As I said in the earlier post, when I saw TMZ’s video of Prince William and the Princess of Wales walking out of the Windsor Farm Shop, I thought it was them but I also thought the whole thing was weird. The fact that there was a video all along, but the Sun ran the story without the video or photos for 24 hours. The fact that the woman in the video seems to have a completely different gait than the real Kate. The fact that there appears to be Christmas decorations up in the middle of March. The fact that Kate is carrying what looks like a somewhat heavy bag following her abdominal surgery. The fact that Kate is walking briskly and without aid following what we were told was major abdominal surgery. The fact that no one can seemingly get a clear photo or video of Kate and everything looks like the photos were taken with a potato. The fact that Kate’s face suddenly appears quite slim and un-puffy, after TMZ published blurry car photos two weeks ago where she looked sort of round-faced from steroids. It’s all just weird.
So, I don’t know what to believe anymore but I thought you guys would enjoy the theories and the social media. Next week will be the three-month anniversary of the last time Kate did an “event” – the walk to church in Sandringham. That was the last time anyone photographed her with a real camera. Things have gotten so nutty in three months. Kensington Palace has bungled all of this so badly, of course everyone questions whatever dumbass video they did in collusion with the Sun/TMZ. Of course we’ve got regular old celebrities and Twitter journalists commenting about their disbelief. All of this could have been stopped if KP had just released an unedited photo or video of Kate weeks ago. The fact that they’re still resorting to these increasingly bizarre stunts to provide “proof of life” is really telling.
That ain’t Kate….
— Andy Cohen (@Andy) March 19, 2024
I've unblurred two of the stills taken of Will and Kate at the farm shop using AI pic.twitter.com/3TzG27zoN9
— Lorraine King (@lorrainemking) March 18, 2024
This Kate Middleton story is crazy. I haven't seen a coverup like this since the Secret Service deleted their text messages from January 6th.
— I Smoked The RNC (@BlackKnight10k) March 18, 2024
WHOMST?!
You mean to tell me that TMZ couldn’t get a closeup and they’re literally across the street?? Something ain’t right in the fish and chips. https://t.co/VUHNnDSlEx
— April (@ReignOfApril) March 18, 2024
“these Kate Middleton pics will silence internet critics” I don’t think u understand how badly you’ve fucked this. there are now people on the internet who could SHAKE HER HAND and still claim she’s four cats in a wig
— Smooth Dunk (@SmoothDunk) March 18, 2024
that's fake Melania https://t.co/dQNn1VBshq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 18, 2024
TMZ: “Kate Middleton spotted out with Prince William.”
Twitter: “That is not Kate.”
— NUFF (@nuffsaidny) March 18, 2024
A powerful reminder of the symbiotic relationship enjoyed by the royals and the media.
A clear breach of privacy.
Kensington Palace is silent. pic.twitter.com/9Ok0Y77pFw
— Peter Hunt (@_PeterHunt) March 19, 2024
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, cover courtesy of The Sun.
I am just curious to know how much TMZ pays for these type of things. And how these amateur bystanders negotiate for their videos !?
If it’s not real, we might need to ask how much TMZ was paid to do this.
Just saw an interesting frame by frame analysis on Twitter. There are some serious glitches: https://x.com/lrwebbmac/status/1770009785825386615?s=20
It was not taken by the everage Joe. The guy who sold it/took it is a digital entertainment professional, who’s job is “to make things go viral”.
One major detail: He started filming when the couple approached him. He was waiting for them to come out of that shop. He is filming closeby, so why is the footish blurry? This was clearly staged and the vid was deliberately made unsharp.
At the very beginning, you can see the interior of his car, so he’s sitting inside his vehicle taking this footage. Maybe that has something to do with the quality? In any case, after repeated watchings, I’m leaning toward the fakeKate scenario. This woman’s legs seem longer, her face is pointier, her hands are held normally at her sides instead of backs of her hands forwards, and her stride is just different. Kate usually stretches her legs out even longer, either naturally or to keep up with William.
Face is definitely pointier- that’s not Kate’s chin. Also that’s not her hair- her hair has more layers- and after a major surgery- everyone loses some hair because of the trauma. 100,000% not Kate. I’ve never seen her walk like that either.
Side note on the Queen’s photo with all her white great grandchildren which was photoshopped and some of the kids were added in – why couldn’t they just add Archie and Lilli?
Ellie Hall just posted on Twitter that she messaged the guy on LinkedIn and he denied he was the one who took the video— he said he wished he had, but it wasn’t him. But if he was hired, of course he’d deny it. So who knows.
“why couldn’t they just add Archie and Lilli?”
Probably because the Sussexes have been very careful of what images can be released to the public. The BRF probably don’t have photos of the Sussex children to utilize.
I know someone who works with him at his 9-5 job. Apparently it wasn’t him and this whole situation has been a huge story at his work amongst his coworkers. Everyone thinks it’s hilarious. He posted on LinkedIn as well to deny the story.
TMZ again. Last time KP and all its media bedmates wouldn’t show the photo in their gutter press. I don’t believe that this Can’t. The shape of her face isn’t right . People have cleared the graininess and it doesn’t look like her. Plus it looks like whoever this is has many earrings in her ear and Can’t doesn’t have that many holes in her ears for earrings.
Maybe that’s what the “surgery” was about: getting more holes in her head.
I don’t think it’s either of them. I think they are lookalikes having some fun. There’s no RPO in the video.
Just sayin…https://www.instagram.com/katemiddletonlookalike/p/CvPbZn3t3wS/
Meghan, TOTALLY agree. It’s just a couple kids who are fully aware of their resemblance to K&W, having a bit of fun, knowing everyone would go crazy thinking it’s HER!!!!!
I don’t think it’s them either. I’ve never seen Kate in an outfit like this in public and the face is so different.
This woman has a crooked/chipped right front incisor tooth. Kate’s teeth are perfect. And only “observers/witnesses”? They couldn’t find a flesh -and-blood individual with an actual name to corroborate this sighting?
@Jaded omg wow! This has now entered TheTwilight Zone.
The Palace didn’t say it was her. As far as I know. It is definitely not Kate Middleton. Look at the teeth. Definitely not her.
@Jaded, ok you’ve confirmed my suspicions. I just scrolled through this Kate look-a-likes feed and she has those same elfish qualities and face shape as the woman in the video. The William look -a-like also has more hair on his sides than the real Pegs.
I literally cannot believe they keep doing this. And I literally cannot believe that I keep giving them the benefit of the doubt everytime they release an image or video. I was fully able to say, ok that’s Kitty with a face lift and significant weight loss. Now I’m team look-a-like for hire.
I think TMZ hired two look a likes, had someone poorly video them and then now they can make lots of $$ claiming it’s her. The palace will play along.
@Matilda
That is an extremely plausible theory.
I’m more curious to see how real news agencies talk about this video
@Matilda, that makes so much sense
@SunnyDays: I cosign your entire comment
‘She’s four cats in a wig’, is sending me to lol land.
Hey, you all. Stop punking on them. It’s “totally W&K”. /s
Kate simply borrowed a pair of Tom Cruise’s lift shoes, ya know, to explain the height differential. She’s wearing Tom’s trainers! Kate’s totally okay though the RR wants us to believe she deserves privacy during her recovery while on Saturday, she was skipping,
William’s cleft chin? is obviously more noticeable from a distance than….got nothing.lol
I could spend an hour counting the clear gravel on the parking lot. Clearly. Somehow W&K are a bit grainy. So many things, so little time. So much BS from KP. Skip to the Lou my darlin’.
Is there a longer video? Otherwise, it looks like the lookalikes only made it to the end of a pier.
TMZ is backtracking now and saying it wasn’t Kate. Stevie Wonder could see that woman isn’t Kate. She’s at least ten years younger and two or three inches taller. I don’t think the guy was William either.
I think TMZ was looking for a scoop, found a pair of lookalikes, offered them a hefty paycheck if they would impersonate W & K, and dropped that photo and video on the internet, discounting the millions of people on social media who would scrutinize it ten ways from Sunday and tear it apart when they determined it was faked.
I have *never* been into conspiracy theories but I’m sorry-I’m having serious doubts over this video! The face looks similar but the whole thing is so odd. No one is even looking at them and she has been so sought after lately. It’s all just a little off.
I agree, her (the woman is the video) profile is completely different than Kate’s!
Kate must have had tooth replacement surgery because those are not her pearly white veneers. Even if somehow her intubation and coma affected her teeth a cosmetic dentist could have reconstructed her perfect smile by now. It doesn’t take that long for a peasant to get a new mouthful and the dental labs would have done a rush job for the princess. That Kate has yellow teeth that rival Huevo’s.
I still think it was Willy and an assistant out shopping at some point for cookies or cakes at the farm shop bakery. It looks like those bags are holding square boxes that cakes or cookies would be packed in.
I’m with you @Harper. I also thought she’d done “something” to her teeth. I also thought her hair didn’t “look right” and then thought there can’t be that many times we haven’t seen her with wigs/wiglets so maybe that’s her “natural” hair.
I’m firmly on the fence with this one. I want to believe that’s her but, I also think William would be audacious enough to bring out a double. What’s make the whole thing so strange is that they decided an outing to a farm shop would be the place to “announce” to the world she’s alive and kicking. It’s all so melodramatic. Why not just hook up a camera in one of the palaces and let her say a couple of words of thanks for everyone’s concern?
As I said I’m firmly on the fence with this one. I’ve seen some clips where the image clearly isn’t Kate but, then I think these can also be manipulated! I really don’t know what to make of the whole messy saga.
Not a head turns. She’s involved in the biggest scandal on planet earth. This is really the sticking point for me. I understand that maybe the locals in Windsor are super cool and casual about seeing these two (I have my doubts because locals seem to be denying they’ve ever seen them) but at this moment? Not a head turns? No one else taking pics of video? I can’t make that make sense.
Yes, this stands out to me too.
I get the argument that generally speaking, locals in Windsor are used to seeing royals. But there are two counter arguments to that:
1) The tourists are not, and I’m going to assume that there would be tourists here. When we were in Windsor a few years ago, if we had seen a royal we for sure would have turned our heads, you know?
2) Kate hasn’t been seen in months and her absence is one of the most talked about stories of 2024 and these people are just acting like they don’t even recognize her? Even if you’re used to seeing royals, I feel like you would at least react differently to seeing Kate at this particular moment in time.
I’m willing to bet most of their clientele are tourists, not locals. This kind of shop is something you go to for a treat, not your weekly shop. So yes, of course, as a tourist you’d be on the lookout for a royal! Just as you are when you go to Hollywood, never mind the actual likelihood (low) of seeing someone famous.
@Snaggletooth
I’m going to say something that is going to sound braggy and it really isn’t. I don’t see myself the way others do so I don’t see what I’m about to write. So, here goes…
Back in the early 00’s I was slim and trim with long dark hair. People constantly compared me to Courtney Cox and Sandra Bullock. Like, constantly. At one event with my parents I dropped them off, went and parked my car, and walked up by myself. A grown ass man (late 40’s or early 50’s) RAN over to me practically drooling and half shouted “are you Sandra Bullock?!?” My dad came running right behind that guy because he thought this man was going to attack me. That’s how intense that asshole was.
It was weird.
When I flew out to Los Angeles the first time people would turn and stare and point. It got so bad that one time I was looking at a map and my friend started screaming “SHE’S NOT COURTNEY COX!!!” I had no idea why she was screaming until I looked around and saw a group of people (6-7 people) *taking photos of me/us*.
It was weird.
Again, this isn’t a brag because I don’t look like Courtney or Sandra. However, I was a slim white woman with dark hair and a similar jawline to Courtney and Sandra. When my hair was very short people said I looked like Demi Moore.
While I take all of that as a compliment I don’t take it seriously because I also have been compared to EVERY dark haired white girl/woman in the world for decades (starting in 7th grade). “You look just like (insert random girl/woman here)!”
So, I’m writing all of this to drill home the fact that NO ONE in that video is reacting to seeing the goddamn Future King of England and the Princess of Wales for the first time since she went missing.
If I, a mere mortal peasant, can trigger noticeable attention from the masses just by having white skin, dark hair, and a nice jawline (thanks, Dad!) there is no way on earth Kate or a lookalike would be able to breeze around this area with no one paying attention to her.
All of that leads me to believe this event may have been rehearsed and managed and practiced. If that is true it would account for people not paying attention to her because they have been told to not react to her.
