--- title: Kate Middleton Looks Like She's Levitating: Photo description: She mingled with a bunch of Muggles. canonical: https://time.com/4395452/kate-middleton-floating-levitating-photo/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-06T20:03:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:07.697Z og:title: Kate Middleton Looks Like She's Levitating in This Photo og:description: She's probably had magical powers this whole time. og:url: https://time.com/4395452/kate-middleton-floating-levitating-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kate Middleton Looks Like She's Levitating in This Photo twitter:description: She's probably had magical powers this whole time. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kate Middleton Really Does Look Like She's Levitating in This Photo by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 6, 2016 8:03 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 6, 2016 8:03 PM UTC The magic spotters of the Internet have noticed that a recent photo of the royals seems to show both of [Kate Middleton’s](http://time.com/4312739/prince-william-kate-middleton-anniversary-sweetest-moments-photos/) feet off the ground at the same time. The photo depicts [Middleton](http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/kate-middleton/) walking beside Prince William, Prince Harry and Prime Minister David Cameron in Thiepval, France to honor the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme on Friday. Thanks to irrefutable photo evidence an optical illusion, it looks like she’s floating above the ground. (Gaze closely, and you’ll see it only looks this way because the footbed of her right pump matches the ground.) While the likelihood that she can levitate is on par with two identical snowflakes, it’s pretty clear she can fly. Now that this evidence exists, it’s safe to say that William and the rest of the lot are powerful people, but they’re nothing more than a bunch of [Muggles](http://time.com/3987251/harry-potter-dumbledore-theory/). > [](https://twitter.com/ahluhhuhh/status/749174867241598976) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4395452/kate-middleton-floating-levitating-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4395452/kate-middleton-floating-levitating-photo/"},"headline":"Kate Middleton Really Does Look Like She's Levitating in This Photo","datePublished":"2016-07-06T20:03:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:07.697Z","description":"She's possibly been magic this whole time","url":"https://time.com/4395452/kate-middleton-floating-levitating-photo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","celebrities","kate middleton","Prince William"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4395452/kate-middleton-floating-levitating-photo/","name":"Kate Middleton Really Does Look Like She's Levitating in This Photo"}}]}] ```