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Photo of Kate Middleton at the Farm Shop

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penjil · 18/03/2024 20:39

She does look a bit different. But at least she's out and about.

Photo of Kate Middleton at the Farm Shop
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FrancisSeaton · 18/03/2024 23:33

JPGR · 18/03/2024 23:31

You are all fricking batshit mad. Of course it’s them. From all the spiteful conspiracy theories they have been forced to show themselves. The Windsor farm shop is yards from where they live. A natural choice to appear to stop all the ugly rumours.

A) they look nothing like them and B) have you never heard of celebrity lookalikes making appearances to cause a stir ?

AInightingale · 18/03/2024 23:37

Yarboosucks · 18/03/2024 23:29

I think The Scum Sun hired a cheap pair of lookalikes to create a headline and grab some attention for themselves.

Then it's the end of their paper, the NotW destroyed itself over the Millie Dowling story and Piers Morgan got sacked for the Iraq photos hoax. It's all very odd but it would be a kamikaze mission for any newspaper surely. They'll be humiliated if this is indeed a deepfake thing.

SammyScrounge · 18/03/2024 23:37

I wish everyone would leave Kate alone and allow her to recover in peace..The fuss about photos is ludicrous, the gossip and conspiracy theories also.
I am beginning to think a large chunk of the British population is demented enough to believe any drivel.

Eyeroll2024 · 18/03/2024 23:38

That does not look like her. Not at all.

anotherside · 18/03/2024 23:39

Looks to me like the Sun have also PSed their front cover screenshot to make it look more like her. There is simply no frame in the actual video that looks like the shot they are leading with.

LiterallyOnFire · 18/03/2024 23:39

Don't you dare make racist comments about the English!!

You wouldn't say that about Pakistanis or Nigerians or anyone else!!

Wow. That escalated.

dontreadthepapers · 18/03/2024 23:39

Given how amazing iphones/all phones are from an incredible distance ... it looks like that has been taken on a potato.

Deliberately so.

Because it isnt her

Makulate · 18/03/2024 23:40

AInightingale · 18/03/2024 23:37

Then it's the end of their paper, the NotW destroyed itself over the Millie Dowling story and Piers Morgan got sacked for the Iraq photos hoax. It's all very odd but it would be a kamikaze mission for any newspaper surely. They'll be humiliated if this is indeed a deepfake thing.

But there's a degree of separation, possibly? That they 'in good faith' took the word of the bloke with the camera who saw them.

If they didn't set it up, then are their hands clean?

Tetchypants · 18/03/2024 23:40

JPGR · 18/03/2024 23:31

You are all fricking batshit mad. Of course it’s them. From all the spiteful conspiracy theories they have been forced to show themselves. The Windsor farm shop is yards from where they live. A natural choice to appear to stop all the ugly rumours.

Yes. There was a bidding war for the footage, The Sun won. They have the full video in which it’s clearly Kate and William. The other rags have been allowed a still shot to use from that video, and it’s a crap one.

Neverpostagain · 18/03/2024 23:41

Makulate · 18/03/2024 23:40

But there's a degree of separation, possibly? That they 'in good faith' took the word of the bloke with the camera who saw them.

If they didn't set it up, then are their hands clean?

Yup.

lolheart · 18/03/2024 23:41

That's 100 percent not her. Entirely different upper face structure/cheekbones and chin.
Even if she had lost drastic weight, and/or had a facelift, this could still never be her bone structure.

dontreadthepapers · 18/03/2024 23:42

Rosiiee · 18/03/2024 21:03

I don’t get what people want! You want to see her, she pops out and straight away it’s ’oh it’s not her!’. Mother’s Day photo: ‘oh no somethings gotta be wrong’. Instagram post: ‘it defo wasn’t her who posted’. The bloody English are impossible!

Clearly it doesnt add up ... thats why all the speculation

ThisGreyPoster · 18/03/2024 23:42

dontreadthepapers · 18/03/2024 23:39

Given how amazing iphones/all phones are from an incredible distance ... it looks like that has been taken on a potato.

Deliberately so.

Because it isnt her

I have a really cheap smartphone that is 4 years old and the video quality is still good, and it has a zoom feature. I agree this poor video quality seems deliberate.

