The Kate Middleton saga has taken the world by storm over the past few weeks – but it was gloriously capped off by none other than Gyles Brandreth after he took one social media post a little too seriously.
The Princess of Wales was forced to issue a public apology after Kensington Palace’s attempt to put rumours about her health to bed went spectacularly wrong.
She took the blame for the manipulated family photograph and issued a personal apology for the “confusion”, taking to social media to say:
“Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing.
“I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused.
“I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C.”
But that didn’t put the issue to bed.
As has become custom in stories such as this, a gag went around on X (formerly Twitter) that Sheridan Smith had been cast as Middleton in a new 6-part ITV drama.
And guess who took it very seriously indeed? Gyles Brandreth, on as a pundit on This Morning today … on ITV, naturally.
Which is, I’m sure you’ll agree, a fitting ending to this whole bizarre saga.
