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Public absence of the British royal family sparks speculation in the United Kingdom Buckingham Palace’s scant information on the health of Charles III and Kate Middleton, who was seen in a photograph Monday, raises more questions than answers
El Pais ^ | March 6, 2024 | Rafa de Miguel

Posted on 03/09/2024 2:08:18 AM PST by xxqqzz

Everything about the British royal family since the beginning of the year has been steeped in the mystery of an Agatha Christie novel. And Then There Were None would be the perfect title for the successive disappearances from public life of the members of the Windsor household, which have unleashed a torrent of speculation and rumor, especially on social networks. First, the Princess of Wales, Catherine (Kate) Middleton, wife of the heir to the throne, Prince William, and almost immediately afterward King Charles III withdrew from the public eye due to health problems. Later, William also announced a pause in his public duties to attend to his wife, who was seen in apparently stolen photos on Tuesday. And even Queen Consort Camilla, who became almost exclusively in charge of representing the British royal household, has just announced that she is taking a week’s break overseas.

“It’s an ever-thickening fog of uncertainty. And it gives more energy to online rumors. It’s the problem of feeding out small pieces of information, enough to prompt more questions and not enough to give answers,” said Sean Coughlan, the BBC’s royal affairs correspondent, summing up the feeling of the British press.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: charlesiii; houseofwindsor; royals; unitedkingdom
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To: xxqqzz

The shot is known to cause rapid cancer.


41 posted on 03/09/2024 6:39:19 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: scouter

If I had to guess, most likely colon cancer.


42 posted on 03/09/2024 6:39:32 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: xxqqzz

“William also announced a pause in his public duties to attend to his wife”

I’m ex-military. I was in the ME while my wife was pregnant and no one gave me time off. She nearly had a miscarriage, was put on bed rest...and I stayed deployed. Did get home before she gave birth but I don’t have much sympathy for William. Do your damn job or quit!


43 posted on 03/09/2024 6:43:07 AM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Jonty30

Based on her picture she’s either on prednisone or had a facelift. My guess is prednisone due to surgery for Crohn’s disease. She starves herself to stay stick thin and then leads a stressful life trying to juggle 3 kids and a heavy agenda of royal appearances. I’m guessing Crohn’s which is very serious. They prescribe heavy steroids for Crohn’s.


44 posted on 03/09/2024 6:53:39 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: xxqqzz

I think there is a possibility Kate has Crohn’s disease that progressed to where she needed surgery. I had a friend who had Crohn’s, part of her colon was removed and she needed a temporary colostomy bag. She was in the hospital for several weeks after surgery the bag wasn’t removed for three to four months.


45 posted on 03/09/2024 7:00:01 AM PST by Toespi ( )
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To: DoodleBob

Meg is reaching for her battery operated megaphone, so she can march up and down the runway shouting: “We Need Our Privacy!!” over and over.


46 posted on 03/09/2024 7:05:05 AM PST by lee martell
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To: TallahasseeConservative

this whole “Diana is a victim” narrative is ridiculous.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I did not say Diana was a Sainted Victim , I said she haunts King Charles.

And for good reason. He was bucking Camella during their marriage which gave Diana severe mental problems. So the ghost of Diana can be seen as invoking an illness.

Do you not believe in folk lore?

King Lear dying while halucinating his greatness and failure?Shakespere said it best, “Je le repetes.”


47 posted on 03/09/2024 7:11:53 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Nateman
And Then There Were None

Bet MEghan and Harry can't contain themselves.

Odd thing about the uncropped car pix is it has 5 tires. There's also pearl clutching over the white horse and the royal guard riders carrying a black flag and a black horse blanket (or whatever it is). The problem with the horses is that it was at a memorial for King Someone and had nothing to do with Charles and Catherine.

48 posted on 03/09/2024 7:32:07 AM PST by bgill
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To: mewzilla

They’ve yet to come clean on those invisible grandkids.


49 posted on 03/09/2024 7:37:00 AM PST by bgill
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To: pepsionice

“.I would imagine he’ll give notice and hand the crown over to William.”

NO! Then they wouldn’t be able to say “The king is dead, long live the king.”

The meaning of which is that the second the king dies, the heir instantly becomes king.

It loses something if the new king is already king.

Also abdication is frowned upon.

Stiff upper lip man, stick it out to the end, good form now.


50 posted on 03/09/2024 7:39:32 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: scouter

He’s had heart problems for years and likely related those sausage fingers causing speculation he was going to drop dead back when.


51 posted on 03/09/2024 7:41:15 AM PST by bgill
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Prince Charles could have bladder cancer. My husband was diagnosed with that a month or so before Charles announced he had a medical issue. So far, the little they’ve let out about Charles’s diagnosis had lined up with what my husband went through. But my husband has not had a chest x-ray. (He did have an MRI.)


52 posted on 03/09/2024 8:05:27 AM PST by Kipp
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To: MagaMatt

It didn’t look at all like Kate.


53 posted on 03/09/2024 8:10:58 AM PST by dforest
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To: zeestephen

IF Charles got Covid shots-—Could be post-shot complications


54 posted on 03/09/2024 8:34:29 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: KobraKai

I have a coworker who was treated for prostate cancer and is 100% fine for eight years, now.


55 posted on 03/09/2024 8:34:46 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ridesthemiles
Covid shots would definitely add a huge political issue to all these now private medical issues.
56 posted on 03/09/2024 9:00:10 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Nateman

‘And Then There Were None’. That was not the original title .


Nor was it ‘Ten Little Indians’...


57 posted on 03/09/2024 9:20:35 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: Candor7

charles could have bladder cancer


58 posted on 03/09/2024 11:52:38 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: markman46

Yes, I think that is possible.

But the fact is we may never know.

The Windsors keep to themselves in matters of life and death.


59 posted on 03/09/2024 12:03:45 PM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Candor7

the firm keeps a tight leash on the windsors, its for the good of the country you know


60 posted on 03/09/2024 1:14:10 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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