Great news, HRH Princess Kate seen in public today

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The press has published pics of HRH with her mum in mum Audi on a
"school run." HRH was seated in the front passenger seat.

Wishing HRS Kate a speedy recovery!!

There was a lot of unhappiness at the time about the boys being made to walk behind their mothers coffin. Diana's brother spoke out against the idea and received a lot of public support as a result.
I have no idea why it happened. But the popular theory at the time was that the family were worried members of the public would throw things as the family walking behind the coffin, but they would not do that if the boys were there. By popular theory, I mean people were talking about this theory and it was written about in the press.

…that look exactly like them?

Oh I'd forgotten about the super recogniser who wasn't sure if it was her or not.

Apparently corvids are very good at recognising people. Perhaps we could find one and ask it? It might have to be a bird that Catherine has been nice or nasty to in the past though. So there might be a slight flaw in my cunning plan.

Agree. I was newly moved to London when Diana died. Remember thinking the country had lost the plot. The smell of decaying flowers around KP will forever live in my memory. Brits and their ‘stiff upper lip’ myth was dispelled that week.
Think Diana dying saved them as they became more media savvy after that. I recall the Late Queen being very disliked in the 80s (in the North at least) but after this she was a little more human and as she got older it became unseemly to be mean about an old lady doing her duty.
Now we have the ‘age of the conspiracy’ (have to admit I do laugh along with a lot of them). With the public getting more crazy (and worldwide) and the Royals employing PR that can’t decide if it is creating a progressive, modern image or if it should stick to traditional values (like the Late Queen always did to no ill effect). Basically mixing between the two, badly, as the mood takes them. It will not end well.
I too am waiting for the Royals to fall on their sword. Mind, since we can’t cobble a decent government together at the moment I don't see the urgency in declaring a republic and having a second layer of elected idiots.
The one I feel most sorry for is Charlotte. One day she will be Princess Royal and be compared to both Princess Anne for her work ethic and Kate for glamour. She needs to get the hell out as soon as she can! Kate signed up for this so needs to take the crazy along with the good or leave.

That really doesn't look like Kate, unless she's receiving steroids and her face has changed considerably, but doesn't she also have a mole on her cheek? Might it be a member of their staff, one of her female friends helping out, or just some acquaintance of Carole's?

The one I feel most sorry for is Charlotte. One day she will be Princess Royal and be compared to both Princess Anne for her work ethic and Kate for glamour.

Theres no guarantee Charlotte will be Princess Royal. She could very easily be in her 30s by the time Anne dies and a respectable amount of time passes before they give the title again. If she’s not a working royal, or has been given another title by then, it may not be given to her.

The comparisons are likely to happen as you say though. Regardless of title.

Does look oddly like a conglomeration of Catherine and Pippa. Did they shave the brother?

This photo was published first in a foreign tabloid. It does not come from a reputable source. It may or may not be Catherine, illness can change how you look. But until the palace confirm it is Catherine I will not be taking this as gospel.

It really was, I'm sorry.

I've posted about the divorce rumour upthread. Dan Wootten is your man. Giles Coren is the other one. The UK press dropped Wootten's narrative almost immediately because there was no basis for it and didn't want to fall foul of libel laws. The US press has no such restraints and neither does SM. A rumour was borne. It rolled around and around the web, and was picked up with glee by the Sussex Squad and a certain author whose name I won't mention here but who is a prominent supporter of theirs. And it's back again now, promoted into something it never was, by someone saying that a grainy photo of two women not smiling whist driving supports a divorce narrative.

And even if the photo was a set up by KP to reassure, I don't really know how you leap from it being an ineffective piece of PR on her health/wellbeing to "she looks down because she's getting a divorce". That's what makes zero sense to, I am going to guess, everyone reading what you were posting.

Anyway, no, I'm not looking for a fight. Far too early in the day to ruffle my feathers over nonsense.

Steroids would be given after a Kidney transplant, along with a whole host of anti-rejection drugs.

My mum had two… as they don’t always take. Each lasted about 10 years before machine dialysis and decline.

Hope for her sake it is not this (it is one of the theories as London clinic do this procedure and Royals usually go next door to King Ed hospital). Renal failure takes its toll and you don’t tend to make very old bones (my mum had first at 37 and dies at 59… living several years longer than they predicted but in decking in and terrible health for the last 10 years).
But it’s such a bad photo it’s impossible to really see her face.

Alberto 👏🏽

As a rabid Republican who'd have them all up against the wall, I think publishing that picture is utterly shocking.

Sorry you lost your mum so young @WestLondonmumfromtheNorth.

I knew a fella who had a bowel re-section due to severe Crohns, and he had to take steroids and did gain a lot of weight around his face and neck.

curlew.

I agree. There was no need to publish that.

I don’t think much more of the British press and their “we’re not publishing this as that would be wrong, but here is exactly where you can find it”

No better in my book.

You know so much about it, I can tell.

Yes, it's fairly important to go through a process, and come to the right conclusion. That's what I'm counted on to do.

It's not about going "THAT'S HER!" and shutting down every other train of thought.

In other words - when I'm working - it's about getting it consistently, reliably right, often by studying barely visible, partial images (not in this case, obviously), and not by being being first to yell the answer.

Having looked at it again I think it looks more like Pippa than Kate. Cansu on Twitter has posted a photo of Pippa next to the one that's meant to be Kate in the car and it does look more like Pippa, the shape of her face particularly.

Plus doesn't Kate have a protection officer, there was no one else in the car.

KP has now said her attendance isn't confirmed so I suppose it's full speed ahead again with speculation. I wonder if it was just an automated list that was jumped on as being significant.

That's Pippa!

Pippas face shape has a much wider jaw than kates.

Why are they saying its kate. That is making things look suspicious

True

If only they used their powers for good eh!

It looks like Pippa to me too

That is clearly pippa in the photo.

It's a bit stupid of the newspapers.

They obviously are paying photographers a big fee for the photo of "the first sighting of kate"

So photographers are lying to the papers about getting a photo of Kate when they didn't.

I wonder how much the pap got paid for this wrong photo of kate

”They” haven’t said it is anyone at all. It’s all speculation on social media as to whether it is the Princess, her sister or some random acting as a double.

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