In philosophical terms it could be called “Kate’s dilemma.” If the person who appears in the video released on Monday is a double of the Princess of Wales, it is a bad thing (especially for her personally), because it means that she is much worse than what is said. And if it is indeed her, smiling, happy and full of energy, then what is she doing on sick leave instead of pitching in and attending events on behalf of the Royal House, which is not about breaking any stone either?
In the United Kingdom, an enormous gap has opened between the more or less serious press and social networks due to the treatment of Catalina. The BBC and the newspapers, even the tabloids, are committed to respecting his privacy and collect the hoaxes, rumors and conspiracy theories about his state of health only in a tangential way, presenting them in any case as absurd speculations typical of feverish minds. that they have nothing better to do. On the other hand, you don’t have to surf the Internet much to find harsh criticism and stark mockery. The anti-monarchists rub their bellies with pleasure.
The Palace’s public relations apparatus has not quite hit the right button, perhaps because the wait is becoming endless (she had surgery on January 17 but has not appeared in public since Christmas). If a week is an eternity in politics, let alone eight and a half weeks in matters of royalty, which to have credibility must be visible, as Isabel II said, and now it is in a kind of chiaroscuro, with Charles III sick with a cancer (it is not known what), and Catalina missing in action (after a mysterious intestinal operation that “has nothing to do with cancer” and could be to deal with an ailment similar to Crohn’s disease).
Secrecy encourages not only rumors but also greed. Nelson Silva, the guy who filmed the video of Kate (or her double) in a Windsor farm store on Saturday, has taken a pretty penny after auctioning the images and having them bought by the American website TMZ (owned by the Fox Corporation), which is dedicated to celebrity news, and by the English newspaper The Sun.
Silva was in the right place at the right time, and it’s like he won the lottery. Instead, the employee or employees at the London Clinic (where Kate underwent surgery) who have attempted to access her medical data face an ongoing internal investigation, dismissal and even criminal charges. The hospital has reported that electronic notes about a patient (prognosis, treatment, etc.) are accessible to doctors and nurses for obvious reasons, but no one else is supposed to try to view them.
Although the police have not intervened so far, the clinic has reported an illegal attempt to access the princess’s data, presumably with the intention of leaking it to the press. This is a blow to the reputation of one of the most expensive and exclusive medical centers in the English capital, where King Charles III also underwent prostate surgery and the cancer he suffers from was detected.
Meanwhile, the debate continues over whether the girl in the video is Catalina (in some photos it does seem that way, in others it does not), and even whether the man next to her is Guillermo, although it seems so. In the times of artificial intelligence, people do not trust one thing and believe that any manipulation is possible. Especially after the famous photo of the happy family – the princess and her children – was doctored.