SuperstarDeejay · 18/03/2024 23:42

JanglingJack · 18/03/2024 23:23

It's a shame that they'd had their phone since 1998.

I just read a news article that specified the video was shot on an iPhone12.

I think it's odd they came out and wrote that - almost like they're deliberately trying to prompt incredulity from readers.

AInightingale · 18/03/2024 23:42

Yes, I am interested in the 'bloke with the camera'. I think the Sun might have been conned but I don't think they've engineered it as pps suggested, that would be insanely reckless.

dandeliondandy · 18/03/2024 23:42

WAIGD · 18/03/2024 23:24

For the people who think it’s because she’s lost weight - most women in their 40s (me included) usually look older if they drop weight in the face rather than younger. Also the woman in the video doesn’t look ill and gaunt like she’s recovering from illness, she looks like a very healthy 20-something, to me anyway!

Or a 40 something who has used the downtime for facial 'rejuvenation'

dontreadthepapers · 18/03/2024 23:43

Tetchypants · 18/03/2024 23:40

Yes. There was a bidding war for the footage, The Sun won. They have the full video in which it’s clearly Kate and William. The other rags have been allowed a still shot to use from that video, and it’s a crap one.

There was ZERO bidding war ... its a PR/Damage limitation piece.

Eyeroll2024 · 18/03/2024 23:44

Just leaving this here, posted it on another thread, looks like it might be relevant again 😂

It's so bizarre how desperately invested some are in screaming abuse at people who want to have a chat about Princess Catherine. It's obviously never going to work since people will just talk about anything they want to talk about, nobody's permission required or requested.

If you don't want to read theories about what has been happening with Kate and William, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Imagine trying to control what other people want to chat about?! 😵

Getting hysterical at people who are interested in the topic won't stop them talking about it - but it does make you sound batshit and absolutely obsessed with other people's behaviour.

Trying to sound more intelligent and above it all doesn't work, since you're here commenting just like everyone else.

Obviously people talking about it won't make the tiniest bit of difference to her recovery and there's no point in screaming LEAVE HER ALONE TO GET BETTER on a repeating loop since nobody's got access to her and commenters aren't hurting her even remotely by discussing it.

And of course their privacy is not being affected in any way by women having a chat.

Best all round would be people who don't care or think they're above it all to simply piss off and let everyone else chat about anything they want without trying to interfere.

Wishing her all the best, hope she recovers soon, or whatever is going on resolves itself.

ThisGreyPoster · 18/03/2024 23:44

An iphone12 that does not have a zoom feature and has vaseline smeared over the lens to make it blurry?

dandeliondandy · 18/03/2024 23:45

I think it is a very staged appearance to put all those daft internet rumours to bed. I think that is why the people in the video aren't rubbernecking and why W&K are joking with each other. A 2 minute walk and they can go back to their private lives without further ado.

Neverpostagain · 18/03/2024 23:46

dontreadthepapers · 18/03/2024 23:43

There was ZERO bidding war ... its a PR/Damage limitation piece.

No. This royal family have had no input into this particular debacle for a change.

DrJoanAllenby · 18/03/2024 23:46

In the video there looks to be Christmas decorations/lights on the wooden hut they walk past.

PerfectTravelTote · 18/03/2024 23:47

The DM photos are just some woman with long brown hair and a guy in a hat.

Charlingspont · 18/03/2024 23:48

It does look a bit different to the slightly puffy face in the car the other week. Am wondering if abdominal surgery with a long recovery time was also the perfect opportunity for a quick facelift, out of the public eye - hence the puffy face, now not puffy, but slightly altered? 😉 Only time will tell.....

Makulate · 18/03/2024 23:50

If Kate is well enough to pop to the farm shop, then surely KP could put out a non-messed around with, genuine photo of Kate and possibly W. No more grainy footage, just enough to stop the rumour mill continuing to grind away.

Why not just do that? A grainy video of someone not really looking like Kate was only going to perpetuate it all. It seems so simple to put it all to bed. The argument has been - until today - leave Kate alone. But if she's getting out and about, that changes things slightly.

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