Kate's New Picture

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Anonymous wrote:This is the hottest of hot messes.

Indeed. Said with the accent of a British dutches

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they are getting divorced. I think she is suffering from ED and had some kind of breakdown when they tried to stage an intervention in December.

ED? Errctile dysfunction do you mean? Like she’s walking along fine looking with her family in photos before Xmas and just collapses in a breakdown heap for months?

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

What’s starting to make sense?

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect it was difficult to get a picture with everyone smiling and eyes open at the same time. I don’t think much else was done to the picture.

You’re ignoring the details of this picture.

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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.

Actually, I think you are being dismissive of the extreme conspiracy theories. They announced her surgery and gave her return date - and people didn't accept it. With Charles' diagnosis of cancer, it's not great timing. But the public has gone absolutely crazy over Kate, speculating that she is in a coma on TV, divorcing, dead, etc. You're minimizing the public frenzy over her "disappearance" and pretending that the way her medical treatment was handled was problematic when it was handled exactly the way you described it should have been.

No, it was not handled as I suggest. What I'm saying is that they could have been MUCH more forthcoming. They could have explained up front why Catherine's recovery time was so long, and they could have done so without disclosing her condition if they wanted to keep that private. They CHOSE to leave that very open ended.

These people do in fact employ full time PR teams. There are ways to craft statements and release them so as to shut down speculation. If they'd just said from the beginning "Catherine is using the forced R&R from her recovery to take some extra time at home with her children," that would still be vague enough to protect her privacy but offer a ready-made response to all the conspiracy theorists who are like "what surgery could possibly require such a long recovery time???" Again, there are people who do this for a living and some of them even work for the palace, so the weird, vague, incomplete statements don't make sense at all.

Except it’s not open ended. They have said she will rest until as long as Easter. Easter is fast approaching.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect it was difficult to get a picture with everyone smiling and eyes open at the same time. I don’t think much else was done to the picture.

If it was so hard to get a photo with everyone smiling and eyes open that they feel the need to splice multiple photos together, then almost any working publicity professional would have told them "let's just release a statement or an older photo [identified as an older photo to be up front], since releasing ANOTHER weirdly photoshopped photo in this specific moment is likely to go over poorly."

It's not actually about the photo. It's about the weird timing of its release, the assertion it was taken last week (which they knew would get attention because that would make it the first official public "appearance" of either Catherine or the kids since December -- a big deal), and all the other strange statements and choices of the palace and William since this whole thing started.

DP. But if they released an older photo, people would have asked why they didn't have a current photo, and would have speculated about what they were "hiding."

I agree there are a lot of red flags about what's been happening with her health, with William, and so on. But it seems like they were in a bind. Maybe better not to release anything than this?

And what do you suppose caused this bind my lady?

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Anonymous wrote:The palace is not protecting Kate’s privacy…everyone sees that right? They are concerned only with protecting one person.

Many believe certain important members of British press know what’s going on but are embargoed from discussing…

Hold up.
Are you suggesting the royal family would sacrifice one person’s reputation and privacy to benefit the heir apparent?
I’ve never considered such a possibility!

Sure. They would throw anyone under the bus to protect William. Especially with his father’s failing health. They don’t care about Catherine. She’s birth 3 heirs.

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Anonymous wrote:So just to be clear here - in the Public Relations industry, a “kill notification” is the coup de grâce of the media circuit. For AP to issue this update, means that something is TERRIBLY wrong. Think of it as a Cat. 5 cyclone. This is literally a death blow to any press source.


https://x.com/tenilleclarke1/status/1766966430480707782?s=46&t=B_UPLhyHnaYTWZGHGKR0lQ

What does a kill notification even mean? It’s 3 am. Can’t google.

It's sounds dramatic but it's tell media outlets to remove a story or picture because it doesn't fit up to the agencies standards and can affect credibility. In this case, the picture was heavily manipulated to the point it's hard to tell what the original picture was. Also want to clarify the press source in this case is the royal family, not the outlets themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they are getting divorced. I think she is suffering from ED and had some kind of breakdown when they tried to stage an intervention in December.

