From Kensington Palace’s sudden pushback on the “Kate was in a coma” speculation to this new exclusive in the Daily Beast, it finally seems like the palace communications office is finally back from vacation. Did they have all of January off? KP announced on Monday that Kate was discharged from the hospital and that she’s returned to Adelaide Cottage, where she’ll recuperate for the next two to five months. “After Easter” is what we were told at first, but they keep extending it, like Kate might be iffy for Trooping the Colour in June. This week, there’s also been a strange effort to minimize Kate’s situation. Now the Daily Beast’s Royalist column is doing the most to make it sound like this has all been expertly handled (???) because Kate and William are showing the world that they’ll do things their own way, which means months and months of never being seen. There’s also some speculation about when William will “come back to work.” Some highlights:
A change of protocol: Former royal editor of the Sun, Duncan Larcombe, told The Daily Beast: “The whole of their focus is on her recovery and their family right now. This is a big change in protocol: it’s not really the done thing in royal circles to be seen to be taking great swathes of time off for a mere illness. You keep going. Just look at the queen; even when she was dying, she would get it together for five minutes and walk out onto the balcony and wave. The queen mother had breast cancer in the late 70s—but that didn’t emerge until after her death in 2002! Any suggestion that Prince Philip was ever seriously ill was always aggressively denied by Buckingham Palace. William and Kate are making it very clear that times have changed and they won’t be bound by the old ways of doing things. Instead, they are going to act like anyone else in this position, and are putting their family first.”
Nanny Maria is a big help: The Daily Beast understands that William and the couple’s nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, are splitting household duties including school runs for the children, with Kate under doctor’s orders to remain in bed as much as possible. Borrallo… has become a trusted and valued member of the domestic household, one whose presence will be relied on more than ever in the months ahead.
When Kate & William will be back to work: Kensington Palace have said that Kate will not be expected to return to public life until April. After Kate was admitted to hospital, palace sources told The Daily Beast that William would be absent from public duties, “during the immediate period following her return home.” They have since declined to enlarge on that carefully ambiguous formulation. In contrast to Kate’s protracted absence from public life, King Charles is understood to be mending well from his much more minor prostate procedure. Some sources have suggested he could be back doing public engagements as soon as next week. When it comes to William and Kate, however, no-one is making any bets, although some hope that William might return to public engagements relatively soon.
Maybe William will attend the BAFTAs after all: One source said: “It would help give a sense of normality, and that things are being adequately managed, if William made a few public appearances. Perhaps the BAFTAS [the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards] will be the moment.” Certainly, if William, President of BAFTA since February 2010 is not able or willing to attend the awards, scheduled to take place on 18 February, his non-appearance will cut through to the general public, precisely because of his near-perfect attendance record at the ceremony.
Other sources think William will be MIA for longer: A friend of the couple told The Daily Beast: “I don’t think William will be doing anything at all in the next few weeks.” Asked if they thought that was a sign of how seriously the couple are taking Kate’s recovery, the friend said, “It is totally unprecedented. It’s just about two very conscientious parents putting their children, on whom there is tremendous pressure, first.”
No one will cover for the Waleses: There seem to be no plans for any other royals to step into William and Kate’s shoes while they are off work. A royal source told The Daily Beast: “William and Kate have their own royal household, so it wouldn’t be appropriate for Prince Edward, for example, to suddenly start representing them, in the way he could represent the king.”
“If William, President of BAFTA since February 2010 is not able or willing to attend the awards…his non-appearance will cut through to the general public, precisely because of his near-perfect attendance record at the ceremony.” BAFTA President William has actually skipped the ceremony seven times since 2010. If he skips this year’s ceremony, that will be the eighth time. The other times he’s skipped, it’s usually been for reasons like “he needed to recover from his holiday” or “he didn’t feel like it.” He even skips the pre-BAFTA party HELD AT KENSINGTON PALACE every damn year.
As for when Will and Kate will return… the way the wind is blowing, I would say Kate probably won’t be seen until May. I think William will probably aim for one or two March events. Maybe he’ll take the kids to church on Easter Sunday.
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Registered nurse here. What doctor told her to stay in bed as much as possible after supposed abdominal surgery? She needs to be moving.
I feel for the UK. This is what they’re stuck with. While the peasants like you and me get to put our family first as much as possible, these two are still getting “paid” for not representing the UK, not bringing attention to their charities, not working on their so called “passion projects” pretty much until Kate can put on a tacky dress and worse hat the royalists will swoon over (TOTC)
Doctors don’t have patients stay in bed. The muscles atrophy if there is no movement. Nurses walk with patients around corridors and physical therapy will strengthen the body.
It’s not just muscle atrophy. It’s increased risk for blood clots, poorer wound healing, compromising the lungs. The reason for getting patients up and walking is for systemic reasons. There is no way her doctor told her to stay in bed as much as possible. The only patients I know of that get told to stay in bed are those still hooked up to tubes (example draining fluid from the brain—NOT abdominal drains, urinary catheter or even an IV) or skeletal traction are the two that come to mind. If she had a tracheostomy and was on a ventilator her health care staff would STILL get her up in some way or fashion.
Surgical patients including back surgery, most heart surgeries (like pacemaker implant or cardiac cath) and GI surgeries are up and walking (or shuffling but moving) within hours of the anesthesia clearing. When you get your entire hip replaced, they get you up and walking. My uncle had half his stomach removed due to cancer and they had him up within a day.