And yes, that is a whackadoodle theory. But I’m telling you that when the public thinks you are someone famous or even strongly look like someone famous they react. I don’t care how cool the locals are, they react if only a little bit.
Come on, hasn’t a friend ever called you and said “Hey I saw you on the street the other day” and you’re like huh? I didn’t see you? You don’t notice everyone around you when you’re out and about, especially if you’re used to living in a busy place.
I’m definitely not trying to brag here, but I live downtown in a city that’s a major film and TV production hub. Many times a friend has elbowed me in the side and said something like “hey, so and so just walked in” and I had no idea. The context is so important here: those people are not expecting to see W&K, and so they don’t. If you told them to expect the Royals and then you sent in a couple terrible lookalikes everyone in the place would swear up and down it was them. That’s just how human brains work.
Also: I know we all care deeply about this story, and it is hilarious and entertaining, and it does all seem very important, etc, but let’s not overstate it. The vast, vast majority of people on earth, and in the UK, do not care and aren’t paying attention, and probably couldn’t pick William or Kate out of a lineup. To most people it was just a bald guy in a hat and a generic white woman walking past them. Step outside your own experience for a sec!
@KemperBoyd why would it be bragging to state that you live downtown in a major city?
And yes, context is important. Here, they’re in Windsor, basically at the gates of Windsor Castle. Locals may ignore them, but you don’t think the tourists have their eyes peeled for a royal sighting? Or that the RPOs are a bit of a dead giveaway?
@Bluenailsbetty – OMG you reminded me of something. In the 90s, I had hair exactly like Sarah Jessica Parker (or she had hair exactly like mine) and my height and build were similar enough to her that I experienced *exactly* what you’re describing. And I sign off on your entire point.
I also said this yesterday that even if Kate had a Bristol Palin level of complete facial rebuild and that’s actually her, right now a Kate sighting would be huge. If you’re in Windsor and see someone who *might* be Kate, you’re gonna glance that way.
@BettyRose It’s weird, right? Honestly, how some of my (former) friends reacted to that stuff was …interesting and not in a good way.
After having gone through that it gave me a tiny bit of insight into what actual celebrities go through when they are just trying to go about their business.
I agree with Nuff on X. That is NOT Kate in the “unblurred” pictures.
Where’s their security detail?
She probably has a security double and they are dumb enough to try to pass the security double off as her. I mean the way the cheek bones are sticking out and all of a sudden Kate has a heart shaped face an pointy chin instead of square one. She also probably shouldn’t be carrying anything if she’s had major abdominal surgery.
That’s a reallly good point. Of course there’s a security double who could be easily called up for more hijinks. I almost give TMZ kudos for being this brazen with carrying on the farce.
IF that is really Kate, then we know what her surgery was, and it wasn’t “abdominal.” She re-did her face. (And yes, I can believe it’s Kate, but if so she has a new face. Why not just admit it?)
If that is really Kate, she DID have abdominal surgery – they cut out about 8″ above her hips and put it on her legs. The proportions are all wrong.
My first thought when I saw the video was that the legs were too long. Kate is long waisted, not long legged.
IF it’s Kate (big IF), and if the surgery story is true, I can see Kate recovering relatively quickly because she was in such great shape. And laying in bed recovering for so long I can also see how she could lose a few pounds of muscle and fat making her face look thinner and her legs look skinnier and longer. So basically, I don’t know what to think. And I doubt we’ll ever really know what’s going on.
No one’s legs get longer from weight loss. Your ears don’t get pointier and your cheeks don’t all of a sudden become higher cheekbones.
Also the way she is dressed is done to make her look like she has a long torso and short legs which Kate has. I dress make my own clothes most of the time, and it’s amazing how much you can visually change how you look with cuts of clothes, and in the vid the long jacket with oversized shoulders and black leggings with sports socks pulled up and over can visually create the impression of long torso and short legs, just like Kate. If you hold your fingers over the outsize shoulder padding and over the white socks, then it’s surprising how “Kate” suddenly looks like she’s got longer legs and a shorter body. It’s such a way of tricking the eye, and can be so good when emphasising good body points and minimising not so good body points but this woman has deliberately gone for dressing to create the Kate body to disguise her natural figure.
The fact that this is a woman the whole world is looking for and not one bystander is looking at her tells me it’s not real.
Narrator: It isn’t Kate
Stevie Wonder could see that photo isn’t Kate. And the guy looks like he is ten years younger than William.
My mom had abdominal surgery for Crohn’s last summer, she wasn’t allowed to carry anything for a while, her incision wouldn’t allow her to wear tight leggings and she had trouble standing totally straight for a bit as well. This is so fishy!
OriginalLala, Her standing up straight sprung out at me too. Just about everyone I know who’s had major surgery on their midriff area has that “stoop.”
Exactly – anybody I know who has had major abdominal surgery is not walking upright and carrying their own shopping bags.
William (who was SUCH a supportive husband that he would make the ultimate sacrifice to take time off work for months & do the school runs), being such a helpful husband in this supposedly current photo chose not to carry her large shopping bag for her. Hm. Sounds about right. All their stories are filled with such contradictions. And, I’m sorry but, has TMZ never heard of zoom lenses? At this point, Kate is like Big Foot, in that every picture of her is suspiciously blurry. To me, it feels like KP and the BM’s mantra is: When you’re in a hole, keep digging.
ETA: Plus, the fact that the media had the video all along but chose to release the gardening center video without it says something about its authenticity too. Also, it’s just like KP’s modus operandi to think, “Well, the last time we released a Franken-Foto, it backfired on us, so now we’ll release a video, and to make sure they can’t dissect it like a photo, we’ll blur it all to hell. That’ll fix them.” I believe this was staged too, and if it was staged (meaning intentional and prepared), why is it so blurry? Only one reason.
Same when I had my hysterectomy. My surgeon put the fear of God in me by how emphatic they were about not lifting or carrying anything for at least six weeks. “Nothing heavier than your shoes” was the instruction. The outside heals faster than the inside so if you do too much when you start feeling feeling better, you can do some internal damage without realizing it,
I had a five-hour myomectomy, and I was as spry as Kate looks in the video. Some of it depends on age and physical fitness before the surgery. When I went in for my two-week followup, my surgeon was shocked at how well I could move around. I remember him saying that no one would ever guess that I had just had surgery. I stopped taking narcotic pain meds at two weeks as well because I wanted to drive. I felt fine without them. Leading up to the surgery, I was running a 10K per day and was very lean. It is certainly possible to have abdominal surgery and walk upright and move quickly if you were in good shape and health before the procedure. In fact, the medical staff encourages this to avoid blood clots. Before I left the hospital, I was walking the hallways regularly. I’m also assuming that Kate isn’t holding anything particularly heavy. It’s a plastic bag, not a big box.
@TNA it is certainly possible for someone to have abdominal surgery and be okay a few weeks later.
But that doesn’t fit with the two week hospital stay (so no two week follow up appointment for the doctor to praise her, she was supposedly in the hospital for two weeks) and an extended leave of absence that they tried to stretch into June – JUNE – for someone who does not work a physical job, makes her own hours, and in fact most of her appearances are about a half hour.
If she bounced back from this alleged significant abdominal surgery as quickly as you did, then she should be back to work.
They told us she was going to work from bed. If this was her experience…where oh where is the work?
But what would they have to gain by faking this? If Kate is not this spry the next time she is truly seen in public, it will look like a lie. And it’s not 100% convincing right now as it is. I don’t see what they gain by releasing this.
What did they have to gain by releasing a fake Mother’s Day photo? And remember KP didn’t release this, The Sun and TMZ did. So when it all blows up KP can come out and say “Who me? Uh uh!” Now I’m sure someone at KP whispered to someone at the The Sun ” Hey do us a solid and plant a story about someone recently seeing Kate somewhere. ” And when that story didn’t fly, some smartass came up with the idea for this video. That no one believes. So Kate had better make a video appearance quickly, looking spry with long dark hair like when she was in her twenties.
They hope to gain sympathy and to quiet the noise of conspiracies. Nothing they have done, especially in the last couple of months signals that they think things through beyond the right now. The staged car ride with Carole with five tires and tire treads showing, signaling that the car wasn’t in motion. The fake family photo, which if this is actually her, there was no reason to place a younger Kate’s head onto the picture. A staged photo pap with the photographer at a set location just outside of Windsor, even though William was going to be seen and photographed in less than an hour at the Commonwealth Service. This staged video where both Will and Kate look directly at the guy filming them from inside his car from across the parking lot.
Wtf is going on? Is it her or is it not?! I want her live, smiling, hugging strangers the crowd, holding today’s newspaper and live streaming on facebook/youtube with Rose beside her and I will believe it’s her.
I feel like I’m going down a conspiracy rabbit hole. And I don’t usually do this kind of thing. But good grief that isn’t her. There’s no way they’d let her out free range in public, after all the nonsense of the mother’s day photo and general disgust with her lack of transparency; surely, it would have been the most ludicrous security slip. It doesn’t look like her. And if it is her, it’s a farce that she can appear at a garden centre, having a hoot, but not lift a zoom finger. It’s a disgusting stunt.
Well, they have the right idea that a video is better than a photo. But then they made it fuzzy!
NOTHING FUZZY would convince me at this point. I need a crystal clear video of her in new clothes trying to hug multiracial children in a school and smiling like a coked up clown. Then I’ll buy it.
This is just sad.
As if she is walking around and not a single person is looking at her or approaching her. Also discounting the idea that they would “run out and pick up bread” themselves. Ludicrous.
And I can’t remember- did the original article even mention William?!
Larak: they’re inching closer to doing it right but they ain’t there yet. Stay tuned for the next episode of Where the F Is Kate?
Hi LaraK. Are you a Brit? As a Brit I am actually disgusted by this. No proper thank you, but having a laugh at a garden centre. It’s so tawdry and such a slap in the face to the public. If it’s real, of course, which no is buying. No one BELIEVES in them anymore.
I also need jazz hands and a rictus grin, then I’ll believe it!
Disgusting is was my exact word in my group chat last night (this has taken over my book club lol). This is all so crass and stupid and unserious. Either show her or don’t. But these games are gross. Tom and Lorenzo’s tweet (something along the lines of “It’s her folks you’re all going to have to give up”) really put me over the edge. Frankly, eff these idiots. At this point I really don’t care if they locked Kate in a dungeon and replaced her with a robot.
Hi Snaggletooth. I promised not to post on her anymore, for my own good – which reminds me of the time, many years ago, when I promised not to social smoke anymore unless at weddings (I attended so many weddings that year!). However, I am flabbergasted at what they’ve done to the BRF’s credibility and the goodwill bestowed upon it. This is so below par behaviour. If it is her, she has fully involved herself in this stunt; can’t blame anyone now for the backlash at her not working, not zooming, not doing a proper card of thank you. This is Kate’s idea of pr, everybody! For those who thought she was seriously ill (remember Bower(s)?) it’s a real slap in the face.
This is the crux of it isn’t it? Literally the ONLY move KP has is to play these games. You’re absolutely right. WHERE is the grace? Where is the dignity? Where is the gratitude to the public who sent her cards and flowers (surely one or two of those derangers sent her something??). But no. IT’s all just this goofy, insulting, condescending crap. You’re right that KAte has involved herself. I’ll go ahead and compare the two because Meghan would NEVER.
Like you, I’m boycotting this nonsense until Easter at least. I can’t with these idiots anymore.
That was EXACTLY my reaction after I watched this video. To think someday these despicable people will be King and Queen. I am Canadian and we are still part of the god forsaken commonwealth. I have just had it with the racism, bullying, deception and gaslighting from the senior members of the royal family. ENOUGH
@MJM – That’s such an interesting perspective. Like plenty of U.S. Americans, I’ve followed the BRF as subjects of gossip my entire life. There was QE2 who was unapproachable and dignified, and Di and Fergie who were fascinating and sold magazines. Either way, the concept of a monarchy is absurd in the modern era, but when you strip the dignified out of it completely, what is even the justification?
(As for racism and bullying, that’s just a Tuesday in U.S. politics. I’m not throwing stones.)
I feel the same way. In my head, I know this is all probably just incompetent nonsense, but all these images of her – none of them look right. This doesn’t look like her outside of basics (hair, thin, general attractiveness). And if everything is okay, why didn’t they do a simple photo opp or record a video that shows everything is okay. Is it because they are so stubborn, they think they are capitulating if they actually do something?
