So my quiet little conspiracy about the Princess of Wales is that she, along with Kensington Palace staffers, always intended to do certain things to show her “recovery.” I believe that there was always a plan to release a “new photo of Kate” for Mother’s Day, just as I believe the original plan was for Kate’s first public appearance to be at church in Windsor on Easter Sunday. The thing is, the palace wanted those things to be a surprise – they didn’t want anyone to EXPECT Kate to be seen or to do anything until May/June. They were caught off-guard by the past month of speculation, conspiracies and rumormongering, and they’ve been trying to react in real time, only everyone involved – from senior staff to junior staff to the Waleses themselves – is an incompetent dumbass. It’s given the impression that Will and Kate are staggering from one self-created crisis to another. Mid-stagger, they’re trying to go back to the original plan, only they’ve made everything into such a four-alarm crisis that if Kate doesn’t show up to church on Easter, it will be international news and the conspiracies will get even worse. Speaking of, now “friends of King Charles” are basically letting Kate know (through the press) that she better put on an Easter wig and hustle her ass to church OR ELSE.
Kate Middleton’s return to public life will be marked with a “big bang” return to the limelight on Easter Sunday, March 31, friends of the royals have told The Daily Beast. Expectations are building that the Princess of Wales will walk to church with other members of the royal family on Easter Sunday and greet well-wishers in a show-stopping set piece, heralding her return to public life.
While her officials have been busily reminding journalists that they initially briefed that her return to public duties would come “after Easter,” with some suggestions that could actually mean “after the kids Easter holidays have finished,” a friend of Kate’s and a friend of King Charles told The Daily Beast that they expected and hoped respectively that Kate would attend church on Easter Sunday morning, in just under two weeks.
While Kensington Palace declined to comment on whether Kate would be walking to church on Easter Sunday, or indeed if she would be seen out and about privately before then after she visited a farm shop with husband Prince William this weekend, one friend said, “She is doing well. Everything is on track. Easter will be the big bang moment.”
A friend of the king’s, meanwhile, told The Daily Beast that Charles “of course” hoped Kate would attend church at Easter. However they were also careful to point out that there was no suggestion of any pressure being put on Kate to do so, and that it would be ultimately up to her. (As for Charles himself, while there has been no specific guidance on whether the king will attend church on Easter Sunday, his attendance would be unlikely as the palace has said he is avoiding crowds while he receives cancer treatment. Queen Camilla will likely represent him instead.)
Another source, a former Buckingham Palace staffer, told The Daily Beast that Easter was “the natural choice” for Kate to make her return to the public sphere. The former courtier said that attending the Easter Day church service at Sandringham with her family would provide a “powerful dose of continuity.”
They said they understood it was unlikely that there would be a social media campaign featuring Kate—last seen in public on Dec. 25, 2023—or that her team would release any more images of Kate before Easter.
The former courtier added that she is now expected to delegate the business of photographing her family for media handouts to professional photographers, after another image taken by Kate of the late Queen Elizabeth II was struck out of official records by the photo agency Getty Images which declared it had been altered. The former courtier, who retains good links with current staff members said: “We won’t be seeing any more official pictures with Kate’s credit. It would just stir the whole story up again. The kids are older now anyway, so it is less of an issue.”
Asked if the reality was that the palace would have little choice now that major picture agencies have said they no longer regard Kensington Palace as a trusted source, the former staffer said: “They could continue to put her pictures out on social media but the point is, they won’t.”
Re: the palace-released photos, I said yesterday that I genuinely hope that media agencies dip into their archives and start labeling all of the manipulated photos released by KP for YEARS. This is practically an admission that yeah, they got caught on that too. They thought they could keep sending out manipulated photos forever and no one would say sh-t. That blew up in their faces, as did their lack of preparation for how to keep the public informed about Kate’s condition. Anyway, I’m sure Kate will be resurrected for Easter, or at least that’s what everyone in Windsor World is telling Kate that she has to do. Although, history shows us that whenever pressure is applied on Will and Kate to get off their asses, they refuse.
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Is Carole the quoted friend of kate
Carole still bothers me a bit in this whole situation. The realistic pic of K was the photoshopped car image. Since then, she’s appeared amazingly healthy in pix and a video. The Carole info doesn’t seem to rhyme with the rest.
I’m still stuck on the fact the Carole photo was the only one the British Press didn’t publish. That says the Carole photo is the one to pay most attention to because it’s what they don’t want seen.
Why were they in a rental car in that photo? I still think Kate is not anywhere near William.
And that photo is what makes everything else seem sketchy. That’s why the Mother’s Day pic came under immediate scrutiny – not the alteration errors, but the fact that Kate looked like a different person from a week prior. THEN people started picking up on all the errors.
And that’s also what makes the video seem unreliable – this is the same Kate from two weeks ago? The one in a rental car with her mom in some unknown location?
I agree that I think the picture with Carole is the one that KP doesn’t want people to see and you have to ask – why?
I seriously don’t think it was her in that video.
These are all good points and very good questions. I didn’t buy that it was Kate in the video due to the face shape, it was very off – no way could she explain that without telling on herself. And as one person on Twitter stated: that is too much hair around Will’s baseball cap to be Will, which is hilarious and true.
I agree. This is what is bogging things down for me. as well.
One thing I have to keep reminding myself is we don’t know when the Carole photo was taken. Has its metadata been examined? That photo could have been taken early on in this debacle and that’s why Kate’s face has recovered (or whatever).
I don’t believe she was in that picture with Carol. I believe the press is saying she might walk for the Easter service to see if they can get her to do it. I have said it before that these sources use a magic eight ball to come up with this stuff. They have no idea if she will be out at Easter.
The Carole photo really kicked the Kate frenzy into high gear and exposed Will’s school run story as a lie. At that time, KP was sticking with their terse ‘read the statement, idiots!’ approach, which was falling flat, and I think Carole/Kate got sick of it and decided to break cover and make a move with the quote to Page 6 and then that TMZ photo. I think the photo was edited or manipulated and Will knew it, and so he decided that if Carole could do it then so could KP (the side profile was will trolling kate for the carole pic), and then the Mother’s Day was the ultimate troll job – no engagement ring and off with her head in the edits – bc KP is a group of morons who didn’t expect to get called out or blow up their credibility so spectacularly. Then, the Sun decided to get in on the fun because if the royals can run fake photos of themselves then surely it’s a freeforall at the tabloids, and now here we are.
Not just KP, BP released a video of Chuckie…trying to pass off a video from a YEAR ago as one that happened just yesterday! That was called out rather quickly, too. Seems NOTHING coming from either palace is holding up to scrutiny now.
@Jan900067 BP didn’t release that video on Monday (I mean BP did release the video, but a year ago or whenever it was from.) it just made the SM rounds again on Monday.
Come on, this is the most attention Khate has received in years! She is loving the air of mystery her “surgery” has created. People are concerned for her health, her marriage, her–this is not something that has happened to Khate since she married Peggy. She is lapping this up like a cat given tuna juice straight from the can. No one is talking about her parents’ business failure/creditor issues. And there’s been a lot of focus on her husband’s failings, of which there are many.
Agreed. And there are a million and one girls that resemble Kate.
I think it’s a look alike. For someone that had a serious abdominal surgery she moved pretty fast.
I totally agree with @TheFarmer’sWife. And, from the tone of the article above, Kate and KP feel totally unashamed of the hoax they’ve perpetrated and are hoping to “emerge” around Easter to a lot of uncritical eyes. Absolutely shameless.
