America’s obsession with Kate-gate

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Has Kate Middleton united America? For the past few days, we have been one nation under her spell. The Princess of Wales has dominated Google searches in the United States ever since Kensington Palace released that now-notorious doctored photo of her with her children for Mother’s Day. Her name search beat that of both ‘Donald Trump’ and ‘Joe Biden’ over the past week.

To say she has broken the internet would be only the start of it: rumours of her well-being are making their way into every newsroom, dive bar and church fellowship hour across America.

My friends from all over the country text and call me to ask the same question: what’s happened to Kate? They know I’m as removed from the royal family as anyone could be, but I’m in London and I work in Westminster so they hope I’ve heard a theory that hasn’t made its way across the pond just yet.