21 March 2024 - Conspiracy theories about Kate Middleton's whereabouts
‘Where is #katemiddleton?’: theories on Kate’s whereabouts go global
Esther Addley, Dan Milmo and Andrew Roth (The Guardian, 20/03/2024)
When the Sun published images of the Prince and Princess of Wales shopping at a farm shop at the weekend, it said it was doing so “in a bid to end weeks of online speculation which has seen wild conspiracy theories about Kate spread unchecked”.
Why is the royal family so bad at this?
Monica Hesse (The Washington Post, 20/03/2024)
On Monday afternoon, the Zapruder film of the Kate Middleton mystery analysis manifested on TMZ. It showed the Princess of Wales walking with her husband out of a Windsor farm shop, and while she didn’t look exactly glamorous — donning leggings and athleisure wear — she didn’t look, you know, dead, which seemed to put an end one of the more wackadoo theories on the internet: that the woman had expired, and that the royal family had spent several months cribbing from “Weekend at Bernie’s.”
Kate Middleton, Britney Spears and the Online Trolls Doubting Their Existence
Tiffany Hsu (The New York Times, 20/03/2024)
Kate Middleton has long been a magnet for unproven rumors: She pressured an art gallery to remove a royal portrait! She split from her husband! She changed her hairstyle to distract from pregnancy rumors! She did not give birth to her daughter!
Kate Middleton ‘to make soft return’ to public duties after surgery and photo row
Matt Mathers (The Independent, 20/03/2024)
The Princess of Wales will make a “soft return” to public life over Easter weekend once she has fully recovered from her surgery, according to a report.