The Queen is Dead -- Long Live the Queen

that would be a good start

 

Not exactly like there hasn't been a thousand bastard royals down through the ages.
Or is it royal bastards?
I can't keep it straight. I'm just a common bastard, and that is entirely based on my disposition not my legitimacy.

 

Oh, yeah, this happened.

 

No speaking to the whole knocked up the mistress thing, but I'll lay a five-pound note on the table right now and guess that she had a hysterectomy. Obviously not the sort of thing you want to talk about in mixed company. This may be a red herring, but she was known to have some rather severe hyperemesis gravidarum (morning sickness) for all the kids, and it's possible either by choice or because of some other condition we don't know about, she elected to say "no more." Family friend of ours had one in her mid-30s due to persistent issues of that nature.

 

Certainly plausible speculation.

 

Rumors of the king’s demise are greatly exaggerated……or are they?

 

My niece, too. She’s little and had three kids and just had problems thereafter.

 

Another plausible, non-ridiculous theory I heard floated was severe colitis. A colostomy bag and the cosmetic effects of a course of prednisone would both be reasonable causes to want to be out of the public eye for several months.

 

This is what I’ve thought it was from the original announcement - some kind of GI surgery that required an ostomy. I have family members with Crohn’s disease who have had extensive surgeries that required longer than average hospital stays and very long recoveries. Throw in an infection or a complication and there’s more of a delay in a return to the public eye. My already thin cousin looked downright skeletal after some surgery and an colostomy bag and it took her a long time to get back to normal.

 

CBS just broke into its hoops coverage to air a special report that Princess Kate has cancer. She’s begun chemo treatments.

Once again, F cancer.

 

Oh, that's awful. It was seeming like something bad was going on. Hope for a full and speedy recovery.