After That Kate Middleton Video, Is the Royal PR Battle Won?

Portions of the internet spent Monday pondering the following question: if the most famous woman in the world, whose whereabouts has prompted the exchange of countless billions of terrabytes of data in recent weeks, went to a kids’ sports match and farm shop over the weekend, wouldn’t someone have got a photo?

The grand enigma of the whereabouts and wellbeing of Princess Kate Middleton got even more curious Monday morning, when the Sun carried a front page picture of a happy looking Kate accompanied by the headline that she had been “seen out with (husband Prince) William” at a sports event for her kids and at a local farm shop in Windsor on a “public trip.”

Only one problem; this juicy royal apple had a worm. As a community “context” note swiftly appended to the Sun’s X post made clear: “This post and accompanying image are misleading. The photo of Kate used here is from last autumn. Kate was not seen by any verified sources and there are no photographs of her ‘public trip.’”

Read more at The Daily Beast.