What’s the current thinking on whether children should attend school while a parent is in a hospital? My guess is that it depends on the particular situation – if a parent is hospitalized for something which is relatively minor (or for which the parent will make a full recovery), I guess kids should go to school like normal. That seems to be the thinking in the Wales household – the Princess of Wales has been in the London Clinic since at least Tuesday, January 16th, which is when she underwent abdominal surgery. Prince William was photographed visiting the London Clinic two Thursdays ago (Jan. 18th), and the Times reported that William also visited Kate over the weekend. Now the Sun says that William has visited Kate every day, but the kids have not been and they’re going to school like normal:
Princess Kate’s children George, Charlotte and Louis “haven’t visited their mum” in hospital – while Wills has been by her side “every day”.
The Princess of Wales, 42, is recovering in hospital from planned abdominal surgery last week. Prince William has visited Kate at the London Clinic in Marylebone every day since the surgery on January 16. But it is understood that their three children have not joined him at her bedside.
A source said that William and Kate want her absence to feel as normal as possible for the youngsters. George, Louis and Charlotte are all understood to have been at school throughout Kate’s time in hospital.
It is also understood that the royal children spent Sunday with their doting grandparents on Kate’s side in the comfort of the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire.
The princess is expected to stay at the private London Clinic for up to 14 days before going home to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor. She will likely be counting on the support of her close pals, ranging from old school friends to palace insiders.
Yeah, it does feel like Kensington Palace has started pushing back on the “is William even visiting Kate in the hospital” conversation. Hello Mag published that story yesterday about how KP only allowed photographers outside the London Clinic on one day (to get photos of William). Now this – an assurance to the Sun that William has been there every day but the kids won’t visit because everything is being kept “normal” for them. I still wonder if Kate’s post-hospitalization recuperation will end up happening at Middleton Manor, with the kids possibly going in between William and the Middletons. Also: has anyone heard about the Middletons visiting the hospital? It seems genuinely strange that no one has said “of course Carole visited!”
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I don’t think Kate wants to see him. He’s caused her so much heartbreak and nervous breakdown. She’s better off without him.
Well that’s what happens when you marry a man for his title and not who he is as a person.
Seriously ! Khate is a mean girl, stalker, exhibitionist, extremely jealous of other women,cold and very determined, she stalked William for 10 years before he gave in and married her. After everyone else refused him. Marrying your stalker is not clever, she wanted the title and she went after it. Heartbroken over what, this has never been a fairytale romance.
She knew who he was when she set out to stalk him. She knew for ten years before he finally couldn’t find anyone else to marry her so no sympathy there from me. I don’t believe for a minute he visits every day.
The paps are there 💯. If there’s no pics, it’s because there’s no visits. Not normal to have to report that he’s been going everyday, and they were allowed there only 1 day. Gtfo
If there’s no visits it’s because either he doesnt want to go, or she doesnt want to see him. Both ways smell like guilt to me.
Racist Waity will never leave him.
At this point, she’s a volunteer and still trash.
Both Kate & Fergie are world class Enablers. And then there’s Cowmilla, both manipulator and enabler. It breaks my heart to think what kind of woman Charlotte is being raised to be
Took them long enough to correct that narrative which has been running rampant for about a week – same goes for nothing about her family visiting as we KNOW they would have blabbed to the press about being there all the time, they would also have made sure to get papped as well.
The story about Chuck visiting her is damage control by KP – its also odd that Peggy was papped going in again today, the same day his father was admitted.
Where there is smoke and all that.
I suspect William is staying in London and Carole is taking care of the kids.
Willy is enjoying being free. He is NOT staying home with the kids. He has nannies for that
And notice how camilla
Was there but no mention of her visiting kkkhate…
Would you want to have to entertain any of these “people” while trying to recoup in hospital while feeling at your worst? I’ve been in that position too many times. It’s awful.
The notion that things are ” normal” for the kids is ridiculous. Their mother isn’t home. That’s not normal. She’s in the hospital. Again, not normal. I think the comfort of a regular schedule can be good for kids, particularly young ones. There is also technology, and if Kate is able, I would assume she is using face time or something to “see” the children. Since we really don’t know her condition, it might be worse for them to see her and cause more anxiety. I would tend to try to keep them to their schedule, and be in contact closely with their teachers to make sure this is going well and that they aren’t overly out of sorts at school.
The kids should have visited her on the weekend. There is no valid reason for them not going unless kids are restricted and that is only in certain sections of the hospital and not for an “abdominal” surgery days after the surgery itself.
And no it is absolutely not normal for their mother to be in the hospital for weeks and no one can pretend otherwise.
Thank you, Nic! There is absolutely nothing normal about those kids not seeing Kate in weeks. I’m sure they are communicating with her, but they could have been brought to the hospital on the weekend or even after to school to see their mother. Unless, visitors are restricted, this feels off.
And spare me the stories about William visiting everyday and being by her side. I remember when he shipped her & George off to the Midds for 6 weeks while he did whatever he wanted. He hasn’t been there. He wouldn’t inconvenience himself to comfort her or anybody.
Exactly the kids (at least George and Charlotte) not visiting on the weekend is what convinced me more is going on. She is at a private hospital in a royal suite which is likely nicer than most of our homes. It is not going to be the clinical depressing hospital visits we have all made to relatives. They have a private entrance so its not like they have to walk through the emergency room and be exposed to anything frightening. If it was just a surgery then they would have her up and moving around as soon as possible. She could be sitting in a chair in a cute and comfy lounge outfit and they could have had a little visit.
