Thank you for your service. This is now my favorite theory.
Iâm very sad these arenât all in the meme thread. I worry people are missing out. I hadnât checked this thread in a while! I was missing so much!
It Is such a payoff, being Queen?
I canât see that as much different than what Kate is currently doing now, leading a cloistered life only to venture out with Royal engagements. Hamstrung by courtiers and traditions.
All of that said, I truly cannot fathom THIS princess of Wales leaving her husband and spilting up her young family. Iâm not saying she wouldnât do it 15 years down the road, but at this point, I donât see it.
What do you think has been a dishonest message so far?
Almost everything.
William likely did not take that photo. It probably wasnât taken last week. It was edited but the idea the princess of Wales is who edited it , unlikely. TBH the princess isnât even an amateur photographer - she studied it in uni annd even did photography for national magazine covers and her parents party business photos.
Media blackout in the UK on anything about her illness or whereabouts.
Lack of clarity about what happened to her and when.
I think honesty is the thing that is least happening right now.
Currently I will eat my hat if she is back In Action at Easter as originally proposed
This photo thing is weird but I do not see it as a big deal. Did they actually say it was taken recently and for Motherâs Day? I ask that sincerely, I do not know the answer.
If the Princess of Wales portrayed herself as a âprofessionalâ photographer rather than amateur, would you like that? What if she represented herself as âexperienced?â That is braggy (even if true) and doesnt look good.
I do ât understand why it is so hard to believe the Princess of Wales edited this photo. There are people out there saying, to the effect, âPrincesses do not dirty their hands with things like this!â
I think they do!
The rest of it, the grey rocking silence, is absolutely typical of Palace communications. They donât respond to gossip.
To me this looks like what it is: a photo taken of family, sloppily edited by Kate. Kate has health problems.
I have no reason not to believe the narrative that Kate has health problems and doesnât want to be in the public eye as she heals.
Except that this is a cock up.
Either complete incompetence or malicious or that there is something nefarious and no good way to handle it.
The problem with incompetence is that these are some of the richest people in the world. So any incompetence should have been nipped in the bud and replaced with a polished and effective campaign that we couldnât even detect was a campaign.
If it is malicious, then is it malicious to fuck with her while sheâs convalescing to detract from something which is a greater threat to the monarchy (King Charlesâ cancer being a common theory here) or because she isnât toeing the line? Weâve seen this strategy used against others by the monarchy. Iâd also put a lot of the conspiracy theories in this category - maybe an intentional thing to disguise say a BBL but the stories about her are turning malicious likely from the press or Buckingham without Kensington/her husband being complicit.
I do think something nefarious is the least likely option. I donât think itâs impossible. Just like I think incompetence is highly unlikely, I donât think itâs impossible.
The nefarious possibilities are awful. But the longer it carries on the scarier it seems. There are also some malicious things that are incredibly awful. Almost as bad as the nefarious options.
Delving into the conspiracy side gives us an opportunity to explore that we could be being deceived about. A BBL or an affair of hers with Rose Hanbury seem like a much nicer possibility than William attempting to rehab Roseâs reputation and imply mental illness as a bad quality in Kate to smooth a divorce. Better than that one is that Charles is incredibly ill and refusing conventional treatment and her own medical leave is being critiqued to avoid eyes on his medical situation. Certainly better than her being beaten and in a coma.
The problem is that monarchies donât come about by being nice. So even in this age it is rational to question an official narrative that doesnât match up. It could also be an intensive campaign to dilute their power led by foreign powers. That happens. Amber Heardâs defamation came from Saudi linked accounts. A lot of Western elections have Russian influence.
Itâs the information age and we know we donât know.
I agree that she probably has health problems and wants to be out of public eye. I believe the lie was that this was a planned surgery and things are going well/as expected - if that had been the case, they wouldnât have been talking about a trip to Italy (though I guess it wasnât announced officially, so deniable?). My guess is that it was unplanned, and recovery is taking longer than anticipated, and the team is not coping with that well.
I hope this is the case, that she is getting good care and not being hurried along, and nothing malicious or nefarious (and of course it might have started as incompetence and then malicious or nefarious folks have seen an opening).
Comparing how theyâve been handling Charlesâ cancer, and the difference in communication and press between radio silence from Kate except a doctored photo and a papp photo that did not look like her (but did look like her sister), this is where the comms difference is. This is why things are concerning.
Kate neednât state she was an amateur or professional photographer - throwing HER under the bus for this bad photoshop job at all is concerning, and very different from the usual M.O. from the royals who quote ânever explainâ - so to explain while making her look badâŚlooks like it is a reputational damage attempt by someone else from within KP
They did say it was taken on motherâs day by William. Until the whole thing was retracted and the metadata showed otherwise, which is what caused outlets to pull it.
We know theyâve concealed health information before- William contracted covid-19 (quite seriously apparently) in 2020 and it wasnât revealed until almost a year later to the press, and they explicitly said he was fine and healthy (lying) when asked by the press.
I genuinely hope sheâs just recovering from surgery. But there are a LOT of things about how this situation is being handled that is not lining up.
I did see a story last week that the differences in press strategies between Buckingham and Kensington palaces is causing big problems.
I would have thought there was one strategy driven from the top. But if they are separate, I would have expected Kensington to be the more open policy.
It is all very weird. I guess they are all sad that they donât have Harry and Meghan to blame anymore
Nope, they brief against one another all the time. This was detailed in Spare, Prince Harryâs memoir - him and his brother watched his parents get into PR wars with one another and swore they would work together, but William and Kate started working against Meghan and Harry, and that is part of their falling out.
Oh the tabloids are still blaming Meghan and Harry. Apparently the entire health event for Kate was brought on by stress from them leaving the royal family and Harryâs book (which came out over a year ago)
And Meghan is cruel for not reaching out to KateâŚ
Oh I am not surprised the tabloids (being fed the story from one of the palaces) is putting that out - but do the folks at home believe it anymore?
And the story here is that Meghan has reached out, as has Harry (to Charles and to William).
But those may be pure speculation too.
I love imagining the passive aggressive emails she could be composing
I could see why folks outside of the line of succession would maybe have separate PR folks, but this seems strange (brief each other rather than approval from the top). I guess that is why this is all so inconsistent.
Itâs so weird that theyâre bungling PR so bad when itâs nearly their entire job
SO. WEIRD!
I generally ignore the monarchy - but this has gotten my interest.
Charles III is the Monarch and, as such, the world is legitimately more interested in the state of his health than Catherine, Princess of Wales, in line for nothing in the British Monarchy. Her claim to fame is she is possibly the most popular member of the royal family.
In my mind that doesnât obligate her to divulge anything about her health.
I am hoping Charles III approved distribution of news about his cancer diagnosis because heâs hoping to be more open about his health than his mother was. As far as I know, though, we still donât know what kind of cancer he has.
Catherine has no obligation to tell the world whatâs wrong with her and we suspect it has something to do with intestinal and stomach and possible colostomy bag. Her pooper, as we have said in this thread. That isnât a nice topic for the world to contemplate. 
In related news, what do you all think of Meghan Markleâs attempt to become a lifestyle influencer? That is certainly a crowded field. Her brand âAmerican Riviera Orchard â was launched a couple of days ago, and immediately, within hours, spoof sites went up selling baseball caps and tote bags and T-shirts.