So where is she?!

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Princess Kate?

Internet is going nuts about it, the theories are insane.

Hope she’s ok

I'm fully expecting her to turn up at Easter looking fabulous.

What are you waffling on about? No, it doesn't make normal people wonder at all! I don't spend my time speculating drivel about the medical conditions of other people. I've enough to worry about with my own.

She's at home recovering from major surgery and it is anticipated that she will be back after Easter.

Common sense should tell you that

a) you aren't entitled to her medical records

and

b) you cannot expect her to be paraded on display for public consumption after a major medical procedure. She needs to recover.

Bloody hell. Are people really this witless?

Her death is something that has been discussed as a liklihood on Twitter. What I cant work out out with these idiots is how would that work. Will they keep extending her recuperation and hope in time we just all forget she existed. Or will there be a replacement model who looks totally different, like in the soaps, but we'll all be gaslighted into believing nothings changed. I dont think the eejits that come up with these ideas have the brain power to think of the next step & consequences of these alleged cover ups 🙄

I hope she’s on MN reading these posts and thinking “what sad little lives people have” 🤔

Shes recovering from surgery, I suspect hysterectomy or similar, abdominal surgery can take ages to recover from. I don’t see why people are so concerned?

God help us if she's not. The conspiracy theorists will go into absolute meltdown

There's no big mystery. It is purely an unfortunate coincidence. It can happen in any family at all.

What nonsensical point are you trying to make?

I've come to the conclusion that the doubters haven't seen the recovery from major abdominal surgery at close hand in their families. A few months off makes perfect sense to me having seen multiple family members have surgery for bowel cancer (and I know she doesn't have cancer but similar surgeries can be carried out for other reasons).

And as someone on another thread pointed out, she can't come back to work and half arse it, or move slowly or clear off early if it's a bad day for pain or wfh in her leggings. Every inch of her appearance will be scrutinised when she reappears so of course she wants to wait until she's feeling much more normal.

Why do people have to know everything instantly all the time ? And if we don’t know we’ll just make some shit up !!
really would love PW to come out and say Kate’s not well I’ve had the shits so fuck off and leave us alone

Well yes @Kinneddar goodness knows what'll happen if she doesn't turn up at Easter!

I think she'll go to church at Sandringham on Easter Sunday.

At home in a ponytail and leggings, eating a cream egg and enjoying a month where she doesn’t have to have mani pedi, brow wax, and daily hair styling.

It may not be a crème egg. I don’t have that long a lens.

I really can't understand the death theories either. If she had died they would issue a statement to say she had died and then they would crack on with funeral arrangements.
They wouldn't pretend she was alive for weeks on end for some bizarre reason and cremate her in secret.

Who'd have her life eh?

Total goldfish bowl

Indeed.

She is in recovery ! Hopefully feeling lots better now.Gosh she cant even be ill FFS,The poor woman is scrutinised over every tiny scrap of her appearance .Obv she wants to wait to shes 100% before stepping into the limelight again .Not Easter for another month people!

Tom Bower just said in an interview that he knows what the illness was, was extremely serious and that her recovery will take longer than they had predicted

Can you link to wherever he has said this? @Achillo

No, it really doesn't.

Charles is getting old, so some form of health crisis is entirely expected.

Lots of middle aged women have health issues.

The only "strange" thing is the coincidence that both have happened at the same time. That's just luck (or bad luck) of the draw!

I am fascinated that people think about the royal family ever! Out of sight out of mind for me.

Exactly. We had the same with the Queen several times. Lots of conspiracy nutcases claiming she'd died when she'd not been seen for a few days or when she cancelled an appearance. In the event, the official announcement of her death with literally within a couple of hours of it happening, exactly as all the conspiracy nutcases had been told it would be announced!!

Who was it who once said "reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated?"

The Princess of Wales might be sorely tempted to issue a statement along those lines when she comes out in public again after Easter.

Presumably at the moment she is ignoring the conspiracy theorist twats on all platforms as much as she can and trying to protect her children from them. They will drive her round the bend otherwise.

But she did disappear for a few days then die, to be fair. They weren’t wrong 🤣

Totally agree.

She lives in a goldfish bowl, or a gilded cage. Very little freedom really, and also very little true privacy.

She's at home. Exactly where we were all told she would be. And she will be there for at least another month.
What is the matter with people, that they are unable to comprehend a simple statement?

It's atrocious PR to say the least. PR is about reading the room and putting out something once you feel the public sentiment is tilting too far in one direction. It's not telling the public to STFU and then proceed to ignore them. Kate's disappearance is now headline news in many European papers...the biggest daily ones and not tabloids. They might be doing it for a few more clicks but those publications are far from nutters and conspiracy theorists.

Kate used to be a master at this. Even that immense tragedy where the nurse killed herself, pregnant Kate still gave the press a photo op in front of hospital. The original statement regarding her surgery never stated she would disappear entirely for 4 months. They gave the timeline and a followup piece about her working from home during the recovery period. That was perfectly setting things up for a statement, video call screenshot or maybe even picture of her during the time between her hospital discharge and resuming engagements. This was essentially what people were expecting at this stage. Some kind of statement or photo from her personally.

Kate is not a person to hide at the first sign of physical discomfort. She was clearly seriously ill at some point (the weight loss is obvious during photos of her engagements between Summer 2023 and Xmas 2023). However she put on a brilliant performance to hide whatever pain and problems she had. So it's entirely out of character for her to insist on recovering out of sight so many months after surgery. Even though everyone's timeline is different, 2 whole months is a reasonable time frame for her to release something IF she really wanted to.

So whatever is going on is probably a much bigger shitshow than the palace anticipated. She is either still physically too unwell or (I think more likely) re-evaluating her life and what she wants going forward. Maybe she enjoyed the time off with her children entirely undisturbed and wants to get off the hamster wheel. Maybe William is difficult behind closed doors and that combined with her recovery has made her see everything in a different light. Maybe she no longer believes the monarchy will be around by the time George is ready to ascend the throne so she's basically putting her children through an awful life in a goldfish bowl for nothing at all. She can see Pippa and Meghan's children growing up in relative privacy but with all the same material comforts.

She was on her traditional annual holiday at Balmoral. So a time of year when it wasn't unusual for her to be out of the public eye for days at a time. Not unusual at all.

She appointed Liz Truss as the new Prime Minister and the unusual (but not surprising) thing was that it had to be done at Balmoral instead of at Buckingham Palace. She (the Queen) was visibly very frail then and died two days later.

Interview about Kate with Tom Bower starts c.1 hr 35.mins
https://www.youtube.com/live/edvzuUzlzGc?si=2DbPoQVtlvu4uzJb