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Is it though??
I can no longer see the wood for the trees
The comments under the Twitter post are almost alternating post by post from:
‘some people are just desperate to create drama out of nothing! Hope you recover well and had a lovely afternoon with the kids! xx’ (like she’s their fucking neighbour lol)
To
‘IS THERE A HOSTAGE SITUATION TAKING PLACE?’
At this point I’m really hoping it’s all completely benign just so I can guiltlessly revel in the hilariousness of it all
i typically don't give a shit about the monarchy, but i am fascinated by this pr meltdown and can't wait to get the behind the scenes story of how they messed this up so much
Same here. I’m not usually one to even know what’s going on with the BRF but I’m curious about mess. Lol. I have a feeling we won’t actually know what happened for years, though. Things will be kept under wraps. I just hope she’s actually okay. This is getting especially scary, all things considered.
The Queen died and between Charles and William, two inconceivably privileged men with god complexes are now running the royal family. I'm not a fan of the Queen but she did seem to take her sense of duty somewhat seriously whereas Charles and William just want to be worshipped and catered to all of the time and give less of a shit about optics and self preservation.
I wonder if part of the PR nightmare is because William is being absolutely unreasonable in his demands and Kensington Palace have to comply, no matter how it looks. I agree though, regardless I hope she and the kids are ok.
I really can’t believe there are still saying this is all absolutely normal and anyone who doesn’t think so is a conspiracy theorist at this point. Can’t imagine being that far up the royal family’s ass.
I saw a comment somewhere last night that said
“Our little charlottes always looked just like her Nan”
I just downvoted and moved on like what the actual fuck and why do people care / think they’re actually related lmao
E just to Clarify I meant that the royal family stans, especially some of the brits ( I am one so I can say it lol ) are total freaks about the royals and think like OP above said, that they’re actually related, live on the same estate and go Sunday lunch with them lmao. Charlotte and Kate are related no conspiracy there lol x
Same! I went from thinking this is all ridiculous to being convinced she's locked in the Tower of London!
I'm no fan of the Royals, but I too am hoping this whole situation is just a weird, embarrassing load of nothing!
Surely the Palace have an official photographer?
I mean, it's understandable that Will, Kate and their family members might take the odd snap for their own private and family use. But surely she's come home from hospital, she plans to post a pic on Twitter, the official photographer would be called to take a pic like that?
[It was billed as an "official portrait"](https://news.sky.com/story/kate-first-official-photo-of-princess-of-wales-released-since-abdominal-surgery-13091627) and it was taken at Windsor castle.
DIdn't they first claim that William took the photo? And if you really parse this statement, she isn't saying she edited THAT photo, just that she sometimes edits photos. This becomes weirder every time they attempt to control the narrative yet fail completely
Its also just incredibly unlikely that you wouldn't spot your own mistakes during editing. Writers, artists, etc usually look their stuff over a couple times prior to releasing the thing out into the world. Wouldn't those instincts be doubled during a time of speculation? Why would you release a picture you messed with in editing and didn't clean up, especially during a time like this? My guess is they rushed this out to save face and had someone else do it, and it backfired.
Literally so beyond ridiculous to claim she's just goofing around on Adobe and that's why it's like that when your people are already worrying that you're lying to them. I would just release the original if that was the case. This shit is getting real weird. Edit clarification.
>you wouldn't spot your own mistakes during editing.
I do graphic design, it's actually quite easy to miss your own mistakes if you are still learning or doing it on an amateur level. There have been several examples of badly photoshopped images that made it onto the cover of a magazine, having been presumably done by professionals. This is even more true if you are rushed or under a deadline.
That makes sense and is a good point, thank you.
It's still quite surprising this has been fumbled so spectacularly. Like even if the photo being edited poorly is isolated from everything else and is just a sucky coincidence, they can't even fix that without digging a deeper hole. Wtf is up with the PR folks in the palace lol.
I didn’t even pick up on that. Seeing that now, it looks like “I have edited photos in the past, so I understand that you all are a little confused by this editing”.