That was Pippa in the car w/ Carol
I think that’s definitely William in the video and definitely not Kate. William’s tradecraft is very bad: he always shows his whole soul to the camera when he shouldn’t even be looking at it. I think his soul looked pretty darn desperate as they rounded that corner, and if that was an easy-breezy Kate next to him, why was he showing such desperation?
I had my original doubts about William genuinely being in the video, but I do think it’s him. You can see his incandescent face and his hunchback posture from a mile off, no matter what the video quality is. As for Kitty? I will forever struggle with the belief that it is her in that footage. Everything about her supposed presence is off. Her height doesn’t match with her husband, you can see her foot detach from her entire body in one frame and if you zoom in on her face, it has this fuzzy-like effect attached to it. As if somebody has projected Keen’s face onto some random stand-in. I don’t think the video is in AI territory, but it has definitely been altered with. The only reason I believe the press haven’t made a fuss about it this time is because they have gotten what they demanded. It’s no coincidence this investigation regarding the mishandling of Kitty’s medical records has come about so suddenly. Especially when this incident happened months ago. It’s evident to me that the press have supposedly blackmailed KP with the medical records and what truly ails Kitty, and then boom we have a whole new video of her in the flesh. These people are pathological liars.
@TheDuchess, her foot detaches from her leg?! Clearly I need to rewatch that video more closely
Isn’t Kate supposed to walk a step behind William? Not in front of?
The photographer comments are seriously amusing. The OG photoshoppers are the Kardashians. Now, there’s a new name and face to indicate that a picture has been altered. Kate Middleton, whose photos are as trustworthy as those of North Korea and Iran.
I know! Kate emerges from this as a discredited photographer. They may think they’re going to get their big bang moment, but she’s done for as the royal family chronicler. Embarrassing.
She will have to go back to being known at the royal chutney maker.
I fear we are about to get a keen new Arly Years initiative, for Cannot to throw her lackluster energy around.
@ML
The Kardashian’s ain’t gonna like this intrusion on their territory, nope
I can hear Kris now.
“All hands on deck. This is not a drill. I repeat. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Interloper at 12:00”
This is not a drill!! I actually spit out my beverage at this 🤣 😂
It’s particularly bad for Kate because photography is the ONE personal hobby/interest that we know about, and a few of her “projects” revolved around her taking or exhibiting photos that she took. The only other thing we know about her is that she’s “sporty.” They’re going to have to come up with a way for her to keep her number of engagements up without anything related to her keen interest in photography.
And as much as I loathe Kate, I don’t believe for a minute that she was actually the one who messed with the Mother’s Day photo, so this really sucks for her.
@Lorelei. I don’t believe she had anything to do with the picture of the queen with the grandchildren either. KP decided, “Kate is a photographer, let’s release it in her name”. If she in the fragile state some claim (looking at you Bower) getting blame for these pictures can’t be helping with her recovery.
Well, I guess its time to stop worrying and start popping the popcorn!
To me it has always felt like an attempt to take some time off, maybe get some work done, and have a big Oprah-style reveal for all of the attention she apparently needs. Throw in some drama for pity and a little misdirection to keep the focus on her. But I’m old and skeptical and think that the real conspiracy is that there was ever a royal family in the first place.
@JanetDR … Agreed! I might add that if she returns looking amazingly ‘refreshed’ and wearing new wiglets I don’t think it will go well for her with the public. Or maybe it will because certain members of the public have always believed Kate’s denials of having work down on her face.
The most obvious answer is she had a major face-lift and didn’t want to be photographed while it healed. Now she can show up at Easter looking younger and thinner.
Khate has been getting all the attention she has desperately craved since she started stalking William 20 + years ago. Do-little will be returning to pose for more photos, mumbling and achieving nothing. K and KP are now shopping like crazy for more new clothes and accessories spending unlimited money to pander to her massive ego. Bringing trash into a family does not elevate the family the opposite happens. This poor doormat persona does not match with a predatory stalker who determinedly stalked W until she was the last woman standing.. No fairytale here and BRF has become just another failed “z” grade soap opera.
Well… All I can say is that she better not upstage Charles if he attends or this is going to get bigly ugly.
Too late for that, TN Democrat. Even if she wanted to be next to invisible there, the first time she’s seen live she is going to be the story.
It’s only bc of KP’s shoddy work that the only way she wouldn’t outstage KC and William is by not showing. This saga has nothing but cemented any popularity she had before her confinement.
Even if she doesn’t show, she’ll upstage Chuckles because then the story becomes why didn’t she show, they promised a big bang, where is she, etc.
Of course she will try – remember the stunt at his coronation where they were late and held him up! They were late because of their little BtS video that was full of Kate flouncing around empty rooms in her robes and William looking like thunder as they got into the car.
They definitely picked Easter specifically so that they can claim they were truthful all along, from the very first statement about her surgery. Smarmy assholes.
Luckily for Kate, Easter involves basically sitting still in a church surrounded by family members without having to say a word. She’ll have to greet the onlookers during the walk, but I have no doubt that they’ll make sure the walkway is stacked with people who only have “good wishes” and want to give her flowers.
What I’m wondering now is what will happen afterward if she does go on Easter. Will she just resume her regular engagements (paltry as they are)? Or will she go back into hiding again for a while?
She has to go back into hiding bc the kids are on school break!!
When it returns, we will all be expected to drop to our knees declaring our undying support and love for Khate. Never forget the campaign of hate and destruction levelled at Meghan. I truly hope she gets everything that she and her grifter family have ever dished out to others. Never a victim, a steely stalking predator, achieved nothing outside of marrying a prince. There has been no personality change into a wonderful kind person, still no evidence of anything other than removing anyone in her way. Some of the public have assumed her quietness means gentleness and being delicate, dont be fooled, predators study their prey. This whole exercise has been just another way of getting worldwide attention, it worked. What the grifters do not understand is Diana, Harry and Meghan have it for who they are and for what they do. Manipulation and lies creates destruction, no empathy, no sympathy for K. Its nothing more than a “Z” grade soap opera wasting peoples time.
Will we believe its her even if we see it? Or will it be Not Kate? Stay tuned!
Royal family: who you gonna believe? Us or your lying eyes?
Willy will have a hard time to leave Kitty because Ma Middleton will take everyone down in the process. I can’t wait to see their demeanor and the kids reaction to them both.
So no impending divorce?
If Kate cannot pull herself together appearance-wise, I don’t believe she’ll return on Easter Sunday. Perhaps the British media via KP are pressuring her to show up to take the heat off of William’s PR blunders.
the sandringham bit is interesting. Usually the royals attend church in Windsor – but I guess there aren’t big crowds there for a meet and greet and to ensure Kate has the big “welcome back” she so clearly wants.
the funny thing here really is if KP had stuck to their original “guidance” about how she wouldn’t be back until after Easter and hadn’t released the frankenphoto, none of this would be a big deal. We wouldnt be weeks into a Fake Kate Gate scandal.
There were half a dozen things KP could have done to have saved themselves this embarrassment. Maybe, like the derangers, W&K like this because Kate hasn’t gotten this much attention since her wedding and pregnancy with George – but its not the right kind of attention. KP has become a laughingstock.
@becks1: none of this would have happened had they told everyone what was ailing her from the onset. But i think that if they did she wouldn’t have been able to get away with taking 3 months of her duties. I still think the procedure wasn’t as grave as they tried to make it out to be but she just took that opportunity to not have to work. And william saw his chance to do less work as well. They are so used to positive comments that they expected sympathy. Not ridicule and conspiracy theories.
