Kate Gate

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Shamefully starting a new Kate related thread for the fellow people like me who are so far down the rabbit hole they need to talk it out with fellow tin foil hat wearers 🤙
I want to know.. what do you think?
Where is she?
The wild theories?
Will she make the Easter Day service?
What the hell is going on over at KP?

I think she's seriously ill and will be stepping back soon.

I've got popcorn and I've got alllllll night, let's dissect.

They actually don’t have a team of Nannies. They have one nanny who doesn’t live in . Perhaps they don’t want her doing all the parenting for months .

In the last financial year the cost of the NHS was £155bn in England alone (it will be more this year but accounts will not have be finalised until year end).

So the sovereign grant would buy you just under 5 hours running time of the NHS (and only in England!). A drop in the ocean!

How convenient they have stopped the future engagement entries.

We can see from the posted stats ti
that they have done virtually nothing for years and years.

@Severalwhippets they stopped the future engagement entries years ago for all the main Principals so nothing to see there - I'd imagine it was security related

Then I would fund children on free school meals to meals in the holidays and food bank financial aid giving the number of desperate families using them. I wonder how this is even happening in 2024 people living in palaces as young children are cold and starving.

I am a royalist but I think they need to be self funded at this point.

@Nono22972 I don’t fundamentally disagree but we don’t know exactly how sick she is, we don’t have any context or know the circumstances.

If gravely serious in that she was terminally ill, God forbid, & fortunately this feels unlikely, this would mean additional time off understandable.

What about all the taxes they dont pay? Or all the money in offshore accounts? How many hours of NHS time would that pay for? How about Williams constant helicopter use and his 4 fully staffed homes? Or the many renovations on Anmer Hall? If they reduced their own enormous carbon footprint, how much quicker eoukd we get to net zero?

My original theory on this was Kate went in for an op that required 6 weeks or so recovery time, but thought as the Easter holidays were just a few weeks later she'd take time off until then, William decided he'd use it as an excuse to sack off work too, then Charles got diagnosed with cancer and he was forced to end his extended ' looking after the kids'. I wouldn't be surprised if Camilla was pissed off.

Paul Burrell is saying Catherine is recovering in Norfolk, in which case she’s away from the children (?)

Maybe you're right

Since when is Paul Burrell considered a credible source? I think he hasn't talk to neither Harry or William in maybe 20 years

Why did Ibthink he lived in Australia? In any case, how woukd he know?

@Nono22972 he said he knew many in Royal household & also that, as you say, he wasn’t in touch with PW & hadn’t spoken to him.

He was very certain on Norfolk.

He was in the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity last year

I agree. Think Harry has been a prize pratt but he was clearly more angry about his brother than being chucked in a dog bowl!!

There’s a good article in The Independent today which says:

‘Apathy on both sides of the palace wall…is the real scourge of modern monarchy.’

Basically it suggests that the younger Royals (eg W&K) are as apathetic about their duties and work as the public is about them.

It’s clear W only wants to focus on a couple of projects that interest him. K was given Early Years to do but I’m not hearing anything that makes me think she’s going to take that bull by the horns. They have used the excuse of having a young family as though they are juggling full-time jobs with housework and childcare on a minimum wage. The whole thing is ludicrous.

I think their version of a slimmed-down monarchy is actually fewer of them doing less rather than fewer of them rising to the challenge.

Time off to look after Kate my arse. They’re like those colleagues who turn up when there is cake and piss off when there is work to do.

Apparently W overruled K on George's secondary education. He wanted Eton for him and he got it, Kate didn't get her preferred choice. If anyone can contradict me that's great.

So.... Kate has taken the kids to Norfolk where she is homeschooling them, well someone is, and this is so W cannot send G to Eton. Or something, something, kinda like that. The doors are locked, granny Middleton is guarding the gates, and that my friends is why the kids have not been seen or heard. Their internet access is restricted to educational stuff, and TV is monitored.

The wars of the schooling decisions could be behind all this.

Wouldn’t she want to be near the kids school and her parents and sister though? Assuming she’s still ill and not skiving. William called her the Duchess Doolittle but he’s a fine one to talk .

Not sure any insiders would trust Paul Burrell not to blab. I don’t think he knows anything. I think he was a true insider in the 1990s and traded on it for some time, but not now.

To be fair, the years on that chart correspond with the years KM was pregnant or post partum.

And Charles tbf… He’s a clear first place.

I reckon Norfolk is a distinct possibility. Sea air to recuperate. Children to join her on Friday when their school breaks up. Privacy easier to maintain than at Windsor perhaps. I think KP want her out of sight for now ready to pop up very briefly at Easter (“we told you so”) followed by a further break for further recuperation.

Heaven knows why William needs more time off. It beggars belief. They really are very, very weak.

Just as well H&M didn’t stay because I think they would have stolen the limelight. In fact, I’m of the opinion that they were hounded out because they were stealing the limelight and that simply wasn’t protocol.

My thoughts exactly

I do think William will do exactly what William wants to do which is rather worrying for the future

I have zero knowledge of the "soft power" that the RF has or the "work" that they do , could someone explain a bit.
To me it seems just ceremonial and all about being a figurehead and for show.
Does it matter if William and or Kate decide they are going to do the minimum.
Could it be the beginning of winding down the importance of the monarchy ? So that we are left with something less elevated and more akin to other countries?

Reports of PoW be seen in Windsor looking 'happy and relaxed' with PW.
First steps to a return to 'normal' perhaps.
Or to appease the baying mob

Link here (sorry it's daily fail)
No pictures though ?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13208003/Kate-Middleton-spotted-William-visit-favourite-Windsor-farm-shop-looking-happy-relaxed-healthy-Princess-Wales-takes-steps-return-official-engagements-abdominal-surgery.html

I hope do. But it looks like Williams ' winding down' will involve him not doing much but still taking all the money.No winding down of houses or staff or hangers on.