There’s a lot being done this week by people with one particular agenda. That agenda? That the Princess of Wales is absolutely the woman who carried a heavy bag and walked briskly out of the Windsor Farm Store last Saturday. A lot of people have a lot of doubts about it, including at least one BBC reporter and one TMZ executive. Someone who doesn’t have any doubts? People Magazine’s royal editor Simon Perry, who insisted: “No, it wasn’t fabricated or featuring a body double (the photo would surely have been better if that were the case!). And yes, it was indeed Kate. Did their handlers mind that they’d been spotted looking happy as they ran their errands? I suspect not.” The Sun also ran an interview with Nelson Silva, the man who took the video, who insists that it’s Kate and that people questioning it are “delusional.”
So, sure. For argument’s sake, let’s say that Kate really is up and about and feeling well enough to walk briskly at a Windsor farmer’s market and carry heavy grocery bags. Let’s say that her abdominal issues have healed and she magically came out of the procedure looking fifteen years younger, with a radically different face. It begs the question: why then has Kensington Palace insisted that Kate take such a lengthy recovery time, and why wasn’t she capable of simply recording a video of thanks for all the support, and why did “she” hack together a frankenphoto for Mother’s Day? Not only that, if she’s feeling well enough for these kinds of outings, surely she can do some work? Like, a Zoom meeting or a work briefing at Windsor Castle? Apparently, Kensington Palace staff just figured out that their silence-is-confirmation on the TMZ video means that people are curious why Kate is still not working. Like magic, this story appeared:
The Princess of Wales has been working from home on her early years project to improve the lives of babies, as she eases back into normal life after her abdominal surgery. Kensington Palace confirmed that she had been kept up to date with her campaign and the “overwhelmingly positive” results of a study she inspired.
The Princess’s Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood has funded a trial of a baby observation tool, which is to be used by health visitors to improve how they spot signs of social and emotional development in young children, with the results being published on Thursday. Having personally suggested that the tool could be used in Britain after seeing a similar system during a royal visit to Denmark, the Princess has been particularly invested in the four-month trial.
A spokesman for Kensington Palace said: “The Princess has been kept updated throughout the process.” The comment from Kensington Palace is the first official update on the Princess’s early years work since her recovery from surgery in January, during which she has been taken off public duties.
Ordinarily, she would have been expected to undertake engagements relating to the study’s publication. Instead, she has been at home recovering and is just starting to get back on her feet for small outings, including to a Windsor Farm Shop at the weekend.
The Princess of Wales’s Centre for Early Childhood will on Thursday report the results of a study conducted in two NHS trusts by the Institute of Health Visiting and the University of Oxford. It asked health visitors to use a version of a tool known as the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB), which focuses on a baby’s social behaviours such as eye contact, facial expression, vocalisation and activity levels, to help experts and families better understand the ways babies express their feelings.
I forgot that Kate took credit for “funding a study” after all of last year’s nonsense about her latest rebranded Early Years crap. Last year, it was Shaping Us, with a creepy claymation video and an “awareness raising” campaign. As in, Kate raised awareness that the early years are important. That’s it. Now she’s funding a landmark study into whether you can tell a baby is upset when they cry. Anyway, Keen is back to work! Back to busy-work.
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- LEEDS, ENGLAND – JANUARY 31: Catherine, Princess of Wales waves while departing the University of Leeds after spending time with students on the Childhood Studies programme on January 31, 2023 in Leeds, England. Catherine, Princess of Wales is undertaking engagements in London and Leeds this week as part of the launch of the Shaping Us campaign to raise awareness of the unique importance of early childhood.,Image: 753110129, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- WINDSOR, ENGLAND – JUNE 06: Catherine, Princess of Wales speaks with staff during a visit to the Windsor Family Hub on June 06, 2023 in Windsor, England. The Windsor Family Hub is run by Achieving for Children, a not-for-profit community interest company providing children’s services for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. The Princess has dedicated her time to raising awareness of the critical importance of early childhood and in January 2023, with The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, launched Shaping Us, a campaign which aims to transform the issue of early childhood, from one of scientific interest to one of the most strategically important topics of our time.,Image: 781761636, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales laughs as she listens to Tony Blair and William Hague swap anecdotes as they speak at the “Shaping Us” National Symposium at the Design Museum in London, UK, 15 November 2023,Image: 822228646, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Richard Pohle / Avalon
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales arrives at the University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, where she will join students on the Childhood Studies programme which focuses on a broad approach to early childhood development, during her visit to the city for the launch of the Shaping Us campaign to raise awareness of the unique importance of early childhood. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Leeds, England, United Kingdom When: 31 Jan 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales hosts the inaugural meeting of her new Business Taskforce for Early Childhood at NatWest’s headquarters in the City of London where they will discuss why Early Childhood is so critical for business. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 21 Mar 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales hosts the inaugural meeting of her new Business Taskforce for Early Childhood at NatWest’s headquarters in the City of London where they will discuss why Early Childhood is so critical for business. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 21 Mar 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales hosts the inaugural meeting of her new Business Taskforce for Early Childhood at NatWest’s headquarters in the City of London where they will discuss why Early Childhood is so critical for business. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 21 Mar 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
She did not even major in this and the real experts are not mentioned. Kate ignored her then infant nephew Archie before the cameras. She is fake.