I don’t even think they had to tell anything specific. They just had to say it’s somewhat serious but not debilitating and she would be okay in 3-4 months time as she goes through recovery and rehabilitation, and then William had to keep working. If William had been normal, none of this would have happened. Nobody is braying for her medical records, but how they’ve handled this just racks up suspicion
This….they are not accustomed to dealing with anything other than sycophantic coverage.
It should not have come to this. They made such ridiculous decisions this entire time.
The scrutiny will be off the charts…..
I agree with you. I think it was either something completely minor or some major cosmetic work, but either way, she’s been physically fine for a while now. I think they said “abdominal surgery” thinking that would end a lot of questions and people would understand the long recovery time.
and I mean even on here, with as skeptical as we are of the palace PR machine – a lot of us bought it. “oh its something embarrassing like a bowel resection” or “oh she has to wear a colostomy bag, I don’t blame her for not wanting to go out with crowds” and so on. how many days did we spend debating what type of abdominal surgery it might be that would require that long a break?
And now it looks like she just didn’t want to work. Is she going to have significant surgery twice a year so she never has to work again?
@Shazbot: they could have given one (1) of the following: an actual diagnosis; a real photo whose date is unquestionable; a short video referencing her being ill; a series of verbal updates, even in the third person (“Catherine,” not “I”). Any one of those would have sufficed.
And let’s not forget, it’s not just Kate who wanted a chunk of time off, it’s also William. His actions contributed to the squirrelly-ness of it all.
The return to Sandringham bit is interesting, given that she was supposedly back at Windsor since the kids’ last holiday at Sandringham.
This does nothing to shake my belief that she has been on the Sandringham estate since last xmas. I still think she’s convalescing at Wood Farm on the estate, where she has the benefit of seclusion. KC has been spending a lot of time at Sandringham; possibly using his own illness as a cover for keeping an eye on her situation?
“The former courtier said that attending the Easter Day church service at Sandringham with her family would provide a “powerful dose of continuity.”
Lots of continuity, considering she’ll have been in residence about 3 mos by that point…
You caught that too. Windsor is traditional. Sandringham I think was picked because she never left there. She’s been there since xmas. She may still be weak, OR this is KFC trying to protect her from Huevos Rageros. Or possibly a bit of both.
Sandringham has the advantage of not being a Crown property like Windsor, it’s privately owned by the monarch, so they can effectively do what they like there and the press can’t cry foul about it.
“a Powerful Dose of Continuity” is just so, so stupid.
And they also basically gave the game away in their own words when they said her return would be a “show-stopping set piece.” Who talks about going to church like that?!
They’re inadvertently acknowledging that everything this family does is fake and planned and revolves solely around photo ops. That the BRF is in fact simply the world’s longest running reality series.
Seriously, Lorelei, the wording they have chosen to use here is hysterical! This is walking to a church and sitting through a service, but we should expect a “big bang” in a “show-stopping set piece, heralding her return to public life.”
It’s like an episode of Queer Eye.
You know that meme of the sign on a street church saying “He is Risen” with the billboard above it, containing a picture of a Klingon from Star Trek glowering over the edge of the building?
That is the image that popped into my head when I read the CB headline “She Hath Risen”.
And I can’t stop laughing.
@Lorelei – it’s like a bad commercial for a digestive product.
“This Powerful Dose of Continuity is guaranteed to produce a Big Bang!!”
Not so much a reality show as a soap opera.
I’m waiting to see who gets amnesia (prob all the royal-stans)
I assumed CRex is hanging out at Sandringham now between his treatments (if he is still getting them) and that’s where Easter will be held.
But it’s weird. Because his people have said he’s not attending at Easter service, *on account of his being immune compromised and needing to not be around a lot of people*. He wouldn’t even spend much time around family – skipped the memorial service, etc. Has he even seen Huevo in person since Xmas?
Again it circles back to “was Kate ever at London Clinic, or Adelaide?” after the ‘planned surgery’ – BP had made the attempt to bring the narrative back to Sandringham “for the kids’ holidays” when they thought they were going to lose her in February. Then KP went rogue again, leaving Easter eggs about Kate here, there, and everywhere like some mad Easter rabbit.
Easter is always at Windsor, I think they just made a mistake & couldn’t be bothered to correct it. They’re just getting super lazy with their lies now.
Big Bang Appearance?! Who is coming up with these things?! And on Easter?! It would be tacky at any event but the self importance here is nauseating.
Not a great look for the wife of the future head of the Church of England to be scene stealing on resurrection Sunday.
A complete sacrilege. No good will come of this.
I’ve got to the point I think it’s a new face, I really do. Big bang! They are seriously naff as all ****, as we say in our household. I’ll be scanning for hats, in every size but esp large, maryp.
I think its a new face too. I think all of this was just because Kate wanted to get some work done and I think KP really thought by saying “we aren’t going to share any information” that the press and public would just shrug and say okay.
And that might have worked, but for the frankenphoto.
I’ve lost all faith in them. I think it could have been facial surgery that went wrong and she was rushed anywhere, with LTC taking the hit – it’s hardly like they’d take her into the local A&E. Also, who’s to say facial surgeons weren’t allowed access to TLC operating theatres? How facial surgery fits with their schedule of planned engagements at the start of this year is the turning point, tho. Is a face lift usually quick to heal? Could it be a smaller facial surgery that went wrong? All this ta dah! makes me think it’s going to be, look at the new me. I think the reality of unshopped Kate at remembrance tipped her over the edge.
Look, I keep seriously underestimating their sheer stupidity, so I might be totally wrong in what I going to say. I don’t understand why the rest of the royals would not let that leak. I think they’re mainly pissed off at Egg, because K was in a weaker position around Xmas and it would make sense to just attack her. I also don’t understand the Carole Middleton photo where K doesn’t look her best (and which wasn’t acceptable to the BM). So I do think that there was something serious, but potentially not as serious as we’ve been led to believe. I also think that if she got plastic surgery (not because of DV or a nasty accident), then after the whole Frankenphoto incident, K and W and KP and possibly the other royals are in for a very rough landing.
Hi ML. I read your comments on here a lot, and post under several – I like that you seem very level headed. I think those of us who believed the “seriously” ill story, and the Carole photo, started down a very dark path – I thought a very bad complication from abdo surgery. Would someone looking that bad in the Carole photo be able to turn it round so quickly for the supposed garden centre walk of shame? Does anyone know whether the drugs that can puff you up so badly can disappear so quickly? About William – he seemed to be cast adrift at Christmas, like you say. Perhaps he had threatened her with divorce.
@ML I’ll just say that I think one mistake many of us have made over the past few months is exactly your first sentence – underestimating their sheer stupidity AND their arrogance.
And I agree the Carole M picture makes little sense, because then two weeks later Kate looks thinner than ever, happy, frolicking through a farm stand?
none of this really makes sense at this point. But I do think if we consider that it was NOT something serious, other things fit. Not everything, but a lot. Pippa off in St Barts like she hasn’t a care in the world, James going skiing, no sightings of Carole or the kids visiting Kate or buying Kate flowers or whatever – because Kate went back to Anmer right after the face lift. camilla’s smugness is because she knows Kate is worthless (and potentially on her way out?)
Even William’s behavior kind of fits – Kate said “I’m not working for three months,” William tried to get out of work as well and Charles said “nope, you’ve got to do something” so William has done the bare minimum over the past few months while still enjoying an extended break.
I don’t know. I just think a lot more fits if we figure this was just a ploy to get out of work and recover from plastic surgery than if Kate had a major abdominal surgery.
but nothing fits 100%.
