Where is Kate Middleton? Aside from a pair of paparazzi shots, the Princess of Wales hasn’t been seen in public since Kensington Palace announced she was having surgery in January. A doctored photo released on Sunday only fueled more rumours over her public absence. What does the public relations debacle say about the state of the royal family, and the media that covers it?

In this episode: 

• Afua Hagan (@afuathescot), Journalist and Royal Commentator

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Khaled Soltan and Chloe K. Li, with our host Malika Bilal. Chloe K. Li fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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