TMZ may have had the video digitally altered. They’re in L.A. so it’s not nothing to go to a local special effects house and fix up the video. Take composites of Kate’s face and mix it with a double to create confusion for viewers. They do this all the time. For example, they made Harrison Ford look younger for scenes in the recent Indiana Jones movie.
Since that “Kate” looks happy and relaxed with her husband, it can’t really be her. Duh. I’m starting to get pissed off by this horseplay. I hope Obama had a word about it with Rishi.
This also struck me. I’ve NEVER seen that dynamic between the two of them. Hell, I’ve never seen them stand that close without flinching. And the light chatty aura? Idk I don’t recognize this vibe from them AT ALL
Yeah, William is the “tell” here. When has he ever looked so relaxed and happy with Kate recently?
I haves refused to get involved in all the conspiracy theories.
But…..
I am now all in because it doesn’t look like Kate to me.
If you want to stop the drama on social media, a blurry picture is not it, and I am wondering why this seems to be the only way that they can take photos.
If she is fine and happy why not have a normal photo taken?
No one is looking at her in the video. One or two could be security, of course. But no one else give’s a **** about seeing a woman very close to home who looks like her! Unless they are all stooge security officers! And if this is her 1) no one’s buying it, not even their tabloid lovies 2) which shows they’ve lost all credibility and 3) if this is their way of clawing back credibility, it is a cheap stunt which, surely, a queen to be should find beneath her. Why mash up a fake mother’s day photo, if you can whizz about a garden centre, striding around with bags? Why not work? Why not zoom? Why not do a video to say thanks? Would the queen EVER have sanctioned this behaviour! Essentially, if this is the way forwards with these two, heaven help them.
Spot on Sparrow. If it is them they’re behaving more like dumb teens (apologies to all clever teens) than a statesmanlike future king and queen.
But I still seriously doubt it’s her.
I’m starting to be truly disgusted by this whole stupid mess. Especially the scolding tone from the British press and Kate fans. KP is playing the most obnoxious games with the public. No one would be questioning her whereabouts if they had acted with a modicum of normalcy. Now this BS. If I see one more tweet from someone saying “you people are crazy, you are desperate for it not to be her.” Like, no one is desperate. But why not just do some NORMAL pr? Truly exasperating and exhausting.
Yes, the tone of the headlines is – this is her, back off. A better back off would be a sophisticated photo or video, not a woman at a garden centre, so back off right back at you. Also, their readership in the DM etc is the full on conspiracy brigade. This isn’t being believed because a great deal of their public doesn’t believe anything touted as “truth”! Own goal. Do it properly, or not at all. As a Brit, I’m disgusted.
I’ve never been into any conspiracy I’m a very logical person, and so seeing all of the pushback is more of a tell that there’s something wrong.
They wouldn’t resort to shaming people into silence if they could simply produce Kate in a clear, upfront way.
They wouldn’t have to plant contradicting stories if they had just told the truth while protecting her medical privacy to some degree.
Instead, we are told we will regret being “mean” (using our eyes) when we find out the truth, and then here is bouncing happy bag carrying Kate, looking a decade younger, and no one is even glancing up at her.
They said they don’t publish unauthorized pap videos and photos, but they published this, which they say was taken the day before they claimed she was too sick to show up to pet a dog.
Days prior they produced a photo with her head turned away, and she was wearing an updo and a fancy hat, so she can clearly get dressed up, yet can’t/won’t do a quick video thanks for her subjects.
All of this from the palace compared to Kim Jong Un for propaganda effort with a fake photo the week before.
It simply doesn’t make sense. And it’s insulting and outrageous.
Ugh @withtheamerican pointing out the engagements she’s missed because she’s too ill to work makes this even more infuriating. They are going to regret treating the public like we’re idiots. They may think they’re getting away with it. They may even be able to clean her up and threaten her enough to get her out in public at Easter. But we’re only in year 2 of Charles’ reign. This is is a major breach of public trust from which they won’t recover.
@sparrow – I think you or one of the other commenters said this before but there so many ways they could have done this better. A simple video a few weeks ago of cards and gifts with a Kate voiceover saying thank you to all her well wishers would have allayed many of the conspiracy theories.
Frankly as a former British taxpayer, I find these shenanigans beyond insulting and disrespectful to the general public.
exactly this.
the only relevant photo that I think has halfway anything to do with Kate’s current condition is the one of Carole Middleton (in which Kate is also allegedly sitting in the car), her expression is grim, serious, like a mother would do when something is wrong with her daughter.
maybe it’s just laziness, I don’t know. it could be. Kate has changed over the years, she wasn’t always completely devoid of style or good taste. I remember liking how she dressed, but in recent years when the only thing she was capable of was copying Meghan, with her engagements having less and less substance instead of more.
i don’t know. It’s like she went into a spiral of trying to play by Bulliam’s rules and it got to her? I’m not trying to defend her, but something is not right.
That is not Kate. And it’s so bad that the daily fail comments shows people were really irritated with them for the fake Kate which is a first. You know you mess up when your ardent most racist supporters are like nah, that ain’t Kate, what’s happening.
Twitter was not having it.
The interesting thing for me was that the sun slightly “kateshoped” their front page so that the newspaper front page photo of fake kate is slightly brownish and looks slightly like Kate but is different from the front page on the daily mail for instance where you can clearly see that this is not Kate.
Very weird.
https://www.frontpages.com/uk-newspapers/
Something seems very wrong. To be honest if they release fake photos after a worldwide scandal of a fake photo , it means they cannot release an original. Why do we still do not have any clear video or photo of Kate.
Zero credibility for the video n the cover images in The Sun, Daily Fail, etc
People do not like being lied to and fucked with. OF course, in regular PR it happens all the time. But KP is so behind and incompetent they can’t get it together to hire any decent spin doctors.
I think the Sun is being messy: either that’s not Kate, that’s not Will, or they want to expose Kate as lying about the reason behind her absence (i.e., the woman in this vid clearly didn’t have abdominal surgery, so where’s she been?).
My only question at this point is: where are the children? Because we’ve now had 4 increasingly ridiculous Kate sightings, clearly released in a manner to incite speculation and distraction, and yet none of the children have been seen for months, not even alone with Will like they’ve staged many times in the past. It wasn’t just Kate that was photoshopped into that Mother’s Day photo, they all were. It’s not like they took a photo of all 3 children together and edited Kate in, they edited all of them. So where are they?
ITA with your line “clearly released in a manner to incite speculation and distraction.” Some brainiac on Twitter supposed that a lot of very informed and influential people know what’s really going on and decided that all the chaotic social media conspiracy theories were preferable to The People actually knowing the Truth. A sign of our times, and really awful when you dwell on it.
Your last sentence sums it up perfectly Agnes. 💯🎯
I will literally not believe any picture is her until I have video of her talking in that wack fake posh accent she has and jazz hand-ing.
<<>> no one but Kate can talk with that ‘posh’ accent. this would be the way ‘they’ will be caught. lets hear her speak!!!
@Dhianna – <> no one but Kate can MUMBLE with that ‘posh’ accent. this would be the way ‘they’ will be caught. lets hear her MUMBLE!!!
There I fixed it for you. YVW. 😉 😆
On one hand, I have had several abdominal surgeries (two younger than Kate is now and I had very quick recoveries) and there is no way I would have a stride like that at 2 months while swinging what looks like a full bag of groceries – anything that requires use of your abs (so…everything) is just a little more tentative for a while. On the other hand, I think that’s her…I just watched videos of her striding in various situations and I think she’s just kinda sporty and awkward. I just think she had two freckles removed from her abs and all the wrinkles removed from her face.
Twitter has some clear photos of the young woman. It definitely is not Kate. This woman is no older than early thirties, if she’s that old.
To be fair, those clear photos have been “unblurred” using AI, which is to say, they’re speculative. Still, they match up with how my brain interpreted her distant smudgy visage.
Right? And if it is indeed kate (which I don’t think it is) it completely dispels KP’s claims that Kate is convalescing from this brutal surgery and that’s why she hasn’t been seen in months. SOMEONE is lying.
My theory is that video was taken sometime before Christmas 2023. As the unfortunate recipient of several abdominal surgeries my issue is, they want us to believe she was under 2 months post-op and carrying a full bag.This is something I will never believe. I was weight restricted 3-5 pounds max for three months with all my surgeries.
Even if she wanted to carry the bag, why would her loving husband let her. Especially knowing the world would be watching. AT the very least, this video tells us, once again, that William is an ass.
I don’t think that’s her at all 🤷🏽♀️ or her face was added. Also if she had abdominal surgery she wouldn’t be able to walk this briskly so quick
Where is the metadata in this? How are there no pictures. This is just weird.
Apparently TMZ is confirming the metadata….
I just don’t know anymore. My first reaction was yes it’s her, then having looked at it closer, I get the speculation and disbelief.
TMZ also likes to drop days-old photos of Meghan during royal events and pretend that she’s out and “seeking attention” in real time, so I wouldn’t trust their word. Also, there’s the Murdoch-owned factor too.
The video may be real, but the Metadata won’t prove that’s actually Kate. Which I don’t believe it is really her.
I think maybe some people are too deep into this lol. That is clearly her. I know we all love a good story that’s why we’re here cause we like the juice gossip but that’s her. Also her “major” surgery could have been like an appendectomy or gallbladder removal that they couldn’t do laproscopically. My surgeon had serious doubts if they could do mine laproscopically and then you have a larger incision to take care of.
I think this whole thing has been a pr disaster but I do think that is her.
If that is her, it’s not only a pr disaster but one of the most disgusting stunts to have been pulled by the BRF. She can mash up a photo, ignore her public, not work, but she can stride around a garden centre having a great time (with possible permission given to pap it). Good luck to them from hereon, because the British public doesn’t believe them anymore; being believe in them as a force for good, or believe in them in terms of picture truth etc.
That’s just it, whether it’s her or not-her, this is a crappy way to treat the public, particularly those whose taxes & good graces they owe their lifestyles to. (And Merriam-Webster says I can end a sentence that way! 😉)
I wish we were allowed to post photos on here because I have an image of the young woman’s face next to Kate’s face, and you can see at a glance that any resemblance is so slight that nobody would take her for Kate. She’s a body double.
It’s NOT clearly her; the video is grainy AF. The person who shot the footage was not any “bystander” with an iPhone but a person whose job “just happens” to be making videos go viral on social media.
Agreed, this is her, i’m understand the skepticism at KP but also i feel like perhaps people dont really get how AI imaging works? this is will not unblur the picture but simply come up with the closest match to her features so its not surprising that unblurred AI images look diffferent.
The whole kate gate was fun while it lasted, but this is veering into deranger Meghan has fake children theory. Come on, we are better than this.
See, it’s not at all. The AFP, AP, Reuters and more have said KP presented a fake image as a fake representation of an event that didn’t happen.
They were compared to North Korea and Iran for propaganda, just last week.
So no, this isn’t at all like derangers and their horrible fake children conspiracies.
A great many people are unconvinced that it is her. So, clearly there is a lot of doubt, and not all those people can be written off as just hungering for more drama. This is another Sus AF photo. I do not know if this is her, or him. I will be waiting and watching at Easter, but if the game playing continues then I would think the British people would begin to scorn them.
im referring to the pictures in the post above where people used AI to unblur the pictures and decide that this wasnt. Nothing to do with the AFP kill notification. These are 2 seperate issues.
Julia, You think that questioning the AI de blurring (which has its issues, obviously) of an image presented by people labeled untrustworthy just last week is as bad as accusing someone of faking their own children?
To me, There is nothing as bad as accusing a child of not being real, and their parents of having faked the pregnancy. That’s disgusting and harmful to a child.
It’s also not separate. This is about their trustworthiness, which has already been called into question. I don’t see how that is equal to accusing people of faking their pregnancy.
Her hair grew that long in two months?
Her posture, her stance, her face?
Don’t forget her legs.
Yeah, the posture of this woman stood out to me. Kate hasn’t stood up straight in a long while & people who’ve actually had abdominal surgery are saying this is unlikely.
And apparently her hair is a whole new colour now, very dark brown. You know, I’ve had several serious abdominal surgeries in my life and am facing yet another in a few days. There’s no fucking way I’d be walking like that. Your body goes into a sort of subconscious protective hunch and if I moved the wrong way or someone bumped into me on the subway it still hurt 6 months later. That woman is not Kate.
