In recent weeks, speculation on the health of Kate, Princess of Wales, flooded social media after she spent two weeks in hospital in January for what her office said was a successful, planned surgery for an unspecified, non-cancerous condition.

1. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, during a cooking workshop at the Institut de tourisme et d'hotellerie du Quebec in Montreal, Canada, July 2011.

2. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, samples sushi during the Taste of British Columbia event at Mission Hill winery in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, September 2016.

3. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge smiles while she listens to Prince William talk to guests during a reception at the British Consul General's Residence in New York, December 2014.

4. Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince William leave the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital with newly born Prince Louis in London, April 2018. 

5. Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, after their wedding ceremony in Westminster Abbey in central London, April 2011. 

6. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, greets people at Jack Poole Plaza in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 2016. 

7. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge meet The Jamaica National bobsleigh team during a visit to Trench Town, the birthplace of reggae music, in Kingston, Jamaica, March 2022. 

8. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge holds the hand of her son Prince George while carrying Princess Charlotte as they arrive at the Victoria International Airport in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, September 2016.  

9. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, plays cricket with children at a ground in Mumbai, India, April 2016. 

10. The wind blows as Prince William's fiancee Kate Middleton attends a Naming Ceremony and Service of Dedication for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) new Atlantic 85 Lifeboat, the 'Hereford Endeavour', at Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station, in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey in north Wales, February 2011.