With neither party commenting on the so-called rift, the rumor mill kept turning.
Read on for a complete timeline of the affair rumors, and how they came to an abrupt end.
I haven’t read the piece but I know about the affair.
Everyone knows about the affair, darling."
And just like that, the rumors suddenly had some substance.
Thepalace found itself dealing with a PR disasterthat had to be nipped in the bud and quickly.
Not long after Coren posted the explosive tweet, he deleted it.
But it still lives on in plenty of screenshots.
Rumor has it that Coren was pressured to delete his tweet by the palace’s legal team.
Of course, there’s no proof that these claims are true.
Unnamed sources told the outlet that William’s affair with Hanbury started while Catherine was pregnant with Prince Louis.
“They come across as a perfect couple who can do no wrong.
The article was later deleted.
“They’re still going strong.
So, it’s probably best to take the information the account publishes with a massive grain of salt.
Again, these rumors were never confirmed.
While conspiracy theories abided, pundits also noticed that Catherine wasn’t wearing her wedding ring in the picture.
“If it’s not there, could that be because she doesn’t want it there?
It doesn’t bear thinking about,” she wrote.
One of them was talk show host Andy Cohen.
Yeah, he went there.
“Always a good response when your wife accuses you of cheating,” he quipped.
In it, they stated that the affair claims were entirely untrue.
“It just seemed guaranteed to get people asking questions about the state of the marriage.”
Of course, this only gave conspiracy theorists more to chew on.
As if that wasn’t already bad enough, a former palace courtier also weighed in.
What else are people supposed to think when she sends out a photo not wearing her wedding ring?”
“The rumors are completely false,” Hanbury’s attorney told the outlet.
“The soft launch of Rose has began,” one pundit wrote onX, formerly known as Twitter.
The same user also shared ascreenshotfrom other replies to the article.
“Well she’s prince William’s mistress…why a newspaper article on her now?
Nothing is random…” one person wrote.
“Need to bookmark this for the time everything comes undone,” another added.
“Soft launching William’s mistress now is WILD,” another chimed in.
And so the rumor mill kept on turning relentlessly.
Perhaps they need to think about that collateral damage,” Bullen said.
“He saw the damage that affairs can cause.
What I’m told [is], it’s just not in his psyche,” Bullen said.
Catherine’s disappearance hadn’t been due to marital troubles at all.
Rather, she’d been diagnosed with cancer.
And indeed,Catherine’s shocking announcementstopped the affair rumors dead in their tracks.
At least for now.