Exactly. My father had a double hip replacement and the old boy was walked up and down the corridors, chatting up all the nurses as he went along! He was not left lying down for long – up and about for him.
Exactly. 2014 I had a c-section and tubal ligation and I was up walking that day. Staying in bed to recover is NOT a thing after surgery. Even brain surgery. What is really going on? And who do they think is believing this “near perfect attendance” at the BAFTA’s. Do they really think people can’t read or see???
Yep, this is just total BS. My elderly mom broke her hip this past spring; it was a messy break that required a pretty involved repair. So she was not allowed to walk on it for several weeks to allow the bones time to repair themselves. However, she was still expected to stand and transfer from bed to wheelchair or commode several times a day and also went to physical therapy daily, where they had her do lots of chair based exercises to maintain muscle tone and prevent blood clotting. She was absolutely not allowed to stay in bed “as much as possible.”
My husband was discharged home 5 days after major heart surgery, this included 2 days in ICU on a ventilator .He had to be re admitted a week later when fluid built up round his lungs but after that he went home after 3 days.
I had 2 c-sections under general aneasthetic which is major abdominal surgery.This was over 50 years ago when you were kept in hospital or 14 days afterwards but I was out of bed 2 days later and slowly walking about.I got home with very little help, no paternity leave then or my husband,.There was a new born baby to care or, and after the second one a toddler also.
Something very strange is going on here and I doubt we will ever know the truth
I think we can safely assume that anything coming out of KP is a lie and something happened to Kate, which remains unknown.
Those Spanish journalists? Does someone have a source in Nanny Maria’s family?
“Those Spanish journalists? Does someone have a source in Nanny Maria’s family?”
Oooh! I never thought of that! You might be on to something.
Oooh tasty! I hadn’t thought of it that way. 🙂 It is easier to cover your tracks in the English press, but how many other Spaniards/Spanish speakers work in the Royal Households?
I threw out a wild speculation in the other post that it could have been Nanny Maria herself as the source, but this sounds very viable.
Speaking of nanny Maria and the part about her and Willnot sharing houshold duties. They used to have at least a housekeeper and cook. Even if Willnot “got” them when “they” moved to Adeleide Cottage, there’s no way Keen was cleaning the house and did the laundry. This is another attempt to make him sound like normal-Bill without knowing what normal is.
You know ELX, I think you are on to something! I am starting to strongly suspect that Kate may have not even survived the event that caused all this. The squirrely way KP et al are behaving is really quite unprecedented. The Missing Middletons, and absent Peg are huge indications that there is something very rotten going on. How long can they cover all this up? It is always the cover up that gets them in the end. Is it possible that the next king of England is a murderer?
There is no way Nanny Maria would risk her job by talking to anyone about this situation.
BlueNailsBetty–man, can you imagine how much money Nanny Maria has left on many a tabloid table all these years? She must be a saint just to resist that…🤣🤣
Exactly. My oldest had open heart surgery and was told to walk the day after surgery. They didn’t want her laying in bed for hours on end due to all the reasons every has said on here.
That line had me rolling my eyes. My ex is a PT at a major university hospital, his job was basically “coaching” people recovering from major surgery. A big part of that was get people moving asap and make sure they knew what they could/should do once they went home.
Pretty much everyone knows someone who’s had surgery, even if it’s not a close friend or family member. So that means pretty much everyone should realize that the reporting by these royal experts is probably 90% bullshit, and then the alarm bells should start going off. Because if they’re putting a little lie like that in their articles, hoping nobody notices, what else have they been lying about?
Just more evidence that KP is lying because they can’t even get the facts right about what is required in a medical recovery. They could have said something like, Kate and William go on gentle walks together as she continues to heal.
It’s the continued insistence that she must stay in bed “as much as possible” that has me side eying this whole story. And why do they want us to think she’s in bed all the time? So we won’t question why we can’t see her, if only briefly? Any journalist who cracks this case will never have to work again. I’m surprised that so far there have been no takers. Meantime, I will continue to side eye everything KP “sources” put out there. 😏
I was thinking this too, it’s actually a health issue TO remain in bed, that is antiquated advice and not anything a doctor would actually say these days. So we know it’s a big fat lie. Also, how is this putting the children first??
Someone yesterday mentioned that it sounds like a throwback to Victorian times, where the wife falls ill and must stay in bed for months while she recovers. It’s certainly not modern medicine.
the only people I know who have been told to stay in bed as much as possible…..are women at risk of pre term labor or other pregnancy related issues. But that’s not the case here.
It’s like that (really old) movie, The Barrets of Wimpole Street, where Elizabeth Barret Browning tragically wasted away in bed while Robert Browning despaired at losing her. I wonder if that’s the image they’re going for here. 🤔
They make her sound like she’s laid up with severe case of “the vapours”, like she’s a character in a Victorian novel.
@ArtHistorian yes!! Or Mrs Bennett with her poor nerves from Pride and Prejudice, lol.
@Becks1
How could I forget Mrs. Bennett! After all, I’ve just started re-reading Pride and Prejudice.
Actually, I’ve thought of in-utero surgery during a risky pregnancy as a plausible explanation for the long post op and confinement, as a less worrying alternative than she being disabled or wounded to so much extent.
I have been suspicious of a problem pregnancy for a while now. Staying in bed as you said is sometimes needed.
