For some, Stephen Colbert’s response to having joked about Catherine, Princess of Wales while she had cancer wasn’t enough without a direct apology. One person on X, formerly known as Twitter, wrote, “This is misleading rambling, NOT an apology of any kind.” They weren’t alone. Another posted, “His jokes weren’t really jokes. He was on the bully bandwagon. He should have said I will try to be a better person and I apologize. Never watching him again.”
A Colbert apology might still be forthcoming, but perhaps it will be to Rose Hanbury. Hanbury — specifically a rumored affair between her and William, Prince of Wales — came up during Colbert’s jokes about Kate’s disappearance. In a sign that Hanbury wouldn’t take the William affair rumors laying down, her lawyers sent Colbert a legal notice insisting that no affair had ever taken place. Whether it was Hanbury that Colbert was referring to when he said his jokes had “upset some people,” we don’t know.
Colbert and the co-hosts of “The View” were just a few of the celebrities who weighed in on the conspiracy theories about Kate over the past few weeks, and others have joined them in issuing responses after Kate’s cancer diagnosis was confirmed. Blake Lively, who’d made a joke about photoshopping in reference to Kate’s photoshopped Mother’s Day family photo, posted an apology on Instagram Stories, as reported by People.
