A BBC journalist is under fire for suggesting the recent video of Princess Kate is ‘fake’.
Royal fans around the world were relieved to see the princess, 42, looking happy and relaxed walking next to Prince William, 41, at a Windsor farm shop this week. After unprecedented speculation over the mum-of-three’s whereabouts following her ‘planned abdominal surgery’ in January, many thought the clip would put an end to the wild conspiracy theories, which have resulted in #kategate.
However, there are some, including BBC Sports reporter Sonja McLaughlan, who are not convinced the video is real. The rugby buff echoed one theory on Twitter, after she appeared to suggest that the woman seen walking with Prince William, captured by an onlooker, was not in fact Princess Kate.
Commenting on a viral video, which compared professionally taken, older pictures of Kate to the latest grainy, amateur footage, Sonja said: “It’s so obviously not Kate. Some newspapers are reporting it as fact. But it’s not her. No conspiracy theorist but all very odd.” She also questioned why UK newspapers were “reporting this as fact”, and speculated that it “could be a couple of lookalikes making mischief.”
