Allegations that do not pass. Monday January 29, after two weeks of hospitalization for abdominal surgery, Kate Middleton was able to leave the London Clinic. But as the Princess of Wales refused to say more about his state of health, certain speculations began to flourish, much to the chagrin of Buckingham Palace. In any case, this is what the Daily Mail Friday February 2.
Indeed, on the eve of the Duchess of Cornwall’s exit, journalist Concha Calleja would have announced on the Spanish television channel Fiesta – founded by an Italian company that belonged to Silvio Berlusconi – that Kate Middleton would have known from “serious complications” after his operation, to which the medical team “didn’t expect”. The speaker assures that the princess would have subsequently been intubated and placed in an artificial coma.
Statements deemed false by a source close to the royal family who spoke in the Telegraph. “It’s totally absurd.”she declared, before pointing out the writer’s ethics: “No verification steps were taken by this journalist to verify what she had said.” And hammer out: “It’s basically totally made up.”
“A whole bunch of imaginary scenarios”
If her statements in the celebrity press generated the anger of the palace, Concha Calleja did not stop there. On the set of Fiestathe Spaniard also assured that the hospitalization of Kate Middleton on January 16… was not the first. According to her, the mother of George, Charlotte and Louis also spent a stay at the London Clinic at the end of December, after having “felt bad”.
To try to understand the tabloids’ speculation, Madame Figaro asked Philippe Moreau Chevrolet – communications consultant and professor of communications at Sciences Po – on January 27 to deliver his analysis. “The press, instead of possibly debating the real problem affecting Kate Middleton, began to develop a whole bunch of imaginary scenarioswith excessive dramatization which leads one to think that she is possibly on the verge of death“, he notes initially. According to him, these fantasies are born from the Palace’s (non-)communication strategy, always imbued with the formula “Never explain, never complain”. For the expert, “not immediately having a complete, rational explanation” allows to”‘fueling social networks and controversy”.
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