I compared notes with my friends; we agreed, that just didnt look like Kate.
I heard two podcasters call the Windsor Farm Shop footage the alleged footage; I relaxed.
I didnt want it to be over, I realized.
Catherine, Princess of Wales in December last year.
If that was Kate, shes walking.
I dont need a high-res image to be able to tell her hair was very clean.
If the clip was staged, its easy to understand why.
All the video proved to me, though, was that this wasnt what I wasreallyafter.
My interest, it turns out, has hurtled past curiosity and worry.
I want something more than for Kate to just be alive.
This is something we have no business knowing firsthand, yet weve intuited it, havent we?
Until now, the possibility of Kates story going the same way seemed remote.
She never stumbled out of a club, or cursed out a paparazzo.
Kate is the good daughter, good wife, good daughter-in-law, good mom.
But its easy to slide her avatar into a thousand different realities.
Smiling through her teeth and saying Sure!
In short, it is easy to imagine Kate living and dying a good girl.
Someone who never said no, complained, or caused a scene.
you’re free to get far, Kate taught us.
That doesnt mean you might win.
It doesnt give you any power.
In the past two weeks, the exemplary tale has turned cautionary.
What did Kate get, for being good?
Then, when they got caught, they blamedherand, in all likelihood, wrote her apology for her.
These tactics might seem like the work of a sinister cabal, but theyre not, at their core.
They are the work of a family used to relying on the good daughter not to get mad.
Maybe, in the end, I just want her to be mad.
and gives them the finger, her nails lined with ultra-processed orange dust.
In my fantasy, she gets out.
She andMeghanunderstand each other, finally; Harry makes up the couch.
Kate feeds the chickens in the morning.
She and Meghan get drunk on tequila sent by Oprah.
American Riviera Orchard, really?
Meghan throws a pillow at her.
Its too many words, Kate giggles.
I love you, but its just, like, one word too much!
They get ill-advised tattoos.
When Kate gets home, she has the spins, and texts from William.
Everyone says,But her kids, but her kids are fine for the moment.
She knows it, she knows them.
She gets they need to see her do this as much as she needs to do it.
She puts William on Do Not Disturb and chugs some water.
Pulls up memojis, clicks on the rainbow unicorn head, and FaceTimes Charlotte.