I’ve had two friends spend way toomuch time in the hospital (both fathers). The first had stage IV colon cancer which had metastasized (I forget exactly how long the first time—he went through hell a couple times more). The second had pancreatitis and he spent a few months in ICU and over half a year in the hospital in total. Both due to losing the genetic lottery. They both spent weeks in IC and during this time, they were allowed one-very limited visitors. It took a while for their kids to be allowed to see them, and both of them were near death. At this point, Kate’s time frame for being in the hospital does not look good—I could see that the kids might not be allowed to see her yet.
The London Clinic doesn’t allow children to visit.
https://www.thelondonclinic.co.uk/visitor-policy
You’re right. They do not allow guests unless in the case of a special request. If approved, they can visit with an adult. I don’t know what would cause a special request to be granted.
It would 100% be approved for the children to visit, especially George -he’s 10 and a half – if it was requested.
LisaLis5, Thanks for posting the link. As someone who has a lot of family members who work in hospitals on three different continents: I am trying to fit my head around why children are not allowed for the safety of the patients??! Most of the stories I have heard from my family about patients being put in danger from visitors come from adults from turning off a ventilator, not masking, smoking, stealing meds… what have kids done in the past that is so egregious that they’ve been banned?
@ML it’s probably germ related. Little kids, and I say this lovingly, are germ vectors. There are a couple of hospitals, and even more sections of other hospitals, around here that have a fairly strict no-child (under the age of 12) policy for that reason. It’s easier to blanket ban them and then make exceptions. In addition, kids frequently get away from parents and run around – potentially impeding movement of all the medical professionals in an emergency.
With that said, we all know the Wales’ kids aren’t subject to normal kids’ rules. If W wanted to bring them, they’d find a way for an exception.
Most hospitals discourage children from visiting because they can get so upset that it becomes extremely disruptive to the care of that patient and other patients around them. It’s one thing for children to visit an Obstetrics unit to see their mother and new sibling – everyone is happy and healthy (siblings are never allowed to visit a NICU). It’s totally different if you are visiting a parent who is post-op, on oxygen, has IV lines running, and monitors attached everywhere.
My sister has a chronic form of cancer that has had her in and out of hospitals for the last 6 years – since her son was 7 years old. They have established plans for when she is an inpatient – those usually involves her son staying with my brother-in-law’s parents, who live near them and near his school. This is their version of “normal.”
My nephew does not visit my sister when she is in the hospital because, to be honest, it would absolutely terrify him. He has very little memory of his mother NOT being sick and it’s still a very, very bad idea for him to see her there. They talk on the phone before school in the morning and after dinner in the evening. But if my sister were to agree to allow him to visit her in the hospital, it would only be because she knows she’s not coming home.
Parents who don’t have extensive hospital experience may want their kids to visit, to see them and know that they are being cared for. The hospitals put those rules in place because they have seen what happens when a 10 year old loses it because they didn’t expect Mom to look like “THAT.”
@Jais: a hospital might grant an exception for an underage child to visit if they thought it might be beneficial to the patient. My dad was in the hospital with terminal cancer. My son was seven. The visiting age for children was 14 and up. My dad told his doctor so many times that he wanted to see my son that the doctor granted an exception to policy and asked me to bring him the next time I was there. I explained to my son prior to the visit what the hospital was like and prepared him in advance so he wouldn’t be surprised or frightened. When we walked into his room, my dad was so excited and happy he nearly jumped out of bed. The doctor said seeing my son was the best medicine he received that day.
Maybe – but despite their wish to be Normal Bill and Cathy, remember that these two have no clue what would be “normal” for most families. In their set, children can be sent away to boarding school for half a year or in the care of nannies most of the day, only visiting their parents at tea or whatever. When the Wales make such a big deal of being “hands on parents” or doing the school run every! day! Or how impossible it is to do more than one engagement a week since they are parents, it shows how little they understand what real families deal with on a daily basis. So, in short, who knows what they perceive as “normal”.
I can’t imagine making the kids stay home while their mom is in the hospital, routine is important at any age. Unless it’s a situation where she is dying – which I sincerely hope is not the case – that would be very strange.
I was in the hospital for a week after major surgery. I would say that it was wonderful to see them but tiring to be mom-cheerful and my husband wisely made it a short and weekend visit.
And BTW even though it a major spinal surgery, I was still scheduled to be out of hospital after 4 days, but they hit spinal fluid during the operation, which added extra days. I do know it’s extremely rare to have long term hospital stays these days so I am guessing whatever she has, is quite serious.
This family is so weird! How is having your mom in hospital for two weeks and never visiting her normal? I really think that she has had a big old fashioned face lift and doesn’t want to be seen until the swelling and bruising decreases. Of course, maybe it really is something abdominal. She is rather anorexic and unhealthy looking.
This is also my thought. She can’t be seen b/c have you ever seen someone after a full face lift? Holy effing hell. My bff had one. I didn’t even recognize her. It’s horrible looking at first.
ITA with this.
I think it’s got to be a facelift bc it’s horrifying and doesn’t require sympathy visits the same way an abdominal surgery would.
But how does that explain the rush to the hospital from one of the royal residences on Dec. 28? It was clearly a group of royal vehicles with lights and sirens going including a number of RPO vehicles. I still think it was some kind of physical crisis exacerbated by a breakdown.