@Aurora & @Holly. BS. Thanks for trying. /s
These palace spox and “friends” of Bulliam and sycophantic churnalists whose job is to lie to the plebs on behalf of the royals, cant keep their lies straight. They fudge time-frames and timelines and diagnoses.
As Judge Judy would say:
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to have a good memory.”
When my dad got a hip replacement when he was in his late 80s, the hospital staff had him walking the halls the day after surgery, and climbing up and down stairs on Day Two.
Came here to say this. I had major abdominal surgery over 20 years ago and not only was I out of the hospital in three days (and bankrupted by medical debt) – yay America) but they had me up and walking pretty quickly. My current partner worked on several research studies about post-surgical ambulation so when I had my appendix out he practically pushed me out of bed as soon as I was conscious and had me walking around the hospital. When I got home he had me walking around the downstairs circle through all the rooms on my ambulation circuit at least once an hour. Somehow I just can’t see William doing this for Kate. God. What a miserable life that woman sought out for herself.
Right, like don’t you need to be moving around so your intestines and stuff can slither back into place? (Human anatomy is weird, man.)
I think the whole ‘stay in bed’ thing illustrates the truly execrable ‘reporting’ these people do. They don’t report. They don’t do simple basic research. They don’t even draw from examples in their own lives; as we’ve seen these last several weeks, we all have been or know people who have been in hospitals for serious surgeries & are encouraged to get up & get moving ASAP. That basic underlying knowledge is simply absent in all the tabloid reporting. Such is the state of UK journalism right now.
Just one more eff-up by the Rota who appear to know nothing about recovering from major surgery. I’ve had several surgeries (hysterectomy, post-cancer breast reconstruction) that were long and arduous. The nurses had me up walking the very next day. This is such an obvious coverup I can’t believe it. Kate could very well have had major surgery, but I think there’s a mental health component to what’s ailing her and if some of the media know, they’ve been cowed into not breathing a word.
Exactly
HeatherC. Worse are the medic talking heads for hire, who are spouting off about how Kate is right to rest etc, all in papers like the DM. These are the same doctors who tell their NHS patients to toddle off and get on with recovering, get back to work, expect an hour long wait for their surgery receptions to pick up a call to repeat medication. The worst has to be Hilary Jones GP over here, who appeared shortly after the Oprah interview to accuse Meghan of lying about not having access to medical help in the BRF. Banged on about how they have their own doctors. Thing is, watching him I thought: who would want a GP who claims patients in dire mental stress are lying about what happened to them?
RIGHT?! Mobilize or deal with pressure sores and pneumonia!!!
Good luck on your next shift ❤️
Gosh ..you are so right about moving about after hysterectomy.. I had everything removed.. I didn’t stay in bed was up and about..
Nurses helped me after first day or two then I had to walk up and down ward slowly ..
Golly having three ladies to take care of her ..They really do live a very cosseted pampered life.
The only time I had to stay in bed for several weeks was after a bad case of myocarditis.
Is it possible that there was some kind of systemic infection involving the heart?
They’re throwing out any and every thing they can think of. The problem is that none of it seems to make any sense. It’s hard to believe William is going to to act the part of Mr Family Man when he clearly loathes her and actively avoids her when they are supposed to be appearing as a couple. He’s just so lazy that he can’t miss a chance to exploit any opportunity to do nothing.
Kate could be having chemo or something that makes her unwell and can’t be hidden? Perhaps that’s why she wants to stay out of the public eye?
But even that seems not to explain enough. Like the missing photo
Op of her leaving the hospital.
Exactly. After my abdominal surgery l was told to start trying to walk even when I was still in hospital.
Kate has more problems than just recovering from surgery, she must have some psychological issues.
Women who join the RF do not fare well.
Oh please. Anne or Sophie could hand shamrocks to the Irish Guards just as easily as Kate. Bea could attend the Baftas. She seems to have friends in the industry who would likely be happier to see her than to see PW. Pippa could run the early childhood centre. Any one of them could attend sports games and hand out kudos. Didn’t one of QE’s cousins have Wimbledon before Kate took it? I guess, you have to sell your importance as being irreplaceable to keep the public shelling out the money without complaint.
Kate has already watched someone else do her job much better than she does, no way is anyone else going to stand in for her. Regardless, Kate’s busy work can be skipped for a year if she wants, no one really cares.
This is why nobody’s filling in, because we know & they know that anybody can do it better.
@equality – I agree with most of your post but, not Pippa. She’s not royal, she’s not married to a royal. and therefore shouldn’t be included. I agree she’s far more qualified than Kate to look after Early Years but, she shouldn’t be allowed to undertake royal duties. I know I’m being pedantic but, if we are to have a royal family then the main rule should apply. Pippa is not a blood relative of QEII therefore can never be considered royal. Oh and the same reasoning applies to Tom Parker-Bowles!
I’m sure the people doing the actual work aren’t “royal” either. They deserve the recognition over Kate anyway. Does that reasoning apply to Andrew P-B since he stood in at a funeral for the royals? I’m sure Sophie has as many credentials in early childhood as Kate and could stand in there anyway.
@equality – we all know that the people who do the real work aren’t the royals, and that’s the same in any organisation. As you say Sophie is married to a royal so IMHO would be more acceptable to stand in for Kate. Eyebrows were raised when Andrew Parker-Bowles stood in for both Camilla and Princess Anne. As a taxpayer I’m not happy about it and wish the press would highlight it a bit more. If we have to pay for these people based on lineage then we deserve to have them show their faces when asked to do so.
