Kate Middleton latest: Three suspended over medical breach as Archbishop warns over conspiracy theories

Recently barely a day has gone by without the royal family appearing on a newspaper front page, and this week has been no exception.

Already this year Buckingham Palace has been rocked by a shock cancer diagnosis, and the scandal linking Prince Andrew to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has continued to rumble on.

With the memory of their mother still casting a long shadow, both Harry and William are determined to do things their own way. But, asks Tessa Dunlop, after a week of turmoil and many questions left unanswered, does this spell trouble in a world where there are now more palaces than major royal players?

The King’s personal data was not compromised during the alleged data breach at the London Clinic, it is understood.

Up to three people could have been involved in the alleged accessing of the Princess of Wales’s private medical records after Kate was discharged from hospital on 29 January, it has been reported.

The King has held audiences with new high commissioners from Tanzania and Singapore.

The 75-year-old monarch, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, first met Mbelwa Kairuki at Buckingham Palace for the formal ceremony welcoming Tanzania’s top diplomat based in the UK.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has slammed conspiracy theories about Kate, saying it is “wrong” to “gossip” about people’s health.

Justin Welby also warned that society is becoming “obsessed with conspiracy” in an interview with Times Radio.

“We are obsessed with conspiracy and we have little sense of the humanity of those who are caught in the glare of the news,” he said.

“It does not matter who it is, people should be allowed to be ill, have an operation, whatever it is, and to live their lives in peace without everyone demanding that they prove something every other day.”

First came the “royal health shock” headlines when palace officials announced that King Charles III and Kate, the Princess of Wales, both had health troubles. An absence of information about Kate’s health and whereabouts then fueled an increasingly frenzied rumor mill that made its way from the fringes of social media to frontpages around the world.

Distrust of the monarchy only intensified after Kate admitted that she edited an official family photo, and palace officials have struggled to regain control of the narrative as conjecture and conspiracy theories persist.