“I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but the staff seemed overwhelmed in a nice way. When I went to pay for my produce, the girl at the counter was so shocked she was hardly breathing,” he told The Sun.
“Everyone in there was very excited. It was a really nice atmosphere.”
Silva, who claimed he had no idea “Kate was so much in the news”, then went outside to take a short video for his family in Portugal.
“I started to record as they [Kate and William] walked towards the car park. They just looked very happy and relaxed together,” he said. “William was obviously protective of Kate and I quickly stopped recording because I didn’t want to make them uncomfortable.”
After sharing the clip with his family over WhatsApp, family members couldn’t believe what they saw.
“They were like, ‘Oh god, she’s alive! She hasn’t been seen since last year’. I’m not really into gossip and celebrities, I like to go fishing and to my allotment.”
“Kate just wanted to take a walk with her husband. She looks well. I’d say, ‘Draw a line under it now’.”
Middleton’s last public engagement was Christmas Day, just a few short weeks before planned abdominal surgery. At the time Kensington Palace said she wouldn’t return to public duty until Easter.
Rumors about her health and whereabouts quickly began to swirl, even after photos of Middleton surfaced, including a Mother’s Day photo.
