Kate's New Picture

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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.

This post is not normal.

Yes, the normal thing to do is to post 300 times that people need to please stop talking about the Princess of Wales on a thread about the Princess of Wales, when you could also just... not.

+1 She’s a (tax-funded) public figure. It’s not unreasonable for people to discuss what’s going on. Just exit the thread if it disturbs you so. GMAFB already.

And it's just really intriguing. It's like watching the show Succession, especially considering everything that has happened with Harry in the last few years, and everything The Crown revealed. I guess it's feels like the next season of The Crown. It's all deeply fascinating. I'm not a "royalist", I think it's absurd that England has never had a revolution and ousted these people, and my parents also immigrated from a former British colony (that was absolutely gutted by the monarchy). So of course I'm going to pay attention. And this thread is pretty good!

Same here (except for the British colony part). I've never posted on a royals thread before, but this cloak and dagger stuff is intriguing. Also intriguing are the people who want a Disney princess so they rationalize skeletal, dream about sheets, and who think Kate is reading 375 pages of posts from a bunch of Bethesda moms, so they keep bumping the thread with more posts.

It's like people watching x3

I'm inclined to think Kate's recovering from surgery, she's put on 10 pounds from steroids or a much less restrictive diet, and she doesn't want to go out win public because she thinks she looks puffy. Then KP made an own goal and stirred everything up. The domestic abuse people are way out there, but I don't blame them as much as I blame the Disney princess people who set the expectations Kate is hiding from.

Do you think there really are “Disney princess people” posting here? Is that your reality?

NP I agree with this poster entirely: Kate doesn't look her best, and not her best is not acceptable for women like her. There's a reason Victoria of Sweden was anorexic, Leticia of Spain is a starving skeleton, Diana, Jackie Kennedy had an ED...All of them face/faced immense scrutiny and pressure to model clothes perfectly and be smiling at all times. Had Diana or Jackie been even 20 lbs heavier, they would have not been icons. It is the very sad truth.

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DP. The Princess Party. Where the stated mission is to have this thread locked (well they say “deleted”). Accomplished by gaslight and duplicity and foul language.

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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.

This post is not normal.

Yes, the normal thing to do is to post 300 times that people need to please stop talking about the Princess of Wales on a thread about the Princess of Wales, when you could also just... not.

+1 She’s a (tax-funded) public figure. It’s not unreasonable for people to discuss what’s going on. Just exit the thread if it disturbs you so. GMAFB already.

And it's just really intriguing. It's like watching the show Succession, especially considering everything that has happened with Harry in the last few years, and everything The Crown revealed. I guess it's feels like the next season of The Crown. It's all deeply fascinating. I'm not a "royalist", I think it's absurd that England has never had a revolution and ousted these people, and my parents also immigrated from a former British colony (that was absolutely gutted by the monarchy). So of course I'm going to pay attention. And this thread is pretty good!

You do realize that are fictitious stories, right?

I think people are having a crazy amount of trouble understanding that fiction and even their random imaginings are not real.

Truly bizarre.

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Anonymous wrote: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

I agree. It's like they're trying to grab more attention and speculation!

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Why are some people so bothered by the speculation here? Kate could easily debunk the crazy conspiracy theories (dead, coma, divorce, no-contact rehab) without disclosing any details about her medical procedure. "But she doesn't owe you anything!!!" Yup, agreed 100%. She can keep mum if she wants to. Totally valid.

... But in the absence of information, people are going to speculate. That's how it goes when you're a public figure. Can't have it both ways.

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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.

This post is not normal.

Yes, the normal thing to do is to post 300 times that people need to please stop talking about the Princess of Wales on a thread about the Princess of Wales, when you could also just... not.

+1 She’s a (tax-funded) public figure. It’s not unreasonable for people to discuss what’s going on. Just exit the thread if it disturbs you so. GMAFB already.