This is all a lot of hooey and the longer her absence goes on, the more I think ‘girl’s in a coma’ isn’t such a long shot.
Kate always seems to be in a high functioning coma
See also: Just LAST WEEK there was an article about how her staff is not in communication with her and they don’t know what is going on with her.
But suddenly it’s “they’ve been keeping her updated and she’s been working so hard”.
Can I sue the rota and KP to pay for my doctor bills for this bad case of whiplash I have?
This. She hasn’t been communicating with her staff, so at best, someone at KP was bored enough to come up with something they could release as breaking news, in case of emergency.
Hello, Emergency!
This! It’s like Kate’s staff would have had to know telepathy to communicate since they weren’t seeing or hearing her. Plus, Kate took something like 5 years (more?) come up with a mini survey when she was not convalescing. And now we’re to believe she’s been working?
Why can’t they pick a lane?! Too ill, recovering from a hairy surgery/ illness, and starting after Easter OR the fairly healthy woman of the video who took time off, is essentially recovered and going to pop up everywhere?
Guess who *did* major in this?
HER SISTER, PIPPA.
Huesa copies the Late Queen, Queen Mary of Denmark, Meghan, Diana… and her own sister.
For years it’s been like watching a new AI robot trying to learn how to person.
So TRUE. She looks nice, but seems to be severely cognitively impaired.
I want to see a claymation of pie charts!
Huevo y Huesa — ¡perfecto!
Some of the nicknames on here surrounding this farce are hilarious, Heuvo, Huesa, Katesquatch, Billy Idle, really puts a smile on my face.
Katesquatch!!! Genius.
Working from home?? That’s not work lady—I’ll trade places with you sans the whining and drama. I’ve had total hysterectomy, bi salpingo oophorectomy and fallopian removed in one hit. I had to drive to work after 3 weeks. Top that!!
Ah, so someone sent a report to KP. Apparently that equals Kate working.
Hey guys, I have a lot of email in my inbox right now. I’m tired from all this work and won’t be able to answer them!
She’s being updated! Or maybe that was just her face…
Of course she has! Most desperately sick people recovering from major surgery have the strength to do so. Lazy, manipulative grifter, I swear she’s malingering. Ma Midd taught her well.
I swear it’s cosmetic surgery, which is why I now think they didn’t publicly thank people for their cards; even they didn’t have the gall to address the public when it was really getting a new face rather than emergency abdo surgery. I believed it all – that it was something major, but then the big bang crap, like it’s going to be an unveiling, has changed my mind completely. She could’ve had complications following the facial surgery, I suppose. But, like you say, I imagine she added a couple of weeks in for a break.
Home girl heard over Christmas Charles might kick it soon and bought a new face just in case. Now KP is stuck because when she rises from the non-grave at Easter looking like her own body double, they’re going to have to keep up this gaslighting campaign. Kate’s probably freaking out that everyone is going to be drawing tiny circles on her before and after faces just like the Frankenphoto. Congratulations girl, you played yourself.
I don’t think it’s plastic surgery although she’s entitled to do whatever she wants.
They would have scheduled that during a break. And they could have produced materials such as posts for the interim-not gone completely black.
Or reconstructive plastic surgery after *redacted*…
She may have had a diaphragmatic hernia repair. I had what is called a nip and tuck after 3 babies in 3 years. I weighed 115 pounds but had a lapsus of fat from stretching of my skin due to babies. I was back at work in two weeks. It is abdominal surgery, painful initially but the results are worth it.