Yeah, I think out of everything, a cosmetic procedure is by far the least likely. I don’t really understand why that theory is sticking. If it were as simple as that, they all would’ve remained quiet and maybe discreetly told the press that Kate was taking an extended vacation so the RRs don’t pry or ask questions. The way KP has been operating does NOT indicate a minor or anticipated procedure. They didn’t expect whatever happened with Kate, and moreover, it seems like it’s a situation that might be seen to reflect poorly on Will and/or the institution as a whole. At the very least, it’s something that they’ve determined they can’t milk for sympathy, otherwise they’d be all over the media with it.
If, as someone noted earlier this week on another post, the Spanish media DID get info about Kate being in that Dec. 28th motorcade from a royal aide, then some kind of emergency happened on that day. Just three days prior, we saw her at the Christmas walk doing her usual shtick and looking normal. Something went down between that day and the 28th, and while medical emergencies often arise out of the blue, I do suspect there’s something deeper to this story.
Jaded, I really don’t believe the ‘planned abdominal surgery’ story the KP is pushing. I think we have all witnessed Kate’s struggling with any of the following over the last while: Between her dealing with the cheating husband, the exile to a smallish-for-them house, the cutting of her spending money and the related obvious reduction in cosmetic procedures and new clothes. Also, her being sidelined on the New York and Singapore trips and the sudden exposure of her family as lying grifters in the national papers point to a crisis for Kate. I don’t like her for the many things she’s done to the Sussexes as well as her decades-long laziness, her penchant for excessive spending of taxpayer money and endless excuses for not working, but I think this time everything may have taken it’s toll and she may have had a mental health crisis, even self-harmed. We know we can’t believe anything coming out of BP after all! JMO….
@BeachDreams and @Jaded
its definitely not cosmetic surgery. If Kate wants to get work done, she would just do it and disappear for months at a time like she does a few times throughout the year. She probably has a standing plastic surgery appointment the day after Wimbledon for all we know.
This isn’t about a facelift, or Kate wanting to go to Mustique in January, or anything else like that. I don’t know WHAT it is, but its not something like that that she does anyway without bothering to come up with an excuse for it.
Something else to consider – if she was in that convoy on Dec 28, then it either means she wasn’t at Anmer (and they usually stay at Anmer after christmas, or so we’ve always been told), or something was so significant that she was rushed from norfolk to London. So that would make this seem more of an emergency than KP is letting on.
@Becks1 I thought the convoy came from Sandringham?
@lynninTX sandringham is a few hours away from London by car. If her situation was so urgent that she had to be rushed in an ambulance, then she wasn’t at sandringham – unless she WAS at anmer (on the sandringham estate) and was airlifted into London and then taken to the hospital.
I mean maybe they had her in an ambulance from Norfolk to London but if she was that bad she had to go in an ambulance then I doubt she was taken the whole way from Norfolk to London like that, you know?
@Becks1 I think I wasn’t clear when I wrote that. I thought the original post (on Twitter/X) said the convoy came from Sandringham and went to hospital local to Norfolk. I very well could be misremembering though. The whole story has been convoluted and secretive enough that I doubt I’ve kept it all straight.
@Beck1 Scratch that. I got curious enough to look the tweet up again.
The person claimed he got the pictures and video from someone else. He speculated that it was from Sandringham, and going to King Edward VII’s Hospital (which I mistakenly thought was local to Norfolk when I saw the tweet). So unless someone recognizes the cross streets in the short and dark video and pictures, it’s a guess as to where it was actually coming from and where it was going.
Taking the general location given as accurate, which it may not be, I looked up looked up how far apart KEVII’s Hospital and The London Clinic are… and it’s not far at all. It looks like they are a city block apart. IF it was K, I think it’s likely that the Dec 28th convoy went to The London Clinic instead of where the guy claimed it was going. If it really did go to King Edward VII’s hospital, then it was likely someone else. One of their specialties falls more in line with KC3’s problem (urology and prostate issues) than any of K’s reported ones. So why go there with K when the London Clinic is literally a city block away and could deal with her (supposed) issues better?
IF it was K, and it went to London Clinic, then she most likely was admitted then, and had her surgery shortly after that, and went home – wherever that may be – or was transferred elsewhere, before they even announced it. They announced her surgery a full 19 days after Dec 28th, if I’m counting right. IF that’s the case, the whole thing honestly just becomes weirder. She missed the Early Years meetings before the announcement right? Those are an easy count/win for her, just show up and do nothing, so she had to have been already admitted by the days of the meetings. Why announce it both the way they did and when? Why constant updates that just confuse the situation more. If she isn’t there anymore, why is KC3 pretending K is there and he saw her when he went in for his own procedure? Why was she at KP in late December in the first place? IF K really is in London Clinic, still, then she must have had some kind of massive and serious complication.
I think a facelift would be too obvious after the fact, causing the press to get on them for the fake abdominal surgery story.
I think Rage Willy snapped and inflicted physical harm on her. I think they are keeping her hidden until the bruises heal. It’s one thing to explain away bandages on her fingers but how can KP explain away a black eye, broken arm, busted lip or teeth knocked out? Kids imitate what they see at home. We all saw what Prince Louis did the coronation concert. I think it was domestic violence. The press has reported that they throw pillows at each other. Maybe Rage Willy threw something at Kate that was heavier than a pillow.
It’s what I think too. Because the whole thing is too rushed and clearly scream cover up. As for bruises, it wouldn’t be a first as she is used at times to wear her bangs on the face and heavy dark make up….
