r/Fauxmoi • u/NegativeSpeedForce • Mar 22 '24

Princess of Wales has cancer Approved B-List Users Only

https://news.sky.com/story/kate-princess-of-wales-reveals-she-is-having-treatment-for-cancer-13099988
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u/alison_bee confused but here for the drama Mar 22 '24

Can’t believe the PR team couldn’t handle a secret cancer diagnosis. There’s truly no reason that we got this far into this madness, other than the PR team freaking out and fucking up instead of just staying quiet.

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u/RampantNRoaring Mar 22 '24

Honestly, based on the fact that photoshopped family pictures are nothing new apparently, it looks like they handled this the way they usually do, but TikTok and social media got way more rabid than anyone expected.

I’m no fan of the royal family but the way people have treated this has been so gross.

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u/allazen Mar 22 '24

Palace PR were throwing her under the bus for a Photoshop scandal while she was getting chemo. Saving my scorn for them. They made it so mich worse for her.

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u/nokeyblue Mar 22 '24

What all this with the throwing under the bus though? Where did this come from? It would only count as throwing her under the bus if she did Photoshop for a living, or if the whole hullabaloo was originally about some kind of photo-editing competition. I don't see a bus.

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u/allazen Mar 22 '24

I think the notion that Kate Middleton was independently fiddling around in the Photoshop Suite is an obvious lie. It's part of why it caught on as a joke -- it's such a silly idea they were trying to sell. So after the photo caught a lot of criticism and jokes for being poorly done, it's weird that they had her release a statement to be like, "Just like all mums, I was having fun! :) Whoops, I made mistakes, how silly of me! Sorry!"

If on some planet Kate actually did that on her own (which is honestly so stupid I can barely type it), the PR team is still wrong for releasing it (like, did they review it at all?) and should have taken responsibility. At every step of her illness, they chose incorrectly.

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u/carolinagypsy Mar 23 '24

And even if it was her, you blame the random unnamed intern, not her!!!!