As a, dare I say it, a highly respected royal correspondent I have patiently held my tongue in recent weeks as various and increasingly outlandish conspiracy theories have taken hold in the public’s mind about Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, the former Catherine Middleton.

Yet again it has been a variety of ill-informed and unprofessional pundits on social media who have fuelled the bizarre ideas about why the Princess has not been seen in public since undergoing abdominal surgery some weeks ago.

Royal correspondents like me have not played that game. I and most of my colleagues covering the Royal Family have adhered to our principles and the desire by Their Royal Highnesses, Prince William and his wife, to maintain a quite reasonable degree of privacy about her condition.

As one who has on numerous occasions almost met the royal couple, I fully agree with their requests for privacy and I adhere to the unwritten rules about the coverage of the Princess’s and other royal’s ailments.

But today I can report exclusively for readers of The Bug that the Princess of Wales is in rude health, contrary to all the contrarians forcing their crazy ideas on others via social media.

During the week I visited Kensington Palace in central London to see a longstanding and trusted source within the royal household.

Although the Prince and Princess of Wales now live mainly at Adelaide Cottage in the grounds of Windsor Castle, they still maintain a small, 20-room, four-storey apartment at Kensington Palace, or should I say British taxpayers have the honour of maintaining it for them.

While at the palace I happened to have a chance sighting of both the Prince and Princess of Wales and managed to take a quick, but sadly a tad blurry, photo of them in their dress uniforms (main picture) with Her Royal Highnesses’s signifying her positions as Commodore-in-Chief Fleet Air Arm, Colonel-in-Chief 1st Queen’s Dragoon Guards, Royal Honorary Air Commodore RAF Coningsby, Colonel – Irish Guards, and Royal Honorary Air Commodore of the Air Cadets.

My world exclusive image puts to bed all the preposterous theories about Her Royal Highness’s recent surgery.

It shows, yet again, that the public should trust only experienced royal correspondents like me for any news about any member of our beloved Royal Family.

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