According to a thoroughly tinfoil conspiracy my daughter tripped over, her organs were harvested for Charles and they need time to get her Stepford ready.
Might be a slight difficulty with the prostate, though.…
She and Wills watched the kids at a sporting event, then visited a garden shop in Windsor today, according to the Daily Mail:
The younger kid it that one picture didn’t look so normal.
So can anybody.
Marchioness. Ms. Chumley has been through enough without being demoted straight past countess and viscountess.
Those white people sure are good at making up titles for themselves, aren’t they?
Regarding the badly Photoshopped image, my take on it is just that it’s likely the work of an incompetent publicist who’s now been fired, and if said publicist had an incompetent assistant doing Photoshop work for him, that dude has been fired, too. Beyond that I really couldn’t care less about any of this, other than wishing that Kate Middleton is in good health, as she’s a gracious human being.
That Daily Mail article is a little misleading (not surprising for the DM) in that it says she was seen at a farm shop, and includes several photos of her outdoors, but the photos are all from last year. All the article really says is that an unnamed “witness” claims to have seen her, and is apparently the only person who did so. My bet is that either the DM or the witness fabricated this story.
It isn’t just white. The Malaysian monarchy is headed by the Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Raja Permaisuri Agong.
It’s monarchy what does that, guv’nor. Any self-respecting small-r republican would be too embarrassed to put on such airs. Compare and contrast republican Singapore, which became a republic when it was expelled from the Malaysian monarchy.
I wonder if she’s undergoing treatment for cancer. If so, she may have lost her eyebrows and eyelashes, and her face may be kind of gray and drawn.
If that’s the case it seems a shame they aren’t being open about it – that could do a lot for British women in their own fights against cancer. But maybe they think one member of the royal family being open about a cancer diagnosis is enough.
I keep thinking of Simone , a pretty terrible film I avoided when it was new, and finally watched on streaming a few years ago. An actress is (effectively) AI-generated, and the producer who created her has to engineer sightings of her. Perhaps William could put a mannequin in the passenger seat of a Land Rover, and drive it within a few yards of photographers, close enough for them to get a blurry shot.
(It might have been a better movie if the producer had hired someone else to create the actress-bot, but they disagreed on how much the tech should be paid. “Pay or I’ll blow the whistle on this!” Instead, it was a farce about the producer trying to fool all of the people all of the time. Not funny, and I’m a hard sell when it comes to a producer being a sympathetic character.)
Pretty sure this is a universal rich people thing. Since the very first time society produced a big enough surplus for someone to sit on their arse while everyone else worked, they have been coming up with fancy titles to justify the fact that they sit on their arse while everyone else works
A bit of an understatement there. It’s extremely misleading and clearly attempting to imply that there are photos of her walking around looking happy and healthy when there is nothing of the sort. But yeah it is the Daily Mail though so no conspiracy theory required to justify them printing utter tripe and misinformation.
It definitely does the exact opposite of intended though, its another suggestion that the princess is neither happy or healthy and there is something nefarious going on. Especially as it’s 2024 all the ordinary farm shop punters saw the princess going about her business being happy and healthy, but none of them had access to a cell phone camera?
Maybe our monarchies just didn’t last long enough, but the fanciest they got was naming themselves High Priests as well as kings.
BTW, what is a “farm shop”? That’s not a term I’m familiar with in the US. Is it a place that sells locally grown produce, or a place that sells farming equipment, or what?
Now that Google has the Search Image feature, these kinds of fakes aren’t even fun to uncover anymore.
Here’s the very first match for Kate’s photo
And here’s the one with the kids
I think farm produce stand would be the US equivalent, but they are generally much posher (think a small artisanal Whole Foods)
If she doesn’t choose to let folks know what sort of treatment she had then nobody should keep on demanding the information. One’s medical history is their own business, even a royal’s.
You also were rather small/compact so everyone pretty much knew who was who w/o need for multiple lower ranks. The inflation of titles comes when you need multiple levels and categories due to numbers of vassals or geographic spread (including conquering a place that has some title of its own that you figure you might as well put somewhere in your tier list) or just needing to make clear that Lord Hill outranks Lord Dale who outranks Lord Trail and you outrank all of them and BTW all of Lady Caisson’s titles are now yours because you married her. Then there are those that turn from being a job rank (dux) to being an inherited title (duke) and yes those take time to drift.