Where Is Kate Middleton? What We Know So Far
variety.comK.J. Yossman It’s turning into a mystery to rival the disappearance of Amelia Earhart or the D.B. Cooper hijacking. As Andy Cohen so eloquently put it on “Watch What Happens Live” on Tuesday night: “What the fuck is going on with Kate Middleton?” Kate, whose official title is Catherine, Princess of Wales (previously she was the Duchess of Cambridge but moved up the ranks following Queen Elizabeth II’s death), was last seen in public in December.
In January, Kensington Palace confirmed she’d undergone an unspecified “abdominal surgery.” By March, the princess — who is married to Prince William — had not been seen for almost three months.
With little concrete information, rumors and conspiracy theories have flourished. An innocuous attempt to allay the public’s curiosity with a Mother’s Day photograph fanned the flames, quickly snowballing into an unmitigated disaster.
So what is going on? Here, Variety takes you through what we know and don’t know about Kate’s mysterious absence. Dec.
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