The palace spin machine is trapped by its own lies. If the woman in the video is Kate, she should not only be working, she could easily be running marathons. Otoh, if it’s not Kate, people are right to be so concerned. What have they done with her that they now have a need to fake Kate?
Exactly this. And if she is well enough to be working, as this propaganda piece states, then why can’t she send some emails or tweet more than the photoshop apology that didn’t even say she photoshopped that specific picture?
Not that I’m surprised but nothing she/they do makes any sense. Nothing adds up and everyday they dig themselves a new and deeper hole.
YES, exactly. KP backed themselves into a corner here. If that’s Kate, then she should be able to work, she should definitely be at Easter service, and she should definitely be at Trooping. If its not Kate, then why has KP let the lie linger like this? And where is she?
Well I guess Kate won the stalling game. Now that it’s reported to be cancer, every one will back off. No divorce for William any time soon !
Exactly. William’s brilliant PR has lead them back into this loop.
You realize that’s why KP has made sure the UK and American press labeled any doubter or questioner as a conspiracy nutter for criticizing its utter failure.
I counted at least 20 articles in the last 2 days in various big and little news outlets in both countries either outright calling interested people nutters or causing a misinformation loop. No where do these articles fault Kate or William directly or the press like TMZ for creating the firestorm. Instead they coyly blame the public for mass hysteria and blowing things out of proportion.
It is great to see someone else noticing this. The bog standard conspiracy theorist smear and blaming the public, because it is always the publics fault. It has gotten that bad, that whenever the media starts labelling something as a conspiracy theory I tend to think there might be a bit of truth in it.
In the US, the people most likely to believe KP about Kate happen to believe something, something pedophiles, pizza, something Qanon. I don’t vote that way and I don’t trust that.
The messaging on the photos has been KP bringing H&M into the photoshop scandal and getting burned because H&M haven’t altered photos. H&M are trustworthy; KP is akin to North Korea and Iran. KP broke the rules many times.
Why accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist when there is cause not to trust you?!
The world is now upside down, and Kensington Palace stokes the conspiracy while those who don’t believe them represent the common sense based community.
Sorry Brassy Rebel, I hadn’t seen your comment. Exactly: they should be honest and transparent with their messaging, because this is all over the place and not credulous.
I’ve had two major surgeries – one abdominal and one spinal. After a few weeks you’re moving normally BUT you get very tired quickly. Her walking seems fine to me but that doesn’t mean she’s up for a long car ride, lots of hand shaking and walking in heels. A walk in sneakers and carrying some light groceries is reasonable, long public appearance are different.
@ssf, a simple zoom from home would be enough to stop all this! It’s not necessary to put a “long ” public appearance….
After careful deliberation, I have concluded that Kate has recovered from whatever. She is simply an ill mannered woman who cannot figure out how to say, ” Thank you for your good wishes”. She instead prefers to play games to further the ” where is Kate” concern. Any feelings of sympathy I had for her have vanished.
Kate’s lack of manners is well known – she’s known for not bothering to RSVP to events is just one example.
No manners and yet her mother felt the need to say Harry had no manners?
As for this “groundbreaking new tool”…I have been a parent for nearly 27 years. All of this stuff has been known for a long time, hasn’t it? Importance of eye contact, vocalizations, etc? It’s not like she has reinvented the wheel or proven something people didn’t already know. What am i missing here?
It looks like it is now being used for autism screening. That can be really useful because early detection is crucial to getting the help that parents may need.
It may be a good tool and study but there’s no way of telling from this article. Bc it’s not the purpose of this article. The purpose is about making Kate look good and not about the people actually conducting the study.
Totally right, Jais. I had to look it up. My suspicion was that, in the hands of social workers, it could be used to target non-white mothers and build cases to take their kids away, but luckily, it turned out not to be the case!
Exactly. This is not my field so I’m going to accept that it’s a useful tool (although @Shawna brings up a good point). We’ve been told this tidbit solely to shore up Kate’s reputation. And if being informed of a study’s results–not actually reading it yourself– constitutes ‘work’, then I’ve been going about things wrong all my life. Wonder if my boss will accept this definition of work? Hmmm.
Does anybody care about shaping us? What a joke, a soup of nonsense alphabet noodles. But anyway, let see what she’s working on and it’s gonna be her KIDS working on a collage for a new logo for shaping us… Cuz Wille said they were arty. lol gang of BS lazy azz bums
Lol!