Sarah B. CC730, that’s quite a reach. When I had my abdominal surgery, I went to the Emergency Room because I was in horrible pain. By the time they got test results and me upstairs in a room (yes, where they put that tube in) it was in the wee hours of the morning. I had surgery that day–a Sunday. They had to remove about 3″ of my small intestine. I was in the hospital for 6 days and then home BY MYSELF and was cleared at 6 weeks. I had to work to eat.
What people fail to put into the equation is that the wealthy can afford to stay in the hospital as long as they want and take as much time as they want to recover. I doubt that would go over well with the masses.
WanK go out of their way to make sure no one knows where they’re at or what they’re doing. We know when H&M are on vacation and where, but we never know about the Wales and where and when they vacation. Who thinks they’re going to give anyone information about KHate’s medical issues? Not me.
I’m not sure why there are suddenly so many people who want to make it all about Wont. That’s a real stretch.
@Sassy: what you fail to see is that a lot of people know a lot about hospital (in my case thanks to my job). Yes the wealthy can stay a looong time if they pay but the announcements about her not working for the next 5 months at least plus the seemingly total absence of visit from her family tells us it’s more psychological than physical.
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Sad that her “close pals” consist of “palace insiders”. Kindness costs nothing but I guess when you are publicly funded, you can afford to pay for companionship. Oh well.
That was pretty pathetic. Palace insiders ‘supporting’ her at this difficult time. Sheesh.
😂 Damage control. After Ship’s tweets (besides the one in the other post, he replied to someone telling him that Will visited with a “Indeed. But were he to visit again…”), I’m side-eying these latest claims. KP really is in reaction mode, constantly trying to defend against criticism about this and scrutiny about that. Truly, they should’ve just kept quiet and we would be none the wiser. People were cracking jokes about Kate’s laziness when she missed her big Early Years meeting. They could’ve waited until around now to say something, maybe even February.
It’s like hearing “clean up on isle bitta” over a loudspeaker… I don’t think I believe a word coming out about this couple or this hospital stay at all🤔🧐🤨
I agree! I am not even sure she stayed at the London Clinic and not another Hospital.
So now we get the “of course he’s visited every day” as a reaction to the gaping hole in their narrative. Ok. Sure. Maybe he has been and KP is just setting a new record for worst PR strategists in the world. But they still haven’t mentioned Carole, Kate’s siblings??, no get well cards from the children or anything?
IDK, it seems to me like Will & KP were caught offguard with Kate’s hospitalization announcement and have been playing catch up ever since, except Will wasn’t sure how he wanted to play it.
If you believe the rubbish that says they are a loving couple who live together, how the heck can he be caught off guard? Sounds like more proof that they don’t live together.
These articles feel like a checklist to counter whatever criticism that KP’s comms team has seen online.
William visits everyday, okay ✅
Kate has close pals, okay ✅
The kids keep it normal so no visiting, okay ✅
“She will likely be counting on the support of her close pals, ranging from old school friends to palace insiders.”
Isn’t that sad? Palace insiders, people on their payroll, declared *close pals*
It’s not like we don’t know that Kate hasn’t that many close personal friends besides the one running that high-end escort service.
But whatever is wrong with her, I think it’s strange that there are so many conflicting messages out there, including W has been to see her every day. As if a motorcade with RPOs anywhere near that hospital in a very busy area of London would go unnoticed, back or side entrance notwithstanding.
I commented on that, too. Just some old school friends–she hasn’t made any since school & there’s just been the one at her kids’ christenings–and paid staff. That’s it. She’s made zero friends as an adult. Just think on that one, Kate, you’ve got plenty of time for that right now.
She made friends as an adult but she didn’t keep them.
There was a group from St. Andrews she used to have suppers with but she dumped them, supposedly afraid of leaks. She was friends with holly Branson, Sam Branson said they were close, but there’s been no mention of that friendship since Sam married isabella calthorpe and she and holly became close Sisters in law.
Kaiser, please please cover the extreme shadiness of the Daily Mirror publishing an article about Kate having mood swings, then a few hours later editing the article to replace Kate’s name with Harry.
They got BUSTED.
I’m surprised that there wasn’t an article about that up already today.
Why would they want to make her not being around as “normal as possible” for the kids?? That’s giving me some red flags right there. Why would you want children to be normalized about their mother not being present? It would have been better to say that they don’t want the kids’ routine to be disrupted. But I still question why the children haven’t seen her yet. It’s been TWO WEEKS.
That jumped out at me, too. My first thought was “uh-oh, William is trying to get the kids ready for the divorce and them being away from her for long periods of time.”
But who knows? The BRF are lying liars who lie so there is no telling what is actually going on with any of this.
This is exactly what I am thinking!
Even though the hospital rules state children aren’t allowed to visit, this is the royal family and they would certainly bend the rules for visits by, at the very least, Kate’s 2 oldest kids. She’s in the very private royal wing and the kids wouldn’t be a disruption to other patients. I think they’re deliberately being prevented from visiting her because it may be upsetting for them if she’s in a bad way, physically or mentally.
Yeah I said above that they would 100% be approved to visit, but that’s IF Kate can have visitors and she’s not physically in shape, 10 days after surgery. If there is something serious going on, they may not be allowed or William doesnt want them to go.
@Carol Ann, I don’t think so… After all this melodrama, imagine if she reappeared in a few months time with a jacked up face, lip fillers and new boobs. People won’t be too sympathetic. But then again, Saint Kate can do no wrong so who knows.
True. If she got elective surgery that would not go over well. But if William hit her in the face she might have had some sort of surgery to repair the damage (or is simply hiding until her face healed).
Exactly what occurred to me. Do they do maxillofacial surgery and face lifts as a package?
