Andy Cohen was not afraid to carry up these Prince William and Rose Hanbury affair rumors whereas discussing Princess Kate Middleton‘s disappearance from the general public eye.
In the course of the Friday, March 22, episode of his “Daddy Diaries” podcast, Cohen, 55, speculated that the gossip about William, 41, and Hanbury, 40, might need performed a component in Kate’s determination to step away from the highlight after her stomach surgical procedure.
“It all seems to come back to this Lady Rose who he’s had an affair — who he allegedly had an affair with,” Cohen mentioned in reference to the resurfaced rumors from 2019 about William and Hanbury. “Don’t forget he broke it off with [Kate] after they dated for years and sowed his wild oats for a time and then went back to her.”
Cohen additionally referred to as William his “his father’s [son],” referencing King Charles III, who infamously cheated on the late Princess Diana together with his now-wife, Queen Camilla.
William and Kate, 42, met whereas learning historical past at Scotland’s College of St Andrews in 2001. The couple began relationship however briefly referred to as it quits in 2007. After rekindling their romance, they acquired engaged and later tied the knot in 2011.
Following their nuptials, William and Kate expanded their household with Prince George in 2013, Princess Charlotte in 2015 and Prince Louis in 2018. Years after the marriage, rumors began to swirl about William’s alleged affair with Hanbury, who’s the Marchioness of Cholmondeley. (Hanbury attended William and Kate’s 2011 marriage ceremony, however she was rumored to have a falling-out with Kate in 2019 because of the alleged infidelity.)
William and Kate have by no means publicly acknowledged the hypothesis.
“Kate finds the rumors hurtful, obviously, and hates the thought that one day her children will be able to read about them online,” a supply informed Us Weekly in 2019. “It forced her and William to sit back and examine their relationship, which they realized they should have been doing more often.”
Hanbury, in the meantime, denied the rumors by means of her legal professional in a press release to Enterprise Insider earlier this month.
Cohen is just not the one public determine who has poked enjoyable on the drama. Stephen Colbert additionally weighed in on the rumors throughout an episode of his late-night discuss present.
“Internet sleuths are guessing that Kate’s absence may be related to her husband, and the future king of England, William, having an affair,” he started through the March 12 episode. “I think we all know who the alleged other woman is, say it with me, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley. Now there have been rumors of an affair between William and [Rose] since 2019. According to tabloids, back then, when Kate supposedly confronted him about it, he ‘laughed it off, saying there was nothing to it.’ Aha, always a good response when your wife accuses you of cheating.”
Colbert famous that Hanbury is an “an old friend of the royals” who’s married to “a close friend of William’s” named David Rocksavage. “Really? Rocksavage? That sounds less like a British noble and more like a musician from The Flintstones,” he quipped.
After the episode aired, In Contact confirmed that Hanbury’s legal professionals despatched a authorized discover to The Late Present With Stephen Colbert.
“The rumor appears to have entered into the mainstream media recently as a result of another joke made about it on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Hanbury’s legal professionals mentioned in a press release. “We have written on our client’s behalf to CBS and various other reputable media organizations to confirm that the allegation is false.”