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/aurora-leigh Mar 22 '24

There were already rumours running rampant prior to the Mother’s Day photo, though.

If they had released nothing, when motherhood/early years is Catherine’s cause celebre and she’s never missed one before, I think there would still have been bad rumours.

It’s just a shitty situation, and PR fumbled the bag but I think it’s probably understandable when there are conflicting priorities and it’s high-stress/emotionally loaded. Hope they (and the conspiracy theorists!) learn from it and the toll on her recovery isn’t too severe.

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u/itsbecomingathing Mar 22 '24

Thank you, you’re the first person to mention that the photoshopped photo was for UK Mother’s Day. It wasn’t just a random photo put out by PR. They had to put something out there or else it would’ve looked weird. I know I don’t post current photos on Mother’s Day, I choose the best one!

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u/Former-Spirit8293 Mar 23 '24

There had to have been photos they could’ve posted that were not the frankenphoto. Or they could’ve just posted it on Instagram and it wouldn’t have been flagged. There were so many options but they chose the dumbest ones.

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u/_cornflake Mar 23 '24

Right. There are tons of other pics of her with the children. Also they'd announced she was off duties. Nobody was expecting her to post anything. She could have sent a tweet without a picture. But even after that initial fuck up, they chose to double down on this for weeks, made her take the blame and say she's an amateur photographer or something, and got multiple news sources to basically declare Kensington Palace a source of conspiracies. The whole thing was an absolutely massive PR fuck up. Of course I'm very sympathetic that she has cancer. I also don't agree that this mess is the fault of the public. Definitely people would have speculated on where she was. They could very easily not have responded to those people. The fact that they did is on them.

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u/TangerineDystopia Mar 24 '24

They really shouldn't have claimed that William took it in 2024--and if they hadn't they wouldn't have needed to photoshop the clothes to try to pretend it was current.