Exactly!! There are so many things that make a human identifiable , and one of them is their energy.
This person has happy carefree energy, I would pick this person as being in their 20s. They have a different style., they seem a more petite body frame , head to body ratio, Kate is very thin , but her natural body is very athletic , whereas this person in more naturally petite and has a fresh happy carefree vibe, different mannerisms and gait, is a lot younger, but she does look like Kate and the guy looks like William.. I have no idea what is going on!
Logically, why has no one has been able to get an unblurry or not turned away or soooo grainy pic of Kate in 3
months if she is just so happily walking around carefree like this lass?
It makes no sense why it has to be soooo blurry, if she’s this well, then do a hi res video thanking people for their thoughts and care
Either they can’t or she’s embarrassed of some facial surgery, I really don’t know, but like many others, I feel pissed off with all the shenanigans, it feels so rude when the British people are paying for this bullshit and being treated like a joke
Its fake. She wouldn’t have needed to fake that Mothers Day picture if she looked this good. We already know that picture is a lie and Kate hasn’t had her hair this dark in ages.
Theb photo of her and her mom in the car was all of 2 weeks ago followed by the Mothers Day photo a week ago. A quick side-by-side comparison will show that ONE of those Kate’s is a fake, if not all. No one changes facial structure that quickly, period. Steroids puffing out the face can take months to deflate if not a year. Her jawline completely transforming from mothers day would take weeks to do if she had gotten some sort of filler/tox sculpting. The garden market has Christmas decorations up, Kate’s torso looks shorter, and a man was conveniently waiting in his car on crown property to get that footage. Fool me once…
The decorations aren’t Christmas… Unless they hang floofy hearts in doorways during the holidays. I’ve seen other comments on Twitter from a local who says that Farm shop (more like a farmers market in Canada), is busy during the week, but PACKED on the weekend – no where to sit etc.
We have a famous farm market in Nova Scotia Sid Crosby was home for a brief ice cream at said shop there were 1000 pics on highway in store leaving store, Canadian royalty. Always packed no where to sit. Good point
Windsor is literally a tourist hot spot – I know the Farm shop is at the bottom end of the estate (which is large) its popular with tourists and locals alike. Been quite a while since I’ve been there so not sure if it still is.
The estate is just lovely – well kept and lots of open green space for the public to use. Thanks to Philip its pretty self sufficient. The wine / champers it produces is lovely if not over priced.
Watching the video its not really clear it is her – maybe its the new side piece and they are trolling us that its Kate. The guy looks like William.
As I said in the other thread – if it is Kate, someone’s got themselves a nice new face and the tummy surgery was a cover.
This looks like William in his twenties. But again, its so blurry you can’t be sure.
If it is her then W&K come off really
bad. There is no reason for her to not pose for a Mother’s Day photo, no reason to not do a video to quiet down the conspiracies, no reason for her to not work. This makes them look awful and Kate comes off as a narcissist. KP really are SO bad at this. If Kate can power walk with a bag of groceries she can cut a ribbon and listen and learn. I mean, the King is out there doing engagements while fighting cancer.
Exactly, @Ginger: Ok, let’s say it is her (with less fat in her face and grown an extra inch), as others have said, she looks well enough to sit for a short video to ‘reassure’ us, attendance at Easter, etc. And yes, it sure looks staged.
Ginger, that’s a really good point. She’s this well, but refusing to work and her husband the heir is refusing to work to “care for her” while the 75 year old King with cancer is still working.
Appalling.
Agreed, and it’s infuriating. KP is obviously fine with this being proof of life, in which case there is absolutely no excuse for her refusing to work until after the kids’ Easter break. They may as well just spit in the face of everyone who is forced to contribute to the sovereign grant.
The effing king has CANCER, and these two idiots are doing frat pranks. God, they are so worthless.
You have a few choices:
1.) It’s not her
2.) It’s her but the video isn’t recent
3.) It’s her and she didn’t have major surgery and has been in hiding to make people forget she’s a racist who asked about an unborn baby’s skin color.
4.) KP is really bad at this
I’m starting to lean into #3 heavily, and #4 is always true. And if it’s #3, who was in the car with Ma Middleton, and why the Franken Photo? (see #4)
I think its #3 as well, but also she’s just been in hiding because she can and/or because of plastic surgery.
I don’t think she had any abdominal surgery, and if she did, it was minor.
I think a combination of 3 & 4. Maybe she had work done as well. I have no opinion on what is real anymore but Will and KP are covering up something and to quote Kaiser they really can’t manage their way out of a wet paper bag. QE2 must be spinning in her tomb at this sh*t show.
I’m leaning towards 3 and 4, with a huge scoop of disgust on top.
To lie to people about a “serious” surgery because you’re hiding out while your face settles from cosmetic surgery while guilting the public into dropping the “royal racist” accusation with planted stories from your husband about being so sick you need round the clock care from two “Filipino nurses” and regular PT is a new low.
I’m leaning towards 1 or 2 at this point. I don’t think 3 mattered to her more than people finding out who really cried in the Wedding Incident.
What also throws me towards 1 is, the pap photo in the car with her mom two (? What is time) weeks ago. That person, and this video person don’t have the same face or demeanor or anything. I think the car photo was a Middleton power play that got squashed in the UK, so why would she happily go bouncing through a busy farm store with Will and no security for fuzzy video?
The video needs to be fuzzy for a reason and it’s really telling that the most logical explanation is that they staged a body double (or used old footage). There’s zero credibility on anything from KP in the public’s eyes, worldwide. Because they’ve frantically lied about enough that nothing adds up or makes sense other than really outlandish ideas.
Why do people keep saying ‘asked about the baby’s skin color..’ when meghan said the person(s) had CONCERNS about how DARK the baby’s skin was going to be and had ‘several talks’ about it and what ‘that would mean and look like’.
But even here I keep seeing this whole ask thing as if she innocently asked out of curiousity. Meghan never said anything about asking, they had concerns! Kate went to charles with her concerns and they had several talks about it.
I’m sorry it doesn’t look like Kate at all. This latest stunt is just keeping the conspiracy theories alive. KP is a joke.
Blurry video that’s obv a set-up with KP’s permission. It’s like they saw how much attention the Where’s Kate story has been getting them and they decided to lean in. The fuckery. The game playing is insulting and arrogant.
I saw online people thought it was Heidi Eagan (? I just heard it pronounced, unsure on spelling). She’s apparently a Kate look alike who poses for pictures as Kate? I was not clear on how this was a thing. But her cheek bone structure looks more like this video Kate than regular Kate did. They have similar faces, but Heidi’s looks slightly different, I think her cheekbones are more prominent.
Anyway, per my favorite tweet above, I could shake video Kate’s hand and still think she was four cats in a wig at this point.
To me, the fake Kate pro is not this person either. This persons face in the video is so young, and her smile is different.
Throughout this whole debacle, I’ve realized its safest to trust my initial reaction to this now torture-like feeding of fake or not fake images and footage. When I first laid eyes on the Frankenphoto when noone knew yet it was fake, I thought Kate’s head was too big, somehow seemed at odds with the rest of her body and that she looked too young with a completely different spirit and my instinct, along with many others’, turned out to be true. Now, this. The first time I saw it, I thought this looked like Kate but with something fundamentally different about her. She looks top young, there is too much of a youthful energy, optimism in the way she holds herself that just doesn’t feel authentic to me. And at this point, I’m kind of sick of all of it. I don’t even care if its her or not, because if its her, why are they so blatantly continuing to send people into a frenzy, if its not her, don’t they realize they are the fools and not the people who they are taking for a fool. There is just too much of mean-spiritedness and a conspicuous lack of goodwill and kindness. To me, RF represents colonialism, racism and all the rest. They may go and disappear forever and I’d be glad.
You make some good points and, as I recall, my first impression of the Franken-Foto was just how overly happy both she and the children looked after so many months out of sight and purported “serious” illness. I mean, they smiled like it was a Thursday. This video, to me, has something similar in that the Kate-figure is walking so briskly, her walk is more jaunty than William’s for God’s sake — and she is supposed to be recovering from major abdominal surgery! Even if the alleged surgery was starting to heal, it’s human to want to be careful so as not to re-injure anything. So, her walk and demeanor in this video is so freakin’ jaunty, it’s like they’re overcompensating for the hoax by saying, “Why all the stories when there’s nothing to see?”
If that’s really her, then I think it proves that she did plastic surgery over an actual medical procedure. She looks younger here than I’ve seen since her wedding and is moving with a kind of youthful, frantic energy that seems improbable for a major surgery that would have taken her out to June.
Her appearance here also really contrasts with the car photo, where she looked very puffy, and if she looked this good over Mother’s Day, then I don’t know why they couldn’t have just taken a photo of her and put a filter or two over it. So weird.
The car photo is really what’s throwing into doubting everything. She and her ma posed for that and wanted it out there, even with her face being rounder than she likes. Will got it squashed in the UK.
Everything KP has put out has been extremely fuzzy or clearly distorted. The only clearish picture was her and her mum looking pissed off and a little grainy. This video looks like it was taken on the first iPhone, and it’s by a guy who does this for a living, so the fuzziness is intentional. Why does it need to be fuzzy? Because something in the milk isn’t clean.
Maybe Kate is a big fan of Madeline Stowe who starred in The Last of the Mohicans because it looks more like Maddie than Kate?
That is spot on @Lady Digby! She looks way closer to Madeline Stowe than she does to Kate.
Yes, Lady Digby, you put your finger on it. I thought this woman looked familiar in a way that wasn’t Kate, and she does resemble Madeline Stowe.
I am getting now confused. Looking closer at the pictures I am not sure anymore if it is really Kate and Willi. Whatever happened it seemed to have been sanctioned by KP for being used by the Sun and Daily Fail. As I said in a previous comment this is a very calculated move by KP. They know they needed to get some kind of photo/video out there. Willi and Kate did not want to be seen to bow to pressure from the public and resorted to a “privat” stroll to a place that they very well knew people would be and somebody would take a photo/video. Kate and Willi sanctioned the publication of the footage in the Sun and Daily Fail.
However this will not silence any speculation. People will crutinise everything now after the Moter Day’s phoot disaster. The horse has bolted.
It’s very strange. Kate won’t wave from a car and prove she’s alive because she’s not a show pony. Please. My advice to KP is grow up, quit being arrogant and do your effing jobs. The entire planet is bitching about y’all.
It looks like her but thinner which would make sense because of the surgery. But I agree that the gait is all wrong. This woman’s arm swings very differently from Kate’s. So so strange, all of it.
The jawline doesn’t look right for Kate. She was developing jowls, and there is no slack in the jawline of the woman in the video. Maybe she got a facelift.
Beginning to think the same. Those remembrance photos probably shocked her to hell and back, more so because they were unphotoshopped for once. If it’s a face lift, people will be mad. All the speculation and concern. For nothing.
The thing is that you can still see the jowls and the little bit of loose skin in her profile picture form just the other day in the car with William. No way did that get fixed in 3 days so it was either 2 different people or two very different dates. I don’t trust that photo or this video.
Glad I’m not alone in the arm thing. Kate walks with the front of her hands facing forward, which is a very distinctive trait. This person doesn’t.
Her legs have always been muscular and these aren’t. Clearly, if this is her, she hasn’t had “serious abdominal surgery,” so that’s not an excuse for why her legs would look different.
I’ve always been embarrassed to say anything about Kate’s wonky arms lol. But they’re so distinctive and you’ve described them perfectly. The woman in the video doesn’t swing them the same way.
I think it’s her gait. She walks like her mum, which is leaning forwards, and therefore stomps into the ground. It’s not an elegant walk; she never stands up properly, as here.
Rein, not reign. And let us have our fun.
I enjoy Peter Hunt’s comments on the Royal Family. He always makes the most sense.
The woman pictured at the market looks an awful lot like a body double named Heidi (according to Twitter. There’s a photo of three doubles and the one in a blue dress is a spitting image of the woman at the market).
No matter how slim Kate is, or how little makeup she has on, Kate has full cheeks. Which are gorgeous. This women has a hollow face.
OMG it looks exactly like Heidi.
Shenanigans, KP. Just release a clear video with Kate speaking.
Heidi Agan has already come out and denied that it was her. She said she was working at that time, for what that’s worth. I have no idea what any of this is about.
But is Heidi the only Kate replicant? Maybe they have other dupli-Kates they could use. It’s nuts that we can’t identify Kate anymore with all the shenanigans that are going on.