But why wouldn’t she have scheduled that for her summer break. There would have been no questions asked
@ML, I’m with @Becks. I’ve foolishly believed that they were telling the truth about the surgery, and just made it purposefully vague enough so the peasants couldn’t discern how quickly she would heal. They’ve made me feel like an idiot over and over again.
I feel like it comes down to: if you (the royal you! not you personally) believe that was in fact Kate in the video, that makes the likelihood of a face lift or some other plastic surgery go way up.
But I still can’t decide if I believe it was her in the video 😣
It all fits if you consider that she panicked when Chuck told them he had cancer, and she suddenly imagined herself in coronation photos and videos that would last forever. Waiting until summer would have ensured that none of this debacle would have happened, it’s the panicking that she would be a wrinkly, baggy mess while wearing Kitty’s first crown that makes it all make sense.
It even makes Huevo’s idiocy make sense. He suddenly imagined having to be king, and decided he was free to eff off before it happened.
FFS, CAROLE probably wanted a face lift before the coronation too, hence her disappearing act.
I think most of us originally ruled out the facelift because doing this over the summer would have interrupted fewer things and the statement said abdominal surgery so we assumed we weren’t being lied to.
I think if that video is really her, we were lied to.
Ok my updated theory is that her January surgery was relatively minor. It was scheduled and she would have been back on her feet for the Italy trip and whatever else. They had no plans to announce it. But, as Concha said, there were complications and suddenly she was going to need a long recovery. They panic and release that weird statement. Nobody says normal stuff like “thanks for the well wishes” because they don’t know what to say. I also think a lot of the staff probably took off themselves thinking they wouldn’t have much to do. I think the Carole photo could have been taken anywhere and anytime and the car was just photoshopped onto that road. Whether or not the farm store lady is Kate we will have to see on Easter. If we see an extremely thin Kate with new facial features and a spring in her step… we will see.
I’ve mantained from the start this was all done to cover her cosmetic surgery. I guess Easter will reveal it all.
EDIT: A few months ago I was at my colourist and a customer walked in with a new face. It was hideous, but she was 2 weeks post op. Face lifts take months to settle, and this woman was in her late 60s. So, to me, the timeline always added up – face lift early Jan with 3-4 months allowed for it to settle in a way most people wouldn’t realise. This also means no NEW photos because her face wouldn’t really be up to it hence the awful car pap shot!
Is Sykes trying to phrase this in the tackiest, most inflammatory way possible? Maybe. After the video yesterday I am actually starting to think it’s a new face too. Which…people’s reactions to that will be a thing to behold. IF all this clownery was over a facelift, twitter is going to go feral.
Looking back at all of this, a face lift would fit completely with their reluctance to publicly acknowledge well wishes and cards; how inappropriate to be thanking people for their concern when, all the while, she’s really been recovering from cosmetic surgery. Perhaps even they wouldn’t be so sick as to publicly twist the narrative so fraudulently. The mother’s day photo also chimes – get ready for me looking absolutely fine because the abdominal surgery was a sham and I’m going to ta dah a new face.
There’s a trend with stars being very open about their cosmetic work (not all, I suspect there are a lot more lower face lifts going on than we get told about). But women who can’t be out of the public eye for long enough to fully recover tend to make the decision to be “transparent.” The Royal family’s attitude of shame and secrecy around medical stuff is a total anachronism and already rubs people the wrong way.
But yeah, now that I think about everything that’s gone on—Pippa’s vacation, Camilla’s gloating—good lord could a facelift actually be be the answer. They better hope it’s the best work anyone has ever seen.
Honestly if it’s a facelift, the public might actually forgive William for divorcing her. At the very least, Kate will never again be the perfect English rose who never put a foot wrong.
I’m curious to see what happens if it’s a facelift or cosmetic work. Presumably, it’ll be obvious when she steps out and I’d imagine the backlash would be swift. But are derangers and the BM just gonna be gaslighting and saying of course that’s how she’s always looked. How dare you have conspiracies that say otherwise!
Wait- so if this WAS a facelift (which it very well could be) how do we explain Will’s odd/swaying behaviour, dropping out of the funeral 40 minutes beforehand, the neck bruises, the doctored Mother’s day pic with no ring …are they also rolling out a divorce? A bunch of things must be happening at once?
@Tisme, that is such a good point!
Hi Tisme If this is cosmetic surgery, and I think it could be, not because of the garden centre but because of the big bang crap like it’s going to be wild, I sense William could’ve been absolutely beside himself that she left him out to dry- taking all the heat of questions and concern while he knew she’d done it all for a face lift. I think a face lift with complications. I think he was stressed to the max. I think also there were possibly divorce talks.
Sorry but I still think Billy Idle did something to her which required more than a simple facelift. Was it DV? Was is sport? Or did one of the kids hurt her in some way?.Who knows. But, IF that video was Kate then it was more than cosmetic. It was something that they had to repair bone deep to change her facial shape. I really don’t think that was her in the video but Easter will tell!
As someone noted yesterday, ‘Ball is in Carole’s court’.
I do too. A facelift. And they led everyone, with their statements specifically, to think it was something much more serious. Shame on them. Shame on me for believing anything they said, and I won’t make that mistake again.
Yeah thats where am leaning to know as well – she’s had a face lift and other things done which is why her face looks soo different. It explains why she had her back to William when they took that photo of her hitching a ride with him – she’s hiding her new face until one of the big family events so she can upstage everyone. The botox and fillers weren’t working any more.
We’ll soon find out when she does she her face – if its blatantly obvious it was cosmetic surgery she will be slaughtered.
I don’t think it’s just a face lift. Face lifts heal very quickly these days. And I also believe that Kate would go with a series of subtle enhancements rather than a full face change. (Of course a woman who used to sport awful permanent eye liner is hardly subtle.)
On the other hand if Kate had facial injuries and required reconstructive surgery that would mean a much longer recuperation period. And potentially a greater change to her appearance than a simple face lift.
Will’s generally weird behavior and demeanor seems to me to signify guilt and substance abuse. His weight loss is consistent with drug use.
The only thing that makes sense of everything including how William is acting is if there was domestic violence with damage being caused to her face.
If she shows up with a noticeably different face that would not be the outcome she wanted. I wouldn’t conclude that Kate looking remarkably different when she returns as being related to vanity.
I agree with Cali. A facelift is an outpatient procedure and if done right, the healing is pretty quick and with makeup you can be out and about in less than a week. Complications, on the other hand, can change all that, especially if the procedure was botched. I am leaning toward reconstructive surgery which is going to be much more invasive. A broken jaw takes at least 6-8 weeks to heal and your jaw will be wired shut. Longer if teeth need to be replaced. So who knows. All that we do know is that the lying has not stopped.
I read that big bangs! Of course big bangs to hide all the work she had.
If in fact it does turn out to very obviously have been just a facelift or other cosmetic surgery…well I cannot wait for Twitter that day.
And if the need for the surgery was because William hurt her, obviously the palace and the ROTA will *never* even suggest such a thing, so Kate will, once again, take the fall for William.
A couple of months ago, a commenter here posted a great link to a site that very thoroughly shows how celebrities’ have altered their appearance over the years…I think maybe it was in response to the post in which Jennifer Lawrence looked completely not like Jennifer Lawrence?
I forgot to bookmark the site so I hope whoever recommended it is reading this, or someone else remembers it. Because that site could discern exactly what she had done, using before + after photos.
