What's wrong with Kate Middleton?: plastic surgery, a double, Banksy and other theories about the Princess of Wales

Kate Middleton has become one of the most searched names in recent weeks, even more so in the last few hours.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
05 March 2024 Tuesday 22:00
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What's wrong with Kate Middleton?: plastic surgery, a double, Banksy and other theories about the Princess of Wales

Kate Middleton has become one of the most searched names in recent weeks, even more so in the last few hours. The Princess of Wales was admitted on January 16 to undergo scheduled abdominal surgery that removed her from public life, making her stay in the hospital for two weeks and, subsequently, take refuge within the walls of Windsor Castle.

No one had seen her, since privacy regarding her condition was maintained at the request of King Charles III's own daughter-in-law. However, all that mystery has only increased the theories and speculation about what could be happening with the Princess of Wales. Is it true that her condition was benign? Was this real abdominal surgery?

The media was revolutionized on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 5, after an image of the princess appeared on social networks. In the photograph, Prince William's wife could be seen in the passenger seat of an Audi driven by her mother, Carole Middleton, around Windsor Castle.

The image, obtained by the graphic press agency Backgrid, only fueled rumors and conspiracies about the princess's condition. On social networks, many users began to speculate about the possible explanation for these images, or if it was a new evasion maneuver by the English royal house.

Among the wildest theories, that the woman inside the vehicle is not Kate Middleton - yes she is - and that she is a double of the Princess of Wales, claiming that she is missing some marks on her skin or that she does not show her usual bangs. Others also speculate that plastic surgery could have been performed to enhance her figure.

References to the movies Gone Girl or Saltburn are not lacking on social networks, suggesting that everything could be part of some type of "strategy" of the royal house on networks to increase its popularity.

To comment, some even launch the theory that no work by the British street artist Banksy has been discovered since the Princess of Wales was admitted to the hospital. "Not a single Banksky since Kate Middleton disappeared. Coincidence?" he writes.

Now, despite the interest generated by the princess's health, as the British royal house says, when there is something to share, so it will be. For the moment, as requested by the future consort of the king of the British, the matter will remain in the privacy of her and her family.

For the moment, the princess will take more days off. She was expected to reappear after the Easter holidays, but that will not be the case. The Trooping The Color ceremony, scheduled for June 8, was going to be the event in which Kate Middleton was going to reappear after all these months of recovery, but it seems that it would not have had the approval of Kensington Palace, which would have ordered its immediate withdrawal.

The Big Brother house in the United Kingdom can now boast of having a certain "royal" touch in its new edition. Gary Goldsmith, uncle of the Princess of Wales, is already an official contestant on the famous reality show. The businessman, younger brother of Carole Middleton, mother of Prince William's wife, Kate Middleton; He is the star signing of this new edition that returns after six years.

Goldsmith is a controversial character per se. Carole Middleton's brother, 58, has been the subject of headlines for years. Above all, when in 2017 he was fined £5,000 (about €5,850 at the exchange rate) and a community order after admitting to having physically abused and seriously insulted his wife during an argument.