Kate Middleton announced last Friday, March 22, that she suffers from cancer, although without specifying what type. In this video statement it is clear what has happened to the Princess of Wales all this time that she has been missing: she has been recovering physically and emotionally from the cancerous results after undergoing abdominal surgery in January 2024.
"It was a big shock, and Guillermo and I have been doing everything possible to process and manage it privately for the good of our young family," Kate said in a video in which she also announced that she is receiving "preventive" chemotherapy. .
Therefore, the possibility of any conspiracy theory about her or the British Royal House being true has been completely closed. There is no divorce, there is no abuse, she is not dead, the abdication of King Charles III was not being planned and there will be no pregnancy outside of marriage. Middleton has cancer and was waiting for her children to have a vacation to tell it.
Faced with this scenario that no one expected, precisely because Kensington Palace flatly denied that the princess had cancer - with Charles III they announced it immediately -, all those who have contributed to the numerous theories that have been launched on social networks about Middleton have left in a compromised position.
You just need to take a quick look at different platforms like X or TikTok. In them, a large number of threads and videos have been created that have fueled all kinds of rumors, duly fed by the algorithms, which, in the end, have been known to be false.
While there are those who have realized that they were wrong and have apologized - like the renowned Pilar Eyre -, a good bulk of these content creators have preferred to draw a veil and pretend nothing had happened. They have given the real information, but they have not rectified or apologized for having participated in sharing and creating these types of theories.
The first alarm bells about a possible divorce went off when Prince William of Wales was absent from a mass in honor of his godfather, the last king of Greece, Constantine II, citing "personal reasons" as justification for his decision not to attend for just 45 minutes. before the event.
The situation was further complicated when, after Kate returned home on January 29 to continue her recovery, no images or videos confirming her current condition were released, increasing concern on social media. Furthermore, in the absence of official news, they began to invent much more interesting and scandalous stories.
Public scrutiny rose to a new level when a blurry photo of someone purported to be Kate Middleton in a car was leaked, leading many to speculate that it was a lookalike or even her sister, Pippa Middleton. Kensington tried to calm things down by publishing a new image of Kate on March 10 for Mother's Day, but far from resolving doubts, this fueled conspiracy theories, as some TikTok users claimed that the photo had been digitally altered .
At least this much was true: Kensington Palace posted a message where the princess assumed she had been "messing around" with Photoshop. Given this confirmation, there was already an open bar to distrust everything. Another failed attempt to quell the rumors was a stolen photo showing the back of Kate's head in a car with William, which was also dismissed as a setup by observers.
But it wasn't until the video of the princes of Wales shopping together that the rumor mill became unsustainable. Recorded from afar, with poor quality, with apparent Christmas decorations, with no one turning around to look at them and with a woman who the networks claimed was not Middleton. It also had everything to be a montage that hid something.
Among the many theories that have emerged during this period of uncertainty, one of the most bizarre suggested that Prince William had been unfaithful with an aristocrat close to Kate, which, in the context of the fragile health of his father, Charles III , would indicate an attempt to force a divorce before a potential accession to the throne, which could evoke comparisons with the story of Diana of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles.
But it has not been the only scenario. It has also been suggested that Guillermo would have inherited his father's bad character and would not be able to curb his impulses, so a divorce would have been the end of the world for him. Other possibilities were that the princess had something to do with the death of Thomas Kingston or