Yep, this is the most obvious answer. Major face lift to combat sagging jowels, and perhaps some eye work to get rid of bags and saggy lids. It was never abdominal.
I’m going for this theory now. And I can see why William was possibly beside himself with stress – either because it brought on complications for her, or because it was such a silly thing made so serious and people were asking him how she was and offering their best wishes when he knew she was healing off cosmetic surgery. I’d be bloody livid – you’re sending me out to pretend she’s seriously ill with something proper when she’s done it to herself.
I suspect that Kate will reappear with a brand-new face too. Only, to divert attention away from plastic surgery, she will also emerge with a different haircut or hair style.
The Sertraline should have fully kicked in by then , that and the Sword of Damocles over her newly face lifted head.
“ in a show-stopping set piece, heralding her return to public life.”
Tom Sykes should be embarrassed to write such brown-nosing drivel and the Daily Beast should have better journalistic standards. The threshold for this undeserving, tax payer funded family is truly in hell
This is a grotesque line. Can he actually be serious? Honestly think he’s riling up the masses.
It is a grotesque line. Sounds like Tom Sykes is purposely disrespecting of all practicing Christians by invoking one of the key religious dates to praise a vain, vapid, deceitful woman for being a show-pony, rather than for embodying Christian values ostensibly linked to the Church of England. IMHO the only way Princess Photoshop can redeem herself for Easter is to show up in a full-on burka announcing she’s taken a vow of poverty.
It’s sycophantic and extremely fulsome. It has the egregious overtone of full out, show-stopping fanfare complete with trumpets, marching bands and jugglers for her appearance. I do hope this extravaganza includes the tiny Volkswagen filled with clowns.
LMAO!!! PLEASE let there be a tiny Volkswagen filled with clowns!
I should have read all of the comments before posting…I said something similar above. It was a monumentally stupid thing for them to say. Their incompetence truly knows no bounds.
MacDuffer, perhaps it was a play on words to make you think “Show Pony”.
At the least, Will and the children could do the Easter parade, even if Kate doesn’t feel up to it. If she is supposed to be recovering so well, why couldn’t they be there?
It is a tough situation for the children if Kate doesn’t go. They may have questions about their mother shouted at them. Louis might act out. It would be very unpleasant for them. After all the disasters in the media some may not believe she is doing we. Maybe the children and their young cousins could not have the walkabout.
Edit doing well
If their mother is recovering well, as KP wants to put about, why would it be stressful to teach the children to say “she is well, thank you”? Louis seemed to behave better with Will and even sitting with Charles than he did with Kate at the jubilee. Nobody is shouting questions at PW when he has been out, so I’m sure, instructions would be given to anyone present. If there is something shameful being hidden, then yeah, the children need to stay home. The people who stand and wait for them are die-hard royalists. They wouldn’t be likely to shout questions. The most they would do is send flowers for her.
The typical Easter walk is very short and I think its only press that’s allowed, since its usually at St. George’s at Windsor. So no questions would be shouted. the Sandringham walk seems more “risky” in terms of that.
Would not want to be in her shoes if they decide to have her do a meet and greet with the public after church!!!! Imagine the questions !
Maybe there would be a walk without meet and greet.
People who stand that long to talk with the royals aren’t likely to be the ones who would ask questions. It would be the royalists allowed to stand there for the meet and greet who would give flowers and just wish her well. I’m sure the crowds are pre-approved.
Yes, those people are a very different breed altogether. I always think – you lot obviously find gawping at people walking into a church much more appropriate than attending church yourselves. It’s odd for both sides. I’d feel like zoo animals if I were the royal family.
@Equality, exactly. They tend to be elderly and just enthralled to see a royal in person. And they’re usually clutching flowers.
No one actually misses her because her work is going undone. She never really worked in the first place. The interest is in the soap opera of it all. The lying, the manipulating, etc. She’ll swan around at church and then when she doesn’t get back to work, what will the excuse be then?
The BRF is one if the most popular telenovelas of 2024 so far…
Kate has achieved Diana level fame or notoriety, depending on how you feel about Diana. It’s been surreal.
Unfortunately, the notoriety has been more of the mocking kind. Diana is mostly remembered with reverence, but that’s not really the vibe around Kate. It’s a lot of jokes.
FHMom I know KP is pushing to make Kate Diana, but that’s not what this is. Her own brother said it wasn’t the same, and people aren’t chasing after Kate out of adoration and frankly worship for her humanity like they did Diana.
Kate has become an international meme, a joke, shorthand for deception.
This isn’t popularity and it would be a mistake for KP to continue pretending it is. Americans are now, per TMZ owner, thinking Megan and Harry were right and there’s something very wrong with the Royal Family.
@withtheAmerican
I wouldn’t take her brother’s word for it. I’m old and remember Diana and all the craziness that surrounded her. Whether it was tampongate, the Bashir interview,
post divorce, there wasnt sheer adoration of Diana. That’s a revision of history. All this craziness surrounding Kate has put her on the front page of newspapers across the world. Like it or not (I’m guessing not) Kate is having a Diana moment.
@M, I genuinely wonder if she’s realized that…in all of the chaos, *not once* have I seen it mentioned that her setback would cause her early yars nonsense to suffer.
@WithTheAmerican, totally agree. I actually saw someone on Twitter yesterday say, “You’ve better not be pulling a Kate Middleton!” when referring to some photo 😭
Kate’s name is absolutely now shorthand for fakery.
Watching Piers Morgan restrain himself from exploding while Harvey Weinstein explained that Americans are starting to wake up to the fact that Harry and Meghan were telling the truth about everything was SO satisfying.
Lorelei omg. That’s exactly what I’m talking about – Dublin airport, New York sanitation, they’re all using the images of “Kate and Will” at the farm. It’s light ribbing from this turning into a viral joke, but certainly not adoration.
@Christine – you mean Havey Levin of TMZ talking to Puss Moron? That’s my assumption anyway. Why should Puss Moron have any opinion on Meghan moving back to her home country anyway?
I love that NY Sanitation tweet! They’ll use anything to get their message across about us using trash cans. And if Kate wants to take herself out with the garbage, so much the better!
OMG, yes I meant Levin! It was a clip on Twitter that had Harvey on what I assume is Piers’ YouTube channel. He was livid, but trying to pull it off as listening intently.
She should appear inside a cake. Now, that would be a show.
That made me smile. It’s funny how they’re treating a very important date in the religious calendar as a bit of a merry go round set piece.
Yeah, she better be incorporating that new fast walk she picked up during her recuperation, too!
No doubt a big Easter resurrection Sun story is coming as well. Gross.
You believe that was her?
Middle aged woman goes for walk.
*with her New Jesus Face.
LOL! Twitter is going to be hilarious, I can’t wait.
Is she in any physical or mental condition to do a walkabout? If she is, questions are going to come up as to why there was no sign of life from her up until Easter Sunday. And they keep pushing the date back. First they said Easter, then it was “after Easter”, and then it was not before mid-April because the kids are on holiday or something like that. Actually, “after Easter” is so vague it could mean anything and nothing, They already said she won’t be attending the Trooping of the Colors which isn’t until June; why would they say that if she’s well enough to make her big appearance ten days from now?
I have a very strong feeling that something is happening with Kate that they don’t want to talk about, and I’m wondering how much William has to do with it.
They’re playing chicken with netizens on social media… and right now…they’re losing.
This is the palaces admitting defeat in all their reindeer games the last 2.5 months, and setting her up to appease the crowd.
Who doesn’t expect a sacrificial (mutton dressed as lamb) for Easter?
