Rumors about Rose Hanbury and Prince William first emerged in 2019.Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images, Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesRumors that Prince William had an affair with Sarah Rose Hanbury have circulated since 2019. A new Vulture investigation suggests British outlets have quietly removed mentions of the affair. Lawyers for Hanbury told Business Insider in March that the affair rumors are "completely false."Reports speculating that Prince William had an affair with British noblewoman Sarah Rose Hanbury have been quietly deleted by UK media outlets, a Vulture investigation suggests.A royal correspondent for Vulture, Ellie Hall, pieced together a timeline of the erasure or modifications of news stories that stretches from 2019, when the affair rumors first emerged, to March 2024.The timeline lays out how several British publications published articles about any relationship between William, 42, and Hanbury, 40, that have since been taken down or substantially updated.The stories amended after publication came from outlets including tabloids like The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, and The Mirror as well as Tatler, a high-society magazine.Prince William and Kate Middleton used to be neighbors with Rose when they lived in Norfolk.Stephen Pond/Getty ImagesThe news stories Vulture said were amended after publication range from opinion pieces to aggregated articles, covering everything from rumors that Hanbury was at one point a potential romantic "contender" for William to an apparent falling out between Hanbury and Kate Middleton, 42, over the Princess of Wales seeing her as "rival."Some of the deleted or updated articles are still accessible in their original form via resources like the Internet's WayBack Machine, Vulture reported.Hanbury, through her lawyers, said in a March email to Business Insider that the affair rumors were "completely false."Vulture also said it is unclear if the outlets that erased or edited stories did so at the request of representatives for William or Hanbury, who is the Marchioness of Cholmondeley.The only publication to issue a statement to Vulture was The Guardian.