Where you stand on Kate Spiracy, there's no doubting its impact on the reputation of the British royal family.

The Mother's Day portrait, apparently taken by Prince William last week and later badly edited by Princess Catherine,

has taken Lurie gossip about the monarchy into the mainstream.

This was the late show with Stephen Colbert last night.

Here's something for those of you who are royal watchers, and I know you are, Lewis.

I am.

I'm afraid I've got some troubling news about England's royal family.

I know this is your life's passion, Lewis, and I'm sorry.

As we were talking about on this show yesterday, the kingdom has been all flutter by the seeming disappearance of Kate Middleton.

Well, he went on to make an extraordinary allegation about the state of Prince

William and Catherine's marriage, which we're not going to repeat now. And this was John Oliver,

who is British. This was him talking about it. There was a non-zero chance he died 18 months

ago. They might be weekend and Bernie's in this situation.

Non-zero. I'm not saying it happened.

Right. Right, but non-zero.

I'm saying it's non-zero.

Until proved otherwise, until he'd see her with a copy of the day's newspaper.

Hmm. I mean, she's been pretty ill. Is that funny?

The controversy has even made it to the floor of the White House press room.

Does the White House ever digitally alter photos of the president, vice president,

personally, before the release?

Digitally altered?

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