The rumor doesn’t stop there: Why haven’t Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis been to see their mother?

The day after the Kate news was announced, Prince William, having put his out of office on to do the full-time dad bit, was witnessed leaving the Clinic via the back in his $268,000 electric Audi.

The prince has been in to see his wife on a daily basis since then, which have been reported in both the Sun and the Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail’s royal editor Rebecca English has shared that “the media have agreed not to have photographers [outside the hospital], not to have camera crews, not to have journalists, to allow [Kate] to recuperate from her operation in privacy and also to respect the privacy of the other patients.”

Therefore, William or the Middletons could easily ferry George, Charlotte and Louis in and out of the hospital to see their mommy unobserved and in private.

One possible statement for the young Waleses staying away came via the Sun, which announced that “William and Kate want her absence to feel as normal as possible for the youngsters”. And Monday to Friday, that’s entirely buyable and reasonable.

But – and here we have a double, treble underlined ‘but’ in bold – what about the weekend just past?

The Waleses home Adelaide Cottage is only about a 45-minute drive from Kate’s hospital, so again, that’s hardly a logistic problem that might be preventing a family reunion.

As a royal aide shared to the Sunday Times’ Roya Nikkhah last week, William and Kate’s new motto as they face her health situation is, “100 per cent family first, day job second”.

Does that gel with the kids not be taken to meet Kate?

An argument put forward by the Mail’s English is that “ royals don’t tend to visit each other in hospital, or at least only very rarely.”

Except here comes that word again – ‘but’.

But we haven’t really had members of the royal family, aside from Prince Philip, in hospital for years now making this something of a moot point.

For example, His Majesty “made a beeline” for his daughter-in-law’s room when he arrived at the London Clinic this week while Queen Camilla visited her husband three times within the space of 24-hours.

I think that Camilla invest in some crystals, sage and the services of a half-decent shaman to sort of whatever bad juju or hex is hanging over Buckingham Palace.