It sickens me to think that this may have happened but honestly, it’s plausible. With all the bread crumbs being leaked about their rows and throwing things at each other it makes me uneasy to think he might have clocked her and done some serious damage. Very sad…
I live in a city where a kinda homely-looking tv presented got bitten in the face by a dog. “Itch came back on the air a few months later looking like a spokes model. Seems like while on the way to getting her bitten lip repaired, she got other areas of her face “fixed” as well.
When will they learn that being so squirelly only incite more speculations ? The Middletons situation sounds like Camilla has the same tabloids contacts and has been yanking the leash so that they stop working with the Middletons.
I know I’m late this conversation, but same theory here. I think the rota is instructed against reporting on the Middletons re Kate’s hospital stay.
So not a single other pap, reporter, low-paid London Clinic cafeteria/laundry/custodial worker, patient or patient’s family or even random on the street got a photo of Willy’s motorcade pulling into the London Clinic despite visiting every day for 8 straight days? The ravenous “We Pay For Photos” Daily Mail refused all comers with photographic evidence because they are respecting Willy’s privacy at this time?
That makes me think there is a deal in place – the press avoids publishing what they know in order to ensure future access. As a rota photographer was quoted last week “I don’t go where I’m not invited”. They could certainly be getting tips and photos and save them, similar to “catch and kill”.
I also think Kate will be on the hook to do some kind of exclusive interview with a friendly reporter when she gets out. Whether she wants to or not. There’s always a quid pro quo with the British media.
I agree with you; it’s likely Becky English with the post-operative scoop in exchange for her sycophantic reports/fibs this week.
In this day and age, what are the odds of there being zero on the street video of the royal cortege coming to and fro to the London Clinic? As Chris Ship is tweeting, ‘should William choose to visit again’. He’s letting the cat out of the bag big time.
I’m sure we’ll talk more about this in the weeks and months to come, but if the BM is really going to hold off with any information they have AND make do with the leftovers until at at least Easter? KP should be offering something better than yet another interview in print.
I would be asking for a TV interview (to tape, nobody wants to hear these fools live). Something which the media can crow will “rival Oprah” and finally put those Sussexes in their rightful place. We know that obsessively copying the Sussex brand ( albeit years later) is the whole Wales’ way. As a branding exercise, it would be crucial to set themselves up as either the “young, modern” face of the royals, ready to lead…or a couple that is announcing that one of them is retiring from public life. And I think the British media is going to want serious compensation for keeping their secrets.
@jay, waves hand, me, me, I want to see these fools do a live interview, one that can’t be edited to take out anything.
Haha, @Jais, that’s true! I was thinking from the point of view of a mainstream audience seeing them mumble/ glower their way through the most awkward hour of television imaginable. I forgot about the entertainment factor for us!
They can have all the editing in the world, and they will still come across as the lightweights they are; in fact, with editing, they will over do it; right now the whole monarchy is revealing why Andrew did that car crash interview, same for Charles’ interview way back in the 90s– they are dumb.
Yup. When you consider these paps have powerful long-distance lenses that could get photos from a couple of miles away stationed on a rooftop or something, none of this makes sense other than the BRF and BM have deliberately circled their wagons. This would have been a golden opportunity for Ma Midd to show up like the loving and concerned mother and put on a show for the media, but there’s been nothing. Whatever happened is very, VERY serious and possibly very damaging if the public finds out about it.
Saw a clip on Twitter of Becky English stating that the media has agreed not to take photos from the hospital and of course William has been going to visit. To me, that just signals that the media is being promised something to hold off for now. It’s ludicrous to think that the British tabloid press is just not taking pics out of the kindness of their hearts. She also claimed she just happened to have a procedure at the very same London clinic yesterday and saw William’s car go by. So proof! Proof, she says! That woman is working hard for the royals.
Camilla left the hospital a few hours ago and already some random person posted video of the convoy on Twitter asking if it was Kate leaving. The street is full of paps, there are people walking by but we are supposed to believe Willy was there everyday and no one saw him and no one filmed him? Yet Camilla’s appearance gets filmed and posted within a few hours?
Suddenly their marriage is wonderful and perfect and William desperately needs to be by her side. All her friends and palace insiders will be gathering around her. I guess this means Carole, Pippa and James, maybe the vile Camilla Tominey. This sainted mother doesnt want her children to visit, why ?? if its really abdominal surgery, there would be nothing much to see, other than their mother in bed possibly some tubes. Lots of bandages etc if it was the full face lift, that could be scary to see. The doting grandparents had the children to visit. It is such a perfect family….
This entire scenario as presented by the media is very questionable.
They can’t keep their stories straight: yesterday they said the rest of the family is getting on with business because there’s nothing serious with Kate: now all the world is gathering around her? I thought she was just fine?
Lies. I don’t believe he’s visited. Does this particular hospital have a mental health program? I think she’s taking some much needed time away from him and his family.
Me either. Pics or it didn’t happen.
So, basically, William did his version of the kids “back to school” photo deal, at a hospital? But why do the photo op at all? KP didn’t need to announce the name of the clinic. They could have just leaked these kinds of “devoted, doting William” stories and claimed that he was at her side every day, right? If people would believe it…
The fact that he needed to do a photo op at all suggests strongly to me that either the press demanded a photo ( in exchange for silence about Kate’s condition?) OR his handlers felt that people wouldn’t buy him as a devoted husband without proof.
As for the kids, it depends – if Kate is at risk for infection or in a high risk ward, sometimes children are not allowed. And she may not feel up to seeing them or needing to put on her game face. But it may not be up to Kate – if the media feels like the William photo op isn’t cutting it, we’ll see the kids with homemade cards and flowers soon enough.
