Some people are still talking about the suspicious bystander-video from two weekends ago, allegedly of Prince William and Kate leaving the Windsor Farm Store. You have to remember, initially the story was just a random sighting with no photos or videos. The Sun carried the story as an exclusive, having clearly been briefed by Kensington Palace that Kate and William were out and about in Windsor two weekends ago, pinkie-swear-promise. When everyone reacted to the Sun’s exclusive with “pics or it didn’t happen,” The Sun magically produced a grainy, weird video 24 hours later, allegedly taken by a bystander. When the video came out, the reaction was immediate, with everyone questioning whether that was really Kate (or William). Even Andy Cohen tweeted, “That ain’t Kate….” A BBC Sports reporter publicly questioned why British media was insisting that a random brunette speed-walking through Windsor was totally Kate.

In the days before Kensington Palace released the Kate-has-cancer video, there really was a growing consensus that the farm shop video was some kind of bizarre set-up using look-alikes. Then, last weekend, the Sun’s editor admitted that they (the tabloid) were “in discussion with the palace all along,” i.e., this was some special collaboration between palace and tabloid to (arguably) fake a Kate sighting. The story has largely subsided this week, post-cancer video, but Bot Sentinel and Spoutible founder Christopher Bouzy has still been raising hell about it on social media. Bouzy started out last week, merely questioning the Sun’s methodology in obtaining the farm-store video and wondering if anyone had bothered to verify any part of the story. Then the British media began attacking Bouzy as “Sussex pal” who was “attacking Kate.” There’s been a back-and-forth between Bouzy and the British media for more than a week. Then, on Wednesday, he published a thread about the Sun’s video, which you can follow below:

I’m not going to embed the whole thread, but the point is that the guy who “filmed” the farm store video keeps changing his story and there are huge inconsistencies about how and why he even filmed the couple. The video itself is weird too, which Bouzy points out – there’s no reason for a zoomed-in video of two people, taken from roughly 20-30 yards away, would be that grainy and blurry. As I’ve now watched the clip dozens of times, I wonder why Kinesiology Twitter hasn’t embraced this conspiracy: that is not Kate’s gait, and that’s largely because Kate’s legs are not as long as this mystery woman’s legs.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, covers courtesy of the Mail and the Sun.