They gave her a bunch of Sharpies so she can color in the pie charts herself.
This early year childhood is bs . Many people had horrible childhood and turn out to be decent people. Kate on the other hand had wonderful childhood turned out to be racist and bully.
That picture of her standing in front of the image that looks exactly like Meghan’s podcast promotion is so despicable. She truly has no shame, copying a woman she hates. They really need to stop with this nonsense and produce the wench already.
I’m not buying what they are selling with Can’t. If she was well enough to “ be seen at the farm market” then why isn’t she seen doing zoom meetings for her project? This is just more deflection from that fake video.
I wonder if Kate’s lookalike (I think it’s Gabriella Munro) is now in a position where she dares not tell the truth for fear of being attacked by all the press and royalists. Or perhaps she’s been paid to keep quiet.
Oh I’m sure she’s been paid quite well. In case people have wondered what William has been doing with the Duchy income.
Could this be a gig gone horribly out of control for her? It was all fun and games being an impersonator until this? I think the silence from KP and from her is quite telling. Heidi, the other lookalike, has already denied it was her.
I’m still wrapping my head around the fact that she has a photo of the Windsor Farm Shop tote bag on her Instagram page. I wonder if that recent TMZ footage could be an old test run to see how convincing she is. An audition tape taken by security? It’s too bizarre.
Well spotted Harper
WOw! That’s an incredibly telling detail.
Thanks @Liz but I didn’t discover the farm shop pic; some other poster pointed it out the other day. It’s weird, isn’t it?
Thank you! @harper! I assume that means my link worked. I thought it was really strange that she had windsor farms on her insta, and actually there was more than one post referencing it, I saw another one with a pic of a “royal roast” if memory serves. This whole thing is so so so strange, like unbelievable levels of f&ckery I just can’t for the life of me figure out why they would…have chosen to do any of this, from the photos to the videos to the statements to the cancellations and all of it.
Well, she probably signed an airtight NDA in return for the check she got.
The truth is she and her husband have never got beyond the early years. Neither is a mature, insightful, well rounded adult.
They’re both emotionally stunted, she by having a narcissistic controlling mother.
And him by being spoilt since birth.
Nannies have probably had far more involvement and input in their own kids early years too.
If someone in the real press had the guts to connect these dots of lies from KP I wonder if they would come up with a picture of a monster with an egg shaped head? And while I too, don’t believe the video was of “Kate” and “William” at least not the 2024 models, KP has to lean in to it because otherwise we are back to “Where’s Kate?”
Great point re: “KP has to lean in to it because otherwise we are back to “Where’s Kate?””
KP could end this with a simple video message from Kate or credible, HD sighting… and yet here we are. They’d rather have the name of a Kate double splashed in the international media instead of confirming one way or another whether that video was them (it wasn’t).
So she is able to work from home, but she’s too incapacitated to stick her wig out the window and wave at her fans? I call bullshit.
(Note to self: Kate doesn’t have any fans; all she’s got is Meghan-haters. Not exactly the same thing.)
I love the quote from Simon Perry that if the farm video were faked it would have looked better. This whole kerfuffle is about a faked photo that looked fake.
Simon Perry thinks people are stupid. The fact that KP didn’t object to this photo being published is proof that it was a set up. They made the photo grainy to make people believe that it wasn’t a set up.
She’s been “kept updated” – that doesn’t really scream “working from her sickbed” to me. More like, someone sent her an email once over the past few months and her assistant deleted it from her inbox before anyone could read it.
I just feel so bad when I look at those symposium pics and see a room full of professionals who are trying to make a difference and then see Kate in her purple suit with her stupid “notebook” notebook that she has never written a word in. What a waste.
Maybe they keep updating the new version of Kate. There seem to be quite a few 🥹
Just my theory: W & K had an argument and it became physical. Any plastic surgery she may have had was to repair the damage. That’s why I think her face is a problem, and why KP can’t be honest about the situation.
What I don’t understand is why KP wouldn’t just say there were post-op complications–which I believe there were, leading to the “everyone is wearing black” moment. Post-op issues are not uncommon, and it would’ve helped explain the looooong recovery time.
Someone on Buzzfeed posted that if Kris Jenner was their PR person, this mess would have never happened!