Yes but apparently bc the Wales have their own very special household nobody else can do it🙄
Jais, I think you’re on to something with the Household. Charles has made no secret of his wish to bring all the Royal Households into one administrative unit based in Buckingham Palace. He tried this years ago as Prince of Wales but was undermined and hadn’t the power to prevent the staff drifting back to their seperate locations and ways of working. As King he does have power to reform the way ‘the firm’ is managed.
It could also be linked to Harry’s and Meghan’s court proceedings against the UK press. Jason Knauf and Simon Case are two prominent Kensington Palace figures who have been named in Court documents.
LOL @Jais. A very “special” household indeed. If only they still had Christian Jones leaking info to Dan Wootton.
Seriously, if the palaces sent out Edward as WIlliam, would most people notice the subterfuge? I’m almost not kidding.
There is nothing wrong with William handing out awards at at Windsor Castle. A stones throw from Adelaide cottage.
“I guess, you have to sell your importance as being irreplaceable to keep the public shelling out the money without complaint.” Spot on, @equality. I have said this before and I will say it again, the Royals are fungible. They are some of the least important people on the planet because there are, what, thousands of (probably more qualified) people in line behind them ready to take their place if needed? Why else figure out the line of succession so far? One pops off, another comes in. They are the opposite of irreplaceable.
They are inadvertently communicating that they are not needed/do nothing meaningful because they both can totally disappear for months on end and nothing they do is important enough to still need to be done because they don’t want to be overshadowed by more talented, more articulate and more educated people. The reporting that she is being told to stay in bed is bizarre. I have had 2 major abdominal surgeries in the last 2 years. Blood clots are a concern and you are told to move even if you can’t lift. They are trying to lie their way through the pr to give Baldiwilly a 6 month vacation. I don’t believe for a minute he regularly does the school run (or lives with Katie).
” to give Baldiwilly a 6 month vacation.” LOL, one year on the job and he needs a six month vacation. He’s going to make a great king.
At the time of George’s birth, an astrologer drew up his chart and expressed doubts that William would reign. He literally said that he imagined William will some day fly off on holiday and just forget to return and when found and asked why, will airily dismiss his kingdom with a wave of a royal hand as no longer of interest. If he does go AWOL and is out for several months, that’s getting eerily close to this predication.
Prediction.
I don’t think the issue is “who could” – I think it’s over whom does William have authority? Charles can “ask” anyone to do anything for him, but can William?
I would think that on things like the Guards that were appointed by the monarchy, KC could send a stand-in.
@equality – Perhaps he will, I don’t know. But that would still be Charles’ call, not William’s. I don’t think William or Kate can delegate their “duties” to some other royal, but maybe I’m wrong.
The Irish Guards and the BAFTAs are the only two things that come to my mind. What else is there to “cover”? They didnt have anything else on their schedules. Anne will take care of the investitures. What else is there?
There’s always pancake flipping in the run up to Easter. Some royal somewhere every year gets photographed flipping a pancake, W&K included.
The whole point of them offering up the Sussexes to the wolves is because there are the only interesting royals. Who would kill a juicy Wales story for Anne,Sophie or Edward. Now we will see in reall time how the top four Senior royals take each other down.
I so want the media to keep pushing William to work
More shitty PR work. They really believe they can pee on the public and proclaim it’s raining. It’s like that old sexist joke of the man caught cheating on his partner: “Are you going to believe what you see or what I tell you?”
The story is bullshit. Nothing that the palace has put out corresponds with indicated medical practices (staying in bed after surgery? 14 days in hospotal for a “procedure”?).
The more they send people out with “nothing to see here folks,” the more people will question what’s true. Especially with the blatant lies about the BAFTAs and the idiotic “no one can pass out shamrocks but the Princess” stories.
They are counting on the public’s stupidity, but is that wise in a social media world? The narrative is no longer what they say it is, without examination. That hasn’t been true for the last Prince of Wales, and perhaps not true for the past 2 Princes of Wales. It’s not the Victorian age anymore. I stopped reading the Daily Beast because of Tom Sykes’s mendacity.
So KP seems to at least be awake now, as opposed to completely M.I.A., but they’re still going to have trouble keeping the lid on this unless they make a decision soon – they can’t keep referring to Kate’s “illness” as so serious that she AND her husband will be missing for months, she can’t even do a wave from a car let alone walk to the car like Charles did, and yet at the same time so unserious that she’s totally fine, how dare you ask about a coma, this is all just for the children and they’re still in school anyway, totally fine!
Medical professionals know their lies aren’t consistent with how patients are actually treated, and parents know their lies aren’t consistent with good parenting. It’s only a matter of time before the rota gets sick of covering for them. I’d even say that this article specifically saying that Will has a “nearly perfect” record of attendance at the BAFTAs is their way of saying ‘that’s quantifiable bullsh*t, so if you caught that, apply that brush to the rest of the excuses in the article too.’
Another pr miss: they list all the things other royals have dealt with both minor and major and say about Willnot and Khate: They are going to act like anyone else in this position, and are putting their family first.” The privilege, whew!
You know what the people, aka the peasants do in this position? They try to put their family first while also WORKING. Yeah, if they’re lucky they get some time off to help take care of loved ones but many don’t, and many also work from home during times like these, and most don’t get to take months and months off.