LOL, I don’t believe this for a minute. Chris Ship can be shady and I think his comment about William being able to visit Charles and Kate was very pointed.
I think if he had been visiting her every day he would have authorized another pap shot, maybe over the weekend, of him arriving with flowers or something.
i also think the lack of Middleton visits is very weird.
The lack of the Middletons reaching out to their press contacts is the red flag, to me. There are no syrupy stories about how Carole and Mike are helping Wills take care of the kids, nothing. They are refusing to help him at all with his current press disaster, and that is telling.
That’s why I think he did something to her and the Middletons are waiting to see how everything is going to end.
CC730, I think you need to not be so definite.
It’s a fact that the Middletons used their connection to the BRF endlessly and staged everything to appear good and relatable…yet, now where sympathy is extremely easy to get, they do and say nothing? It’s very very strange.
Kris Jenner, er I mean Carol, isn’t going to attract attention to herself with press. Carol is just hoping that people forget she exists so we’re not reminded of her using royal pull to get business connects, just to screw them all over. Can’t have attention reminding people to put up more signs.
Wank is not visiting her everyday . He just ain’t .
My dad had horrific heart attack last year and needed 5 days in iCU. We were all specifically asked to be there with him throughout his coma because, apparently, having loved ones around statistically improves a patient’s outcomes. Love sometimes is the best medicine. I really hope that she has been able to see her children – I’d really struggle not seeing them for this long, and I haven’t even had abdominal surgery.
The kids probably zoom or facetime with her and should keep to their normal schedule. Hopefully she recovers quickly – I still wonder what could be wrong with such a long hospitalization stay. Still seems shady but the drs may not want the kids around her especially with germs and viruses at school.
My husband went in the hospital for emergency gall bladder surgery the first day of school.
I thought going to school was more important than sitting home waiting for him to be released from the hospital, kind of a signal to them that nothing is wrong, we don’t need to worry. Routine is important for kids.
However, weeks without seeing him? That would not have worked well at all, you know Kate is the primary parent, not seeing her for days is not routine.
lol Kate NEVER was the primary parent and the attitude of the kids toward her is showing it. She had 3 nannies for 3 kids and a night nurse and a person hired to replace a nanny if need be and her mother to help her. It screams at best extreme incompetency and at worst someone that just don’t care.
She clutches to them because they are the reason she wasn’t booted out of the family and uses them regularly for sympathy.
My guess? They never saw her particularly care for them so they don’t particularly care for her.
Maybe I just haven’t seen it, but has anyone mentioned the possibility that her abdominal surgery was due to the physical side effects of an eating disorder? That could, especially combined with excessive exercise, cause all sorts of issues that would require surgical intervention.
Yes, that has been suggested in comments on this website.
Spanish press reports it’s a hysterectomy. According to them, Kate hadn’t been feeling ok for some time. She’d be admitted in hospital on the 25th due to bleeding and extreme pain, and transferred to that clinic on the 28th. Apparently, she’s met serious post-op complication. Saying she’s been suffering from an eating disorder would be speculation. But she’s been looking gaunt and jaded for some time now. She’s said to have followed a vegan diet for years, with no dairy or animal protein. So her body might not have been 100% ready for an invasive surgery of any kind.
If it is a hysterectomy, I can’t understand the secrecy. Camilla had one in 2007, and the palace issued a press release a month in advance, updating her schedule (she did a foreign tour first and then went for the planned surgery), and noting that it was a common procedure for women over 55.
Post-op complications could explain some of the reporting. KP probably wasn’t going to say anything about the surgery, not like anyone would have noticed Kate being absent for an extra week or so, but then complications occurred and suddenly KP has to do an announcement.
A hysterectomy with complications might explain the long hospital stay but it’s not likely. She was admitted the 28th and they performed surgery 2.5 weeks later and then she has to stay another 2 weeks? And needs 2+ months to recover, maybe longer? And William can’t work at all either?
That doesn’t add up. Even an open hysterectomy would have had her home in a few days. Infection is a concern but doesn’t explain the extreme recovery time.
So l have to weigh in about the hysterectomy issue because of my own experience. I had a conventional one and not laparoscopically since it was too complicated. I wound up with a hematoma post surgery and a severe drop in blood count which necessitated an additional week in the hospital. Once I was stabilized and could be sent home, I had a visiting nurse come every day for seven weeks to care for the open wound where the clot was exsanguinated. It was a horrible experience. By the time everything was done and I was back on my feet, I didn’t return to work till September. And my surgery took place in June. However, I didn’t know any of this in advance because there was no way anyone could have foreseen the complications. So at this point, I can’t even hazard a guess about what’s going on with Kate, but whatever it is, I do wish her well.
A Spanish journalist is now saying she’s in an induced coma. They are all over the place with this.
The invisible contract is on full display. Dozens of negative stories about private citizen Harry and his family to cover whatever is going on here. William has no PR skills whatsoever. Unless a parent is in rehab or treatment which specifically ban visitors, it is normal for children to visit their parent in the hospital. If Baldimont had PR skills, the statement would be along the lines that the children are well cared for, in regular contact with their beloved mother and need their privacy respected during this stressful time. I fear future pap walks are in the children’s future in exchange for the media’s silence on kHate’s actually condition now. William’s kids (and Harry’s kids) should be left out of this.
