It's been almost a month since Kensington Palace announced the hospitalization of Kate Middleton "for scheduled abdominal surgery."
A press release which had the effect of a thunderclap in London, as the Princess of Wales had until then seemed in very good shape.
Since then, she has returned to her family, to her home at Adelaide Cottage, in Windsor, for a two to three month convalescence.
Apart from that, nothing filters.
And we still do not know what Prince William's wife suffered - or is suffering from - except that it is not cancer.
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In the United Kingdom, this silence worries and gives rise to the worst rumors.
So, to solve the mystery, or satisfy their thirst for curiosity, the English rely on the opinion of health specialists, many of whom express themselves in the press.
Dr Deborah Lee, quoted by
The Express
, lists without getting too carried away all the pathologies which could have caused the operation of the much adored princess.
Including a stomach or duodenal ulcer, a cholecystectomy (removal of the gallbladder), a splenectomy (removal of the spleen) or even surgery to relieve an intestinal obstruction.
That being said, Deborah Lee, representative of the site Dr Fox, an online pharmacy, also wishes to note that gynecological disorders could very well have required abdominal surgery.
A diagnosis towards which the British tabloids have leaned from the start.
And here again, the reasons for the intervention are diverse: surgery linked to endometriosis, hysterectomy (removal of the uterus), oophorectomy (removal of one or both ovaries due to an ovarian cyst, an tumor or torsion of the ovary), or surgery for an ectopic pregnancy.
Also read: Richard Fitzwilliams: “Kate Middleton has made it known that she does not wish to share details regarding her operation”
When Internet users unblock
But medical expertise is far from convincing everyone.
While the silence from Kensington Palace remains, Internet users act as doctors, at least for the duration of a post.
A certain “JiggyG” maintains, for example, that the Princess of Wales suffers from a hiatal hernia (i.e. the esophagogastric junction between the esophagus and the stomach which ends up migrating upwards, we read on the website of the National Society French gastroenterology), caused by vomiting from her three pregnancies.
When another Internet user imagines that Kate's health problems arise after years of anorexia.
“It’s not shameful, but she has been terribly thin since her marriage,” she wrote.
Still others consider that Kate's long media absence actually masks something else: her recourse to “plastic surgery”.
“We all know Kate had plastic surgery and is in hiding,” claims @SabaSmw.
Less far-fetched theories than the lunar one of another user of .
“So very soon we will see a pregnant king,” he bets, visibly very enlightened...
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