ED? Errctile dysfunction do you mean? Like she’s walking along fine looking with her family in photos before Xmas and just collapses in a breakdown heap for months?

Eating disorder. People have mental breakdowns out of seemingly nowhere all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they are getting divorced. I think she is suffering from ED and had some kind of breakdown when they tried to stage an intervention in December.

ED? Errctile dysfunction do you mean? Like she’s walking along fine looking with her family in photos before Xmas and just collapses in a breakdown heap for months?

That was my first thought when I saw ED (eating disorder) too. I thought things were getting weird and people were discussing erectile disfunction.

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Anonymous wrote:So just to be clear here - in the Public Relations industry, a “kill notification” is the coup de grâce of the media circuit. For AP to issue this update, means that something is TERRIBLY wrong. Think of it as a Cat. 5 cyclone. This is literally a death blow to any press source.


https://x.com/tenilleclarke1/status/1766966430480707782?s=46&t=B_UPLhyHnaYTWZGHGKR0lQ

What does a kill notification even mean? It’s 3 am. Can’t google.

It's sounds dramatic but it's tell media outlets to remove a story or picture because it doesn't fit up to the agencies standards and can affect credibility. In this case, the picture was heavily manipulated to the point it's hard to tell what the original picture was. Also want to clarify the press source in this case is the royal family, not the outlets themselves.

And that, then, becomes a story in and of itself. The picture was supposedly taken by William. That’s unusual. It also raises questions about who did the photo manipulations — and why. Whatever is going on, the media outlets seem to be trying to keep their hands clean.

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Anonymous wrote:The palace is not protecting Kate’s privacy…everyone sees that right? They are concerned only with protecting one person.

Many believe certain important members of British press know what’s going on but are embargoed from discussing…

Hold up.
Are you suggesting the royal family would sacrifice one person’s reputation and privacy to benefit the heir apparent?
I’ve never considered such a possibility!

I think I’ve seen this play out before hmmmm…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So just to be clear here - in the Public Relations industry, a “kill notification” is the coup de grâce of the media circuit. For AP to issue this update, means that something is TERRIBLY wrong. Think of it as a Cat. 5 cyclone. This is literally a death blow to any press source.


https://x.com/tenilleclarke1/status/1766966430480707782?s=46&t=B_UPLhyHnaYTWZGHGKR0lQ

What does a kill notification even mean? It’s 3 am. Can’t google.

It's sounds dramatic but it's tell media outlets to remove a story or picture because it doesn't fit up to the agencies standards and can affect credibility. In this case, the picture was heavily manipulated to the point it's hard to tell what the original picture was. Also want to clarify the press source in this case is the royal family, not the outlets themselves.

And that, then, becomes a story in and of itself. The picture was supposedly taken by William. That’s unusual. It also raises questions about who did the photo manipulations — and why. Whatever is going on, the media outlets seem to be trying to keep their hands clean.

I don't blame them! The relationship between the family and the media goes both ways. Someone may have reported the picture but no one set them up. They did it themselves

[Anonymous]

KP released this badly photoshopped picture on purpose. They need to the media cycle to run with this for another week or so to buy then some time.

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Anonymous wrote:If Kate is really sick then she most likely didn't okay these pictures or possibly even want to have pictures taken I the first. That's an awful position to put her ans the kids in. I hope she's okay.

+1000
As a mother, I concerned that she’s been separated from her children.

Omg you all are crazy. Like legit crazy. Minor photoshopping should not create such a feeding frenzy. Louis has lost some of his baby teeth. The kids look older than the last released pic. It’s a sweet picture. She’s recovering from surgery so probably swollen- she’s not wearing any jewelry. I don’t understand the internet conspiracy theories. Kate doesn’t want the universe talking about her bowels. She’s entitled to a modicum of privacy. They said she’d be back at Easter- why is that not clear?