The answer to the question “Where is Kate?” has been made abundantly clear. On January 17th, Kensington Palace announced that she had been admitted to the London Clinic for “abdominal surgery” and would remain there for up to two weeks before continuing her recovery at home. “Based on the current medical advice,” the short statement read, “she is unlikely to return to public duties until after Easter.” Pointedly, there were no further details on Kate’s condition.
” Easter is still a few weeks away. You could be forgiven for finding the confusion surrounding her absence puzzling. “It’s been kind of wild,” Elizabeth Holmes, an L.A.-based journalist who writes the newsletter “So Many Thoughts” and published a book on royal style, told me. “I heard last week from people in my life that do not follow the royals and are not clued in to this stuff. People are, like, ‘Wait, where’s Kate? What’s going on?’ And I was, like, ‘Well, she had surgery.