Top Harry and Meghan supporter defends pushing fake-Kate Middleton theories

Christopher Bouzy became famous as the tech CEO who reported in 2021 that his analytics company, Bot Sentinel, had uncovered a coordinated hate campaign on Twitter directed at Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Bouzy also shared his company’s investigative findings when he appeared as one of the talking-head experts in the couple’s 2022 Netflix documentary, “Harry and Meghan.”

Now, Bouzy has gone to X to claim that his own online investigative skills have revealed an attempt to fool the world into believing that Kate Middleton, long missing from public view, suddenly turned up Saturday at a high-end farm shop near Windsor Castle. The New York-based Bouzy is among the top people online pushing theories that a video of a “relaxed and happy” Kate leaving the farm shop is somehow fake, or that it depicts someone other than Kate.

But Bouzy takes umbrage with media reports from the New York Post, the Daily Mail, TMZ or The Telegraph that say he is pushing “conspiracy” theories about the future queen or that he’s working in coordination with Harry and Meghan, who are estranged from the royal family, to fuel these body-double allegations.

“I wish journalists would stop dragging Harry and Meghan into this,” Bouzy said in a post Wednesday. “I am speaking for myself, not Harry or Meghan. These are my opinions based on publicly available information.”

Harry and Meghan have not publicly commented on questions surrounding Kate’s mysterious retreat from public life, but the Duke of Sussex has suggested in interviews that he would like to mend fences with his family. A source told Page Six that Harry also is concerned about the headlines surrounding his sister-in-law and thinks that “any hint of a scandal is untrue.”

Bouzy has made his fake-Kate allegations in multiple tweets since the farm shop video was first published by The Sun and by TMZ on Monday. He appears to hold the view that the royal family is engaging in some kind of massive disinformation campaign to cover up a sinister truth about the future queen’s health or whereabouts.

And, while Bouzy said that he’s not speaking for Harry and Meghan, he still promoted an online chat Wednesday evening about #KateGATE with members of the Sussex Squad, who consist of fervent online supporters of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Kensington Palace has said that Kate has been recuperating at her home near Windsor Castle after undergoing a “planned” abdominal surgery in January for an undisclosed condition. But naysayers, including Bouzy, have raised concerns that the palace has already been caught putting out at least two images of the royal family that were found to have been digitally manipulated — notably the March 10 photo of Kate and her three children. Kate herself admitted that the photo was the product of an “amateur” editing job.

In multiple posts regarding #KateGate, Boozy has said that the woman in the farm shop video doesn’t look or move the same as the real Kate Middleton. “New Kate is younger, slimmer, taller, and faster,” Bouzy said in one post. He also said that the woman in the video could have been 42-year-old Kate’s “32-year-old stunt double,” while arguing that the princess was supposed to be at home recovering.

“Yet, in the recent video, she is holding a bag and moving briskly,” Bouzy said. “If she’s capable of such activity, why isn’t she back to fulfilling her royal duties yet?”

In one post, Bouzy also decried “trolls” who dissected photos of a pregnant Meghan Markle in 2019 to allege that she faked her two pregnancies. But he nonetheless shared that he went to the trouble of putting together a video clip of Kate at recent royal events, to similarly dissect her appearance and movements.

“Take a look and decide for yourself if it’s Kate or not. In my opinion, we still haven’t seen Kate in public,” Bouzy said in one post. In another post, he hit back at a Daily Mail report that said his video was “bizarre” or a sign that he is “a conspiracy theorist.” He said, “Windsor Farm Kate walks like a young woman rushing to use the bathroom.”

But in his #KateGate posts, Bouzy has yet to address the fact that Nelson Silva, 40-year-old resident of the town where the farm shop is located, came forward in a detailed on-the-record interview with The Sun to say that he saw the Princess of Wales “with my own eyes.” Silva, an engineer and father of one, also described how he shot the video as the royal couple walked out of the shop.

Nelson said he stopped in at the Royal Farms Windsor Farm Shop Saturday to pick up some steak and produce when he spotted a familiar-looking couple in the the bread aisle. He said, “I noticed a couple choosing loaves of bread, and the woman turned her face, and I felt like I had seen the face before. … I knew it from somewhere.”

“Then I saw Kate turn her head slightly,”  Silva continued. “I was like, ‘Oh I know her.’ They went to the meat section and I was stood behind them. They were talking to staff and laughing.”

“I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but the staff seemed overwhelmed in a nice way,” Silva told The Sun. After he paid, Silva told The Sun that he went to his car. As the royal couple exited the shop, each holding shopping bags, Silva said, “I just filmed them.”

“Kate looked happy and relaxed,” he continued.

The Telegraph also published a story that included interviews with people who regularly patronize the farm shop and who denounced the fake-Kate theories.

“It’s a load of nonsense, it really is,” Ann Tanner, who lives across from the shop. She said Kate and William often visit the stores, with employees knowing how to let them get in quickly and making sure they’re not bothered while they are there.

“The princess comes here quite a lot, it’s on her doorstep and Adelaide Cottage is a couple of hundred yards away,” Tanner said. “They were at the tennis on Sunday – my friend plays there and Kate was watching the children, they’re there all the time.”

Kevin Pietersen, another Windsor resident, also wrote on Twitter: “We see W&K [William and Kate] most days and in the last couple days too! It beggars belief that people would be so ridiculous and cruel in writing b——t on this platform that are out and out lies.”