And it's just really intriguing. It's like watching the show Succession, especially considering everything that has happened with Harry in the last few years, and everything The Crown revealed. I guess it's feels like the next season of The Crown. It's all deeply fascinating. I'm not a "royalist", I think it's absurd that England has never had a revolution and ousted these people, and my parents also immigrated from a former British colony (that was absolutely gutted by the monarchy). So of course I'm going to pay attention. And this thread is pretty good!

Same here (except for the British colony part). I've never posted on a royals thread before, but this cloak and dagger stuff is intriguing. Also intriguing are the people who want a Disney princess so they rationalize skeletal, dream about sheets, and who think Kate is reading 375 pages of posts from a bunch of Bethesda moms, so they keep bumping the thread with more posts.

It's like people watching x3

I'm inclined to think Kate's recovering from surgery, she's put on 10 pounds from steroids or a much less restrictive diet, and she doesn't want to go out win public because she thinks she looks puffy. Then KP made an own goal and stirred everything up. The domestic abuse people are way out there, but I don't blame them as much as I blame the Disney princess people who set the expectations Kate is hiding from.

Do you think there really are “Disney princess people” posting here? Is that your reality?

There totally are Disney princess people here. Early in the thread they were talking about how "gorgeous" Kate is and one of them unleashed giggles by fantasizing about her lying on "the most expensive sheets money can buy." They refuse to see that she's dangerously thin, because for them she's just a clothes horse whose only role in life is to be gorgeous.

You have fabricated this whole character in your head based on your twisted interpretation of comments from 100s of pages ago. You would realize that your assumptions and generalizations were wrong and there really aren’t “Disney princess people” here if you opened yourself up to reality.

Whatever you say. Just stop insisting she's a perfect, healthy weight because you think she looks better in her gorgeous clothes that way.

I enjoy that this is so triggering for you.

This makes zero sense. Next you'll tell me I'm fat (I'm not). But keep on with the insults, it really shows who you are.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are some people so bothered by the speculation here? Kate could easily debunk the crazy conspiracy theories (dead, coma, divorce, no-contact rehab) without disclosing any details about her medical procedure. "But she doesn't owe you anything!!!" Yup, agreed 100%. She can keep mum if she wants to. Totally valid.

... But in the absence of information, people are going to speculate. That's how it goes when you're a public figure. Can't have it both ways.

I agree with this for many of the possible theories, but I think and eating disorder is different. If she is recovering from one, she almost certainly has it in part due to public scrutiny. If she were to admit to having one, plenty of pieces would come out on the topic, potentially scrutinizing past photos of her. If a photo is released of her it will be scrutinized. Any of these could jeopardize her recovery.

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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.

This post is not normal.

Yes, the normal thing to do is to post 300 times that people need to please stop talking about the Princess of Wales on a thread about the Princess of Wales, when you could also just... not.

+1 She’s a (tax-funded) public figure. It’s not unreasonable for people to discuss what’s going on. Just exit the thread if it disturbs you so. GMAFB already.

And it's just really intriguing. It's like watching the show Succession, especially considering everything that has happened with Harry in the last few years, and everything The Crown revealed. I guess it's feels like the next season of The Crown. It's all deeply fascinating. I'm not a "royalist", I think it's absurd that England has never had a revolution and ousted these people, and my parents also immigrated from a former British colony (that was absolutely gutted by the monarchy). So of course I'm going to pay attention. And this thread is pretty good!

You do realize that are fictitious stories, right?

I think people are having a crazy amount of trouble understanding that fiction and even their random imaginings are not real.


Truly bizarre.

Many may be bots and trolls. Many of the most outlandish conspiracy theories have come from openly SS accounts which are then breathlessly amplified here.

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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.

This post is not normal.

Yes, the normal thing to do is to post 300 times that people need to please stop talking about the Princess of Wales on a thread about the Princess of Wales, when you could also just... not.

+1 She’s a (tax-funded) public figure. It’s not unreasonable for people to discuss what’s going on. Just exit the thread if it disturbs you so. GMAFB already.