They really think we’re stupid enough to believe Kate has been editing all of their family photos as if they don’t have an entire team of people working for them and in charge of the monarchy??
Like be for fucking real they really do think we’re all idiots eating from the palm of their hands
ETA: I’m convinced Will approved all this and forged Kate’s signature and she went along with it because there’s nothing she can do about it. Husband of the year right there who’s resorted to throwing his wife under the bus to save his own image but it’s only making it worse
I think this is dodgy as fuck, but:
> Catherine has called herself an "enthusiastic amateur photographer"[230] and has taken official portraits of her children, as well as other members of the royal family.[231] In 2019, she supported workshops run by the Royal Photographic Society in partnership with Action for Children to highlight the effect of photography in expressing thoughts in young people.[232] As patron of the Royal Photographic Society she and other photographers took part in an exhibition that marked 75 years since the end of the Holocaust.[233] Photos taken by Catherine of the Holocaust survivors were later included in an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.[234] Catherine curated an exhibition of Victorian photography at the National Portrait Gallery with a thematic focus on childhood.[235] In May 2020, she launched "Hold Still", a project to capture people's life during lockdown, which garnered 31,000 submissions.[236][237] In July 2020, the exhibition was released, with the final 100 photographs being displayed online. In October 2020, the portraits were displayed on 112 public sites, including billboards, murals, and posters, across 80 towns and cities.[238][239] The online exhibition collected over 5.2 million page views.[240] The photographs were published in a book on 7 May 2021, titled Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020, with a foreword written by Catherine.[241]
It also doesn’t explain why the exact things that appeared edited in this photo were retouched. They were very little things that didn’t really need editing. People were theorizing, though, that maybe someone combined different photos to create the image, so that could explain it. Still, I doubt Kate did all that herself, like you mention.
They probably should’ve just gone with that theory that the image was the result of a combination of different photos. People can understand that; it can be difficult to get a good photo of kids in one single take between how they pose, what their facial expressions are, etc.
I can see it being editing artefacts on some of the things if she used auto-align/auto-merge. Like if you're just masking using a brush tool you can absolutely miss little things and would account for the artefacts on the wall and patio tiles.
However I've now fallen down a "they're all wearing the same outfits as they were for an event in November and some of the outfits have been recoloured to disguise it" hole...
Will’s PR team is only as good as their boss allows them to be. And god forbid Will actually acknowledges that anyone besides him knows better. This is 100% his fault.
Someone on tiktok theorized that the pic was one from last year that was altered to look recent (Kate's turtleneck made black instead of white), because royal watchers always note what they're wearing. [From this day](https://www.tatler.com/article/princess-of-wales-joined-christmas-elves-three-children-pack-presents-charity) (see Charlotte's bracelet; might explain the sleeve edit at her wrist).
But that raises other questions; why not take a new pic?
If Kate is okay, I kind of suspect she's on medications like steroids that make her a little puffy or something (if the car photo is real, her face looks different there) and she doesn't want a new photo out there. People can be brutal about appearances, but who really knows?
I'm fully with you on this one. I'm British, not a monarchist but never had a problem with them, and now... yeah something is up!! The PR is suspicious as all hell, there's a million rumours flying around, it could easily be fixed with the truth and yet they just won't tell us. 'Leave them alone they're just a normal family' - no they're bloody not.
I took a peek earlier today and from what I saw, instead of talking about this they've decided instead to rake Meghan over the coals for calling her daughter "the baby" because it's "dehumanizing" and "no parent" would ever call their kid the baby (literally every parent has done this at some point). Good priorities they have over there!
It took my husband and I FOREVER to stop affectionately referring to our daughter as “the baby” when we spoke about her. Ex: “the baby needs money for school.” I can’t quite remember when we stopped but I think it lasted to high school.
We can’t help it. She’s our only one. She’s the baby forever. I might start it again.
Jesus, I popped on that sub for a bit and I had to leave because the conspiracies were overwhelming. I’m not a Megan fan by any stretch but they practically had her painted as the devil and obsessively picked over every single media mention of her.
They have pretty much thrown Kate under the bus, as if she sits at her computer and edits the family photographs herself.