The elder royals got it and get it. Its why Liz and the Queen Mother and PP worked when they were sick, it’s why Chuck is showing is face and letting it be known he’ll be back to work as soon as possible.
So they say all this about how Will is putting his family first and then goes on to mention he has a nanny to help! Other stories KP is pushing say Khate’s issues are no big deal! And we know there are other servants. He could take a few hours once a week to show up at some event for ‘work’ given all of that. t’s just mind boggling that they think this line of reasoning is going to resonate with people.
I see Peg is not through yet spinning his web of lies. No one can cover their work is a big laugh because they don’t do work they do photo ops and anyone can do those. Peg always trying to make himself be more important than he is.
If no one else can do their work, and it doesn’t therefore get done, it’s obviously not important work.
So very true!
Yep
++1000 @seaflower.
“… they won’t be bound by the old ways of doing things.” Wasn’t there an article about how it is totally fine that William has not been visiting Kate at the hospital because that’s how the Royals roll? So they stick with some of the old ways of doing things but not all of them. They pick and choose the ones that allows them the laziest lifestyle.
William putting his family first is ridiculous. This whole circus gives him an excuse to not work. Others have been mentioning it before: the kids go to school for several hours every day. He can’t work during these hours? If I would be a British taxpayer, I would be royally p!ssed at this point.
They clearly intend to pick and choose and contradict themselves as they see fit.
I absolutely believe medical information is private. At the same time, you need to give your employer sufficient information to know what’s going on and as we the taxpayers fund their ‘work’ they owe us clarity on what’s happening and William needs to get back to ‘work’ asap.
If she’s not actively dying, there is no reason for William to be hanging out around the house “attending to the children” who are at school ALL DAY. He just continues to show how stubborn, short sighted and spoiled he is by ignoring his “duty” to be out there. If she needs two months or five months to “fully recoverer” whatever. But there is no reason that he can’t be out there. It’s absurd and frankly completely insulting to the rest of working parents everywhere who have to manage these speed bumps without the support of nannies/staff/unlimited funds.
One thing I do fear is that she is actively dying. I think most of us would forgive any and all lying to the public by KP if it was in support of avoiding a media frenzy death watch during the last few months they could be together as a family. That is awful and tragic to contemplate though, so I’m very much hoping this is typical William stubbornness / not wanting to work.
I think if she were dying, the comms people could have said that she was gravely ill and withdrawing from royal duties. THAT would be understandable, and something to treat with all due sensitivity. This shit show of incompetence has no upside at all. It’s a terrible strategy because it raises questions, invites speculation, and gives rise to conspiracy theories..
Heck, even if they lied about her almost dying, and then said she had a miraculous recovery, that would also be a better tactic than this!
I think if Kate were dying the rota would be quiet about all of this and BP would authorize other royals and royal adjacent to step up and do appearances. They would also ramp up gossip about HM and government officials.
There would be a major distraction by the rota and BP.
I agree, Mary Contrary. She may have an excuse to be home but he doesn’t. How long does it take a person with servants to get settled? I can understand taking off the day she allegedly got home but after that, get back to work like the rest of society.
One thing that struck me is that the Sussexes got criticized for putting family first when they left but now I guess it’s an acceptable excuse for laziness from the Wales’. Their children that we hardly ever see are under pressure somehow. Makes you wonder how non-royal children who see much worse than a sick mum ever get by.
William really doesn’t have an excuse to not be seen or working. Unless, it’s guilt and/or shame? Harry has been lambasted for protecting his family-WOC wife and children against the British Media headlines/stories. Yet, the BM is all ‘William puts his family first’.
Love that the world is seeing the hypocrisy from the Bristish Media.
It’s not that W&K are too important for other royals to cover them; it’s that they’re too unimportant. Edward can cover for Charles because he works for Charles, not William. Of course, that brings up the issue that William works for Charles, too – but I guess nobody wants to address that.
The fact the article talks about other royals having done their duty while dying and that it’s not royal protocol to take loads of time off for a mere illness, suggests that what Kate has is not just a mere illness.
The bedrest suggests that, should people see medical beds being brought into Adelaide Cottage, it ties into ‘Kate’s doctors have advised her to remain in bed as much as possible.’ Those of us who are either medical professionals or who have had any kind of surgery know that doctors like patients to move around to prevent atrophy and blood clots. The only reason bedrest could be suggested is because technically it is bedrest if the patient is in a coma hooked up to machines.
The media are telling us without telling us what has happened.
Another reason for bed rest is a problematic pregnancy. However, if this were the case I would imagine Kate would want people to know about it to garner sympathy and, of course, praise for doing nothing.
I wish folks would stop this laughable suggestion that the biiitch is pregnant. FFS! Leave that to derangersas. They need to grab at any lifeline in this time of lies, damned lies and more damned lies.
The fact that Keen missed a golden opportunity to overshadow the king is curious. I totally expected a clown show of sympathy for the tragic princess, not this confusing mess.
If Kate were pregnant she would tell the world
@tessa, we said the same thing.
Even pretending she has been in contact with sperm, the fact is that she is severely underweight and she is 42, which means the likelihood of getting pregnant is very low. And for all three of her pregnancies kate gained a bit of weight prior to getting pregnant. She has gotten thinner in the last few months.
And no abortion, ectopic pregnancy or anything baby related has a recovery time of months.
