kind of hidden plea for help in them.

If the next day Jane's cousin posted a photo of Jane and her husband to Facebook, only the husband was fully visible and Jane was turned almost completely away from the camera staring at a brick wall, I'd immediately text my colleagues with "WFT is going on, should be be doing something to help Jane."

If a week later our boss came into the office and was like "oh you guys don't worry, I saw Jane and her husband at Foxtrot on Sunday buying specialty jams, she seemed fine," I'd say "I will believe Jane is fine when I see her thanks, but also what kind of jam, I love jam."

I mean, if you want it to be a real analogy.

I don't think about my coworkers that much or follow them on Facebook. But, you do you.

I don't think of my coworkers much at all, but if I received a heavily photoshopped and clearly fake photo from a colleague out on leave, claiming to be from a few days before, followed by a hasty mea culpa claiming she just got carried away but nothing else, I'd suddenly be extremely interested in my coworker.

That's what happened here. Many of us were not thinking about or caring about this situation at all until the palace released a fake photo of the princess claiming it was recent, then released, in close succession: a note from her claiming she photoshopped the photo herself, and a picture of the back of her head.

If the intensity of interest in this situation upsets you, I recommend taking that up with KP's press office, which manufactured this entire controversy themselves. The interest and curiosity people are exhibiting is totally normal, not some sign of obsession.

The only person upset is you. You can't stand not knowing and you're obsessed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These comparisons to co-workers are ridiculous. Members of the royal family are NOT similar to co-workers. They are supported by tax payers to represent the state and have public duties. They are responsible to the general public, not to their bosses or their work colleagues.

The better analogy would be to Secretary Austin not reporting that he had surgery for prostate cancer.

The American busybodies are not the public or tax payers.