The various royal press shops have simply got to find a way to communicate with one another. One of the latest mysteries in the #WhereIsKate saga is that on March 5, observers noticed that the U.K. Ministry of Defense had claimed on their website that Kate Middleton would be attending the Trooping the Colour ceremony on June 8. Then on the same day, they quickly and quietly scrubbed the claim after Kensington Palace announced that the princess’s attendance had not actually been confirmed, per Nieman Lab’s timeline.
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What this tells us is that the Ministry of Defense, at some point, had some good reason to believe that Kate would be at the ceremony. And it tells us that Kensington doesn’t yet know for sure whether she’ll be at the event or not. Which is odd. Did Kensington Palace previously tell the Ministry of Defense that Kate would be at the ceremony then change their minds? Or maybe the ministry was simply recycling text from the previous year and forgot to edit out mention of Kate Middleton.
In either case, Kensington Palace had said that Kate Middleton was likely to be absent from public duties until Easter, which is on March 31, per The Hollywood Reporter. But that is still a good two months before the Trooping the Colour.
None of this would be such a big deal if the palace wasn’t being so conspicuously cagey about Kate’s whereabouts. There was the digitally altered Mother’s Day photo, whose poor editing was credited to “amateur photographer” Kate herself. Then on March 11, The Daily Mail published a photo of Prince William in the car with a woman the outlet identified as Kate—except the image itself is incredibly grainy, and you can only see the side of her face, leading some to wonder if it’s really Kate in the photo at all.
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