14 DAY TRIAL // This weekend, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prince William and Kate Middleton welcomed their second child into the world, a little Princess who was introduced to the public, much like her older brother, in a PR event outside the London hospital where she was delivered.
You can see a video of the event below. According to a leading Russian publication and its readers, the Duchess was “too beautiful” to have just given birth some hours before, so either she lied about the due date and she gave birth earlier, or she was never pregnant to begin with.
Conspiracy theories
Both The Mirror and the Daily Mail note that the claims originate with pro-Kremlin newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and its readers. Apparently, Kate Middleton, who emerged with the Princess some hours after she was born, looked “too beautiful” to have just been through childbirth.
Women don’t just get up after childbirth, no matter how easy and complication-free it might have been, slap on makeup, get their hair done and waltz out of the hospital with the child in their arms like this.
The consensus is that the Princess, whose name is yet to be revealed to the public, must have been born earlier, anywhere between 3 to 10 days before the date announced as the birthdate.
It’s not just that Middleton looks too well that is used as argument for this theory, but also the way the Princess looks: she is too pale and too little wrinkly to have been born hours before, the conspiracy theorists claim.
The other theory is that Kate Middleton was never pregnant to begin with, and that the child was carried to term by a surrogate. All that the Duchess had to do was get inside the hospital, put on a loose dress and then emerge with the child in her arms for the lie to be complete.
All this was necessary to sell this image of the “perfect” royal family, apparently.
A happy royal family
All conspiracy theories aside, Kate Middleton and Prince William must be on cloud nine right now.
The two were married in 2011 and welcomed their first child, Prince George, one year ago. The first pregnancy wasn’t very easy on the Duchess, as she suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, an acute form of morning sickness.
The pregnancy announcement coincided with a hospitalization for it, with the Duchess keeping a relatively low profile for the first 2 trimesters of the pregnancy.
The second time around, she was considerably more active, even being photographed behind the wheel when the local and international media said she was 4 days past her due date.
“The Duke and Duchess are hugely grateful for the messages of congratulations they have received from people all over the world,” a Kensington Palace spokesman said this weekend, after the Princess was born. “It means a great deal to them that so many people have celebrated the arrival of their new daughter.”