Kris Jenner would have called Gloria Allred and hung William out to dry. Then she would have hooked Kate up with her own reality show and her own line of kids clothes. No way she would be caping for Peg and KP.
Yes, Kris and Gloria would turn Bill upside down and shake some Duchy sterling out of his ugly pants.
Ocean girl – I think it’s because they’ve been blindsided by whatever happened. Then, because they’re basically inept buffoons, they’ve been running around like headless chickens.
Also the 2 palaces don’t liaise and you have the Middletons on top of that too. All with conflicting interests.
And the woman at the centre of it who apparently can’t make an appearance and speak up for herself.
@Ocean Girl that scenario is the most logical explanation for why the real Kate is missing, why William has been MIA, bruised, and swaying, why the children haven’t been hauled out for cute photo ops, and why the Middletons have gone radio silent. It’s puzzling why KP can’t produce the real Kate a full two months after successful planned abdominal surgery but CarolE could.
So much hinges on whether that was Kate in the video over the weekend, and whether it was Kate in the car. Like what I consider to be the most likely scenario here changes based on whether I think it was Kate in that video. and I change my mind on that almost hourly, LOL.
@Becks1, ITA it’s almost futile to speculate until the Easter Resurrection to see if she really does have the brand-new face in the video. (Unless Carole makes a move before then.)
I want to preface this by saying it’s currently hearsay, but according to gossip, there was an emergency at Sandringham during December 28th of last year in which the MET police were summoned, an emergency vehicle had to be dispatched, and someone was sent to the hospital. If anyone else on here knows anything about this, feel free to add/correct me.
Is it something besides the twitter convoy video? that’s what makes some of us think something happened in December, but there’s nothing specifically tying that convoy to sandringham besides the comment from the poster. Is there more info out there?
I haven’t seen Met police mentioned before!
The original account that posted the convoy video on Twitter on Dec 28 is a royalist and anti Meghan so they probably did not realize what they had when it was first posted.
After seeing the video today, I just feel bad now.
Peaceful weekend to everyone.
Has anybody else noticed that the press has changed from saying Palace sources to a spokesperson said? Anyway this is KP being reactionary as ever.
Im not sure but I think they do that for American publications to make it seem less sketchy.
I would agree they’re doing now after people pointed that the NYT identified Lee Thompson by name and occupation while the Telegraph said a Palace source.
Deeply reassuring to see that KP has returned to its regularly scheduled programming.
Sure Jane.
I’d be so insulted if I’d spent my years getting a degree, further postgrad studies, research placements and work experience in early years. This woman knows nothing about it. I get the feeling her team said, you know what, you’re a mum, you’d be good at early years. Loads of us are mums. Millions. Motherhood knowhow doesn’t leapfrog over formal qualifications and expertise. She gives child psychology etc a bad name – like it’s an easy option and free for all.
I think Kate ‘stole’ Pippa’s identity, her areas of interest and her athletic qualities, the way she’s copying Meghan’s style and Diana’s piano skills. She just keeps passing other people’s achievements and qualities as her own because she has none. She’s obviously very comfortable with the lies and deceit.
Good points JKS. Trying to mimic the Queen by becoming a countrywoman, wearing Diana’s ring, copying Diana’s love of ballet, adopting Jecca’s style.
A fake posh accent – it’s as if she’s never found her true self.
I hope pipp a writes a cutting edge article about the early years that gets praise from experts
Let’s see a live press conference with Kate appearing in real time, with closeups. Until then, as far as I’m concerned, she is incapacitated or dead, and William is responsible. 🤷
ITA plus with Kate speaking…..in that ‘posh’ accent of hers. No one could ever mock that.
Here’s a suggestion for your Arly Yahs Kate………actually get a hot nutritious meal for every child in this country during their school lunch break (that’s not what those on free school meals get, they only get a pre paid capped amount for a cheap instant pasta pot, or a dry, cheap disgusting burger).
Not have children eating sand out of the sandbox through hunger when they arrive at school(as per the Guardian article written by a teacher). Not have teachers buying spare clothes out of their pay so that children who turn up with dirty, urine stained clothes that their parents haven’t washed (lack of laundry powder, no money to run the electricity, or machine broken down and can’t afford to fix) don’t sit there ashamed through no fault of their own, make sure EVERY child learns to swim ( councils cutting budgets as they can’t afford to keep public pools running) so that EVERY child in this country can have a guaranteed hot meal, clean clothes and a life saving ability to save themselves if they fall into water and not then drown. DO IT, and have a timeline that it gets done immediately. Go on, I dare you.
