First Official Portrait of Kate Middleton

[PTK]

This is the full statement from the person who took the footage...



I found it fairly convincing up to about "chemistry" after that I'm just convinced that it's all made up. Look relieved like it was a success?? How could he have possibly "seen" that?

Looking relieved after leaving a shop? Sounds like a shoplifter to me.

 

[ddraig]

So they are running with that those pics are them!

"On Monday night, the Sun and other newspapers published a photo of the royal couple shopping near their home in Windsor at the weekend, taken from a video clip supplied by a member of the public.
This video, although unconfirmed by Kensington Palace, suggests something much more optimistic and everyday than the wild and outlandish claims being made on social media.
It will not stop the spin-cycle of rumours, which will now speculate whether it's really them, but it is the clearest evidence so far of Catherine looking well during her recuperation."

from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-68607439

 

[Silas Loom]

So they are running with that those pics are them!

"On Monday night, the Sun and other newspapers published a photo of the royal couple shopping near their home in Windsor at the weekend, taken from a video clip supplied by a member of the public.
This video, although unconfirmed by Kensington Palace, suggests something much more optimistic and everyday than the wild and outlandish claims being made on social media.
It will not stop the spin-cycle of rumours, which will now speculate whether it's really them, but it is the clearest evidence so far of Catherine looking well during her recuperation."

from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-68607439

So have the Times and the Guardian. It’s odd. I don’t think that scepticism is unjustified.

 

[T & P]

(volume warning)

 

[scifisam]

So have the Times and the Guardian. It’s odd. I don’t think that scepticism is unjustified.

It's just blatantly obviously not her (or Willy). Just bizarre that any newspaper would try to claim it is.

 

[Idris2002]

Only 1970s kids will get this:

Spoiler

 

[UrbaneFox]

Is it something to do with sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, which was all the rage in Sunday papers in the 1970s

 

[Santino]

So have the Times and the Guardian. It’s odd. I don’t think that scepticism is unjustified.

It's just blatantly obviously not her (or Willy). Just bizarre that any newspaper would try to claim it is.

Maybe that have decided that the risk of looking gullible and foolish for believing something false is more acceptable than the risk of looking conspiraloonish for not believing something true.

 

[Silas Loom]

Maybe that have decided that the risk of looking gullible and foolish for believing something false is more acceptable than the risk of looking conspiraloonish for not believing something true.

But why comment at all? Or at least, comment sardonically on the furore, while avoiding any statements of belief.

 

[Serge Forward]

Only 1970s kids will get this:

Spoiler

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That image is from 1966.

 

[Elpenor]

 

[Idris2002]

That image is from 1966.

Or is it? Release the files, President Xi.

 

[T & P]

 

[bluescreen]

Washington Post (from March 13 so before The Farm Shop Sighting:

 

[ID47]

Only 1970s kids will get this:

Spoiler

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Commemorate the 58th anniversary of Chairman Mao’s swim over the Yangzi - Follow Chairman Mao in moving forward in wind and waves!,

 

[Santino]

The supposed enhancement of the video still to demonstrate that the woman is not Kate has been spread across Twitter and is being taken as strong evidence. But whatever AI model was used has just defaulted to the faces it's been trained on. It's not actually enhanced, it's just a guess.

 

[Aladdin]

Well....Having looked at the video a few times..more times than I should have.....all I can say is
I don't know how she is carrying that heavy bag of posh groceries after a relatively recent very serious abdominal op.

(volume warning)

Does anyone know what the video is about? Just curious..

 

[newme]

Which one is this? Seems to be a bulk of spare royals floating about

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Maybe that have decided that the risk of looking gullible and foolish for believing something false is more acceptable than the risk of looking conspiraloonish for not believing something true.

or don't want to loose out on the click bate traffic opportunity

 

[Indeliblelink]

 

[Silas Loom]

or don't want to loose out on the click bate traffic opportunity

Doesn’t apply to the Times, which is paywalled. But perhaps they don’t want to upset their stablemate.

 

[bcuster]

She was disguising her identity at the farm market AND making a fashion statement. What's not to love, adore about Brave Kate?

Kate Middleton Sends a Subtle Message with Her Hoodie During Farm Shop Outing with Prince William

Kate Middleton wore something sentimental with ties to her royal work when she was seen on camera at a farm shop with Prince William in Windsor amid her surgery recovery.

people.com

 

[Wilf]

So just to summarise here on page 35.

1. Kate is to have abdominal surgery and will be out of action for a while
2. For reasons unexplained, there is suddenly a media blackout about her, the procedure, and the recovery time.
3. For rather obvious reasons, the Daily Mail publish photographs of Pippa in skimpy beachwear, and Meghan looking tired.
4. The "Where is Kate" hashtag on X/itter starts to grow around late January/early February
5. Charles is filmed laughing with piles of get well soon cards following his cancer diagnosis. Kate remains MIA
6. Aware that the Kate conspiracy has now grown outside X/itter, the Palace publish a paparazzi shot of two women in a Range Rover. One of them looks like a suburban woman vaguely in touching distance of Kate, but it just adds fuel to the fire.
7. Aware that this has not worked, the Palace try another paparazzi shot taken from behind. The reception is less than convinced.
8. Throwing one last dart at the wall, the Palace goes for a Mother's Day photograph, the veracity of which is torn apart by the combined forces of Reddit, X/itter, and bizarrely both the Mail and the Telegraph.
9. Kate "writes" a tweet "admitting" to using Photoshop. At this point the western world has latched onto the conspiracy-cum-PR disaster. Producers of Have I Got News for You can't believe their luck at this and Glasgow's Willy Wonka Experience has happened at the same time.
10. The Sun uploads a shakycam of two actors walking around a garden centre, reportedly putting this to bed because the man looks like William and the woman looks like a cross between Kate Beckinsale and Tuppence Middleton. The coincidence of these two names can't possibly be an accident.

Congratulations, you are now our Royal Correspondent!

Unfortunately, that also means that you are Nicholas Witchell.

 

[Mumbles274]

My guess is that the royal PR are just doubling down on the fact they said she wouldn't be public till Easter. It's a lose lose what ever they do. So just stick with the original narrative. I doubt anything has happened and if it has, they can bring her back to public life at Easter and are hoping that will quash all the bollocks once and for all. Whether anything has happened behind the scenes is a other thing, it's a long game. That or some crazy shit has happened, which even if it had, they wouldn't tell us until they had a narrative they thought the public would buy. As the specials said

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Easter's the traditional time for coming back from the dead, so maybe that's what they're hoping for.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Easter's the traditional time for coming back from the dead, so maybe that's what they're hoping for.

I doubt it. Then they'd have to explain how she got blocked into the cave in the first place.

 

[PR1Berske]

Congratulations, you are now our Royal Correspondent!

Unfortunately, that also means that you are Nicholas Witchell.

Swings and roundabouts!

 

[PTK]

Only 1970s kids will get this:

Spoiler

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This was Mao in the 1960s, so 1970s kids would not remember it.

 

[PTK]

Or is it? Release the files, President Xi.

Yes, Mao was demonstrating that he was still fit to lead. It was not unconnected with the launching of the dogfight between bureaucrats known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

 

[ddraig]

How Kate body-double conspiracy theory spread on social media

Footage of the Princess of Wales out shopping has stoked false theories already circulating online.

www.bbc.co.uk

Kensington Palace has said the princess is recovering and is expected to return to public duties after Easter.
This social media frenzy, which the media also contributes to and which fills a vacuum of information, mirrors others that I've investigated - and that have caused serious harm to the real people at their centre.
It can cause hurt to family and friends, and more widely, it erodes public trust