The United Kingdom has been kept in suspense since the announcement of Kate Middleton's hospitalization by Kensington Palace on January 16.
What is the Princess of Wales suffering from?
Is she in good health today?
How is his convalescence going?
For now, the mystery remains.
In London, the press was cautious, surprisingly not very talkative on the subject.
And above all little informed.
For her part, a Spanish journalist, Concha Calleja, took everyone by surprise, including the English media, by claiming that Kate had been put in a coma due to complications during her “scheduled abdominal surgery”.
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As the
Times
reports , the 59-year-old author, who appeared on Spanish television's "Fiesta" as a royal expert, argued the princess had been "in great danger" after her operation and that the doctors had to do everything possible to save his life.
Concha Calleja indicated that she had obtained this information from “a collaborator of the royal household” who spoke to her “in a completely confidential manner”.
“The doctors had to make drastic decisions at that time due to the complications that arose,” said the Spaniard in this program watched by 900,000 viewers.
“The decision was to put her in an artificial coma.
They had to intubate him.
There were serious complications that they did not expect, because the operation had gone well, but the post-operative period went less well.”
“Totally absurd”
Concha Calleja further speculated that the princess's recovery would "require a lot of assistance."
Then to specify that “virtually an entire hospital was being installed” at Adelaide Cottage, Kate and William’s home in Windsor.
Allegations which immediately aroused the surprise and concern of the British.
But is it true?
Asked by the very serious
Times
, a Palace source firmly denied the Spaniard's version.
“It’s totally absurd,” she assured the English daily.
“The journalist did not try to verify the facts with family members.
It’s fundamentally and totally invented.”
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That said, Concha Calleja's comments were quickly picked up by a range of Spanish media outlets, including some of the country's most serious newspapers, such as
El Confidencial
,
La Vanguardia
and
La Razón
.
Kensington, for his part, may not have said his last word.
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