It’s the gait for me. Kate walks like a linebacker and she always has, that is not her walk.
As @sparrow above said “ She walks like her mum, which is leaning forwards, and therefore stomps into the ground.” Picture her sparkly gold gown at the Jordanian wedding, with Kate simultaneously hunched over and leaning forward, stomping along like a linebacker.
(Gotta learn to channel your inner Letizia!)
I like to think it is Kate, but the metadata was faked and it’s a video from December 2019.
“Lip readers now confirm that the Princess turns to William and asks, ‘What is Wuhan?’”
😮😮😮
@CC, where did you see this information? Can you share a link?
Well played 😂
I’ve been seeing photos and video of this woman for the better part of 20 years now, and the fact that I GENUINELY cannot tell if that’s her in the video is making me feel nuts. If you put a gun to my head I’d say….yes? But like it should not be that ambiguous. We should not be able to NOT TELL if a photo or a video is her or not. That is an absolutely insane state of affairs.
I fully agree. I have no idea. There is something about the clip that is wrong. That’s all I can say for sure.
I have no opinion on when the video was taken.
But Fake Kate reminds me of Marina Hanbury Lambton, Rose’s sister.
It’s not Kate, because of the different proportions (legs), and Kate’s veneers look differently.
Here’s what I find so interesting: last week, the media and social media were quick to point out the absolute nonsense that was that Mother’s Day photo. And now, one distant and grainy video and case solved? Y’all.
I generally don’t buy into conspiracy but I still think this is all very weird. So after international ridicule over the photo, this is the response? These people look like actors in a lifetime movie about Kate’s absence. And if it is them, I’m curious why they look so different from what we’ve seen from them (for more than a decade). Caps? Leggings? Okay, sure? And why not film a 30 second something? A 30 second video with the kids ends all speculation.
This hits on a weird thing that happened when I watched this the second time. I worked in film for so long certain phrases are burned into my memory, so before they started walking out I heard, “Back to one.”
It had that sense, no one looking up at this missing for three months person, of being staged or false. The way no one else noticed them, but this person was waiting with the potato camera for them to exit. It also seemed like the woman knew she was being filmed and she had the smile a lot of people who aren’t used to being filmed can’t suppress when they know a camera is on them.
Obviously this isn’t evidence, but it was a weird déjà-vu feeling. It made me wonder if they hadn’t sent him out with an assistant or someone who looks like Kate, which would also explain the friendly chatter and sense of peace between them that hasn’t been there between W and K for years.
IKR? The timing of this video is very suspect given the other photos that have been made public are all fakes, so what better than to show a video of Kate and William walking from a store, all smiles and good health! Nope, not buying it. It may be William but it’s not Kate.
The palace must go on the record and either denounce this video as fake or verify that image is the P&POW taken at the time and place it was purported to be shot.
They will never fob the public off with these stunts, people will not let this go until Kate is presented to the public the way we have been primed to receive information from the royals for decades; clear, sedate news footage in the manner CIII has shown, acknowledging the facts of his illness and the well wishes of his subjects, CLEARLY depicted. Now they’ve been exposed manipulating photos this basic way of public facing communication is more vital. Grotty videos on TMZ are not acceptable as proof of life.
The woman in the video has a small elfin like head. Think Audrey Hepburn or Natalie Portman. Mrs. Wails does not have that. That is the first thing that jumped out at me about this video. Sorry, don’t believe it’s her and won’t unless someone provides a clear video that doesn’t look like it was filmed with a potato.
I agree, Kate has a much stronger jawline, and whoever this woman is it looks like she’s wearing a full-on wig, not just extensions or wiglets. I remain firmly in the “it’s not Kate” camp.
Kate the Fake or fake Kate. Such a dilemma.
I don’t know what to believe except this video is authorized from KP. That makes it even more suspicious. Propaganda is real. They are in overdrive.
And I’ve read this morning that Jason knauf is back….
OMG. The Knife is back. What fresh hell is he going to unleash now? I imagine they brought him back in to try and stamp out this uncontrolled fire but I don’t think even Jason can fix this mess.
The AP wrote an entire article about why it’s difficult to believe this is really her, given the recent history.
That’s interesting. I also saw that CNN did a piece on why this wasn’t answering questions, but couldn’t watch it.
When a huge international news service is skeptical, it’s officially not a conspiracy.
Royalist, rota , piers and tmz harvey are begging the palace to stop the clown show. Not only that piers is very pissed because he interview harvey and Harvey said that many in usa believe sussex was right all long and their are vindicated now by this clown show. Also many american and international people are shocked because many genuinely believed these royal protocol nonsense and Sussex are dramatic and palace never shut down rumors etc. But with Kate how entire thing was handled and how palace is saving her is very jarring and it opened many people’s eyes.
I still can’t believe the palace said “this isn’t an authorized pap pic”. Then, the whole national media agreed not to publish the photo. That shows that all the attacks H&M suffered in the media were/are authorized by the palace. It is so nice that everyone is seeing that now.
Yep. I don’t care where Kate is anymore, but thank you for exposing yourselves as master manipulators and abusers. I am so proud of Meghan and Harry for rebuilding what is clearly a much better life.
When you’ve lost Andy Cohen, you might as well give up.
William actually looks different too- fuller in the face than he has lately. He has been looking gaunt for at least a month. Is this video old?
Jp. I suggested on another post that this could have been set up some time ago, when they realised she was going to be delayed in returning, with this in the vault to pull out in an emergency. However, goodness, that’s some planning.
And these two are famously not planners!
Can anyone imagine the queen thinking a trip to the garden centre- worse, possibly a fake trip – would be the correct thing to do in these circumstances?! Seriously, this is the next queen on. Tawdry doesn’t do it justice.
Sparrow, your points about this from the standpoint of a British citizen are very prescient. It’s hard to even imagine QE being in this position, let alone losing trust like this.
The takeaway for me is KP is manipulative and deceptive, and feel entitled to continue being both, whilst doing no work. PP wouldn’t have allowed this, because he knew how easy it was for a monarchy to get on the wrong side of public sentiment.
I’m truly rattled by this because my family, well a chunk of it, was very pro monarchy – incredibly proud of the queen, and slightly besotted with Diana, loving her work ethic and compassion, as well as her true beauty. We then get these two, treating their “fans” like they’re nothing, like it’s all a joke. And for everyone who doesn’t like the monarchy in the UK, they’ve proved themselves even less worthy of note than usual. It’s such a ****ed up idea of how to deal with things. My kids are finding this hilarious – not only do they know about all about the BRF at the moment, which is unusual among their age group, they’re laughing their heads off with their friends. I think it’s because they move in a world of images and are hyper tuned to manipulation or even doubts about it when the picture is real.
@sparrow your kids finding this hilarious is really the point KP are missing. An entire generation being raised to see them as a joke, as liars, as people so bad at their jobs that everyone can see through their manipulations and deceptions.
The queen stood up and shook the Lettuce PM’s hand while her organs were in the process of shutting down. These two are giggling and jumping up and down on her grave. The only thing that could save Kate’s public image at this point is actually being dead, that’s how badly they have played this.
Karma is giving them everything they wanted for the Sussexes. It’s beautiful to watch and happy for the world exposure.
Some of this speculation here and other places is full on QAnon level crazy. It’s Kate, you guys. People are allowed to have surgery and then be out and about for a bit.
If that’s true, and she’s walking around etc, it follows that people are also allowed to have surgery and get a proper photo taken for mother’s day or do a quick zoom. Or even say thanks to their public. Or most of all get back to a half normal life before after Easter. That’s the problem here. So, if it’s true, the British people are allowed to be disgusted with her or even question the veracity of these images. Because it beggars belief that someone would do this in her position. So, true or not, it’s an own goal. She’s not “people” she’s the future queen. I’m prepared to accept it’s her; I’m not prepared to believe this is appropriate behaviour. It’s actually disgusting, after the mother’s day card, and the belief in a serious illness that means she isn’t well enough to be seen properly in public for weeks still to go.
Ok Brittany. Will take your word for it that it’s Kate in the unfaked timely video. I’ll also accept the story that she had spent the morning watching her children play SPORTS. What I don’t understand is why UK taxpayers are OK with her taking months off of work, blowing off her “work” watching St Patrick Day parade for the Irish Guards, while she appears to be just fine “out and about for a bit” shopping at the BRFCo company store.
Taxpayers pay for everyone’s surgery over there lol You want everyone’s medical records made public?
From “over there”, this is the worst thing to have done. It’s her, she’s really ****ed up. A garden centre stroll, not a zoom. Seriously. If you don’t like the royal family, this is perfect. And kirk isn’t talking about taxpayer funded health care, they’re talking about taxpayer funded weeks off work. And yes the crown relies on amongst other things the duchies, which are the biggest untaxed cash reserves in the UK. They owe the British public a hell of a lot of money from their “independent” money.
Yeah Brittany, cause people in Britain can’t even get seen for cancer care for 2 months or more. Surgery, even longer. An estimated total 7.6m health treatments were waiting to be carried out in Dec last year (that’s from government own data.) So yeah, good luck in getting medical records. People die first.
Unless you are Kate. Or Charles. Cause you know millions of pounds of taxpayers money go to keep them hearty every year while the rest of the peeps can just bow and curtsy and die while waiting for care.
@Brittany – clearly you are not English. The NHS is in terrible shape and being starved for funding. Wait times for ambulances is 90 minutes. People with life-threatening conditions like cancer have to wait months to get seen and often die before they can get surgery. The royals either resort to private health care or get jumped to the front of the line for medical treatment. LOL back atcha.
Yeah you guys, these people are like you and me that in 2023, they can take £86 millions
of the sovereign grant (that’s tax payers’ money) so they can be “working royals.” They work really hard at working by photoshopping dodgy photo for legit news outlets worldwide. And working harder at appearing outraged when said doctored photo isn’t considered real enough to be used. It takes real work to get that worked up, you all. No wonder a girl gotta get gone girl for some me-time. Jeez.
The Wailses and KP are out here sending doctored photos to news agencies such that said news agencies are referencing Iran and North Korea type chicanery, but folks are crazy for questioning this low quality video that is questionable in 50-11 ways?
“but folks are crazy for questioning this low quality video”
Yes.
I question the sanity of the whole f-ing monarchy. And the craziness of those who support the lies to prop up these lazy wastrels.
Brittany – the point is – OK this is real. But that’s the biggest slap in the face, ever. The royal family has reached a nadir if this is their idea of proving someone is up and about. The public “over there” is not buying what they’re selling because, if this is it, how tawdry, how pathetic, how much of a cheap stunt. In a way it would be better for KP if this were two doubles, because this is a joke of epic proportions at the expense of the British public; hardly what one expects of the BRF, surely. And take it from “over there” – I have never known a time when the future BRF has been considered such a joke, so guilty of duplicity (mother’s day), so capable of further duplicity (the questioning of this video, real or not), and so fundamentally lacking in credibility or good character.
I think it is her but people absolutely are not crazy for doubting it. It’s a blurry video from some distance away of a woman that looks nothing like the pap photo from two weeks ago. The palace released a completely doctored photo one week ago to try to stop the rumors or whatever, but Kate apparently looks like this and they couldn’t use her for a picture? Kensington Palace has been compared to North Korea for their propaganda use.
But sure, people who question this picture are crazy.
Seriously, many of the comments have moved past ‘all in good fun’ and into crazy territory.
The simplest explanation for things:
Why does her face look different? Plastic surgery.
Why is she taller? Perspective and camera aperture/focal length.
Why is she carrying bags? because she was never really that sick.
Why? She’s a lazy parasite like all royals and is known for being work-shy.
Yes, they’ve moved the goal posts of good will so far back and sideways as to be detrimental to themselves. And the tone – this is proof, back off. Seriously, this is now the “truth”? Kate in a garden centre, having a great time. Wow, how dignified is this proof. I’m beginning to think it’s real, because, let’s face it, this tawdry behaviour has become the new norm. We doctor photos; we prove people are OK by putting them…in garden centres, having a hoot. What great PR these two have. Wait for it to be a post remembrance photo facelift; the public will be mad.
How is it crazy for people to not trust Kim Jong Un Palace?
What’s crazy is bootlickers expecting everyone to fall into line and be silenced by an obviously staged video taken with a potato one week after the palace was listed as “no longer a trusted source.”
Yes, as an anti-royalist hater of the monarchy, I’m definitely a bootlicker. A lot of you are beyond reason.
