Kate's New Picture

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Do you think Harry and Meghan know what’s actually going on?

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Anonymous wrote:She’s struggling with mental health issues and the stress of the RF. Both she and Will are asking for a scaled back role.
I feel like we’ve seen this before…
And everyone was super cool and supportive about it!

Scaled back role while Charles fighting cancer? They have never worked! They might as well say they don’t want to be working royals and ask that the BRF ends after Charles reign.

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Backgrid?
Help me out!

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I have NEVER liked Meghan Markle. But right about now, it’s starting to make sense

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Time’s up, right? Whatever they’re hiding has to come out now.

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Anonymous wrote:I have NEVER liked Meghan Markle. But right about now, it’s starting to make sense

Legit just had the same thought. Well, I do like her, but man oh man, I’m glad she and Harry got out of there.

I can’t even imagine…………

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Tomorrow is commonwealth Day…. LOL

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thing has been a master class in horrific PR. They need a new communications team.

With at least one American. I think we excel in PR

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Anonymous wrote:Backgrid?
Help me out!

Backgrid is a photo agency that is known to work with celebs to set up pap pics.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think Harry and Meghan know what’s actually going on?

Yes and I will say Meghan is a freaking saint for not leaking it.

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Anonymous wrote:I have NEVER liked Meghan Markle. But right about now, it’s starting to make sense

i said the same thing. They're all trainwrecks behind the scenes 😆 I see why Harry is the way he is.

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Anonymous wrote:I was thinking they just tried to photoshop a better picture of her face onto the photo with the kids, but it looks like her hands were photoshopped too. Why go to all that effort?

Bc
1. Her side wouldn’t agree to a photo pretending everything ok when he’s trying to leave her
Or
2. She’s incapacitated

A theory is that Will put out the photo himself, without her consent (and it was either old or she was photoshopped into it). Her side called the press and told them it was unauthorized.

That makes A LOT of sense and explains why AP took drastic measures.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it really is emergency “abdominal surgery” but Will and Kate mistakenly believe they’re entitled to privacy. They’re public figures funded by taxpayers and next in line to the throne. The public deserves an explanation. If Will and Kate don’t like the attention, they should get out of line and find jobs as private citizens.

I do think Kate had a surgery but I don't think all this weirdness can be explained by "oh they thought they could have more privacy than the public was willing to afford them." Yes people were clamoring for more information from the beginning when they announced her surgery and how long she'd be out of commission, just because it was so long. But if that was really all it was, and they wanted that privacy, they could have just proceeded with business as usual and stayed silent in the face of those demands.

The problem is that there have been several extremely weird events in the interim. William's odd public appearances. His last minute absence from the memorial service. And now this bizarre photo posted the same week as someone who looks a lot like Kate was seen in a car with Carole Middleton. It doesn't add up.

There's also the fact that if Kate just had a planned surgery and wanted a long recovery time, they literally could have just said that. In the last 18 months, QEII passed, they had the funeral which was a huge ordeal, then the family planned and executed the coronation which involved a lot of public events and commitments. They could have just said that Catherine is using the forced leave of absence due to surgery to take a slightly longer R&R and spend some private time with her children and family before resuming public duties. I actually think if they'd just been explicit that she needed a break after a very eventful year and a half, most people would be fine with it and have moved on. It's a few months and it's not like she's the Prime Minister. Being a mom (and raising the 1st/2nd/3rd in line to the throne) kind of is her main job, so taking some time off to be with her kids instead of going to flower shows and hospital openings is fine.

This truly is a problem of the palace's own making. You can't be mostly vague but then insist on a few very specific details, get super defensive when challenged at all, and then do stuff like release this weirdly doctored photo. They can actually get plenty of privacy, especially around medical issues, but they do have to provide some kind of believable explanation to the press and the public because when all they offer is nonsensical, people will of course speculate.

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Anonymous wrote:Time’s up, right? Whatever they’re hiding has to come out now.

“Never explain” though!

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think Harry and Meghan know what’s actually going on?

I don't think they know anything more than whatever Charles told Harry when Harry came to see him last month. Which may not have been much (the visit was very short).

BUT I do bet that they have their own theories and suppositions, and that their experiences with the family probably make them better able to guess what is happening than anyone else. Harry, in particular, knows his brother in a way that the vast majority of the world does not, and he can probably read the tea leaves on some of these things in terms of what it says about William's state of mind, even if he and William have not actually spoken in two years.