Following yesterday’s bombshell that Kate Middleton had been diagnosed with cancer, Kensington Palace is under scathing scrutiny.
After much speculation about her health and whereabouts, Middleton finally spoke to the public in a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) on March 22. She shared her cancer diagnosis and provided updates on her condition.
Middleton revealed that follow-up tests after surgery in January revealed cancer. “Therefore, my medical team recommended that I undergo preventive chemotherapy treatment and I am now in the early stages of that treatment,” she said in the video.
“[We] “We have been doing our best to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family.”
Of course, more fuel was added to the fire on March 10, coinciding with Mother’s Day in the United Kingdom. Prince William and Middleton posted a photo on social media. The image showed the princess, who had not been seen in public since January, with her three children.
Almost instantly, Internet users spotted numerous obvious problems with Photoshop. However, Middleton apologized the next day on social media, claiming that she had personally edited the image.
This led Getty and other news organizations to flag other images of the royal family as digitally enhanced. It also made many wonder more about what was behind Middleton’s lack of public appearances.
Many followers of the royal family are also wondering why Kate Middleton’s health situation was not handled differently.
“Why did Kensington Palace post the doctored photo and then throw Kate Middleton under the bus for it?”, one X user he asked himself. “Presumably they’ve known all this time that she’s dealing with cancer???”
Kate Middleton has been diagnosed with cancer. Brutal.
I really wish Buckingham Palace had said this from the beginning; Instead, they launched multiple rounds of obvious lies and doctored photographs.
As a cancer survivor, my thoughts are certainly with Kate – cancer sucks! pic.twitter.com/ZYhOx0AdKF
—Jay Perk (@JohnathanPerk) March 22, 2024
Some Internet sleuths and true crime devotees speculated that all the bad PR moves were intended to be smokescreens to give Middleton time to recover. However, many viewers questioned this logic.
“So you mean to tell me that someone at Kensington Palace decided that the best way to protect Kate Middleton’s privacy while dealing with cancer was to create completely avoidable PR disasters,” one X user wondered. “So?” make her take the blame for them? Incredible scenes.”
Others agreed with this assessment while considering the repercussions for those behind the public relations mistake.
“So why did Kate Middleton get thrown under the bus for her ‘hobby with Photoshop’ and cause an international incident?”, another X user wrote. “I’m afraid it is necessary to behead some press teams.”
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