As Easter is coming, royal fans thought that Kate Middleton would return to her royal duties, but until now, Middleton’s first official picture after her surgery only arrived, and it was confirmed that the picture was manipulated with photoshop.
TMZ shared the first picture of Middleton, where she was in her mother’s car, while Kensington Palace was staying quiet. On the 10th of March, for Mother’s Day, the palace shared a picture of Middleton, where she was with her children
But the picture was played with photoshop.
Associated Press released a kill notification. “The Associated Press initially published the photo, which was issued by Kensington Palace. The AP later retracted the image because at closer inspection, it appears that the source had manipulated the image in a way that did not meet AP’s photo standards. The photo shows an inconsistency in the alignment of Princess Charlotte’s left hand.”
Later, Middleton had apologized, as she explained why she played with the picture as, “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C.”
me royal experts stated that Middleton should take responsibility over the things she does, as Hiilary Fordwich said, “The certainty is that a ‘slimmed down monarchy’ means fewer are guiding the royals and those who are aren’t as media savvy as they need to be.”
“In our fast-paced world with tech-savvy media outlets, the palaces need to hire the best and brightest in such fields.”
“While this certainly isn’t ‘business as usual’ nor what we would expect from a royal household… it shows great humility to admit one’s mistakes,” Fordwich added.
“Others might have either remained silent or tried to blame another. Kate issued a straight-up, no-nonsense apology. Many could learn a lesson from such.”
“Now it hasn’t passed that muster, if you like, and that’s because it was pretty much an amateur job on doing so. So, really, there needed to be some advisers around doing that job, making sure that in this modern world of modern communications that, you cannot tamper with photographs that are being issued as official photographs.”
“It damages the integrity of the organization that is issuing a photograph,” Jobson continued.
King Charles on the other hand, didn’t responded about the manipulated picture, and didn’t talked about Middleton’s surgery, or his cancer treatment, since he is resting at the Sandringham estate of the Crown.
In his book, Spare, Prince Harry had talked about the things happened in the family, as King Charles asked for something from his sons, as Harry wrote, “I tried to explain my side of things. I wasn’t at my best. For starters. I was still nervous, fighting to keep my emotions in check, while also striving to be succinct and precise.”
“More, I’d vowed not to let this encounter devolve into another argument. But I quickly discovered that it wasn’t up to me.”
Daniela Elser, royal expert, had stated that Prince William and Kate Middleton had turned the situation into a big problem.
“Here (the Mother’s Day picture) was a jolly god-given opportunity to tamp down the mania that has engulfed social media; here was a chance to prove that the Princess of Wales is alive and well-enough to work her trusty curling tongs,” the royal expert said.
“This should have finally set things to rights, a return to cool-headedness, normalcy, sanity. Oh no. In the place of a nice return to regular viewing, those major news agencies put out that ‘kill notice’ and things went nuclear.”
“For Charles this is something of a Chernobyl-sized mess (instance #868) in that no one seems to have even the remotest clue how to put out this inferno or begin to clean things up. All that William and Kate and their Kensington Palace’s office have managed over the last few weeks is to create this chaotic, shambolic, out-of-control situation which is now being reported on by every major outlet globally.”
In years of writing about the royal family, charting their downfalls, their exits, their TV shows, podcasts, books, interviews, interviews again, births, deaths and energetic visits to waste recycling plants, I have never seen anything like the insanity, and the inanity, of the last few weeks.”
“In Harry’s memoir Spare he recounted the father saying in 2021 during a heated scene ‘Please, boys. Don’t make my final years a misery’ – sadly, William and Kate are accidentally doing exactly that this week.”
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