Princess Kate Middleton Missing. Sort Of.

The Princess Kate Middleton hasn’t been seen in public since greeting the crowd after attending the Christmas Morning Service at Sandringham Church on December 25, 2023, and questions are being asked why the next Queen of England is missing.
Not that she is actually missing, we know where she is because Buckingham Palace made an announcement on the 17th January that she is recovering at home from planned abdominal surgery and it was unlikely she would to resume her public duties until Easter.
The lack of information about her health has created a fertile breeding ground for conspiracy theories which went up a notch when her husband, Prince William, canceled a planned appearance of his own at the last moment on February 27, citing a 'personal matter'.
Immediately the conspiracy theories began and ranged from being in an induced coma, she had died and would be replaced by a body double and she was recovering from plastic surgery but all the Palace said was that Katie continues to do well in her recovery.
Officially, Kate was in the hospital for planned abdominal surgery but the question being asked was if Kate’s surgery was 'planned' in advance, why did she have to postpone her upcoming engagements if they knew she would be out of action for so long and why there no pictures of Kate leaving hospital when the press and their zoom lens are usually laying in wait wherever she goes?
As the news that King Charles was receiving treatment for an enlarged prostate broke on the same day, some people speculated that the palace was trying to cover something up, especially as Kate was in hospital for 2 weeks after her surgery which means the abdominal operation was not 'minor'.
The last press release just said that: 'The timelines of the Princess's recovery stand and we’d only be providing significant updates' but if the reporting of the Princess's condition is subject to a DSMA Notice where media outlets are ordered not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects such as the one which was issued in some aspects of the Salisbury Skripal affair, then nobody is being told anything anytime soon.
Alternatively it could just be that the media outlets for once are just respecting a young woman's request that her personal medical information remains private.