The royal family has managed to grip the cyberspace in a way I have n’t learn since the Titanic submersible .

If you’ve been online at all in the last month, then you already know about thepersistent rumors circling the royal family.

In brusque , Kate Middletonhas largely move unobserved for months(besides a blurry fleck in a car ) ; the crime syndicate apparently tried to quell suspicions about her positioning by releasing a picture of Kate , which terminate up being photoshopped . And despite Kensington Palaceinsistingthe   Princess of Wales is away from the public center while she reclaim from abdominal OR , the internet has run with thewildest of cabal theories .

AND , throughout the put on drama , King Charles III continued to make public appearancesfollowingannouncement of his Cancer the Crab diagnosis(which fuel questions about Kate ’s state ) .

To be clear, there isno current evidence to support claims that an announcement is pending, but that didn’t stop netizens from fueling flames and suggesting the “announcement” may be of the King’s passing.(Which, again, is based on no real evidence.)

Before anyone knew what was happening, the rumor spread and spread and spread:

( I ’m just the messenger . )

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watching the royal confederacy theory & memes go from Kate to King Charles in a affair of hours … GIRL WHAT IS GOING ON 😫 pic.twitter.com/xkxaiNdWje

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The royal family social metier intern watching in real time is switch from the kate middleton has a barrel rumors to business leader charles is dead rumorspic.twitter.com/BeQp5G1vP6

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Kate missing . Charles belike dead . William is bald . Harry lives in America . We really need to abolish the monarchy .

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ca n’t wait for the uk to arouse up and discover that on top of all the kate middleton play , north america has now accelerated the dead world-beater charles rumor 😭

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do I believe King Charles is dead ? no . do I mean it ’s hilarious that the Royals have lost all public trust in their intelligence ? yes .

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Kensington Palace ’s bighearted problem is that they never phone Kris Jenner to help them with public relations throughout this entire disaster#KateMiddletonpic.twitter.com / OXhe3Uktug

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Everybody check chirrup for the purple announcement#RoyalAnnouncementpic.twitter.com / RvOoZ4Q5Hw

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Queen Camilla after king charles died 18 months into his reignpic.twitter.com/tdFnfA2Rzr

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" trending with trisha paytas " will never not be funnypic.twitter.com/0yhY3e2Qu3

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globe is so unseriouspic.twitter.com/2zl6iTgBuW

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It ’s very funny that the Crown ended a year before the IRL Royal Family just piss through plot like it was a season of a Shonda show

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oh my idol BBC is hold up to denote Kate Middleton to Ferrari in 2025

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Kate Middleton and King Charles rnpic.twitter.com/G49aEL2dDB

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Did King Charles really rive an Irish Goodbye ? 🤭

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Me refusing to go to layer until I get to the bottom of the King Charles rumorspic.twitter.com/Eo8xX9Oy6l

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all of us refreshing the thallium because Billie Jean King charles is supposedly gonepic.twitter.com/KX3IN26huR

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wow that ’s it i guess.#RoyalAnnouncementpic.twitter.com / M3GN7aGLHv

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Me , an American , try on to go to sopor while the population of Ireland are all riverdancing to the possibility that King Charles passed on St. Patrick ’s Day.pic.twitter.com/Mc9MOFbUx8

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If Charles ai n’t dead , he will hear about all the preemptive celebrating , and that ’s enough for me .

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If you are a monarchist , stay off that King Charles hashtag.pic.twitter.com/1Jb7BkAyOh

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King Charles waking up this morning—pic.twitter.com/OcMakFQbRd

So yeah, we’ve entered a new era forThe Crown’s inevitable revival.

Charles, William, and Kate Middleton smiling and engaged in a conversation outdoors

Trending topics on social media: #RoyalAnnouncement with King Charles, and Buckingham Palace with over 12K posts

Closeup of King Charles and Queen Camilla walking outside wearing winter coats