Pyre, You can say you’re an anti-monarchist who just so happens to think questioning this video is “crazy” and like “qanon” (a talking point that’s been shared by new names here quite a bit), just like I can say bootlickers are using shame to try to silence rational questions.
You judged, and I judged in return.
That’s how this works, although I wouldn’t come in hot to a comment section calling people crazy. But you do you!
“rational questions” lol
Then should could have put on yet another green coat dress & gone over to pat the dog & put hand out shamrocks the next day. But she didn’t. She’s ‘still recovering’.
I think it’s probably her, but if she’s well enough to be out carrying bags at a shop and walking that briskly, she’s totally well enough to be at church in 10 days for Easter. And if she’s not, then that’s why my tinfoil tiara will definitely go on!
Where are the dimples? Kate has dimples and I don’t see them here. She is smiling, they should be visible.
I can go two ways. Maybe it’s her — and we’re not used to seeing her without makeup, she’s lost the only weight she could stand to lose re: 20 pounds in her legs, it’s shot at an angle that makes her look almost as tall as William. Maybe all that is true and I hope it’s her and she’s fine and getting better.
But:
1. No bodyguards? He’s the next in line to to be king of England.
2. This was at the height of the global “where is she???” frenzy and no one else took a shot, no one approached to say hello, nothing? He’s got a ball cap on, but she’s right out there, unobstructed, the most famous face in the world at the moment and no one snapped a shot?
3. Just so happens a videographer from nearby Slough took the video and it’s in TMZ’s hands two days later?
4. No one else has been quoted by name in the papers as saying they saw her there?
5. She’s speedwalking and carrying shopping bags after major abdominal surgery but too ill and in recovery to cut ribbons?
6. Has KP confirmed it’s them? If so, I trust it even less.
If we’re going to go full-on conspiracy, this was taken on Saturday, according to TMZ’s meta data — after a terrible week for KP and serious questions/concerns about her well-being. Is it possible they hired a body double and arranged a videographer to shoot the “couple” from a long way away? I’d put nothing past them.
Nobody should be trusting the official line on this sighting.
The footage supposedly shot by a ‘shopper’ was taken by a professional film maker called Nelson Costa. He specialises in Adobe CC and Final Cut Pro. So, a professional film maker took this badly framed, grainy blurry footage. Or a professional film maker MADE the footage look grainy and blurred so disguise the fact that this is not Kate Middleton. https://nelsoncostasilva.com/about-me/
There is ZERO chance a professional took video this bad without it being deliberate. Zero.
If this is the guy, there’s something serious suspect.
Or he saw a business opportunity and hired two body doubles. He made 200K!!!
OMG this is getting more hilarious by the minute.
First the Dublin Airport photoshopping in the happy and relaxed couple at the airport and now Nelson Costas!
(MUST close this tab to get any work done today 🫣) Meanwhile, lovin’ Costa’s self description in his “About Me” section. Seems like something changed in translation – he says before he started filmmaking he took an acting course that “helped me to develop human emotions and skills inherent to my editing work.” Sounds like a robot using machine learning for human emotion mimicry 😆😆😂. Thanks for the link @Franster!
If that’s Kate and she can do this, then she could do a simple video talking to her fans and thanking them for the cards and well wishes. It’s the simple way to remove all doubt. Yet, they are not doing that. Something is not right.
Exactly. Instead they’re re like f*ck off you peasants. They want to be relatable. Try that in the real world with your boss and see how it goes.
I’m so fed up with these people.
If it is Kate, she’s clearly well enough to at least do a damn Zoom call or shoot a short video thanking well wishers for their support.
If it is Kate, she’s awfully spry for someone who’s had major abdominal surgery. And she looks 20 years younger. Which makes me think she had a facelift.
If it is Kate, her, Will and their entire comms team will go down as the worst in history because their behavior launched a thousand conspiracies, dredged up old affairs gossip that both spread internationally and to major media outlets.
Well said, Snuffles.
After the photo fiasco they keep giving us this “proofs of life” but each is blurry, face turned back from the camera, Kate seemingly fine but somehow cannot take a new photo or record a short “thank you” video.
For someone who loves the camera, Kate is sure playing coy with it now.
O.K.??!!!
That’s the biggest tell of all!!!!
Everyone is focusing on the woman, but the guy is not William either. This guy has sideburns, William doesn’t, and his thighs are much firmer than Willy’s.
At his last few engaments we found out that William had lost a lot of weight. This guy looks much heaver that the last seen Willy.
But all and all, the guy is the better lookalike of the two of them.
You know it could be a setup by the person who took the video – a cheap way to cash in on the drama and get his name out there. The photo sorta looks like Kate but with the video’s is not really.
@Advisor2U 💯 THIS! 🙌
Agree. It’s not him! look at the ears, like the ear lobes, his aren’t attached like the person in the video’s. This is weird sad clown show. I wonder WTF is really going on.
It’s a Kate look-a-like, her name is Heidi Agan, look her up. That’s not Will it’s the guy who impersonates Will. Kate is still M.I.A.
I did & Agan is a lot curvier than Kate, so I don’t think this is her, but some other Kate lookalike. Agan’s legs aren’t super skinny like Kate’s, either. But my goodness, she does look like Kate!
Heidi already said it wasn’t her and she was at work.
It is absolutely her. I don’t blame people doubting it. We have seen three different looking kates in less than two weeks. Had they just been honest about what it is and why she’ll be out so long, people would have moved on. I believe it is her, i believe this is set up and she got rewarded for being a good princess and doing as told. I have backed away from believing she had a face lift but this brings me back to it being possible. Of course it could just be weight loss from recovery. But all this does for me, is make me question why the fake mothers day photo? Why the turned away head in the car, why so odd looking with her mother, why so long out of “work”, why is william not working? Why the she’s so ill and in bad shape? She looks fine! She could do a 10 min zoom with a charity! The fact that they still will not get a non blurry photo of her just makes everything worse. The close up must be shocking, either from weight loss or facelift. Another blurry photo just adds to the speculation, so either they are enjoying the most attention they’ve had since their wedding or they cant show her up close yet. It’s her and there is a reason it’s not close up.
Time to come clean: it’s me. Yes, they flew me over from Canada with the promise that I would be helping the monarchy that I hold so dear. We Commonwealthers are nothing if not loyal to the Crown.
In my defense, I thought that I was doing the right thing by allowing them to change my hair, face, body shape and gait. They said that it would look fine! They said that the racist just needed a rest!
I will try to do better in the future.
Good one Tursitops!
Tursitops, well, one must do what one must for the Monarchy! (yes, that’s sarcasm)
AND TEETH, Tursitops, don’t forget you changed your teeth!
UK celebitchies – is there anything major happening over there that is not politically/economically expedient to those in power? Why was Obama at downing st, or is that the wrong tree?
Like, the whole damn world is so distracted by kategate. Is there something we’re being distracted *from*?
Well, the Tories are infighting again and trying to oust Sunak before the General Election later this year plus they are trying to force through the deeply unpopular and wrong on all levels Rwanda Bill (deporting refugee’s and paying Rwanda to take them).
Then there is the ongoing selling off of the NHS and Brexit talks that no one knows whats going on there.
Who knows anymore! From someone who respected the queen growing up, this has been a shocking few days. W&K’s behaviour during Meghan’s time here was a true low. Could it get any lower, in terms of faith in the BRF going forwards with these two? No. If they’ve been used as a front of some kind – I think that’s a rabbit hole too far, but who knows, who knows. They’ve lost so much credibility.
These royals have die-hard supporters who are a lot like MAGAs. The MAGAs cheered Trump, who said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” The BRF covered for Andrew publicly, so hiding something far worse is totally within their scope of practice.
Well, no, it’s not Kate. Also, wasn’t it TMZ that showed a picture of Pippa as Kate riding in a car with their mom? I do believe that is Will, though. So he will not be able to deny it later, and to me it is proof that it is he who is coming up with these idiotic/ill-planned sightings. Hope it comes back to bite him in the future. It also strengthens what I was thinking previously, that Kate isn’t coming into view right now because she can’t. I still think she is in recovery somewhere from something other than surgery. Irregardless of what is wrong with Kate, with a few exceptions, I could be wrong, but I believe that Will is squandering a lot of possible good will that would see the Wales into the next reign, if he would only share what is wrong. I think he could possibly garner a ton of good will. For Kate and maybe himself. But if they are divorcing, he can’t play that card.
One can have cosmetic surgery to change to a whole new face, but the whole BODY skeleton structure is very hard to alter. (Not impossible but will take months & year recovery time.) Kate stans should post scientific proof that the woman in this t-m-z vid has the same bone ratios as KKKate. You know like: head to whole body height, leg length to torso, tibia to femur, etc.
Otherwise I presume this woman was a body double.
BTW, please don’t mistake t-m-z as a reputable media outlet & has integrity. They don’t. They buy information & bribe people; they also have “invisible contracts” with some PRs & organizations. They always want to be the first to break a story, they don’t care about victims’ family members.
Yes TMZ is absolute trash with ZERO integrity or morals. They are built on lies and bribes.
I have no idea if that’s her or not but as Peter Hunt points out there is a missing piece here – Kensington Palace. Two weeks ago they leaned on all of their media outlets not to publish a pap photo purporting to show Kate and her mother in a car because it “wasn’t authorized”. That involved TMZ as well. Now, they are seemingly fine allowing a very unauthorized video of Kate and William? If true, wouldn’t that declare open season on the Wails?
It would suggest that KP dictates which “papped” photos are allowed. The ones they set up for pr are allowed. True pap photos are not allowed.
Okay….the question I have is, if that is Kate, and she just had abdominal surgery, why isn’t Will carrying her bags??? I know he isn’t a gentleman, but after my C-Section I was told I couldn’t carry anything heavier than our baby for a while.
So she is practically skipping, with a blow out, carrying a bunch of heavy looking bags but then was too sick to do the St. Patrick’s day events? I mean….
If that is her, then why do the Frankenphoto? Also, for everyone thinking she had a facelift…if that is her then it is possible, but from my understanding, modern plastic surgery doesn’t take months to heal from anymore. There is downtime yes but most people are back on their feet relatively quickly. So even if it was a facelift….why the 3 months of downtime? (laziness but still…wth is wrong with these people)
After my open hysterectomy I walked hunched over for months and could NOT carry a heavy bag like that. This is so obviously faked I can’t believe TMZ got sucked into buying and publishing it. KP needs to make a statement on this fakery but I doubt they will. They’re backed into a corner now with nowhere else to go and the real Kate remains MIA.
Big agree Jaded! No way was I walking like that even 3 months after my c-section. Was I mobile? Yeah I was! They had me on my feet my 2nd day in the hospital….and walking was one of the most unexpectedly hardest things I ever had to do. I had NO idea it would be that hard. But it worked! They say the best thing to do is to get up and walk after abdominal surgery to help the healing and help your body get back in shape. But saying all that….after 3 months I still was not skipping lol. I was still not jauntily skipping through garden centers.
I think it either is her and all the commenters who said she had a facelift and was just hiding out/being lazy/negotiating her divorce are correct or tomorrow we will get some kill notice on the video or find out it is from two years ago or something..
This is the guy the Sun is reporting to have filmed the “Kate” walk. https://twitter.com/FaithfulRadical/status/1770022298197647625?t=SEapwWA3Y9b-g4qGJGseXg&s=19
I’m so confused—there are so many dudes with this name, and they ALL look 40 to me. (The Sun article merely identified him as a “40-year-old father,” which could be anyone??)
Why is KP allowing the release of footage that immediately sparks debate about its authenticity? This is not an optical illusion dress where we humorously disagree on the color. W&K are showing contempt for the public that wants to support them and this is what I find to be most offensive.
💯❤️
This!
Yes, I think the video is a deplorable fake, for all the reasons cited (gait, posture, speed, relationship with “William”, face, carrying bags, video quality, buying from Windsor what they get for free, no RPO and no one around blinks an eye).
I persist in believing:
–Kate is not well.
–Kate can’t appear in public, or on video, or via audio.
–William did something very bad.
I’m happy to be proven wrong. Meanwhile, I’m enjoying watching the monarchy self-destruct.
I absolutely agree with your take. Absolutely. I, too, would love to be wrong.
Arthistorian- I think you may be right.