The reporting on this is so weird. It’s being framed liked Kate and the children have not been in contact since when went in hosp. I understand not wanting to make a spectacle of the children being paraded in front of the press to visit mom in hosp. But they have facetime and zoom, so I am sure she’s chatted with them, assuming she’s lucid and recovering… the press could say “while the children have not visited their mother in person, there has been plenty of video chats blah blah blah”
Honestly, those kids probably don’t even recognize her absence. I remember being their age and our mother would go off for a week or two, we’d stay in our normal routine. The only difference was our dad would feed us junk food because he would try to cook and we would make fun of him. I remember he served us refried beans that were so watery we told him we could drink them with a straw. Yeah, we were little ba$tards 😀 We thought it was great having fast food because it was such a treat while mom was gone.
Well, her viral social media public interaction with Louis a couple of summers ago, says it all. He simply didn’t seem to know her, and he’s the youngest. That was shocking to me, perhaps because I didn’t have your upbringing? Most important , however, we are talking about Will and Kate, not you and me. Those two have heavily promoted themselves as “hands on parents.” In fact, isn’t it that the primary excuse for the light “work” schedule?
They’re not hands on parents. They had 3 nannies for 3 kids plus a night nurse plus a person to replace a nanny just in case and Carole for help…. The attitude of the kids tell everything we need to know, they don’t care for Kate.
My instinct is she went home sooner than thought and/or the news was leaked later than the reality. And I also suspect he has been visiting her but not papped. Somehow. These two are served very well by the British media; I suppose through threats of litigation etc and promises of access as and when. Shame on them for not threatening the press when Meghan was here.
First, Kate doesn’t have “close pals” — paid staff doesn’t count.
Second, there is no reason that George and Charlotte couldn’t make at least a brief visit — they’re old enough now. Even if children are generally restricted, the royal wing likely would accommodate this. That this hasn’t happened just makes me think Kate’s not even at this hospital.
And there’s no way in hell that Willy is visiting Kate every day. That’s just not believable.
They could visit but there’s lots of times when a parent might not want them to. My husband had wires and tubes coming out of him for his lengthy hospital stay and it just didn’t make sense for our young kids to visit. Doing something like FaceTime calls probably can help manage what they see a little more and she can probably put on a happy face for long enough to do those.
The London Clinic doesn’t allow children to visit.
https://www.thelondonclinic.co.uk/visitor-policy
I’m sure exceptions would be made for the Wales children if Kate was able to visit with them even if only for a brief visit.
It says kids can enter with an adult in cases of a special request. You’d think if they have a whole wing they would be granted access with their dad if it was requested.
Please, these are the royals, of course they’d let the kids in.
Exactly – rules are for the common folk, not the royals!!
It says children’s visits must be arranged/approved by Matron which is reasonable. It does not ban children, so this not allowing children to visit is in fact not true. Using the restrictions on children’s visits just calls for rampant speculation. Very bad comms, imo.
Yes thank you. They simply don’t want kids to show up without approval, which is actually the case for most hospitals around the world.
Independently of the conspiracy theories and who is she as a person, I just wish she gets well for the sake of her kids. I can’t be without mine for more than 3 days without crying.
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More lies! At this point, demands for proof of life aren’t unreasonable bc everything surrounding the “reporting” of Special Ks hospitalization is super suspicious and all over the place. That BP hasn’t taken over handling this PR fiasco is also telling. Something is seriously wrong yet C&C are silent. I wonder if Willy and the courtiers are deliberately keeping the children away from K and the Middletons…bc that’s not normal either.
If there’s an open incision or if she’s plugged to some kind of machine, I guess she’d spare that sight to her kids. The
The only description of Kate is ‘is recovering’. Nothing else like feeling better, looking forward to going home or seeing her kids. Very weird.
@LULU wonder if any of them will print “Kate is in recovery”???
Two facts jump out from this,
One the sun have no fking idea and
Two the SUN is famous the world over FOR IT’S LIES.
The Sun deposited a million dollars into William’s bank account a short while ago. You cannot believe a word day say on anything, but especially not when it comes to the future king and his wife. Pay attention to the Sun only when they have a heavily endowed female on the front page, if you’re into that sort of thing. Otherwise, if your bird cage needs lining, you are in good stead if their print version is within reach.
Pegs is dutifully visiting his wife every day?
Sure, Jan.
By the way, I have a barely used bridge in Brooklyn for sale. Call me.
Bollocks. Total bollocks.
Wait a minute, ‘…her absence to feel as normal as possible for the youngsters’??? Her absence is normal??
Also, ‘She will likely be counting on the support of her close pals, ranging from old school friends to palace insiders.’??? Support of palace insiders???? Oh, Katie Katie Katie, you reap what you sow. The only people showing up to your sickbed MAY be friends from school (you haven’t made any since) and palace lackeys. Tsk, tsk.
The story has changed every day since the announcement. It is obvious that they are writing articles in response to the public’s questions and speculations. I don’t believe he has visited her everyday she’s been there because if he had there would have been a photo of him on the one day the paparazzi were allowed in front of the hospital, which according to yesterday’s article, was the same day the announcement was made by KP. The announcement was made on Wednesday but they only released a photo of him supposedly leaving the hospital on Thursday when the paparazzi weren’t allowed to photograph at the hospital. If he visited everyday, where is the photo from Wednesday? We know the photo the released wasn’t from Wednesday because all of the articles have admitted it happened on Thursday.
Breaking news man went to the hospital to visit his lovely wife.
We’re entering “Proof of Life” territory now. Cam has been papped going back and forth from this facility for Charles’ sake but no one has photos of William? Suggesting the children should be “used to her absence”.