They didn’t say Kate is not attending Trooping. They said it has not been determined which, in light of the video released yesterday, seems like they should be able to confirm she’ll attend.
But considering the absolute stupidity if William and their staff, along with the iffyness of that video, who knows what will happen at Trooping.
I think the Easter walk is a test run of some sorts. If it goes well then Kate will announce she will attend Trooping. If there is any hinkyness and the public can’t 100% see it is Kate then her schedule will remain wide open even Trooping weekend.
Whoops, I should have said that *if* Kate does the family walk on Easter it will be a test run.
I’m not convinced she will be there for the Easter walk.
She’s going to have to do the Easter walk OR KP has to say that wasn’t her sprinting out of the farm stand. They can’t have both.
💯🎯 Carmen
They make it sound like she’s going to pop out of a cake.
Bit late to be parading her around in Carnivale feathers & popping out of cakes Vegas style… then again, maybe it’s all in celebration of the much vaunted BBL social media rumors claimed she had, lol.
Lol, I’m trying to figure how showing up to an Easter service could be a Big Bang. Are they going to blow her out of a cannon, will she parachute in like Liz at the Olympics, will they carry her in on a litter like Cleopatra?
Lol, Eurydice, l mentioned a similar extravaganza above before seeing your comment.
@Eurydice, 😂
A couple of days late to ride in on a donkey waving palm fronds. KP could build a cave and let William roll back the stone to let her out. What’s the harm of sacrilege by the next head of the COE?
I hope Kate remains in whatever country Carole rented that Audi, out of KP and William’s control, especially if MaryPester is correct that big-hatted Lucy may show up.
I’d like to see her enter like Lizzo did her Special Tour show, rising onto the stage singing “Hey m—f—s did you miss me?”
Maybe they’ll take their cues from their overseas trip and arrive standing up in a land rover, or carried in shoulder high on a litter.
A sedan chair would be perfect!
BP is mad that KP and Kate have damaged the BRF’s reputation….more.
Mark my words, Cluck’s hands-off approach to Huevo is bringing down his own reign even faster than the shenanigans Cluck & his sidepiece were capable of at his Con-A-Nation.
People are going to get tired of being lied to and look to free themselves from the painful financial burden of this House of Clowns at some point in the near future. And the path to that lies clear: follow the money. Cluck is up to his neck in financial scandals and crimes – and that’s just the ones we know about. Huevos Rageros is up to heaven knows what else.
If Spain could jettison Juan Carlos, England can eject Cluck.
They drop kicked Juan Carlos, but his son still took over as king. When Charles goes, William steps in and the financial burden is still there.
@Eurydice If Huevo even deigns to step up to his duty – which would be unprecedented given his history – he’s likely to bring the whole show down around his ears. His executive function issues, unchecked rages, all bode ill for a long reign.
The public had no choice in Henry VIII’s time. That was before they had the example of Cromwell and various toppled European monarchies before them.
It’s just a question of what scandal will be the breaking point, that not even the bootlicking British media can defend?
@Where’sMyTiara – the British press would defend cannibalism if it would make them money. To me, the question is how much can the British public stand? My impression is that they’re pretty apathetic about the RF and have larger issues to worry about, but maybe our British CBers can say more.
Unfortunately I agree with @Eurydice, most people do not care even a fraction of the amount that people like us do about the RF.
When William ascends, the ROTA will most likely go back to “global statesman.”
However that won’t stop America and other countries’ reporters from chronicling all of his fckups, and no matter what BS the British press keeps shoveling out, they and William have absolutely no way of stopping other jurisdictions from publishing whatever they want.
Plus, William lost SM years ago. The *only* times I see him trending are when he’s said or done something ridiculous…people are super eager to drag him for filth online since he’s so disliked.
I do think that TMZ (acknowledging TMZ is vile) has now realized there’s $$ in covering royal scandals, particularly those of W&K, so maybe they’ll stick with it?
And if they do, well, god help William. They will pay whatever sources whatever they want to leak anything shady going on with Normal Bill. And they pay boatloads of money for pap shots.
If Kate can return at Easter, then why did KP slap down the MoD for saying Kate will be at Trooping in June? If she’s anywhere close to being ready for Easter, why wouldn’t she be at Trooping in June? She’s always at Trooping.
This is what convinces me this isn’t (or isn’t just) a facelift (or surgery to her face) or a minor surgery exaggerated for time off. There’s some reason they aren’t clearer about the return timeline. And that says they don’t have control over something regarding what happened to Kate.
I wonder if they are being dodgy about Trooping because a divorce announcement is coming.
I wondered that too. Having Kate look healthy for a little bit before any announcements are made would help William not look quite as bad for divorcing a sick wife. A recovered wife would be another story. Or there’s no divorce at all and it’s always just been about stubbornness and control.
Yeah…what about the leaked hospital records (indicating she was in a coma?) Is that all a lie to distract us?
She is not ready for Easter. This is more “is expected to” and “hopes to” amidst no comment from the palace. The palace is hinting she will be there as a distraction because the heat is on. Come Easter there will be a gentle let down that she was not quite up for it with mild scolding of the public for pressuring her.
That wasn’t her at the farm shop and she’s not camera ready.
@Harper, yes, 100 percent agree.
If it wasn’t her, they need to say so right now. Another two weeks of this level of scrutiny, only for her to be absent, is going to go over very badly.
“She Hath Risen”
“She better put on an Easter wig and hustle her ass to church OR ELSE”
SO.MUCH.SHADE.
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
We all know she’s only there for the Easter Presents.
@ChattyKath, 😭
I hope that Zara and the York girls have already bought Easter gifts for their grown-ass adult cousins who apparently expect them. That was one of the most bizarre revelations about them in the book, imo.
😂
If the Easter Big bang was the plan all along … then its William creating all this unnecessary drama with the doctored photos etc. He most likely thought he would be in the spotlight during her leave of absence from public life – but he tripped over his own feet… first with the BAFTAs, and the Middle East Statement — and suddenly his spotlight is shadowed by everyone wondering about Kate… he tries to shut everyone up to refocus on him with the Frankenphoto… all this to say that William has learned nothing, he’s petty of the attention his wife gets and has gone out of his way to sabotage and tarnish her perfect image. Also he is very bad at this.
Don’t forget the investiture ceremony where he was clearly on something, and literally could not stand up straight.
I am suspending disbelief until I see this woman at Easter (if she shows at Easter). If Kate doesn’t have an entirely new jaw (rearranged by whom we might ask) when she shows, then that little farm shop film isn’t her. Easter is coming.
The longer this goes on the more convinced I am that they saw this as an opportunity to do nothing and be normal Bill & Cathy. It might have worked but for Charles’ diagnosis and Will’s “I’m out too” BS.
The initial statement was both too vague and too specific which invited speculation plus with William saying he was stepping back too it sounded very serious.
I think W was told he had to do some stuff and he’s been a tantrumming brat since. He wants to live his life like Harry and he can’t. He’s a jealous, petulant, stubborn, entitled asshole who thinks no one should ever question him. It’s been nothing but questions since January and the shitty PR is made shittier because he is pissed off.
As for the PR, it would have been So easy to just have a little video of the kids making cards for their mom for Mother’s Day or breakfast or whatever without showing Kate. But it has to be their usual half ass way because again: stubborn and entitled and lazy.
Finally, I think the video isn’t them. I don’t think it’s associated with the palace at all. I think someone saw a way to make/scam a quick $200k and took it. Which, honestly, respect.
The filmaker of the ‘farm shop Zapruder film’ works for Windsor and is in charge of making media go viral. That was proven yesterday.
