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Mar 2Liked by Allie Jones

I feel like everyone has just forgotten that the palace's original statement said that Kate would not return to public duties until after Easter?? It's confusing to me that there are these conspiracy theories when they laid out the timeline at the beginning. She still has at least a month left, right?!

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I made a near identical comment! It's not after Easter. Why are we stirring up medical conspiracies? Premature!

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I think people really didn't believe that was a real timeline for a real issue (because they never thought it was a real issue to begin with- CLEARLY it was a cover so Kate could be lazy/take vacations/whatever because famous people never, ever have serious health issues), so now that we're in the thick of it there *must* be something nefarious going on!

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Mar 2Liked by Allie Jones

It's the total blackout of stories and NO PHOTOS of Kate that has led to the drama. The British press loves little nothing stories about the Royals, so where are all the "George has stepped up to help Mom" or "Charlotte is learning to cook Mom's favorite foods"? Silence.

We have photos of Charles entering and leaving the hospital, none of Kate. A phot of Charles reading his get well cards, they could easily do one of Kate, why haven't they? Multiple pics of Camilla visiting, only one of William, and somehow no one has made it to the Middletons to ask a question, really?

It just goes to show the Royals can tell the media to back off when they want to, and they've chosen to protect Kate in a way they never did with Meghan. Maybe they learned their lesson?

Anyway, a Royal reporter was on TV yesterday saying he knows what's going on, it's bad, she will recover in time, but he can't say anything. I'm agreeing with that.

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You may be right about the palace locking down the media, but I think it's also possible that Kate/Wills/her parents really are just being that intentionally private. It's happened before and I imagine it will happen again (and more frequently as the kids get older). It's pretty clear they have at least one small group that they trust implicitly.

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I think Kate had to undergo anorexia-related treatment of some kind?

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Mar 2Liked by Allie Jones

My guess is Diverticulitis. The recovery time and hospitalization length more or less tracks with the timeline we've been given.

Although my favorite theory is that she cut her own bangs and needs time to grow them out, haha

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i was also

convinced it was a bowel related issue. maybe not diverticulitis as i think she might be too young for that but i speculated that she may have crohns or UC and had a bowel resection that required an ostomy. but have we thought about a transplant…? kidney or liver. 🤔

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I feel awful speculating but I think this has to be it…

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I forget the potential for stupidity amongst humans. Kate had surgery in January. They said she'd be back after Easter. Is it after Easter? No. Eejit

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bcoop seems so unlikeable, my word. i will always love will from alias, though!

i think kate had some kind of breakdown? they seemed to have had events planned for the early part of this year that might not have made sense with a planned surgery just prior. her husband is not doing a great job of acting like things are fine and normal. 🧐

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Various sources say Justin and Hailey are having fertility problems, so maybe that’s why we should be praying. Valid.

Alls I can say is good luck to Jessica Biel.

And Kate Middleton? The craziest fan fiction I’ve heard is that she’s the new “ Gone Girl!”

Rationally , I think maybe she had a facelift, but she surely didn’t need it. So that’s not it. I do hope she’s ok though. She seems like the real thing.

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My Kate Konspiracy, that is entirely fictional, but is very funny (to me) is that Kate escaped the clutches of Wills and is now in hiding so Wills had to find a body double and the reason we haven't physically seen Kate is because this body double is healing from her Kate face reconstruction surgery.

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