John Oliver jokes that Kate Middleton could have ‘died 18 months ago’
Johannes Olivier joked that the royals have a Weekend with Bernie of Princess Kate Middleton after her Mother’s Day photoshop failed.
“I was out. I was like, ‘Let’s just ignore all this, we’ve moved on,’ until the Photoshop thing,” Oliver, 46, said during the Tuesday, March 12, episode of Watch what happens live with Andy Cohen. “It feels like you’re dealing with it almost in an oppressive way at this point.”
Oliver referenced Kate’s Mother’s Day photo, taken by her husband, Prince Williamand posted via Kensington Palace’s social media accounts on Sunday, March 10. Fans quickly noticed a series of editing errors in the portrait, which featured the princess and the couple’s children – Prince George10, Princess Charlotte8, and Prince Louis5 – and began to wonder if the photo had been manipulated.
Kate explained the reasoning behind the editing issues in a statement via X the next day, attributing it to her being an “amateur photographer” experimenting “with editing.”
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“Isn’t their motto: ‘Never complain, never explain?’” host Andy Cohen asked Oliver during the WWHL. “And then they make her explain it on Twitter?”
“There’s zero chance she died 18 months ago,” Oliver joked in response. “They might be Weekend with Bernie– this situation. I’m not saying it happened, but I am saying it’s not zero until proven otherwise. Until we see her sitting there with a copy of that day’s newspaper.”
Kate has been out of the spotlight since undergoing abdominal surgery in January. Kensington Palace announced at the time that the ‘planned’ procedure would deprive her of her royal duties until Easter. “The operation was successful and she is expected to remain in hospital for 10 to 14 days before returning home to continue her recovery,” said a statement via the palace’s social media accounts. “Based on current medical advice, it is unlikely that she will resume her public duties until after Easter.”
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Despite the palace’s explanation, royal family supporters have raised eyebrows over Kate’s whereabouts in recent weeks after William, 41, briefly stepped back from his own duties to help her recover.
Kate was first spotted earlier this month when TMZ published a photo of her riding with her mother. Carole Middelton. She was seen again with her husband in a car leaving Windsor Castle on Monday, March 11, according to a photo obtained by police. Daily email.
At the time, the outlet reported that Kate “would not be attending” the Commonwealth Day service with William and was “instead heading to a private appointment.”
William was solo again on Tuesday at the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace in London for a private ceremony in his honor That of King Charles III deceased cousin Thomas Kingstonwho died last month at the age of 45. Charles, 75, also did not attend as he continues to withdraw from his royal duties following his recent cancer diagnosis.
Exclusively spoken to We weekly earlier this month, royal expert Nick Bullen explained why he believes the royal family made a “mistake” with the way they handled Kate’s “conspiracy theories” — especially when combined with Charles’ openness about his own diagnosis.
“Because the King has been so open about his enlarged prostate surgery, it has put some pressure on Kensington Palace and William and Kate to reveal what is going on there,” explains Bullen, editor-in-chief of True Royalty TV. “Because they didn’t do that, a void has been created, [and] that kind of vacuum is filled with speculation.”
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Bullen said Us that Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace were “clearly not coordinating” when they announced Charles and Kate’s respective health problems.
“The fact that we have the news of the King’s enlarged prostate is announced on the same day that Kate goes to hospital, and one [announcement] is very open and the other is less open. I think it was handled a bit poorly from the start,” he told us, “because it felt like the households weren’t talking to each other.”