We need to be real.
😂😂😂 the bs the BM prints doesn’t usually make me laugh. I usually have a “they can’t be serious?” reaction. But I absolutely laughed out loud at “his near perfect attendance” and couldn’t wait to see what Kaiser wrote about that statement.
Is this British math? Does the same math apply to UK journalism school? It would make so much sense.
LOL, agreed!
We understand they are too important to not make everyone lie to protect them but where is Willy?
Anger Management rehab is my guess.
I’d like to think that’s the case too, but I can’t imagine his going without blowing yet another gasket.
Anorexia linked to abdominal problems and mental breakdown.
We understand they are too important to not make everyone lie to cover for them but where is Willy?
Tom Sykes is often very solicitous to William and Kate on the surface of his column while being quite shady underneath. I read today’s Royalist column as a warning to KP that if William’s absence continues, the general public will catch on that something is seriously wrong (“his non-appearance will cut through to the general public”). Either Kate is on the mend, in which case William needs to stop being workshy, or Kate is very severely ill and KP should be honest with the public about it before things blow up.
(I understand why people are skeptical of Sykes, but he was one of the few based in the UK who reported candidly on the Rose rumors and Kate’s disastrous Tatler cover. He’s very well-connected.)
William doesn’t even have to go back to work – all he has to do is show his face and say something relatively positive about Kate.
I agree. But someone made the insightful point yesterday that the moment he’s in public, he would not be able to avoid answering (or even being seen not to respond to) questions about Kate’s health.
@OP, he could certainly avoid answering questions, because KP could arrange any event so that the people he’s meeting would be briefed to not ask questions. They could tightly control where he’s seen and who he’s seen with and what people say or ask. They chose not to do this.
@OP – well, the other day I did say that I thought William was hiding so he wouldn’t have to answer questions. But really, he only has to stick to the original story – she had abdominal surgery, it will take a couple of months to recover and please respect our privacy. All the rest he can blame on media suppositions. It’s really baffling that he hasn’t done something so very normal.
But you will remember that sykes was NOT writing weekly royal stories before he did the lowkey expose during the Rose rumors. It was AFTER that heady bit of attention he received, that sykes began to write weekly, Bully-praising royal stories and I would bet lots of money that it was because KP got him onside.
Kingston – Interesting. I did not know the sykes timeline and when he chose to join the client media part of BRFCo & Assoc. No prior interest in ‘royal’ stuff prior to Meghan joining that horrid institution. After seeing what was going on, I limited my DB ‘royal’ reading to Clive Irving, but soured on him after he wrote a comparison elevating WandK to savior rank.
@warning, Sykes may be connected but that matters naught when the connections have their own agendas. Yes, it might be true that a source said something to a reporter but how do we know that source hasn’t lied or twisted things to suit their own agenda? Like Palace “sources” did to Meghan when she was there (and still do).
I love how they’re trying to coax William into doing something, anything while still masively underestimating that guy’s laziness.
All William would need to say is some bland statement.
“Yes, we are glad to have her home, we are certainly grateful for all the kind wishes, blah, blah.”
W&K team of PR needs to get out front and stop all the speculation.
Now that he knows that Harry and Meghan will be in Vancouver in two weeks, he’ll probably turn up at the BAFTAs.
😂
Could she be pregnant and there have been complications? That’s the only scenario I can think of where extended bed rest is recommended.
If she was pregnant, she would have been really early on, considering how thin she was at Christmas and that they didn’t make their standard “the princess has HG so can’t work for months” announcement. Maybe it was something like an ectopic pregnancy, but that would not explain the lengthy recovery time.
I find it difficult to believe they still have sexual relations. Peg seems to loathe Triple K and has for years. So if it happened, it was rage sex. Or drunk-ass sex.
or maybe it was all rage and drunkenness, no sex.
I always figured they had all their kids by in vitro.
My first thought to that theory was ‘but who is the father then?’
@greenmonster, that would be my first thought too, if she turns up pregnant.
Hey, remember during the pandemic when we were on lockdown and WanK did those zoom calls. People continue to use that technology! There is literally NO excuse for Billy the Basher to not work cuz his wife is allegedly sick. None at all. God help England if these two ascend the throne. They more than anyone ate the biggest reason the monarchy should be abolished.
🙂. Good reminder. Have they forgotten how to Zoom already?
Exactly
It made me laugh when Sykes referred to KP’s statement as a “carefully ambiguous formulation.”
There was nothing careful about it. They issued a statement full of holes that only managed to trigger speculation and rumors. It was ambiguous, yes, but not carefully crafted. This was amateur hour at a time when expert advice was called for.
A total throwback to Victorian-era women confined to their beds for weeks on end for some undefined “female troubles”. But again, if she is going to be resting for the next few months and the children will be at school…why can’t William do 1-2 local events per week during the day?
We’ve seen that he couldn’t be bothered to visit his spouse at the clinic more than once. If he wanted to support his argument that he, too, needs months off to take care of Kate, he did a pretty poor job of establishing himself as a supportive partner. Nobody believes that he is reading aloud by Kate’s bedside or spoonfeeding her gruel or fluffing her pillows or whatever it is you do to care of a Victorian invalid. I wouldn’t trust this man to make me a cup of tea, would you?
LOL you are so right, Jay!!
