Where's the "Where is Kate" thread?

But if, like prince andrew, you’re credibly accused of sexual assault, will your employer cover for you? If you get pulled over driving drunk can you get out of it by saying I work for xyz company? Are you guaranteed to keep custody of your kids in a divorce because of your work position? Do you get the best medical care possible because of your employer, can you go to the hospital and get a private room and private duty nurse becuase you work for xyz?

The royals have perks the rest of us will never have so I’m not going to shed a tear over them being asked to provide some details about their sick leave.

I hope I am never under your medical care, what with your shocking lack of compassion.

I find it utterly laughable that anyone who wants to exist under a system where you believe who your parent is determines your ability to rule is frustrated that the public is interested in you. There is nothing else. Why the monarchy has not yet figured out that interest is the absolute only thing they have is mind boggling. You can't have the perks without the bullshit. Sorry not sorry that you think you're above it all - why Americans feed the insanity is what I don't understand. We decided long ago this system was stupid - why do we still care - they're just very, very flawed people who have never had to do anything and have continued to prove their very very real human flaws - divine right - yeah - no.

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I like this theory:

I could be wrong since I don’t have a huge estate - but it’s just not the same! Love the buzz of being out in the morning and everyone is out running, walking, biking, heading to work, getting their coffee. Would not want to be “trapped” on my estate. It’s like the marina green in the morning - heaven.

She can - when she's there but they live in Windsor. Anmer is their country house so they stay sometimes obviously but don't live there full time.

Which is why I said “when they’re there.” I’m aware they haven’t used it as their primary residence since George started school.

Currently I don't think any of them are living there.  The private rooms are being redone. The King and Queen still live at Clarence House where he has lived since he and Diana divorced, or thereabouts.  Anyway when it's done and they move in, it will likely be just them.  Once QEII's children were grown/married with their own homes, they did not live at BP though I think they may have maintained apartments there to occasionally stay the night when in London.

ETA: Charles moved to Clarence House after the Queen Mother passed.

You know all this chatter and theories would basically stop if there was just a simple "hey this is Kate, I'm fine. I'll be back" Well it wouldn't stop all together. But it would end a lot of the speculations of her being dead/dying/etc.

That's what the Palace did when she came home from the hospital. When she tried to do it with the Mother's Day photo, things blew up.

Not the Palace. Not a picture.. just a quick video that is clear and straight to the point.  I am assuming she is well enough to do so.  If not that is a whole different ballgame. 

I'm not saying she has to do this.  Maybe she doesn't care what is going out in the world.  Just a thought on my part.  It just seems so easy to do (from outside looking in) to put everything to rest until she is ready or willing to address it.  And maybe she doesn't.  Not our business really.

When would she had done it though? I know when I had outpatient surgery I didn't feel up to much for days, and that didn't involve staying in the hospital for more than a week! If she was on pain medication, she might not have felt (or looked) coherent enough to be filmed - can you imagine how she would have been ripped to shreds if she appeared high on narcotics after her surgery? At the point where she may have felt up to filming something, it could have been several weeks or more, at which point the conspiracy theories were already spreading and people would have been like, oh this is a knee jerk response to the theories. The poor woman can't win, even when the time table was laid out at the start.

Also, the people who trade whispers about how this was a planned surgery, but then she had to cancel appearances, claiming that it wasn't as planned as the Palace states (insinuating that the surgery was really an emergency due to self harm or William hurting her), have clearly never scheduled someone in that kind of position. Scheduling is a crazy dance, and things are booked out months/years in advance, as there are all sorts of logistics that go into such an appearance. If routine medical testing discovered a problem, the surgery would have been scheduled, but it would have been scheduled after she had made commitments for events that occurred during the recovery window. As an example, I broke my back in December 2020. The imaging at the ER revealed a previously unknown issue in my abdomen. After I recovered from the broken back, I followed up on the abdominal issue with additional scans, watchful waiting, more scans, and bloodwork, before surgery was eventually scheduled for April 2021. I had to reschedule a few things that I had previously committed to do, because of the expected two week recovery time from that outpatient surgery. If that happened to random me, I can't imagine how much more complex rescheduling Kate's calendar would have been.

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