I was cynical enough in the beginning to believe it was a just face lift and I don’t think she’s in that clinic at all TBH.
Now I’m cynical enough to wonder if
A: William actually has no idea where Kate is or the state of her condition or
B: William knows Kate’s condition/problem but not her location or
C: William knows full well where she is and what’s wrong with her but can’t let Kate be seen by anyone, even their children.
And there’s still no explanation why William should give up royal duties too…
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The time frame given was 10 days in hospital no. Kate uncle who writes for the DM is very quiet. Something is not right.
Well I don’t think Kate’s uncle really knows anything anyway – I think he hasn’t seen them in years last I heard. He would be the last person to have any inside information as theyve distanced themselves from him since all the shady stuff has come out about him.
D: Kate never even crossed Will’s mind after the first ‘visit’ and he is partying somewhere abroad.
Due to security I don’t think it’s possible he doesn’t know where she is. But I think it is possible he is not allowed to see her – either he is the direct reasons she’s in the hospital or one of the reasons of her mental breakdown.
The silence from Midds is deafening.
I also don’t believe this is plastic or other elective surgery she’d like to keep private because there are a couple of times during the year when she can disappear without questions.
All in all – I am afraid sth is really wrong and they have absolutely no idea how it will end, if she’ll fully recover, if she’ll be able to be seen in public. Hence messy communication and lack of assurances eg “she’s expected to fully recover”. They just don’t know.
Also – Will’s lack of perfect supportive husband PR is telling – he’s not sure what will be leaked about what possibly happened. It’s all very weird.
I hadn’t considered the security angle, for them knowing her whereabouts, that makes a lot of sense. The Midds being silent is deeply odd. This had to have come out of nowhere for them all because the uncle is meant to be on a reality show of some sort. I’m interested to see if he goes through with it now that there’s a cloud over Kate.
Photos or it didn’t happen. Just like WIlliam’s mythical, asinine jog through Central Park, as if it were a BFD. It isn’t, in the first place, and in the second, he never did it.
Yeah, how can KP prevent paps from standing outside a hospital? Pretty simple, no photos, no visits. The grifting inlaws are probably looking after the kids which is why they’re not visiting.
The jogging in Central Park still makes me laugh. I used to rollerblade every day on that loop through Central Park and to try to suggest that not a single runner (more like 20) would not have photographed him and his security team is uproariously funny. They should have checked the path first to see how absurd their claim was.
It seems extremely odd that Camilla has been papped on every single visit to see Charles at the London Clinic and yet only one exists for William from over a week ago. Yet he visits every day? Very strange.
Camilla knows what she’s doing she’s putting down both the keens.
Yeah, she’s trolling them quite skillfully right now. She basically dismantled KP’s talking points about the paps and his so-called “secret visits” within a day, all with that gruesome grin on her face.
The papers made a point of showing Cam wore a necklace charm with her birthstone in the centre and the initials of all of her grandchildren.
She’s trolling H&M, W&K, all five children and even Charles really
Camilla is a one woman wrecking crew, she’s dismantled Diana’s marriage, usurped her place and still has everything and everyone on her side intact while continuing to be actively hostile and damaging to Diana’s sons.
Cam is ‘Après moi, le déluge‘ on two legs.
She is obviously not in that hospital anymore, since December when she was taken there for an emergency situation. She most likely is in a MH-facility (hence no visits there by kids, parents, siblings, etc.), and the 15 minute PR/pap visit from Willy, followed in a car by his (former) PR guy Christian Jones. The announcement of her stay in that London hospital was a smokescreen from the beginning. What happened (allegedly)?
KP/Willy knew that Charles was going for his prostate operation there (that hospital has a royal wing and all royals, like Prince Philip and QE2, have had medical procedures there), so he hijacked it and lied that Kitty was staying there. BP/Charles was pissed, so he pre-announced his prostate situation with details, soon after hers.
That’s why now Camilla is ‘overdoing’ hospital visit PR to get back at Willy and to force him to come clean with the truth about Kitty’s situation.
BP/Ch&C are also pissed that Willy is letting his media friends run his PR bs, stating that he is visiting Kitty every day and what a great single, caring dad he is.
I think kids are almost always at school when a parent is in the hospital. Even when a parent dies, the advice is usually to get them back to school / in their routine as soon as possible. Depending on how she is doing at the hospital / how many IVs, tubes, monitors, colostomy bags etc. she has attached to her, I think it would make a lot of sense if they weren’t visiting and were just doing facetimes etc.
They’re getting protected by the BM. But From what I’ve seen on SM, They’re not getting the best coverage on US tabloids.lolZ…a variety of ED front page headlines. Hmm, I wonder why some US tabs aren’t painting WK as perfect 😆
I have officially spent way too much time on this. After replying to Becks1, I went and looked the original tweet about the December convoy up. From there, I spent way too much time comparing the intersection in the tweet to street views and aerial views of London.
The convoy was heading south on A4201, and turned west onto New Cavendish St. The intersection matches with the video and pictures perfectly.
I then used Google maps and directions to figure out any place the royals could have come from to take that particular intersection in that particular way, to go to either the London Clinic OR King Edward VII’s Hospital. I’ve come up completely blank.
HOWEVER, according to the all-knowing Google, there is a consulate and an embassy on A4201 in that stretch of road leading to the intersection, and it’s not a stretch to imagine a convoy leading an ambassador or a dignitary somewhere, that may or may not have been a hospital.
What say you, London dwelling Celebitches?