For weeks, the cry has gone up from the internet trolls: “Show us proof of life! Where is Kate Middleton?”
Now they have it. A video, taken by a member of the public, showing the Prince and Princess of Wales leaving the Windsor Farm Shop has been published online, capturing her looking happy, busy and on the mend from surgery.
Prince William and Princess Catherine have been spotted at a farm shop.Credit: The Sun
Ordinary people who felt a twinge of curiosity about her absence from public life will watch, smile and move on, looking forward to the princess’s return to work at some point after Easter.
On the internet, the social media conspiracy theorists have doubled down. It must be a body double, they screamed; she looks too well. Even the rustic-themed decorations outside the shop were cause for suspicion, they claimed: it “must have been” taken not on Saturday but at Christmas.
The publication of metadata showing the video was taken exactly when and where it is said to have been taken was not enough to satisfy them.
Even those who believe it is her have used it to pile on the criticism about why she has not yet got back to work, seemingly unaware that walking a short distance from car to shop is not quite the same as returning to work in formal wear, with microphones ready to broadcast any passing comment around the world.
“She could do a DNA test and people wouldn’t believe it’s her,” said Jack Royston, chief royal correspondent at Newsweek.
At this point, the princess and the palace simply cannot win.
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For weeks, the cry has gone up from the internet trolls: “Show us proof of life! Where is Kate Middleton?”
Now they have it. A video, taken by a member of the public, showing the Prince and Princess of Wales leaving the Windsor Farm Shop has been published online, capturing her looking happy, busy and on the mend from surgery.
Prince William and Princess Catherine have........
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