Okay , I'm just going to say it... where is Kate Middleton?

[Tuesdayalready]

(or for the MN purists, Catherine) The most high profile and popular member of royal family has not been seen since Christmas. I do think it's quite strange and so many rumours from the foreign press. And before anyone starts jumping down my throat about her having hysterectomy / crohns / ad infimum / I've had both a hysterotomy and half my intestine removed and was back in work within a 8 weeks.

Some mods, as well. Not a single post was rule-breaking, or personally directed.

FFS 😂

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/01/royals-b-team-prince-andrew-princess-of-wales

Marina Hyde responds to this kind of question well.

Marina usually nails it.

This part made me laugh:

’‘“Why can’t Kate be open about her surgery?” Mm-hm. I think it’s because she doesn’t want to be? The general tenor of these rapidly snowballing articles is that of your worst nosy neighbour coming round shortly after you’ve had some surgery you don’t want to go into, even though you’ve expressly said no visitors, and screaming through the letterbox: “How are you feeling ‘down there’? I am a well-meaning friend!” Then posting the whole exchange online.’’

“The trouble for the royals, ultimately, is that you need those diehard fans to be on your side”

Correct & why I would hate to be Royal.

Probably NITS or because it was becoming a bit of a bunfight. Both grounds for deletion as well as really tedious for everyone else on the thread

On a thread about the "ineptitude" of palace message wrangling.

Utter fucking perfection, mods.

I’m fond of a mod.

@FrannieSaid - calm down.

You got a few deletions for breaking guidelines, the world is still spinning on its axis.

I’m sure MN mods would be more than appreciative of you dropping them an email and pointing out how they should be doing their job. Or possibly you wore out the report button and they just went ‘F*k It.

Probably a very good job I’m not a mod!!

Clearly plenty do care! Indeed, it is a matter of some amusement to me that many of the same Sussex squad/Celebitchy obsessives who have spent the past four years insisting that Meghan was the real star of the RF and Kate would never be missed - are now demanding to know - with increasing hysteria - where Kate is.

Just carry on, though: after all, the entire episode has served to demonstrate that A) Kate is very much missed, B) there really is no personal drama (even cancer in the family or serious illness) that Harry and Meghan will not try to capitalise on for their own ends and C) the wider public is now seeing for itself that the Sussex-supporting social media trolls are probably far more demented and much nastier in their attacks on Kate than any of those targeting H and M

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Sussex Squad and the Twitter meltdowns are just embarrassing at this point

I'm calm, and amused, thanks,.

"Sussex squad"

"Twitter meltdowns"

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Clearly plenty do care!

Hence the crazy speculation & conspiracy theories. Many fans think they are owed the details & transparency.

’FFS’

’mods!’

‘calm, and amused’

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There is data protection on everyone in the UK so that only health care professionals who look.after you have access to your medical records. Regardless of what is wrong with the POW she is entitled to privacy and given the panting lust for information about her no sodding wonder she doesn't want to come out and be forensically analysed. ( which to me is fed by the scandal hungry media because one of their main paper and magazine selling personalities isn't around) If she has 6 days 6 weeks or 6 months it is nobodys business. If she didn't have mental health issues beforehand she definitely will now. I'm not even a rf fan.

Yes it’s creepy as well as pathetic

But that’s the downside of die hard fans & as Marina said you need them on your side. A tricky tightrope!

Would you not class yourself as a die hard @TitusGroaned then?

@Bigtrip2026 👏🏽

Maybe she’s in training and going to pop up on the gladiators final 👀

Wills in the audience with a big sign ‘Do it for Big Willy!’ With a crude drawing they’ll pixelate for prime time

FFS why does this need ANOTHER thread?

Not a Royalist at all - how strange to make up leanings for people you don’t know in the slightest.

The die hard fans on both sides are creepy, The Kate obsessives and the Sussex Squad losers.