Seconded!
Great suggestions. I’ve seen washer/dryer manufacturers donating laundry facilities at schools. They could be a conduit for great help, but that takes work. I’d also like to see Bill do some work with air quality in London, but he is fixated on whatever Harry’s doing and that would require work, which he’s not interested in doing.
Sell that brooch Camilla was wearing to fund it!
Ok, I’m not even going to read this post.
What the fraganackle does Kate do while “working” from home???
I thought her staff hadn’t heard from her at all? But she’s working?
They are obviously reading CB and taking note of our comments. There have been many remarks in the last few days about Kate’s absence not making any difference to her so-called work especially Aarly Yars. And oh, what a coincidence, an article on that very subject turns up.. sure …
The arrogance of Nelson Silva is unbelievable. He saw it, which means its real and if you do not agree with him well your one of those pesky conspiracy theorists. Whether its Kategate or other events, notice how the media will always use loaded terms like delusional, crazed, bizarre, baseless and the best one conspiracy theorist. The aim is to conjure up a image of a Alex Jones type figure shouting like a mad man with a tin foil hat on his head.
Nelson Silva can call people delusional for questioning everything. Like who is he and why should we care what he thinks! I personally think it’s delusional to keep accepting without question everything we are told. Especially after Harry told us about the pack of lies that gets foisted on the public regularly from the Palace-Paparazzi industrial complex.
At this point it could come out that Kate was murdered by the Illuminati (a story that would dovetail perfectly with the sudden black eye sported by Anne’s husband–there’s a whole amusing conspiracy theory that goes with famous people and royals sporting one blackened eye).
And of course she was then replaced by a clone, but nobody knew how long it would take to mature the clone, implant Kate’s memories, and get it ready to fool the public, so they couldn’t tell us when to expect seeing her “working” again.
Sure…why not? I’m sure the actual truth at this point is stranger than my foray into fiction, because these people are pretty freaking weird by average man-on-the-street standards.
The rest of us are too busy working for a living to get up to even half the shenanigans these arrogant classist snobs do, that we actually 100% know about, like the Marquess “Chumley” and his dear bff Banier. Or Andrew and Epstein. Charles and his dreadful racist abusive manservant he simply can’t do without. Can you imagine the depravity and strangeness of what we don’t know?
I think the reason they haven’t produced Kate or a real video or picture is because they can’t. Thus all the fakery that has raised such a furor. I think Will and KP were very accustomed to directing the media, and when it came to the Sussexes it was successful for KP and Will beyond all reason. So possibly they thought they could direct things again. I think they are used to trotting Kate out no matter how she felt or how she was, and now they can’t. I think that the “silence” is considered better than the truth, whatever the truth is. They aren’t producing Kate because they can’t, and they have given in to panic-driven moves that have created this FUBAR for themselves.
i’m in the minority. but i don’t think she should be expected to give anything after an operation no matter how good or bad she’s feeling. i don’t think she needs to release any videos. i don’t think she needed to show face. the public will NEVER be satisfied until we get every little fact about her and know intimate details about her illness like her doctors. regular updates should have been enough. but that’s just how intrusive the world is to know every little detail about public figures. and i’m sick of all the intrusion and double standards for men vs women for medical privacy. what i do think that was horrible screwed up about all of this is just the horrible PR and media management from their office and the fake photo. amateur hour from their comms ppl.
None of us like being fed a pack of lies, fake photos and video, and updates that change daily. When you are a royal, just like when you’re a head of state, and you are lavishly housed and funded by a tax-paying public who are teetering on the brink of poverty, you must be transparent about why you have disappeared for 3+ months. What this issue says to me is that the Wails’ marriage is over and has been for several years. What this also says to me is William knows he’s guilty for causing the rift in his marriage; his uncontrollable temperament, his philandering, his sneering arrogance towards Kate has been apparent for a long time. I can’t say what the defining moment was when Kate became ill, physically or mentally or both, but it all caught up to her in a catastrophic way and she’s checked out of all her responsibilities, light as they are. Perhaps she’s holding out for an appropriate divorce settlement, but all the while William and KP keep blundering around like keystone cops trying to cover up the truth, which will make William look very bad. No matter how much they dissemble, they just make themselves look worse and worse, so how can you put your trust in a person and institution that lies and covers up the truth so cravenly?