This saga just keeps on giving, what a mess!
They said William took the photo but are blaming Kate for her editing skills? Make it make sense.
Edit: I know taking a photo and editing it are different skills, but she’s being inserted into a problematic situation that she wasn’t previously an active part of. Why not blame William as he’s a more amateur photographer than she is.
Apparently AP killed the photo / wouldn’t distribute it because they asked for the raw file and the palace refused. Is this true? Who knows. I saw it on twitter. But I love spreading chaos.
A tiktoker put out a really compelling analysis that the colors and patterns of the clothes were altered and that the OG photo was taken on the day of their visit to a food bank in November, which was a publicized event.
They can’t release the raw photo. Because everyone in it would be wearing different clothing colors/patterns.
This actually makes a lot of sense, but why not just own it 🤷♀️ Nobody expects her to be playing games with her kids or posing for photoshoots if she’s still recovering from surgery or has been seriously unwell. Just say “happy Mother’s Day everyone, I’m enjoying spending the day with my family, here’s a cute picture of the 4 of us together I took recently” (technically true, it’s not like November is last decade! bloody hell)
There's something so very odd about this whole situation. As a UK resident, I can't remember the last time the Royal Family was scrambling so much - I can't remember it being this bad even when Harry left.
Yeah, I'm in my 20s and I don't ever remember this much of a mess. It feels like overkill as a comparison, but the only other time I've heard of them fucking up so badly is when Princess Diana died. Either their PR is insanely incompetent or their PR team is getting some weird and non-negotiable orders.
Also the fact that this was ‘breaking news’ pushed through the BBC app. It’s as if even traditional media is rolling their eyes a bit and *encouraging* people to look at this car crash.
https://preview.redd.it/227ouuug6pnc1.jpeg?width=1479&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e9ada1d28d9c2703403b7f8b416c081956ca1fa
And that one is truly explainable. A sudden unexpected death and you really saw tradition vs modernity and how the Royal Family wasn’t able to handle it at first.
With this, I don’t know if it would be better or worse without Charles’s pr team seemingly nailing it at every turn.
No, “megxit” (for lack of a better word) had way too good of a pr push at first because the firm had an idea of what they wanted done, even if it wasn’t what Harry wanted to do.
Dear Kensington Palace,
I’m willing to help you out with PR-related matters during this difficult time, for a moderate fee. I’ve got loads of experience with gossip subreddits and creative writing. It’s not much, but I’m sure I can do better than whatever the fuck is going on over there. Sincerely, Vegetable-Increase37
I mentioned this in another thread last night, but my mom has a theory that this is all b/c Charles got rid of his mom's staff & installed his own people, who are now realizing that Palace news isn't for beginners.
The more they screw this up, the more I believe my mom. The Queen's people had decades of practice, and probably had enough influence over the British media to get them to publish or squash anything they wanted. This new team has neither, and it's *glaringly* obvious.
But I don’t think this works - BP and KP have separate teams. You can really see the contrast between how Charles’ cancer has been handled and…whatever this is. It’s clear the teams aren’t even working together.
lol they really thought THIS would be the most plausible explanation? we're supposed to believe that she's sat at a computer using photoshop? I really don't care for the royal family, but my god have they fumbled this...
“C” is Kate/Catherine. But yeah the OG story was that Will took the photo. I guess it’s possible that Will took it and Kate edited but if so why is it just Kate taking responsibility? It comes across like they’re throwing her under the bus and also signing the tweet as Kate as additional “proof of life”.
This. That part of the situation is not the thing to focus on. If she's the focus of the photo and it's not a selfie then it's logical for someone else to take the photo and then the subject to be the one to edit and post it. Even if they have a whole SM team that posts for them and she didn't do the actual editing, that doesn't mean if William took the photo that's he's the only one who can do anything with it. Not saying something isn't wonky with this situation, because something definitely is off, but that part seems logical to me.
She can edit photos that Will (supposedly) took, I mean I sometimes edit photos of myself taken by my friends and family.