But also…a big clue is that the one photo of Kate not published in England is the first TMZ photo. I take that as a sign that’s the one Willyboy doesn’t want seen. Why? Because she and Carole were in a rental car (no smoking sign proves it). Because they’re not in England. Kate is getting treatment for something elsewhere. They don’t know when she’ll be back and are trying to bide time.
I’m with you Arthistorian. So far the track record of photo fakery/f*ckery is not good, in fact it’s all been utterly lame and obvious, and this just continues the lunacy. If that’s Kate I’ll eat my hat, and I think TMZ has been totally suckered in thinking they got some major exclusive video.
totally agree. something bad happened and willy in his control
freak way is messing things up big time! where are the kids? i mean yes they do not have to be seen but that’s never stopped them from trotting out the kids to deflect from
the truth. he can’t even trot one kid out like a father and daughter outing or father and youngest outing date . It’s making me wonder if he even has access to the kids? im
thinking he doesn’t. i don’t think he has access.
Until I hear it confirmed by the Palace that this was willy and ka, nah sorry, still won’t believe it. They lie as easily as they breath. That IS NOT BILLY AND BONE. No bodyguards, Christmas decorations, walk is soooooo wrong, Billy put on 20Lb in a day 😂😂🎄🎄could they be any more stupid. They don’t realise that they either
One, need to come out and say “no this is not William and Kate, and not condoned by us, or
Two, apologise to the country for the fact that Billy and bone are idol bsds
Oh my God, you should see the corny skit by willy today, even the national news is now saying”, claimed to be footage of Kate and William
They’re in a farce of their own making. Let’s see how they get themselves out
@Mary Pester — what do you think of this? https://www.instagram.com/katemiddletonlookalike/p/CvPbZn3t3wS/
@JADED those pictures on Instagram prove my point lovey. It’s not them! Also, just wanted to say, lots of luck JADED for your upcoming op x
@Jaded I have actually been a long time follower of CB, I wish you good recovery and great surgeons. My prayers are with you.
Somehow the tweets got even better after they arranged that video. That Lorraine King’s tweet had me laughing uncontrollably for five minutes.
I have been enjoying the heck out of this problem of their own making!
This is all so wild. A still from the video at just the right angle looks like Kate. However, when you watch the video it doesn’t look like her unless she’s gone through a drastic transformation. The video Kate looks so happy and relaxed which is different from the grainy photos from the past few weeks. Or at any time in recent memory. If she looks this good then why the cobbled together Mother’s Day picture?
If she really is this well, then why no clearer proof of life or a thank you for all the support? Why is this being bungled so badly? Who is benefiting from all this chaotic behavior and poor pr? None of this makes sense!
Remember how laughed at Meghan was for walking through a car park after yoga! How peasant like; how set up (not). And yet here we are – Kate walking through a garden centre; probably a set up. Oh, the drop in standards. It’d be hilarious if she’s swinging bags of organic home grown Norfolk turnips about William’s knees.
Those trees are awfully bare for March.
No that’s normal for the UK, it’s exactly what the trees outside my window look like right now.
There’s zero chance that video was taken in December as there are no Christmassy decorations and everyone is wearing light spring clothes.
“Who authored this? Why was this created? Is it credible? Is it biased?” (From Masterclass’s “Tips to Becoming Media Literate”)
Everyone has already listed the 9000 reasons this video feels weird or wonky or untrustworthy, so I will just say this: of *course* I’ve watched the video frame-by-frame on TikTok. It’s, like, 20 frames long, maybe even fewer, maybe like 10. I don’t LIKE believing a conspiracy is afoot—it makes me feel nauseous and irrational, tbqh, at total odds with my desire to present as a logical, reasonable person—but I just can’t force myself to believe that the individual in that video resembles Kate at all. Well it does look convincingly like Kate in one single frame, I guess, and that’s the frame they’ve chosen to publish everywhere as a still/leading image.
Any old school Catholics out there? If there are, you know of the creepy Jesus picture where you look at his face and his eyes are open, continue looking they’re closed. That’s how it seemed to me as I looked at a still of Kate, that’s her, wait, no it’s not . . .
There’s the Magritte Jesus which is based on similar, in which he uses red to distort the eyes – are they shut, with blood around them, or open, with red pupils looking straight at the viewer.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/03/19/bbc-reporter-woman-photograph-windsor-not-princess-of-wales/
Don’t know whether this will be picked up here – it’s from The Telegraph.
@sparrow – seems to be behind a paywall, unfortunately
Thank you. Wow great read. KP has lost the most important thing of all, the people’s trust
I can’t believe they would even think that this – a healthy, able to walk around carrying items – “Kate” is a good idea. If this were her, why can’t she commit to Trooping? Why can’t she do a Zoom with one of her patronages?
I think the obvious answer is that it isn’t really her, but assuming it is (as they clearly want you to), it makes her look even lazier than usual.
@Becks1, I know about the alleged two-week hospital stay. I don’t know if she needed to stay there for two weeks for observation, had a complication of some sort, or if they lied about that timeline and she didn’t actually spend two weeks there. Nothing would surprise me at this point.
I was an independent contractor when I had my surgery, so I didn’t need a medical note, but I was cleared to take six weeks off from work had I needed paperwork to show to my employer.
Again, because Kate has a reputation for being “work-shy,” this timeline may not be one the doctors gave her but one she has decided for herself. I was not defending Kate, just explaining that it is possible to quickly recover from major surgery.
At this point, this sh*t’s gotten quiiiiiiiiiiiite boring.
I no longer think anything happened to her, or that she was in any danger, whatsoever. I just think they’re a couple of very stupid people, surrounded by even more stupid people, that like to create chaos and confusion just for the sake of it.
They wanted attention, they got it. Now what? We should all just move on and let them putter as they wish.
Everything. Everything W&K have done IS to draw attention. They are never going to leave the celebrity limelight.
THIS is about them. Just didn’t play out in the ways they hoped. lol. 😂
Here’s the deal. KP has not confirmed that it’s her, so the Royal Family has plausible deniability. If Kate is really recovering, it would be SO easy for them to set up a video with Kate speaking or even being seen in a way that there is no denying it’s her. But they haven’t. KP is COMPLICIT in allowing this controversy to continue. Why?
Is Kate a fall guy to distract us? What is going on with the Royal Family, or in the UK gov that they are distracting us so that we won’t notice? Why did President Obama visit 10 Downing St. yesterday? Why hasn’t BP come out with a statement about this controversy? My guess is King Charles is worse than we’ve been led to believe, and this Kate controversy is distracting us while they figure out how to spin the news.
Obama, like all ex-presidents, was looking for $$$ to fund his foundation. Rishi badly needs a positive image booster, a coattail like Obama’s to grab as his lifeline cause his party is in disarray and about to lose bigly. Having Obama visit is like being blessed in the hopes Rishi’s luck will change. lol.
And Charles is looking good today, seen leaving Windsor for Clarence House and hosting an event for Korean vets today as well.
Take that fake Kate and fake Willy.
Kit, KFC is hosting an event for Korean vets today? That’s quite interesting. Are the IG Korean vets?
What do you think Mary Pester?
Edited to add: I just saw Kit’s comment below. elderly vets from Korean War.
Detached Observer – a better distraction would have been for them to actually do some engagements!
Pretty sure, Charles showing up in person officially to dispel his death rumors was intentional.
Equally intentional is the contrast at how cancer stricken Charles can move his septuagenarian self to be seen in public walking about and doing his job meeting elderly vets from the Korean War.
Meanwhile poor, poor Kate can’t bother to show up to support the Irish Guards. Yet amazingly, was able to be videoed in grainy pixels trotting, with long lustrous hair, sharpened cheekbones, alongside attentive (?) Willy. The princess’ own hand carried the heavy bag, and she was wearing leggings post major abdominal surgery……
This. It’s shameful. If KP had any idea of how to connect with the public they should be realizing that the message they are sending is only making Kate and William look worse. She can’t even be arsed to sit down with a reporter for 5 minutes to thank everyone out there who has been wishing her well, not to mention the medical staff who supposedly have been treating her – but she can go prancing through a farmer’s market like she hasn’t got a care in the world? And William is still refusing to step up and to his duty as the heir to the throne with Charles receiving treatment for cancer and we are all supposed to be alright with that??????
Exactly Sue. At the very least they’ve shown themselves up as having no manners.
And I think behind the scenes it’s a whole lot worse than that
BP showing the clowns at KP how its done – a quick photo op of him smiling and waving as he’s being driven to an official event not hiding her face while hitching a lift with her husband like someone else.
I feel like am watching a bad comedy.
Be wary, as Kensington Palace is flooding the zone with old and/or fake videos.
If this is true then you have to wonder if someone at KP is actually a republican trying to bring down the monarchy from the inside!
Kensington Palace can has messed this up all on their own.
So, No and No.
FYI Buzzfeed has an article posted today that confirms that the farm shop is currently displaying the fairy lights and heart-shaped wreaths some believed to be Christmas decorations.
The original source is a woman on Twitter named “WindsorDebs” (a local) who has photographic proof that the decorations are current.
The video of the Windsor market can be real and even taken recently this month.
However, what’s isn’t proven is IF this was a clip of the real Kate and real Willy. The video is not proof. Its lack clarity of features.
I’m laughing because I think back in the days when these two were dating, paps had zoomed photos of them frolicking with mates in the Mediterranean clear as a bell. Same with clear photos of Meghan and Harry when Harry attended his friend’s wedding in the Caribbean. Even now, somehow a random passerby or paps can take photos of Meghan dining with Harry and their friends through restaurant windows with vey clear shots of their faces.
But good god, a grainy, bleary video of Kate and Willy is the best TMZ and the Sun can produce? C’mon!
I don’t believe it’s Kate at all!
I’m just saying that hyper-focusing on stuff like “those heart-shaped corn dollies might be Christmas decorations!” when they look nothing like Christmas decorations (do Americans hang up pink hearts for Christmas?) is a distraction. The video very obviously wasn’t filmed in December and it doesn’t matter when it was filmed, because it’s not her.
If William is in a big fat hurry to make a divorce public knowledge, why on earth hasn’t KP pushed back on a video showing “William” and “Kate” having an easy breezy shiny happy good time at the shops? If KP says the video is a fake to keep people from thinking the Waleses are in love, then they’re back in the hot seat to prove Kate is alive and kicking. But if KP *doesn’t* disavow this video, then they’re fine with folks thinking it’s a real and true representation of both Kate’s health and the state of the Wales marriage, and while I can see them wanting people to believe it on the health front, it opens a whole other can of worms on the marriage front, which goes against every single vibe that Hot Single Dad Who Doesn’t Want Company On His Trip To Singapore has been putting out for years now. It feels like the guy who has not walked side-by-side with his wife for at least half a decade now would rather people think Kate was near death than think he liked her—I mean, that’s been his play up until now! He hasn’t been running around saying “oh, thanks for thinking of her,” or “oh, she’s starting to feel a bit better.” He just does another shot with a famous guy and moves on! So why hasn’t KP said a peep about this video? What purpose does it serve?
In the longer shot you can see the trees towering above the shop. They are bare naked, there aren’t even buds. This video can’t be from mid-March.
The weather is all kinds of crap here. You could be in the UK and know this already? The continual rain and damp are making growth patterns really weird.
And a few weeks ago people were saying the Mother’s Day photo couldn’t be from March because the trees weren’t bare.
It’s Britain. Non-Brits don’t understand how weird our weather is. I’m looking outside my window right now and there are some trees which are green, and some trees which are still very bare.
There’s absolutely zero way every single person in the video would be in light spring clothes, if it was filmed in winter.
Oh why don’t these beastly trolls and conspiracy theorists stop trashing our beloved royal family! On a serious note, regarding deference, there was a royal programme I watch many years ago, (which sadly I cannot remember its name). There was a segment where a former photographer was describing an event that took place on an overseas trip. He and other photographers were outside a building and heard a heated argument taking place. Soon afterwards the Duke of Edinburgh appeared followed by a tennis racket. I cannot remember if or what the Queen said but I do remember paraphrasing what happened next. The photographer said he (the press secretary?) stretched out his arm without uttering a word, and we knew what to do. We handed over our pictures/tapes and he thanked us for our cooperation. Although it is 2024, KP still behaves like decades gone by.
At first I thought this was a misunderstanding. But currently KP has been caught lying about Kate’s whereabouts. This is an office that’s communicated the death of a princess, a Queen and her husband. They have been putting out pictures for decades and they make “mistakes” daily now? Naw. There’s something wrong and I’m legit uncomfortable with this now.
