Gossip has been flying ever since January, when Middleton took a step back from public life for abdominal surgery. For a while it was just mindless chatter, but then Middleton posted a photo on social media, purportedly taken by her husband, Prince William, that news agencies determined had been manipulated. Then, speculation-that she'd Gone Girl'd, that the royal family was hiding something-turned fully conspiratorial, and turned the conspiracies into a cultural moment.
The royals released an altered photo and now it's part of a "-gate": #KateGate. By trying to relay that everything is fine, the photo lured even more people into questioning what was happening with Middleton.
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