Prince William is ‘hurt’ after seeing ‘Kate Middleton hounded like his mother Princess Diana was’, royal experts claim, as social media explodes with bizarre conspiracy theories about Royal’s health

Prince William is hurt by the treatment of his wife Kate Middleton and sees “elements” of the hunt for his mother Diana, a royal expert has claimed.

Roya Nikkhah, editor-in-chief of the Sunday Times, spoke on Good Morning Britain today about the bizarre online conspiracy theories surrounding the Princess of Wales’s illness following her abdominal surgery on January 16.

Speaking about social media’s interest in the Princess of Wales’s health, she said: ‘Having seen his mother go through a lot of that, the hounding of his mother, I think he feels that elements of that are being revisited. are violated in terms of the demands and yells at his wife about her medical privacy and that hurts him.’

Asked by host Susanna Reid if William is feeling “sensitive” about the similarities, Roya added: “He always has, since he was a child and since he’s been with Catherine since university.”

Elsewhere, the royal expert revealed that Kate could discuss her health condition at public meetings next month, according to her close friends.

Roya said: ‘I think she’ll be a lot more open about what happened, I think she’ll do it in a natural, organic way, like during an engagement.

‘We’ve seen William at engagements in recent weeks and everyone asks him how Kate is doing and says please give these flowers to your wife. I think when she’s gone, she’ll be asked about it.

“I’m not saying she’ll go into detail about the surgery she had, but maybe she’ll find a way to talk about her recovery about the places it’s taken her mentally and physically. We know that mental health is important to them. that’s how she’s going to let people know that something is going on.”

The princess is not expected to return to the front line until after April 17, when her three children return to Lambrook School, near Ascot, after the Easter holidays.

However, Kate was reportedly spotted ‘happy, healthy and relaxed’ this weekend while visiting a local farm shop.

Roya said: ‘She’s been at the children’s school, school parents have seen her over the last few weeks, she’s been seen in this farm shop so she’s been out and about.’

After the royal correspondent spoke to a friend of the Prince and Princess of Wales who “saw them and spoke to them last week”, she said they were “under pressure” over the social media reaction to Kate’s Mother’s Day family snap.

Prince William feels ‘hurt’ by speculation about the health of his wife, Princess of Wales

Speculation only increased when Kate publicly took the blame for the family photo released by Kensington Palace on Mother’s Day, which was ‘killed’ by six of the world’s top photo agencies amid concerns it had been ‘doctored’.

In addition to a number of imperfections in the photoshopped image, viewers also noticed that Kate did not appear to be wearing her wedding ring, leading to several unsubstantiated theories online about the state of her marriage.

‘Even feeling under pressure, it has been very clear to me that they are not going to change what they would always do in the coming weeks, so if we hear from her it will only be when she feels ready, regardless the reporting. .

‘This is a woman who has been in the media since she was 20 and she has hardly put a step wrong. I think we need to lay her off a little bit,” Roya added.

The Sunday times A friend quoted the following: ‘They will want to be clear and open, but they will do it when they feel ready. I would expect that this is her instinct and it will be her decision. They can’t be rushed.’

Despite these tumultuous weeks for the royal family, it is expected that they will still maintain the tradition of releasing a new photo to mark their children’s birthday, the next one being Prince Louis on April 23.

Princess Diana died at the age of 31 in a car accident in Paris on August 31, 1997, after years of being hounded by the paparazzi

Kensington Palace has released a photo of the Princess of Wales since the operation

Kate posted the apology on the Prince and Princess of Wales’ Instagram account

They can use it as an opportunity to talk about her health, it is reported.

Now, sources within royal circles are warning of the negative impact rumors could have on the future queen as she recovers from her major surgery in January.

An insider said: ‘I’m worried about all this attention on Catherine. She didn’t look happy at all in the car on Monday.’

Kate was seen in the backseat of a car with her husband as he left Windsor to travel to London for two public engagements.

The Mail understands she was heading for a ‘private appointment’ and was not accompanying William in public.

Despite calls for the original image to be published, Kensington Palace insisted the unedited photo of Kate and her children would not be reissued.

It comes after further details emerged about the photoshoot, with William taking the photo in just 40 minutes on Friday before the princess edited it twice in Photoshop to ‘make the most of it’.

The Prince of Wales took the photo of his smiling family with a £2,900 Canon camera, before Kate made edits to improve the photo before it was published on Instagram on Sunday.

Royal commentator Jennie Bond suggested Kate ‘must now be feeling intense pressure when seen in public’ after her major surgery in January.