fficially, the mystery of Kate Middleton’s whereabouts over the past few months is no mystery at all. According to the monarchy, the princess has chosen to stay out of the public eye while she recovers from a planned abdominal surgery In mid-January.
But that story hasn’t been nearly enough to satisfy the public at large. In recent weeks, online spaces and mainstream news sources have been flooded with endless speculation, jokey memes and wild conspiracy theories, all aimed at answering the question “Where is Kate?”
Outside of a few sparse updates from the royals, there was extremely limited information on Kate’s condition for several weeks after she had surgery for an as-yet-unknown reason. Conjecture about what was “really” going was cranked up even more after the Prince and Princess of Wales shared a family photo that was subsequently pulled from the photo libraries of several major news organizations due to evidence that it had been altered.
At the moment, social media is still overflowing with posts scrutinizing the few recent images of the princess with Zapruder film-like detail and chronicling elaborate theories and alternate explanations for Kate’s public absence — including radical plastic surgery, infidelity, an undisclosed coma, the use of body doubles and a even secretly dead king.
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