TMZ (a Murdoch outlet, who has a personal “invisible” contract with Huevo – since the payout of 2012) have admitted the film was staged, and that “William” & “Kate” were both hired actors.
This was yet another blatant example of palaces colluding with the press to create a propaganda narrative, a la North Korea.
Do you have a link to where TMZ said this? Have-not seen it. For my two cents, it was not her in the video, and, once again, no shot of her left hand to see if the rings were on.
No one has been able to produce a link that supports the assertion that TMZ has admitted the film was staged and the participants were hired actors. A TMZ host expressed concerns in an interview.
TMZ didn’t say that. They talked about the fact that of course K&W would know people are gonna take pics, video of them. So, it was like pap walk for them. Here is the video of two TMZ guys talking about what happened and how they now have also doubts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1biwdwb/comment/kvnfctk/
but if nothing happened, why was everyone in black on Feb 7th?
We saw Chuck that day. He looked very sad, so it wasn’t him on the veil’s cusp.
Also they Fed up so bad that people who have never talked about salt isle and their royals are invested in this and talking about how stupid they are. My BIL has been blowing up my phone for 48 hours with memes and criticism of them lol.
I think its funny bc so many Kate stans on social media are insisting that Kate is the most popular woman in the world and shes’ going to break the internet on 3/31 and I’m like……the NYC sanitation department making memes about her is probably not the kind of popularity she was going for…….
Omfg @Becks, seriously? The NYC sanitation department? Off to Twitter.
OMG, so funny – “Be like Kate!” Help prevent a 24-hour rat buffet!
Yes Kategate is alive because everyone can partake. That’s what makes it so glorious, (small d) democratic, and funny.
Even #10 Downing Larry, the cat, got in on the action.
https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/1767167293090394141
Maybe she’ll be wearing an Easter Bunny suit and hiding eggs around a farm stand.
Nah! She’s going to ride up in the new gold coach Chuckles commissioned for his hat party. Then she’ll be carried into church in a sedan chair whilst the band plays” Believe it if you like.”
Come back, don’t come back, it’s makes no difference. Whatever she does or doesn’t do really doesn’t impact anyone’s life in a positive way, no one will be helped by her Easter outfit and little hat.
In a normal family, everyone would rally around Chuck. They would be stepping up to help him out in any way possible. I do not see that happening. The family, even Camilla, have been vacationing. The Wails have created a fiasco so big that Chuck has been a mere afterthought.
I think it would be a bit conceited for Keen to reappear on Easter Sunday. She’s not as big as Jesus. Puh-Leeze.
I mean, she’s not a Beatle.
Not even a Spice Girl. 😉
Not even Madonna.
Perhaps she WILL sport a bunny costume and just wiggle her bunny tail.
Just who is in charge at KP? Poor Billy? Kate the Magnificent? Both of whom are on the ragged edge and in need of a long vacation.
We are ready for Easter here, practising the Hallelujah chorus, for when Kate emerges wearing flowing white robes.
Isn’t it rather tacky to use an Easter service for self promotion
It is and if that’s true, she truly is a show pony to use that occasion to unveil her new look. It’s arrogant and insulting.
Well yes it is, massively, but this is Kate we’re talking about. The woman who tries to make EVERYTHING about her (see, in no particular order, historic lack of weights in hems – particularly when exiting an aircraft, Phillips funeral photoshoot, her ‘crown’ at the con-a-nation, the Chelsea flower showdown, always looking directly at the camera regardless of whatever else is happening, etc. etc.).
There are two things the Wales agree on : bullying the Sussexes and being as lazy as they possibly can be.
Okay I was reading about celebrities being more transparent about their plastic surgery and appearance.
Any comments on Gayle King and Drew Barrymore sudden weight loss?
Oprah is all over it , but dead silence from Gayle and Drew’s disclosing their sudden weight loss, except from exercise, come on now!!!!
Gayle is a foodie and when she mentioned frosted corn flakes with raisins for dinner, I almost barfed from mentioning that processed poison!!!
It’s one thing to try to upstage Charles at his own coronation, but to upstage Jesus at Easter? Girl, you’re asking for lightning bolts. It’s incredibly tacky, as Inge says above.
Will be interesting to see the real interaction between Easter Huevo and Resurrection Kate.
Risen? Like bread maybe . How blasphemous can she get . Plus nobody cares which part of her anatomy she has had lifted . May the whole institution collapse like a house of cards ..they deserve no less . Oh what a fall…
When Kate finally appears she’s going to be analyzed to death. You think 200 million people aren’t going to notice and comment on: a wig, a new face, bad makeup, huge weight loss, drugged behaviour, etc? Also, I doubt Will, Kate and the kids will be able to control their behaviour enough to fake happy families.
They’re going to be torn apart- I almost feel bad for her.
She’ll finally have more attention than she ever wanted.
Icarus got too close to the sun it seems …. Not sure anything will actually change after all this but it definitely feels like something has shifted.
Its not the right look. If she comes out healthy and fine people will be relived but they book look like melodramatic asses that shouldn’t be taken seriously. If it doesn’t well… I rather she look like an ass and confirm she is ok.
Just get an effing divorce already. All these shenanigans for what? That you can’t stand each other, we know that. We have eyes. We see how back-handedly William treats Kate in public. We know he has a filthy temper. We know he’s a philandering a-hole with no desire to do any meaningful work or self-improvement or learning. Just announce things haven’t worked out instead of getting the tabloids to do your dirty work.
If we take a step back and indeed see K at the church walk, then all of the lies, omissions, Franken-photos, drunken swaying, incompetence and shenanigans…totally tracks with W, K & KP?? We’ll see K sporting a new face and BBL and the whole damn thing was just about K wanting a long break from public duty while her face lift healed? If this is the case and KP says ‘see, we told you this was nothing to worry about,’ people are gonna be PISSED.
William, as future king, will be Head of the Church of England. Easter is a religious holiday, a very important christian one and its significance goes to the heart of christian belief. I can’t believe they are monkeying around with a “Kate will arise at Easter” meme. Trying to upstage Jesus and the Easter Bunny? They really live in their own world. One thing I know for sure is that the wool is pulled over my eyes. I’m also thinking that it’s hard to predict when people are “mentally” prepared to be in public. Time for recovery from physical surgeries are easier to predict. What a clown show the British monarchy is turning out to be. It’s almost as if people have forgotten that there is a a current sovereign who is not William.
Hahaha. Well after reading many of the comments here, maybe KP will have Kate wheeled in via a gold plated wheelchair sitting on a velveteen red cushion, looking “refreshed”. She’ll look dutiful, regal, fragile, but with steely resolve to be the mother of the nation once again.
I lay bets she’ll wear frothy white or some creamy color to signify her innocence, purity. She can photoshop angel wings on after. lol
OH PLEASEE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, let the organist play the “jesus christ superstar” theme as she starts any walk up 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mary Pester, that’s exactly what I thought, too! 😂😂
And Kate can sing
@Mary Pester
Once again, you make my day!
Is it just me or would Kate’s reappearance on Easter Sunday not be just unbelievably crass? The occasion & service is not about HER ‘resurrection’ after all. Surely the RF have the sense not to do that?
Alas, recent conduct, and the entitled disdain, disingenuousness, and gross incompetence underlying that conduct, suggest otherwise.
It is crass. Esp the talk of big bang. It’s Easter Sunday. They could’ve saved this great unveiling for another day.
Yes, that’s her all over.
