By Dennis Romero -
NBC News
After several days of online speculation following a family photo that had been manipulated and then shared by the royal family, Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, was caught on video while shopping over the weekend.
Until then, Kate Middleton had not been seen in public since Kensington Palace announced in January that she had undergone a scheduled abdominal operation.
The princess was seen shopping last Saturday
not far from her home in Windsor
, according to news outlets The Sun and TMZ, which published images of the event.
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Catherine, Princess of Wales, in London, on November 15, 2023.Samir Hussein / WireImage file
Kensington Palace declined to comment, and a phone call to the Royal Farms Windsor Farm Shop seeking confirmation of the royal couple's visit to the site had not been answered late on Monday.
Questions have piled up around the princess, one of the most high-profile members of the British royal family, since the announcement about her health in January, who gave no details about the procedure and added that it would be "
unlikely." return to his public duties until after Easter."
The rumors grew stronger this month after a doctored photo of the princess and her three children was shared on royal family social media.
News organizations around the world issued a “do not use notice” regarding the doctored image.
On March 11, the princess appeared to take responsibility for changing the photo.
“Like many amateur photographers, from time to time I experiment with editing,” indicated a message on the official X social network account of the Princes of Wales.
“I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion that the family photograph we shared yesterday may have caused.
I hope everyone celebrating it had a very happy Mother's Day.
C.”
The publication this Monday of the supposed weekend shopping trip could calm some of the concerns.
“It's 100% her
,” TMZ reported.