Princess Kate and Kensington Palace Finally Push Back

Will and Kate on the offensive to combat social media trolls and conspiracy theorists who're back for Round 2 of "Where's Kate?"

Hello Dear Readers! Happy Wednesday! To my American readers, I hope you all had a restful three day weekend and to those who have family who fought and lost their lives in the armed forces, we remember them and their sacrifice.

Last week, I noticed to social media trolls were beginning to whip up the familiar conspiracies regarding the well-being of Catherine, the Princess of Wales. There’s little doubt the point of this activity was a huge social media push to re-start the “Where’s Kate?” narrative. Per usual, the ownership of this predictable campaign runs straight through the supporters of two ex-royals. Thankfully, this new rebooted push has lost much of its potency. Most people without an agenda are heeding Princess Catherine’s wish for privacy and time to heal. We’re proud that HRH Royal Tea was one of the first publications to call out the alarming spread of these dangerous conspiracies back in February before they’d even reached a fevered pitch.

The obsession in the Princess of Wales’s operation, recovery and the insane conspiracy theories around her health are genuinely unbalanced. Since Kensington Palace made the announcement regarding Catherine’s convalesce, the tweets have taken an extremely sinister turn, with multiple different accusations from William being a domestic abuser and murdering her, both being alcoholic/drug abusers, Catherine attempting suicide, eating disorders, an abortion after a late stage pregnancy and then the milder accessions of failed plastic surgery. Whilst the Royal Family are tax-payer funded to the tune of £1.50 per person, per year; that does not mean that they are personal property of the British tax payers for abuse and character assassination.

The problem lies with people not being used to those in the public eye being private anymore. The public is used to public figures posting selfies (or the dreaded hand holding shot) from their hospital bed, with lengthy Instagram Stories on a black background explaining every step of their hospitalization. How Catherine/Kensington Palace has chosen to handle this isn’t shocking or “worrying” to anyone who has followed the Princess of Wales for longer than a couple of years. She’s not gone. She’s doing what her office said she would: Recovering in private, because she actually knows the meaning of the word.

With two recent stories in The Daily Mail and one story in Vanity Fair, Kensington Palace’s showing they’re not going to be caught flat footed. Dear Readers, it’s my feeling William and Catherine aren’t keen to repeat past missteps by admirably trying to ignore the noise. The three stories by seasoned, established journalists Rebecca English and Richard Eden at The Daily Mail and Katie Nicholl at Vanity Fair paint a picture their communications team want out there. Please read on for why I think these stories were provided to these three journalists in response to a one Tom Sykes’s story from The Daily Beast.

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