💯🎯
“regular updates should have been enough.” KP didn’t provide any.
Please. This isn’t about the world wanting them to share intimate details. This is about them NOT sharing anything beyond the bare minimum and contradicted themselves in so many ways even everyday non-royal watchers took notice.
Now it’s reached the point that only a clear video or photo (recently taken) will work due solely to KP’s actions (see: Frankenphoto, the constant use of potato camera to photograph/video “Kate,” Will’s odd behavior, etc.). To suggest the current mood is because of an overly intrusive public wanting more than regular (normal) updates is gaslighting.
As @Shawna mentions, we didn’t get regular updates. It’s the squirrellyness & the lying & the arrogance of KP, WILLIAM, and Kate (unless she’s incapacitated) that created this mess. Nobody wants a sit-down with her clinicians, just some truth about the situation. And that’s not too much to ask of the next king’s wife.
Charles and co. gave them a simple blueprint to follow on how to handle this situation. Instead, the Wailses created an international circus. To the point where even Charles was out here practically trolling them with his car photo shoot. This is all on the Wailses. And that’s even assuming Mrs. Wails has been in any condition to actually participate in this foolishness.
LOL get over it. You’re always whining about “poor Kate needs privacy” as if this whole fiasco isn’t her and Will’s fault.
She could be murdered for all we know, and you would still be bleating about privacy. This situation shows that she can be hurt or dead, and KP and the press have successfully covered it up.
ana, you use distraction pretty well. We’re just not buying it. The is the palace PR at fault here. Just one example is that Bone Idle is getting updates, but a week ago none of her staff have spoken with her–they’re completely in the dark. That’s just one example. If you want to somehow make that into people wanting medical detail, when they haven’t asked for them, then that’s on you.
from the moment they said she won’t be returning to work until easter everyone started speculating what she had, how ill she is, if she had cancer, botched work done on her face, if she had crohns/autoimmune disease, gross speculation on if her kid is special needs. i had unexpected abdominal surgery. it took 4 months for me to feel well and comfortable enough to be photographed and i’m not even famous. i also had understanding co-workers and work who didn’t question why i was ill. she may be a public figure but she’s not the president, head of state, or even really anyone that the country depends on to run (come on, don’t we talk about how useless the RF is all the time). and all i see is double standards on how charles is treated. it’s his choice he felt good enough/comfortable enough/well enough to show face in his illness. we have no idea what the heck happened to her and i’d like to just point out the bar gets higher and higher. and imo her only mistake was releasing a botched fake photograph as proof of life after everyone hounded her to show face. and her husband threw her under the bus to make himself look like the doting caring husband.
Today I’m going into hospital to have my cancerous bladder and surrounding bits and pieces removed. I’ll be on a urostomy bag for the rest of my life however long or short that is. I’ll be walking the next day and out of hospital in one week. And guess what else? In a few weeks I’ll be out in public, visiting with friends, showing my face instead of hiding out with only faked photos, videos and one lame apology written by a staffer to prove I’m OK. This issue goes way beyond merely being honest about what happened. Kate is the FQ. As such she has a responsibility to act like a mature adult in this situation and at least release a REAL photo and a brief explanation as to why she’s disappeared and how much she appreciates the public’s concern over her wellbeing. When you hold an important position like hers, and are funded LAVISHLY by the public you’re supposed to be working for, you damn well better be transparent and get your lazy a$$ back to work (LOL) as soon as possible. Instead the tax-paying citizens get nothing but a pack of ham-fisted lies and coverups trying to save William’s complicit and equally lazy a$$.
KP had a choice: they could either say nothing or they could tell the truth. They did neither and that is why they are being held in contempt.
No one was demanding anything for weeks after the surgery was announced. It was only when William skipped a memorial service that things blew up and people started wondering WTF was going on.
Getting an update is not the same thing as working from home on a project.
Can you even imagine a serious briefing being delivered to Kate, as she scrolls through her Meghan look-book or doodles mustaches on photos of Rose Hanbury?
Kate’s daily to-do list : do a pie chart.
And then she doesn’t.
Nothing to see here folks!! Kate is fine, KP is fine, William is fine- we’re all fine! Just taking a 4 month vacation to recover from being outed as a racist mean-girl, that’s all!!