The man couldn’t even be bothered to hold an umbrella over his wife at a Jubilee event where Harry took him to task for that. And he needs a fire to be lit under his butt to get back to work. Say what you will about Kate, but she’s the invalid in this case not he. He has no excuse not to work.
And those troubles were usually undiagnosed depression or bipolar disorder which wasn’t identified during that era.
Once again all these signs are pointing to a breakdown of some sort. That’s one of the few things with such an uncertain recovery period.
This is just so ridiculous saying she’s got to stay in bed for months on end.
As so many others have mentioned – you need to move after surgery if at all possible. Saying she has to rest or stick to light physical activity would make so much more sense and be more relatable. Most of us have either had surgery or know someone who has and this PR just rings so false.
William and Kate and their peoples are so far removed from the general public that they actually think normal working people can take months off . Like both parents, with bills to pay, and life to live can actually take months off with no end date as to when they will get back to work. People who have a bottomless pit of money can do this , but people who have to work to survive can’t . The same people paying taxes to support these two lazy entitled asses. Can’t afford to take month off . It has nothing to doing things the modern way. It’s just not realistic for people living in the real world. This is why tax payers should not be funding this farce of a monarchy. It’s not value for money it’s a con
These people. There’s quite a lot of middle ground between pretending nothing is wrong to taking months off because you can (bills will still be paid, heat & lights will still be on, food still on the table, etc.). What W&K are demonstrating–along with the aid of their robot rats (better than rota rats, these people do not engage their brains AT ALL)–is their complete & utter lack of both knowledge & compassion for what their fellow citizens’ lives are truly like. A married couple hiding out for several months because ONE of them is ill is not modern.
OK, replying to myself, because I’ve read the whole article and have more to say. I cannot remember how many times I muttered ‘bullSH*T’ when reading that article. They’re doing what anybody would do in these circumstances? NO they are NOT!! William’s not attending the BAFTAs would cut through to the public? The public doesn’t care whether William bothers to show up to an awards show, shoot half the time he doesn’t. He’s not integral to the event.
And THEIR children are under tremendous pressure? Are they trying to tell us their kids are so much more important than anybody else’s kids that when one parent is ill both need to stay home for MONTHS? Are their kids that fragile or needy?
And the whole, sure, Edward can show up in place of THE MONARCH, but the PoW? Oh no no no, the PoW has an entire household set up, he couldn’t possibly do that. Well, so does THE MONARCH. ARRGHHHH!!! I think they’ve truly done me in with their sycophantic nonsense this time! I need chocolate! STAT! 🫨
First, I reply to myself loads. Sometimes to correct myself! Second, I love your take on this. They are certainly rubbing people up the wrong way. One parent in recovery, why the whole family in lockdown? What does this say not only to people who are recovering from surgery without a household of staff, but to people with chronic conditions, chronic pain conditions, who soldier on, sometimes in isolation and with no funds.
BeanieBean, I read that statement about the kids and immediately thought that they’re hiding behind the kids again. I cannot understand why the kids would be under tremendous pressure when their Mom is home now. The problem with WanK’s PR is that is always comes back to the kids. I don’t even want to think about how awful it will be for the younger two when they are older and are thrown to the wolves to cover for the heir AND their parents.
I’m starting to think we should be wondering where each will be going on vacation, because I’ve almost decided that this is all a bid for sympathy. They want the masses to be on their side.
The kids may be under a tremendous amount of pressure to keep the lies straight and keep their mouths shut about where their father really is or what really happened to their mother……
I asked in another post if the kids have been seen at school because it would be very easy for them to let slip and reveal what’s going on at home. If the Waleses are so concerned about their privacy and secrecy in this case, would they be having their children homeschooled during this time? Just throwing out another wild speculation here.
Since we really have no way of knowing just how ill (or not ill) Kate is I won’t judge the timing for her recuperation, but what I will judge nine ways to Sunday is the Case of the Missing Heir. It’s absolutely ridiculous that he is using this situation to disappear into the woodwork. He is a hands on parent? Please. Even if he were the helicopter parent of the century unless he is sitting in the classrooms and taking notes for those kids he could still eke out a little time to do…something else. Anything. And the British media isn’t calling him out for this? Ridiculous.
Yes, l find his absence the most egregious of all and how the public isn’t up in arms over this is beyond me. William is the POW, for crying out loud, and he should be continuing on with his duties as well as assuming his father’s while he’s out of commission. Get out of here with his excuses!
As I said elsewhere, I’m beginning to think he’s scared of facing the public alone. Someone in a crowd could ask him what’s going on, what’s wrong with Kate etc and he’ll go mad. Maybe he’s been warned off trying to go solo at this time. Plus he’s a lazy one through and through who wouldn’t take much persuading to kick back and stay home.
@Sparrow, something is definitely rotten in all this. If William ever gets to the throne, the refrain God save the king will have more than one meaning.
If he reappears with a tan, we’ll know he wasn’t holed-up feeding gruel to his lazy wife. Then, I think, the ish will hit the fan in specially if she appears tanless. Yes, I think they are that oblivious and dumb!
Sue, well, you’re a better person that I am, because I think this lengthy recouperation is simply a sympathy bid or a way to get out of working. I’m not giving KHate a pass for not working, when she can Zoom–afteral, that’s what she’s been doing with the kids, right? She should do some with her charities before Easter or Trooping.
I read this as the Case of the Missing Hair @Sue… and that works, too.
QuiteContrary, that is hilarious thank you! Friday smiles to you.