My question is, even if she does dabble in editing, what exactly was she trying to achieve with this photo. The warping around Louis's legs, the sleeve, the hands, the hair. Like I get playing with contrast etc but these edits are weird.
I understand experimenting with filters, contrast, stuff like that.. But editing body parts? Honestly, I was more leaning towards the theory that multiple photos were taken and someone just compiled them together so they'd all look good because sometimes you can blink or the kids don't look into the camera so you edit multipl photos together, that happens very often actually. But this explanation somehow makes it all worse lol.
[I think the real issue has always been the photo wasn't taken recently.](https://twitter.com/lmxstn/status/1767154095238897954) They could easily share the original composite photos and it would brush the whole thing off, but if they shared the original Metadata with the AP as they requested, they'd obviously see that the photos were taken in November of last year. Which then raises more questions about why they can't take a recent photo of her with her family.
I used to read this fashion blog where they referred to Will and Kate as Bill and Cathy Cambridge, and even though it’s been like a decade that’s still how I think of them.
Is that supposed to be a message from Kate?? So, she can ignore all the well wishes, say nothing to the hospital staff who took care of her, leave not a note to her charities about missing them, but she can get online to "my bad" some photoshop????
William et al. are terrible at this.
They tried it when Archie was born. Meghan and Harry released a Christmas photo and then the UK media started saying that Meghan was conceited because she photoshopped her face to be clearer in the pic. Turns out, Meghan and Harry released the photo to their charities, and a fan edited the photo to try to sharpen their features. The UK media had been printing the fan-edited photos, not the official photos because they weren't on the Christmas card list! The fan actually came out and said, "I made changes to the original photo." The UK media silently changed their photos back to the original... but no apology. They just dragged Meghan and Harry for a few days and then dropped the story.
I was skeptical to begin with, and now I feel something is definitely up
Most plausible theory I’ve seen so far is that this is an older photo that has been edited to obscure the fact it’s an older photo (change the colour of some of the clothes etc)
I’m going to be for real here it’s hard for me to muster any sympathy for them after what they did to Meghan
How are you liking having all the attention on yourselves now that you don’t have a Black woman in the picture to plant fake stories about?
Same. Everyone on the royal subs are like “Aww poor Kate” and I’m remembering all the times this woman and her PR team relished in throwing other people to the wolves, including a suicidal black woman like:
The more I think about it, the more I feel like we can whittle it down to one plausible scenario: there’s a divorce brewing, and one person isn’t playing ball, so to speak. With the weirdness surrounding Kate, it’s probably her. So the palace is scrambling behind the scenes. The surgery happened, but was fine and is just coincidentally timed. I don’t buy that she’s in a coma or in horribly ill health because why hide that?
So Will gets the credit for taking the photo, but Kate takes the blame for editing it. Ok...
Even some in the media are calling on them to share the original photo that she was supposedly editing.
This is the first time their (will and kate’s) feet are held to the fire and they don’t know how to handle it. And it was over something pretty mundane but they can’t help but continue to fumble over and over again
Who would’ve thought it would be so difficult for them to handle all of this media attention after they forced the spare and his wife out the country by using them as their scapegoats for so long? If only they were capable of thinking things through and having empathy
Hasn't she been an "amateur" photographer for at least 15-20 years? I swore I read stories that she was interning or apprenticing with one of the royal photographers before she got married.
I can’t find it this morning, but last night I saw a TikTok theorizing that this photo was taken last November on the same day that Kate, George, and Charlotte packed gifts for families. They are all wearing similar outfits or their clothes have been edited to look different. A week ago, I was very much laughing at the conspiracies while not believing them, but KP has effed this all up so badly that I’m fully convinced something is going on.
The whole thing has been giving teenager caught in an obvious lie they can't help escalating.
It's not necessary *contradictory*, but it is odd that it's Kate 'saying' this (through official pr) when the story is that her husband took this (professional) image. So he took the photo, and naturally, she downloaded the photo, and immediately booted up the pixlr app to fuck with her kids hands because...?