But would a reputable Plastic Surgeon operate on someone as seriously underweight as Kate?? We’re not talking about a cut price clinic in Turkey for example, where horror stories are ten a penny (DM loves these stories, the ghouls) where someone has scrimped and saved and gone down the cheap route and end up with necrotizing boobs or worse fatal blood clots etc) because they took the £3000 “special offer” and met the surgeon five minutes before surgery and then got sent back to their hotel an hour after and in a horrendously sick way. Kate would want the best surgeon, money no object, and I just don’t believe any reputable Plastic Surgeon would actually operate on someone who is as frail and underweight as her purely for vanity. They just wouldn’t imo. That’s another reason people go cut price, because a) they can’t afford UK surgeons and b) they are not always in the best of health, eg heart conditions, optimal weight etc and the cut price clinics don’t care, they just want the money. I really think that if it was a cosmetic procedure then it HAD to be done ie Bully socked her in the face. Otherwise I don’t think ANY uk plastic surgeon would operate. They won’t risk her having complications or even dying from them. Can you imagine a lifetime of training and learning to go down the drain with “I botched/killed the Princess of Wales because her heart gave out due to me performing vanity surgery whilst she was dangerously underweight?
Because royal physicians get awarded all kinds of royal titles and medals, and get to join some exclusive, sexist club like the Garrick. There are all kinds of special rules and laws which protect the royals and their enablers.
Look this family is more than happy to protect a loser like Andrew and you know it exerted a great deal of pressure on UK Whitehall to keep him away from FBI’ reaches.
Just as Thomas needed to touch the wounds of Christ, so shall a doubter insist on touching the Royal BBL and collapse in wonder that, yea verily, it is real! It is risen!
Are you inferring she has/had a yeast infection?
Do we get beer (yeast + hops….Easter rabbit ya know)
I have no idea if St. Kate will arise at Easter. But I still believe she had planned surgery relating to her eating disorder, it went wrong or there was a complication, and she has a bag. I also believe Charles is far more ill than he wants the public to know. At least we have William stepping up and picking up the slack. Oh wait….
If she really has had a face lift or something similar the tabs will eat her alive. They may coddle William and Kate to a ludicrous degree but they would be the first ones to mock her if she dared to gain weight, or had a gray hair show and they will totally go for the jugular if she’s had any “work” done. They may pretend to love the royals but they love tearing apart a woman’s appearance even more.
@sue; I have always thought that her dedication to diet and exercise was because of her fear of being called out if she dared gain a pound. Sure the commenters tsk tsk over how thin she is but watch how fast she’ll get ripped to shreds for gaining weight. You are spot on.
I’ve noticed the comments fawning on Kate’s regal, lithe figure tend to be big Kate’s followers. If people note how thin she’s appearing, they get yelled at for being overly critical and how some women, like themselves or their daughter, BFF, sister, etc. are naturally skinny and people should stop body shaming Kate.
The rota fawns over her appearances so it’s a combination of public pressure, the rota, and the way the royals treat their women. I doubt you’ll find good mental health within the BRF.
My working theory is still eating disorder related. I think she had some kind of serious complication like esophageal varices and was forced into treatment. Refeeding can cause serious water retention, which explains the picture with ma Mids, which I think is the only genuine picture of her to surface. I’m in England and the way that the media here is pumping up that farm shop video is insane. The BBC world service tonight did a feature on how completely nutty the ‘conspiracy theories’ claiming it wasn’t her in the video were. Now that it’s clear that the royals are going to have to go back to allowing the press to take their photos (as they used to do before Kate found her supposed hobby which was actually IMO just a power grab to take that prerogative away from the press) all the media outlets are jockeying for favour. But I really think she is way out of commission due to ED complications and they don’t know when/if she’ll be back in shape and are just playing it by ear.
Except your working theory of ED and how ill Kate is contradicts the market Kate looking 15 years younger, taller, and very spry. Not to mention the wholesome and healthy looking Kate’s Mother’s Day photo.
The public isn’t going to buy all these weird contradictions because most people aren’t conspiracy theorists, no matter how hard the UK press wants every doubter to appear so.
Most of the public esp outside the UK has 0 trust with the BrF and BM. As AFP mentioned, KP is now comparable to Iran and North Korea as far as what many people are concerned. It’s going to take a lot for people to take them seriously again.
I usually don’t care or pay attention to Piers Morgan but he had an interesting discussion with Harvey on one of the posts I saw on SM. I know they’re both not the most reliable people but it was interesting how Piers noted that the US is very important to the BRF and to lose the US support that is a large viability to the BRF . I never truly understood why they care so much about US opinion compared to the commonwealth, but now I think I get it. Imo, they have lost a lot of Americans trust – even a few MAGAs are questioning them. And it’s going to be hard to gain back that trust even if K is risen on Easter.
With that said, I still believe K had a mental nervous breakdown. I think the first photo of K in the car with her mom is prob the real K and the one at the farm shop is also K(in the past) but inserted on the video. You can do anything with chat-gpt these days- I mean anything .
They’ve already lost this American when insisting that their hatred for Meghan has nothing to do with racism, but with her “Americanness” instead.
Americans don’t bow and scrape. And we will never defer to KP’s lame PR. So we won’t pretend that KP and the BM didn’t say those things and we won’t accept that excuse for why they treated Meghan so viciously. Good luck here in America, Pegs. After all your anti-American trash talk, you should know by now we prefer Harry.
Don’t take the British press’s reaction to this as any indication of the opinion of the British people. Only 55% of us think the monarchy is important and only 15% of under 35s think they’re relevant- and those figures are from a poll taken before queen Liz died. Over here, we look at America and assume it’s only you lot who like them! Perhaps it’s an all a case of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
Has anyone read the new article in Tatler asking if K’s Umbro hoodie she was wearing at the Wood Farm is the new haute ??
I wonder how current Royals will translate into history books and history exams of the future. Say a kid needs to ‘Describe the Kate-gate events in 100 words’ or ‘Why did the Sussexes cross the Atlantic?’. 🤦🏻♀️
ROFL!
Wow–sounds to me like KC is more or less reading Kate the riot act!
Yeah…I think she’ll be at church on Easter.
Someone took a still from that farmstand video and digitally removed the blurriness from it. The woman is absolutely not Kate~ her eyes are completely different. Once you see the clear image, it’s a stand-in.
Oooh, well the royals are using the Guardian to attack Americans for our “distrust” of our institutions as the reason why we Yanks won’t accept what KP, TMZ and the Sun gave us as evidences of Kate’s well being.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/20/us-kate-middleton-conspiracy-theory
I love how the piece avoids tackling the doctored Mother’s Day photo meant to be Kate’s proof of life. And how the column avoided talking about the Sun for pushing the video. The Sun whose credibility is shot. The Sun who has been found guilty of phone hacking and other misdeeds by the courts. The columnist Rao’s deep dive forgot how the UK press lied about Brexit to the Brits. Conveniently the column just talks about Ashley Biden’s computer, QAnon, etc.
The columnist, Ankita Rao, is pretty indignant but forgets her own sh*t stinks to high heaven.
The royals are clearly well protected. They have their sycophants well embedded in government and media. It’s a three ring circus over there. Too bad, Rao refused to acknowledge how the UK press manipulated truths and kept the Tory in power to F the country.
You know what, as a country, we have our difficulties, but I’m so glad we don’t have a monarchy here so we don’t have to suffer being told how often to bow and scrape for a bunch of useless royals.
One of the latest quotes is;
“Kate is to make a soft return to public life”
Hahaha when has she ever made a “hard” one?
Poor pampered pet