Mmm, my children are adults now, but I’m absolutely sure those are the same tests that were used years ago to check a baby’s development. Why don’t they just say “yep, people are” repliKating work done years ago, but this time it’s Kates idea because she said so, and bunged some of the tax payers money at more people to say the same thing. Better yet take many of the millions squirreled away in royal banks, build some houses, but loads and loads of baby formula, make sure there are enough doctors, teachers and dentists in run down areas, OR use your “Royal privelidge” and make the bloody government do it. Then you can pontificate about early years. Until then your just an out of touch mother with paid help!
I say this as someone who spent many years working and researching the early years, these “studies” that she’s “funding” are indeed repeat studies. Now, do we need repeat studies? Yes, we do. Repetition is definitely a part of creating well researched theories and practices. What they are NOT are groundbreaking or “landmark” studies and they are ALSO easy for rich people to fund without their name being attached in any consequential way. This is likely why she funds repeat studies…because if you’re rich, it’s easy and makes you look good without risking you looking political. I’m no Kate fan, but I wouldn’t have turned her down if she wanted to throw some cash at a repeat study and if that cash came with needing a photo op (it often does, this is not a new concept), I’d suck that up too because “whatever it takes”. The early years remain grossly underfunded. But would I agree to sit in a room with someone funding a repeat study who refused to get in the early years arena that entails advocating for political change to ensure equitible access to
services and resources for oppressed communities and prop them up like they are my intellectual peer making some kind of “landmark” change to “the early years” like their fricken Mary Ainsworth? I’d rather watch paint dry! You want to fund some repeat studies and take a photo like rich people do too alleviate their guilt and shame for being a “have” than fine! But if you aren’t going to get in the arena and play, then don’t go taking the credit for the win. Kate is in the early years peanut gallery!
This is a massive insult. I wish the British press could grow a spine.
What IS the return on investment with these people?? How much more could half of Kate’s wardrobe budget donated year over year to British kids in their early years benefit the masses versus nothing?
Maybe it is my American-ness coming out here but I find it revolting that the British have to pay for these a-holes to vacation and buy jewelry. I’d much rather see those funds go to actually helping people than a lazy horrid few. Argh!
Well we are talking about the same toxic British press that is the palace’s propaganda tool. The same British press that supported the Tories tax cuts for the wealthy and budget cuts to everything else that serves the public.
The same British press that helped elect politicians who deride poor people for being lazy and useless while at the same time these rich a-holes are getting their OBE for making millions off covid money and shady government contracts.
Fact: 300,000 more children have fallen into absolute poverty (lack of basics essentials such as food and shelter) in the last year. That makes a total of 3.6 million children living in such abysmal conditions. The highest number since 2011.
Poor clueless Cathy still can’t figure out hungry kids want actual meat pies not more pie charts. And Billy and Cathy will continue to turn up at food banks empty handed for more photoshopped propaganda photos.
Those comparisons really bring the shocking facts home, Kit. Thanks for that reality check! It needs to be shouted out from the rooftops in GB. All the Royal family is a grifting conspiracy racket that needs to be more exposed and eliminated! The taxpayers deserve to benefit from their hard works, not that grifting family!
Enough already KP – how many things are they going to throw against the wall? AI a picture of Kate w/ kids, it didn’t work, fake a video, no one believed it, send $$ to Irish Guards, say Kate’s working from home,… I wish they would just stop.
It’s all so insulting to the taxpayers, isn’t it?
Kate’s working from home is on major newsvoutlet abc. Strange
The fake photos no longer work and now she’s working from home? Interesting. It’s amazing how much the goal posts keep shifting with Kate’s health. They need to stick to one story and ride it until the end guys otherwise they are looking really flaky right now.
Fox News is doing a special tonight called “Where is Kate Middleton,” at 9 p.m. I think. It’s ON!
Am I crazy 😧 why do they keep referencing that farm walk. It’s not Kate, that woman doesn’t even look like her 😎
When I step back and look at the situation thru the lens of karma, it’s hard not to laugh myself to death watching Charles get what he deserves. Charles is a terribly selfish but entirely weak man. I think maybe Camilla is actually his Dominatrix. The Tampon thing makes sense from that angle. Either way, now he’s too sick to enjoy being the King he’s waited his entire life to be. Meanwhile, his youngest son has been driven off and he’s too weak to stop his eldest son from destroying what’s left of the Queen’s legacy of royal stately legitimacy. It’s a comedic tragedy worthy of Shakespeare.
I weep for the waste.