Almost two months have passed since Kensington Palace announced that Kate Middleton had been hospitalized "for scheduled abdominal surgery."
Since then, the Princess of Wales has returned to her family, to her home at Adelaide Cottage, in Windsor, for a convalescence initially planned for two to three months.
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.
In the United Kingdom, this silence worries and gives rise to the worst rumors: coma, cosmetic surgery, anorexia...
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Via one of his spokespersons, Prince William evokes for the first time the conspiracy theories surrounding the mysterious convalescence of his wife Kate Middleton.
“He is focused on his work and not on social media,” a member of the Prince of Wales’s cabinet
told
People on Wednesday, March 6.
A disappearance that worries
The statement comes after countless royal watchers expressed concern online for the Princess of Wales, who has only been seen in public once since she was hospitalized in January.
“We were very clear from the start that the Princess of Wales would be absent until after Easter,” Kensington Palace was already annoyed in a press release published on Thursday, February 29, after multiple rumors surrounding her alleged disappearance.
Five days later, the British Ministry of Defense first announced on its website on Tuesday March 5 that Kate Middleton, appointed Colonel of the Irish Guards, would carry out the annual inspection of soldiers during the Horse Guards Parade.
Information denied during the day by Kensington Palace, which claims to have “not been consulted” regarding the presence of the Princess of Wales at this event.
The name of the latter has since disappeared from the program on the site.
This about-face is far from reassuring the English.
Especially since, if the princess “is doing well”, she would not have “recovered 100%”, indicated the royal biographer Robert Jobson in the columns of the magazine
Hello
!
, this Wednesday, March 6.
Small consolation, Kate Middleton was, however, photographed in the passenger seat of an SUV, smiling and wearing sunglasses, next to her mother Carole, as revealed by
TMZ
.
It was the first photo of the princess in two months.
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