Spanish press reporting Kate was extremely ill

[vaporrub]

I don’t know how credible this is because I saw it on Twitter…

But apparently the media in Spain have reported that Catherine’s surgery was not actually planned, did not go smoothly and she was actually very sick/possibly in a coma for a period of time. And there has been a press blackout in the UK.

Could there be any truth in this? I’m struggling to see WHY something like that would be ‘hidden’ anyway 🤔

And yet both the Independent and Tatler published articles about the woman mentioned in @Whalesong's link (although Tatler later withdrew their article)! The same woman who was named by foreign press, a friend of Kate's who she apparently fell out with (or at least suddenly stopped associating with after a seemingly close friendship.

Of course it means (and probably is), nothing. But I wonder why they would publish an article, without any context, about a woman who is not royal, nor in any way interesting/famous/doing anything newsworthy at this time.

The article (without context), was published on Monday. Sometimes it's not what is said, rather than what isn't.

Which is exactly what I'd expect from someone at that level of fame.

Her head is from a Vogue shoot some years ago.

It’s not actually and many experts have revealed why it can’t be .

That seems highly unlikely to me. Even if it was an attempt to make her look much better than she does, to choose an image from a world famous magazine cover would be spectacularly stupid, even in light of this week's spectacular stupidity from KP

Because the social media bots and trolls were trying to give that story legs again and the papers know that people will be googling, so they publish the piece so that it comes up on google and they get the clicks. It’s a very common tactic. Nice eh?

😂

Well at the level of the King’s fame the public was told he has some kind of cancer. That’s what’s expected at that level.

The Evening Standard are now getting in on the click bait factoid act.

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/lady-rose-hanbury-marchioness-of-cholmondeley-princess-kate-best-friend-childhood-children-marriage-b1144827.html

"Party loving" and "Saltburnesque" upbringing 👀🙀

They aren't at the same level.

The King is Head of State and has an important constitutional role.

Kate is a senior royal, but does not have a role in the functioning of the state. So they are very different.

And Charles' candour isn't 'what's expected'. It's quite unusual for a royal, as has been remarked upon. That's great if he felt comfortable revealing information about his diagnosis, but Kate isn't obliged to feel the same way. We were told she'd had abdominal surgery and the plan is she will be seen again at Easter, with updates only if considered necessary.

What level of information do you feel entitled to about the health of the Princess of Wales?

Discussing your possible hysterectomy/prolapse or bowel operation is not in anyway the same as discussing mental health or PTSD and you know it, just in case you forgot it was actually Kate, William and Harry who set up Heads Together to end the stigma around mental health, before Meghan was even the scene.

Yes! Also 1 in 4 women experience domestic violence. Do any of us not know a woman who's suffered DV? I know plenty. I'm not saying that's what it is. But it's not mad off the wall David Icke theories people are discussing. They're real things that happen to real people, and the RF are real people (not lizards)

There was a link earlier in this thread to El Pais

Jesus, another Kate thread. Get a life

This x 1000000. This is the best response on all the different threads about this topic.

@vaporrub I've heard that she is changing skin because she is also reptilian. No kidding, conspiracies theories are all over the place.

There has to be so many because people keep filling them up with comments like that 🤣 It's quite easy to stay away if you're not interested.

I don’t give a shit about Kate Middleton but what does fuck me off is the UK media being banned from reporting the fucking truth whilst the rest of the world knows it. Thats dangerous, dystopian territory. I would expect that in Russia not the UK. The same happened when Borris made his daughter or sister whatever she was a peer and gave her a job for life. It’s worrying behaviour, we should all be respected and offered privacy but if us humble peasants aren’t they shouldn’t be awarded special privileges, they already get enough of them.

On my good god, can’t everyone just stop with their conspiracy theories and leave the poor woman alone!

It isn’t though, as the trending threads have been ten a penny with this boring conspiracy shit despite the fact they said right at the beginning she’d be off work for ages

Ambulance called to Sandringham with a police escort on Dec 28th

I’d just like to point out that this is a complete fabrication - no-one has any evidence whatsoever of an ambulance called to Sandringham on this date.

What has been shared on social media is a two second clip someone filmed of a Land Rover car with a police escort in what looks like Marylebone on this date. No ambulance. No indication it’s even Kate in the car (royals aren’t the only ones in London who have these kind of secure travel arrangements) . No idea where they are going to.

So it’s a complete supposition based on a single snippet of “evidence”, the facts of which are completely unknown.

(Not least the utter stupidity of thinking that if Kate was suffering a medical emergency that required her to be blue-lighted out of Sandringham, she would be driven the 100 miles from Norfolk to London for treatment. There are NHS hospitals in Norfolk. The Royal family go there if it’s a genuine emergency - like Sophie’s placental abruption. Also they have ready access to helicopters…)

They're certainly more reliable than some of the Spanish trashy gossip rags.

The U.K. obviously has an awful tabloid press that publishes a lot of guff and nonsense, plus manipulation, but I believe the US National Enquirer publishes fantastical stories that are outright fabrications/lies. If there is a section of Spanish press (I presume the stories are coming from their tabloids not broadsheets) whose standard is at the National Enquirer level and it is from this kind of paper that are making claims about Kate then the credibility of such stories would be close to zero.

They haven't stopped the disparaging threads on her, or the ones on Harry and Meghan.