Sarah Laing: Who is Rose Hanbury? Prince William's alleged affair ...

Before we delve into the tittle-tattle, it’s worth noting that this entire thing is — until proven otherwise — exactly that: salacious speculation, born out of blind items and unsubstantiated gossip, given new fuel recently by the Category 5 conspiracy storm dogging the Royal Family that was been born out of the Princess of Wales’s months-long absence from public view, itself kicked into turbo mode by the doctored photograph that her team released of her in a ham-fisted attempt to assuage concerns about her well-being.