But really, it is nice to see that Willie’s hair is growing again, more lush than before!
The hairline on this kid is different than Kate’s. That is easy and critical to see.
So are her ears — they appear to be larger and more prominent than Kate’s.
True dat!
Even though I think TMZ and Harvey Levin are shady and skeazy, I do have to admit that they would not put this on their site if he knew it was bogus. He is a lawyer so he knows that’s a no no. So is it for real or not? If the TMZ photo people say it’s her then I don’t know anymore what to believe.
One more thing Kensington Palace is not only flooding the zone with fake and old videos. They are flooding the comment sections with propaganda.
Well as PoW, Willy has a lot of free money to grease a lot of palms and buy lots of likes with his bot farms.
YES.
Do you ever go on Buzzfeed? Bots galore!
that looks like her. she looks ill bc she’s even thinner in the face. literally no one will leave her alone until she undresses on live tv, shows us her scars from surgery, CT scan and medical records, her doctors detail every scan and lab, show video footage of her surgery and even then everyone will say it’s fake. their media team are idiots, william will continue to throw her under the bus, and she’ll never be able to live this down. i feel sorry for her even if she’s lazy…no one deserves to have people speculating if they’re truly sick, making memes their kids can see and wondering if she’s faking an illness along with being a bad mom.
ana, no one has asked for any of that. Nice diversion, though. What people are asking for is a CLEAR picture of her. That’s it. Since it appears from the video above that she is quite capable of walking quickly and smiling at the same time, I think the ask if reasonable. If this is her, why doesn’t KP just confirm it?
Don’t make it about something that it’s not.
ana. That’s not it at all. People are saying, if you’re this well, get out there and talk to the public who’ve been so concerned about you. And after that – get back to work. If you can skip round the garden centre, you’re well enough to zoom. And you’re also well enough to have sat for a proper photo on mother’s day. This video is one huge **** you. I doubt anyone would be as sympathetic if this were a person frauding disability allowance -one look at this video, and they’d be stripped of the money and told to get back to work. One look at this video, and Kate’s fans say, ahhh, isn’t it nice to see her again, doing bugger all.
This whole mess is mind boggling! I can almost accept the still photo, but not the video. Either Kate is perfectly fine and blowing off work for no reason or things are very dire indeed. I’m inclined to go with the latter version. It smells like desperation from Will’s camp.
There was a story that Kate took the kids and left William because of the affair and they can’t find her anywhere. Hence the edited photo. At this point it seems very plausible.
I could see her doing that but there’s nowhere to hide. They’d have the biggest security services in the world on it.
It’s the height difference between them that stands out. Kate is only near his height when she’s in heels. So unless her surgery was to lengthen her legs, that’s not her. Not to mention the hair is too janky. I think she would have worn a hat and/or ponytail.
If she can practically skip while carrying a bag of groceries, she can get back to work. Like, tomorrow.
That’s it, isn’t it. Take this as her, and what the hell? This is their proof of life – that she’s fine and dandy, briskly walking around her local garden centre! So, get on and work!
What if…TMZ was sent this video some time ago (2-3 years ago?) and they dug around in their “UK Royal Family” file and decided to post it now for the clicks?
Maybe at the time TMZ received it, they decided not to post it bc they couldn’t verify it was definitely Will and Kate, or there was nothing going on then to justify the coverage?
That’s not her hair and I know she wigs but that’s not her usual wig- her hair is straight and very very thick- hangs completely differently. I don’t follow the Royals- is it normal, pre-disappearance, for her and WIlliam to just pop into a store without it being an event- with security, and planned press? This just seems impossible
Her hair isn’t thick – it is actually quite thin and damaged. She wears a lot of fake hair to hide this very fact.
Lol Mia, surely you jest!!! I think you meant to say the hair in Kate’s wigs is thick – her natural hair is thin and sparse.
That’s neither buttons nor egg.
When we see them walking, the guy keeps his face hidden under the brim of his cap. The woman has an entirely different face shape-rounded forehead and very pointy chin They both walk so briskly, totally out of character for egg & buttons- not to mention the gait differences. The woman nearly bounces.
We cannot get a good look at them as they first are partially obstructed by taller vehicles, then bc the shot conveniently & prematurely moved ahead of them to an area where lower vehicles are- pauses, then pans forward again to an area again partially obstructed.
KP is making this worse by the day- i didn’t think it could continue to get worse, yet here we are
It’s utter insanity. Egg has made this stink all the more.
Agree 100% NotSoSocialB.
It has just occurred to me that TMZ/The Sun have got their hands on William on a jolly outing with his new mistress who happens to “look similar to” his current wife and the papers all know this but are claiming it’s Kate so that they can get away with publishing the photos.
And yes – if it IS KKKhate with a new face and ears and teeth and legs and yet another bad wig, then the public will be very angry that she can skip around outside of a farm shop but can’t return to work despite costing the public so many millions.
There is a breach of security at London Clinic. trying to sell her records. This is not ok.in what world is this ok?? I have just crossed to the other side. Leave her alone.
Trying to access her records is horrible. That doesn’t negate serious issues related to KP’s management of her health issue, their outright dishonesty, and the need for transparency. None of them get a pass because of the records, especially when their mismanagement and game playing caused the frenzy!
Welcome to the Diana and Meghan club dear Kate. So far you have been sheltered from invasive gutter press . Even now nobody knows for sure what your family is playing at . If it were anyone else the paps would have been aiming lenses like cannon at everyone remotely connected to you, even the nanny, the children and every single Middleton would have been cornered and questioned . Maybe nobody is interested ? Or something is being hushed up to protect the entire sorry lot of you. It’s low, agreed, to snoop on medical records , but it seems to be the first intrusion into Kates charmed life. If she finally pops out mint new and with a completely refurbished face and body , people are going to be so furious about their misplaced sympathies . I don’t think anything is wrong with this woman , just a dented ego.
I saw someone *tried* to access to her records, not that they got it and tried to sell it. I would imagine there are some security measures accessing to the medical records of an unrelated VIP patient.
They tried to access her records in December. There was an article about it in the DM. This might be happening now too but it is not new or just due to the cluster that KP made
@Truth, the new article is saying it was in January. So, are they reporting the same story again? It says when she was still in hospital, this happened reportedly.
I don’t know. One of the reporters on TMZ is now retracting a bit and has some degree of doubt if that’s really K in the video lolZ..😆
One thing the BM do not understand about American journalists is that even though the US isn’t perfect either but the States has a bit more Journalistic integrity compared to them. I mean one’s career in the US is literally on the line if one has lost credibility-even journalists from TMZ (although it’s a gossip outlet) are a bit careful not to try to ruin their reputation.
I just saw that. This gets stranger and stranger. All she has to do to stop this is stand at a window and wave. Clear picture. If she hasn’t done that, why not? She doesn’t need to release medical records, or even speak. The fact that TMZ is walking back authenticity is just nuts.
I read that the guy who got the video got paid 200,000 pounds by TMZ. That’s wild money if he made that kind of money with a fake ass grainy video.
Hey, good for him! I hope the money makes his life a bit easier in these tough times.
I think she’s lost a little bit of weight plus the camera is adding shadows. It’s also given William an angular jaw that he doesn’t have in real life.
I think she did genuinely have abdominal surgery, and had some temporary facial swelling due to steroids etc. She looks like she’s on the mend now and will probably return to work after Easter like nothing has happened. If anything this whole imbroglio will just make Kate and William more stubborn and defiant, requiring them to take more holidays than ever.
Why would she take steroids for abdominal surgery? I’ve had various abdominal surgeries from ovarian cysts to fibroids to an upcoming surgery for bladder cancer and never ONCE was I given steroids. Steroids are prescribed for lots of things but the only *abdominal* surgery it may be prescribed for is inflammatory bowel disease. IBD is an ongoing disease, not something that happens suddenly requiring a rush surgery. IBD is diagnosed after months of ongoing and increasing symptoms that may mimic other issues but doctors will eventually home in on IBD as the problem. So unless I hear that Kate has been diagnosed with IBD with adjuvant surgery, I continue to believe this is a total sham.
Good points Jaded. They can’t get their story straight.
And good luck for your surgery. 🤞
Tbh I was seeing more resemblance in the original blurred pic. Yes, that could be Kate, emaciated, without hair extensions or HMU whatsoever, no diamonds/pearl earrings.
What bothers me is why is so difficult for paps or someone with a $$$ phone to obtain a d*mned uncontestable picture of Kate? I’m typing this from my oldie A12 Samsung Galaxy, so I’m not a snob.
The other thing is in previous pics William was skinny and she was puffy. One week later she’s worryingly thin and hollow-cheeked and William is kind of buff again.
This reminds of the scene from Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Askaban: “ She’s been sighted, she’s been sighted.”😂
https://youtu.be/X7k1yanO6tk?si=WaWC4Pf7nWgsILtg
I believe 100% that it’s Kate. I see the differently shaped eyes, the canted jaw, and the ear(s) that “tilt” back (i.e. they’re not straight up-and-down like Huevo’s).
I also don’t believe Kate had “major” abdominal surgery.
At most “work” events, she’s in super-high heels, and so would walk differently. As far as usually walking with the backs of her hands facing forward, that’s to show-off Big Blue.
I think Huevo and Kate have complete disdain for the public (“the peasants”) and have been enjoying the upheaval. They will do what they want, when they want, and will not answer to anyone unless they darn well feel like it. And who’s going to stop them? No matter how much people turn against them, they *will* become King and Queen. They’re making it completely clear to everyone how it’s going to be when they’re in the top spot.
They currently have a guaranteed income of $24 million a year, four homes, and the best of everything. Seems to me they’re having fun with all of this.
If this video ended up not being real or whatever, I am going to start to believe something really happened to Kate. Either she refused to come out because she is furious (I would support) about Bully Boy alleged cheating . Or Bully Boy as they say, allegedly hit her and sent her to the hospital or worst she cannot function. This is weird. I love reading the conspiracy theories but this seems serious. I really hope she is well.
Why her parents are not saying anything? Why is prince Charles not saying anything? Something stinks at Kensington Palace and it might the head of that fish head Bully Boy.
I think that KP is test driving their new fleet of Kates.
They have 14 of them and the upside is that Pegs can actually stand next to most of them without radiating disgust
I was wrong the guy who did the video. Someone else has come forward.
TMZ has confirmed they are look alikes and it’s fake.
Where did you see this?
See Celebitchy post today (03/20) embedded xwitter vid: https://www.celebitchy.com/863137/bbc_sports_reporter_questioned_the_authenticity_of_tmzs_princess_kate_video/
Link? As far as I know TMZ has not admitted any such thing. One producer expressed some skepticism.
“one producer” The executive producer
Uhhh, no they haven’t, just went on TMZ and there’s nothing about look-alikes. However take a look at Gabriella Munro-Douglas — https://www.instagram.com/katelookalike/?hl=en
See Celebitchy for today 03/20 “Speaking of, TMZ executive producer Charles Latibeaudiere has already started walking back the authenticity of the video”
Some are saying it’s Gabriella Munro Douglas- Kate lookalike. What do you all think? I think she’s a really good match. The legs, especially! She’s got long slim legs like in the footage. Kate’s legs are not that long. I can’t see her ears in any of the photos but the nose, mouth and hairline are also damn close.
Look up Gabriella Munro-Douglas — https://www.instagram.com/katelookalike/?hl=en
I have to say I’m living for all the Kate memes. My favourite is “Is It Kate?” instead of “Is It Cake?”
Well, I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve never seen anyone come out of supposedly life-threateningly serious abdominal surgery that necessitates months of recovery and look 15 years younger with thicker, bouncier hair and a springier step than before the surgery. That’s not even touching the skintight pants.
I know I shouldnt be surprised that shameless liars are shameless liars and yet… we were all so worried about the kids’ normality while she’s shooting ozempic and getting a threadlift. Just go away already, grifters.
Looks like everybody is sort of distancing themselves . The extended royal family is well aware of all their dirty secrets and don’t want to be anywhere near when it all blows up . Let’s not waste our concern ,worrying endlessly about Madam Fake
My sister doesn’t follow the royals. She called me and was incredulous at the brisk pace she was walking. She wanted to know what serious abdominal surgery kept Kate out of the public eye for so long and has her unable to address the public or post a credible photo, all smoke and mirrors, but then shows her practically power walking at the market.