Conspiracy theories about Kate Middleton are angry: “Is she alive? “

Her apology, which took responsibility on Monday (11.03.2024) for a “pirified” she published on the occasion of Mother’s Day in Britain on Sunday, sparked rumors about her face. I wonder if Kate Middleton is getting a divorce? Is he recovering from a cosmetic surgery? Or is she still alive? In a brief message published on social media, Kate Middleton stated that she tried to process the photograph and was responsible for the many relics, which led to the withdrawal of the photographic snapshot from five of the largest agencies, among them the French Agency, which published it. This fiasco allowed a new flood of theories about the wife of the successor of the British throne, which are gathered online under the title “Katespiracy”, namely Kate and “conspiracy”. Like many amateur photographers, I do Occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any fusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone Celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C — The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) These rumors, which are fueled by the absence of the princess who has made no public appearance since Christmas and submitted to an abdominal surgery in January, had begun before the photo was published. For some, Kate recovers from a eating disorder or recovers from a plastic surgery. For others, her absence is an indication that her marriage to Prince William is falling apart. Others, in the end, wonder even if she is alive. The publication of the photograph from Kensington Palace was supposed to calm the rumors and reassure. However, social media users soon revealed inconsistencies, such as poor alignment of zipper on Kate’s jacket. The fact that the princess admitted a falsification, however without publishing the original photo, nor explaining the reasons for this publication, all she did was to strengthen the doubts of internet users. The shrub “The moral lesson of the history of a processed royal photograph is simple: (should) everything be said,” wrote Simon Jenkins, a columnist to the Guardian. “At this stage, privacy is not working. It feeds rumors, gossip and fiction products”. Due to the lack of transparency in transmitting information on Kate’s subject, many internet users participate in a game “guess who, guess what”, wondering what the palace could hide. “Every family hides a secret”, one reads on a photo released in X, which advertises a fake Netflix documentary entitled: “The Royal Conspiracy: Kate Middleton’s disappearance”. On the platform, many users express doubts that the princess is behind the processing of this photo. To unwrap the mystery of photography, some come to the point of asking gardeners to find out if the shrub behind Kate could have so many leaves this year. Some other observers argue, with a dose of humor, that the princess may have abandoned her family to attend intensive Photoshop courses, the photo accounting. In this climate and the appeals of the monarchy’s defenders to respect the princess’s privacy fall into vacuum. This host of posts about Kate managed to attract the attention of sections of the population that are usually not interested in royal gossip and all this reminds of the Streisand phenomenon, they point to observers. This psychic phenomenon consists of pro-transmitting information that a person originally attempted to hide. A new photograph taken by royal photographers on Monday afternoon and in which Kate is depicted in a car on Prince William’s side was immediately criticized as being processed on social media. The Princess’ confession on “pirified” photography takes place in a context of major concerns expressed about fake photographs, especially due to recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (IA). “Citizens today have a general feeling of unhealthy confusion, suspicion and lack of trust,” notes author Charlie Varzel in The Atlantic. “As the fiasco of this royal photograph proves it, the age of deepfakes (i.e. photos, audio or video that have been processed digitally) does not need to be powered by genetic artificial intelligence, a hasty Photoshop suffices”.