The Fuss Over The Royal Family Photo

good one Callistemon. Yes, bad BBC for suggesting that the Russians would ever interfere in our affairs. I mean, have they ever done so before?
And yes, I shall beware of any promises made to me on the side of a bus.

Don't believe everything you read, Maremia!
🙂

Have just read reports that there has been Russian malicious manipulation of the 'facts' around the 'photo' and the 'look- a-likes'. So, fess up, how many of you were scammed into believing all the nonsense? How many of you have been played, and are any of you Players?

The Sun was critical of the coverage of Catherine not being seen

If it wasn't them, then I expect in all probablity it was The Sun, eazybee.
If it was them, then it was an unpleasant thing to do, photographing them then selling it to a paper like that.

The couple in the photograph I saw , possibly courtesy of a poster on this thread , did not look like the Wales.
Why would there be lookalikes?
Fun?
A tryout?
Staged for the benefit of the press or by the press?
An actual appearance to calm speculation?
Why would the person who saw them film them, then sell it to the Sun?
(Let me guess: money.)
The whole thing is horrid particularly now the circumstances of the Princess of Wales illness are known.

Or was it just two lookalikes who went there off their own bat?
I wouldn't put anything past the press.

King Charles looks so sad and tired today (in the papers)

Sarnia, my post was 24 hours before Catherine’s statement. It wasn’t ‘nasty’ and I don’t need to wind my neck in

Well said.

Daddima

eazybee

A very unpleasant co ordinated attack on the Princess of Wales from press agencies because she has the temerity to publish photographs of her own family instead of using an overpaid professional .
Aimed at a woman who is recovering from serious surgery.
Quite despicable.
As for the couple at the farm shop: lookalikes.

Could you please tell me why you’d think they were lookalikes? Surely papers would be full of farm shop customers who had got a good look at them ? And what possible reason could there be for sending them out? Or was it just two lookalikes who went there off their own bat?
( Also, the best known Catherine lookalike has said it wasn’t her)

For pity's sake, can't some of you please stop all this and draw a line under the whole upsetting saga. Why are you still going on about who was at the farm shop? Nobody cares!!! What the posters of nasty comments need to do is rein their necks in and eat a very large helping of humble pie.

Have KP actually said it wasn’t lookalikes Iam? I can’t find anything to say they have commented one way or the other. It’s all very odd, I don’t think it looks like Catherine at all, but I’m not buying into any conspiracies either.

KP say it wasn’t look alikes- it’s all weird . I feel for Catherine, it’s hard not to conclude her PR people aren’t up to the job

eazybee

A very unpleasant co ordinated attack on the Princess of Wales from press agencies because she has the temerity to publish photographs of her own family instead of using an overpaid professional .
Aimed at a woman who is recovering from serious surgery.
Quite despicable.
As for the couple at the farm shop: lookalikes.

Could you please tell me why you’d think they were lookalikes? Surely papers would be full of farm shop customers who had got a good look at them ? And what possible reason could there be for sending them out? Or was it just two lookalikes who went there off their own bat?
( Also, the best known Catherine lookalike has said it wasn’t her)

As for the couple at the farm shop: lookalikes.
That’s what I thought. I hadn’t looked at the heading. I just saw a fleeting picture and went to DH. Wow she looks a bit like the Princess of Wales.
That’s what will happen every time a photo is put on now, whoever has taken it.

A very unpleasant co ordinated attack on the Princess of Wales from press agencies because she has the temerity to publish photographs of her own family instead of using an overpaid professional .
Aimed at a woman who is recovering from serious surgery.
Quite despicable.
As for the couple at the farm shop: lookalikes.

Another couple startled to find themselves on the front pages 😁

And good publicity for the farm shop!

merlotgran

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13209907/kate-middleton-pictured-smiling-princess-wales-prince-william-windsor-farm.html

If this is Kate, I'm a monkey's auntie.

And it's not William either.

Some eager member of the public thinking they've got the photograph of the century!!

Another couple startled to find themselves on the front pages 😁

Calendargirl

Hmm, agree doesn’t look like Catherine.

I give up! Nothing looks like her anymore.

DAILY MAIL headline

Kate Middleton's surprise farm shop trip piles more pressure on the Palace to update the nation on her recovery because aides' silence is just fuelling more conspiracy theories, warn experts

You don't need to be an expert (expert in what?) to understand that conspiracy theorists will conspire to theorise regardless of how much information they are given on her recovery. Whatever detail is released, they will speculate that more is being hidden from them.

Sometimes, when people have abdominal surgery, its effects leave you in a condition which you'd rather keep private. Maybe Catherine (not "Kate") would prefer to keep those details to herself?

Why should she pander to the "theorists" just to sate their idle curiosity?

Hmm, agree doesn’t look like Catherine.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13209907/kate-middleton-pictured-smiling-princess-wales-prince-william-windsor-farm.html

If this is Kate, I'm a monkey's auntie.

And it's not William either.

I am sure she is having much support from her family and friends and from William’s family and friends.

I think as part of a team as she is you’d expect the team to be responsible but in this case it seems to be all down to Catherine.

Seems a lonely place to be whilst recovering from major surgery. I’d have expected much more from my team if I was in that position.