And it's just really intriguing. It's like watching the show Succession, especially considering everything that has happened with Harry in the last few years, and everything The Crown revealed. I guess it's feels like the next season of The Crown. It's all deeply fascinating. I'm not a "royalist", I think it's absurd that England has never had a revolution and ousted these people, and my parents also immigrated from a former British colony (that was absolutely gutted by the monarchy). So of course I'm going to pay attention. And this thread is pretty good!

Same here (except for the British colony part). I've never posted on a royals thread before, but this cloak and dagger stuff is intriguing. Also intriguing are the people who want a Disney princess so they rationalize skeletal, dream about sheets, and who think Kate is reading 375 pages of posts from a bunch of Bethesda moms, so they keep bumping the thread with more posts.

It's like people watching x3

I'm inclined to think Kate's recovering from surgery, she's put on 10 pounds from steroids or a much less restrictive diet, and she doesn't want to go out win public because she thinks she looks puffy. Then KP made an own goal and stirred everything up. The domestic abuse people are way out there, but I don't blame them as much as I blame the Disney princess people who set the expectations Kate is hiding from.

Do you think there really are “Disney princess people” posting here? Is that your reality?

There totally are Disney princess people here. Early in the thread they were talking about how "gorgeous" Kate is and one of them unleashed giggles by fantasizing about her lying on "the most expensive sheets money can buy." They refuse to see that she's dangerously thin, because for them she's just a clothes horse whose only role in life is to be gorgeous.

You have fabricated this whole character in your head based on your twisted interpretation of comments from 100s of pages ago. You would realize that your assumptions and generalizations were wrong and there really aren’t “Disney princess people” here if you opened yourself up to reality.

Whatever you say. Just stop insisting she's a perfect, healthy weight because you think she looks better in her gorgeous clothes that way.

I enjoy that this is so triggering for you.

This makes zero sense. Next you'll tell me I'm fat (I'm not). But keep on with the insults, it really shows who you are.

Are we not entertained yet?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are some people so bothered by the speculation here? Kate could easily debunk the crazy conspiracy theories (dead, coma, divorce, no-contact rehab) without disclosing any details about her medical procedure. "But she doesn't owe you anything!!!" Yup, agreed 100%. She can keep mum if she wants to. Totally valid.

... But in the absence of information, people are going to speculate. That's how it goes when you're a public figure. Can't have it both ways.

If the princess obsessives can be mocked so can the conspiracy theorists.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are some people so bothered by the speculation here? Kate could easily debunk the crazy conspiracy theories (dead, coma, divorce, no-contact rehab) without disclosing any details about her medical procedure. "But she doesn't owe you anything!!!" Yup, agreed 100%. She can keep mum if she wants to. Totally valid.

... But in the absence of information, people are going to speculate. That's how it goes when you're a public figure. Can't have it both ways.

If the princess obsessives can be mocked so can the conspiracy theorists.

Not all theories are conspiracy theories. I have yet to hear a “conspiracy” theory about this and I’ve been here since page 3.

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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.

This post is not normal.

Yes, the normal thing to do is to post 300 times that people need to please stop talking about the Princess of Wales on a thread about the Princess of Wales, when you could also just... not.

+1 She’s a (tax-funded) public figure. It’s not unreasonable for people to discuss what’s going on. Just exit the thread if it disturbs you so. GMAFB already.

And it's just really intriguing. It's like watching the show Succession, especially considering everything that has happened with Harry in the last few years, and everything The Crown revealed. I guess it's feels like the next season of The Crown. It's all deeply fascinating. I'm not a "royalist", I think it's absurd that England has never had a revolution and ousted these people, and my parents also immigrated from a former British colony (that was absolutely gutted by the monarchy). So of course I'm going to pay attention. And this thread is pretty good!

Same here (except for the British colony part). I've never posted on a royals thread before, but this cloak and dagger stuff is intriguing. Also intriguing are the people who want a Disney princess so they rationalize skeletal, dream about sheets, and who think Kate is reading 375 pages of posts from a bunch of Bethesda moms, so they keep bumping the thread with more posts.