The photo in the red suit at the bottom, where she’s sitting in the audience, with the “me, you mean me”, as if someone’s asking for on the phone, hand to chest position – it never fails to astound me. Talk about attention grabbing. And for what? Wasn’t this an event where she made one of her awful speeches on a topic she glides by on. Also, the make up. When you see it, you see it.
That last picture- I know what people mean now when they say Kate is always looking for the camera. Literally everyone is focused on what is happening on stage, and Kate is looking full on at the camera, fingers artfully displayed to show off Diana’s sapphire ring. I think she even holds her clutch bags in a way to display that ring- sheesh, I’ve looked at way too many pictures of Kate.
One of the older royal forums used to track all the photos where kate was staring directly at the camera and not one else was and let’s just say it happened every time she stepped out. She has never changed it’s just that they projected that onto Meghan.
The most egregious example remains the footage of her at the Tour de France stop in London when she is literally facing the opposite direction as the crowd and practicing a shocked expression.
“Instead, they are going to act like anyone else in this position, and are putting their family first.”
This is genuinely some of the worst communications/PR efforts I’ve ever seen.
EVERY SINGLE TIME they go on about how their “family comes first” and how they can’t work “because the children” they insult every single working parent in the UK! “Anyone else in this position” would have to f’ing work to keep the lights on! This idea that a “good” parent takes three months off during a family medical emergency is so offensive. I don’t know if the UK has protected family medical leave, but I have a feeling many good parents have to work double time if a parent is sidelined with health issues. They and their team are either completely unaware of their privilege, stupid or both. You couldn’t come up with worse messaging if you were KP’s mortal enemy.
“They and their team are either completely unaware of their privilege, stupid or both.” Agreed and yet, at least so far, the tabloids aren’t picking up on this at all. I am hoping though that the comments that run with these ridiculous stories are pointing out how unreasonable it is to expect a very wealthy man of school age children to stop working (well what passes for working if you’re Prince William) and act like this is the way it would be in any household. So tone deaf, especially with how tough things are for so many in the UK right now.
My personal theory here is that the churnalists know that there is no way that a person undergoing abdominal surgery stays is bed for months, and this is their way to get everyone to continue to talk about it, since they can’t really spill whatever beans they have.
I also personally believe that at least one person in the comments under these articles about KKKhate’s “surgery” and recovery have hit the nail on the head with their own theory.
I think there been something going on in that family for ages. The carol service before Christmas all the Wales children has big black rings around their eyes. I fear all is not well in the house of Windsor.
George has inherited Kate’s bags under the eyes, which l think comes from Pa Middleton.
JMO, but one of two things will happen if William refuses to do any official work for a few months.
#1. His “No work” will prove that he actually has no value and no one cares if he ever comes back or not.
#2. Or, Camilla will really go hog wild trying to take control and she will prove that she can keep William in his place.
William, if he was a smarter man and not Bone Idle, should be seen daily doing official duties.
Nice navy suit, big smile, fake being interested and charming, and Get.to.work.
I love that phrase “bone idle” it is so perfect for him.
bone idle is exactly him!
I remember years ago when the media was less sycophantic and more critical of William that they called him throne idle.
Umm, no. Just no. Their “importance” does not translate to any other place but England. They are ciphers. Criminal ciphers at that.
Dueling Monarchies within a monarchy…. I think they’re moving in the wrong direction. Read the Country, and the World, they certainly can’t read a room.
I wondered at the time and I’m wondering now whether those incongruous black gloves were covering bruises.
I agree, the language from KP doesn’t line up with current medical practices. I wonder if the ‘stay in bed’ language is code for ‘will not be seen publicly ’. And that this is being done to allow her to have treatments (like chemo) for several months away from prying eyes. It seems like a terrible time to be misleading the public and when the truth comes out, it will damage the monarchy even further.
The longer this goes on, the more I’m convinced Baldy hurt Kate and results are visible and will be lasting for some time.
1. If Kate was on death bed or close, Old Cams would not be so giddy in public. She has some serious Schadenfreude going on – she knows someone is screwed this time and she couldn’t be happier.
2. Silence from the Midds – they have nothing to loose at this point so maybe they threatened to uncover Willy’s dirty secrets and hardcore negotiations are happening.
3. Baldy crossed the line like never before and BRF decided deal with it asap – is he in rehab? Is he so incandescent with Kate that they keep him locked because he can’t be trusted anymore?
This is some serious drama happeninH!
Unfortunately I think that might have happened too. We all know he has an explosive temper and this has been hinted at a lot in the press — e.g. “they fight a lot and throw things” and “Kate gives as good as she gets”. Who knows, maybe he threw something more substantial than a pillow. It’s a sad situation, whatever went down, especially for the kids.
Something more substantial like his fist?
Too important to be replaced? Looks to me as if Camilla is replacing both of you and not even breaking a sweat.
I agree that Camilla would not be so giddy if Kate had a super serious life threatening illness. If she needed an op for an ED or alcoholism and was now seeking treatment- she would be though. I don’t think that she cares for her husband’s children or their wives at all. I actually think Kate has disordered eating and drank so much that it caused pancreatitis.
I’m increasingly convinced she has a stoma and the reason she won’t be seen in public for months is she is embarrassed about the colostomy bag.
And if that were true it would be a pity, because people can do all sorts of activities and sports, even swimming, these days.