It's like people watching x3

I'm inclined to think Kate's recovering from surgery, she's put on 10 pounds from steroids or a much less restrictive diet, and she doesn't want to go out win public because she thinks she looks puffy. Then KP made an own goal and stirred everything up. The domestic abuse people are way out there, but I don't blame them as much as I blame the Disney princess people who set the expectations Kate is hiding from.

Do you think there really are “Disney princess people” posting here? Is that your reality?

NP I agree with this poster entirely: Kate doesn't look her best, and not her best is not acceptable for women like her. There's a reason Victoria of Sweden was anorexic, Leticia of Spain is a starving skeleton, Diana, Jackie Kennedy had an ED...All of them face/faced immense scrutiny and pressure to model clothes perfectly and be smiling at all times. Had Diana or Jackie been even 20 lbs heavier, they would have not been icons. It is the very sad truth.

These are great (sadly, not-so-great) examples. Kate knows there's a huge audience who wants her to look perfect, some of them on this thread. And so she thinks she has to stay private until puffiness from steroids goes down, or until she comes to grips with a healthier weight.

This explains why she needs 3-4 months for surgery that the rest of us would need a month to recover from. No need for divorce or domestic abuse theories.

If she does emerge 10-20 pounds heavier, and I expect she will, THAT'S when we stop critiquing her photos. Unfortunately, the Disney princess people on this thread will be the ones who are upset by a healthier princess.

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New Twitter rumors: Charles is dead. Charles is appointing a regent. Big announcement on Wednesday.

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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.

This post is not normal.

Yes, the normal thing to do is to post 300 times that people need to please stop talking about the Princess of Wales on a thread about the Princess of Wales, when you could also just... not.

+1 She’s a (tax-funded) public figure. It’s not unreasonable for people to discuss what’s going on. Just exit the thread if it disturbs you so. GMAFB already.

And it's just really intriguing. It's like watching the show Succession, especially considering everything that has happened with Harry in the last few years, and everything The Crown revealed. I guess it's feels like the next season of The Crown. It's all deeply fascinating. I'm not a "royalist", I think it's absurd that England has never had a revolution and ousted these people, and my parents also immigrated from a former British colony (that was absolutely gutted by the monarchy). So of course I'm going to pay attention. And this thread is pretty good!

Same here (except for the British colony part). I've never posted on a royals thread before, but this cloak and dagger stuff is intriguing. Also intriguing are the people who want a Disney princess so they rationalize skeletal, dream about sheets, and who think Kate is reading 375 pages of posts from a bunch of Bethesda moms, so they keep bumping the thread with more posts.

It's like people watching x3

I'm inclined to think Kate's recovering from surgery, she's put on 10 pounds from steroids or a much less restrictive diet, and she doesn't want to go out win public because she thinks she looks puffy. Then KP made an own goal and stirred everything up. The domestic abuse people are way out there, but I don't blame them as much as I blame the Disney princess people who set the expectations Kate is hiding from.

Do you think there really are “Disney princess people” posting here? Is that your reality?

There totally are Disney princess people here. Early in the thread they were talking about how "gorgeous" Kate is and one of them unleashed giggles by fantasizing about her lying on "the most expensive sheets money can buy." They refuse to see that she's dangerously thin, because for them she's just a clothes horse whose only role in life is to be gorgeous.

You have fabricated this whole character in your head based on your twisted interpretation of comments from 100s of pages ago. You would realize that your assumptions and generalizations were wrong and there really aren’t “Disney princess people” here if you opened yourself up to reality.

Whatever you say. Just stop insisting she's a perfect, healthy weight because you think she looks better in her gorgeous clothes that way.

I enjoy that this is so triggering for you.

This makes zero sense. Next you'll tell me I'm fat (I'm not). But keep on with the insults, it really shows who you are.

Are we not entertained yet?

Keep bumping the thread, too, then go whinge again to the moderator about how long the thread is. LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:New Twitter rumors: Charles is dead. Charles is appointing a regent. Big announcement on Wednesday.

But Camilla was just on vacation. Or was that fake, too?