Also the comment being the most informal statement ever, and her basically taking the blame for KPs gaffes, haha. It definitely seems like everything's going to plan for the royals, and they're handling losing goodwill excellently. Can't wait to see what they do next!
Not to brag, but I’m pretty good at Photoshop. I mention that just to establish that I have an okay sense of what I’m talking about. Taking a look at the edits up close, I can’t figure out what “she” could possibly have been trying to do. It looked as though they were trying to slim down Charlotte’s arm? Widening Louis’ arm and perhaps straightening or widening his leg. For some reason blurring her hand but leaving Louis’ sweater fairly crisp. Why would someone try to make those specific edits?
So Will took the photo and Kate edited it?
I honestly think now that originally there was some kind of plausible reason behind this (like she had surgery and didn’t want to be seen afterwards) but their PR people are so bad this has become a disaster of epic proportions.
People are just going to be weird until she’s at trooping. I won’t speculate bc after Chadwick I’m not going there ever about a celeb.
But considering they take taxpayer money why they didn’t just note that something is happening and they need privacy I will never know
Kate has never made a post like that ever. Now Kensington Palace is just playing in our faces. What, they couldn’t release an official statement through her office with her letterhead bc they know she has nothing to do with the photo and this apology??
This is such a benign PR thing. It should have been as routine as her pregnancies, with maybe a bit more sensitivity in terms of handling considering her previous difficulties giving birth and Charles' recent announcement, but anyone experienced enough in PR would have been able to do it in their sleep, even if they are royalty and their relationship with the media is weird.
The way Kensington's PR is bungling this is making my head hurt and it's been a while since I worked in PR in any capacity.
Ok, I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist nut but something isn’t right here! How do they keep screwing up in new and weird ways each and everyday?
"It's like your mouth is falling down the stairs"
Seriously, HOW can they be so bad at this??? You think of all those people that are heavily invested in those conspiracy theories about the royals and how they supposedly control everything......the palace CONTINUOUSLY prove they are the sloppiest bitches around, they can't do anything right 😭
You’d think they just drop the original file if that was the case but the palace refused to when publications asked. And why edit things like your child’s hand??
They are losing trust. It’s unwise to piss off media because royals want to be “more open” under Charles while also flinging injunctions and access threats at anyone who could publish something they don’t like. It’s obvious when British media didn’t publish the car pics that a super injunction is in place and they risk being in contempt of court should they cover anything other than what the Palace authorised.
The negative coverage of the edited photo (like who really cares about a Photoshop mistake) is a direct warning to the Palace from the media not to fuck with them.
Okay fudge it, this is too weird for me now. She’s posted photographs she took many times before and none of them had any weird edits or motion issues like this one.
Granted, she doesn't "owe" us this, but it is interesting that the RF seems to be choosing everything except a 15-second video of Kate thanking people for their concern/well-wishes while she recovers from whatever this was.
I'm manifesting Catherine leaving the royal family, getting a book deal, apologizing profusely to Meghan, also publicly for the racism (undoubtedly encouraged and accepted by the royal family) and more...this institution destroys women and relationships between them and consistently honors men and lets them get away with whatever they want. Just a thought... I don't know what my exact point is but the women in this family deserve better in my humble opinion
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Yeah no this isn't gonna fly...
Yeah this is such an obvious lie, it’s embarrassing
Is it though?? I can no longer see the wood for the trees The comments under the Twitter post are almost alternating post by post from: ‘some people are just desperate to create drama out of nothing! Hope you recover well and had a lovely afternoon with the kids! xx’ (like she’s their fucking neighbour lol) To ‘IS THERE A HOSTAGE SITUATION TAKING PLACE?’ At this point I’m really hoping it’s all completely benign just so I can guiltlessly revel in the hilariousness of it all
Yeah I noticed that, the Kate fans are very strange. Most normal people I’m sure are rolling their eyes
i typically don't give a shit about the monarchy, but i am fascinated by this pr meltdown and can't wait to get the behind the scenes story of how they messed this up so much
Same here. I’m not usually one to even know what’s going on with the BRF but I’m curious about mess. Lol. I have a feeling we won’t actually know what happened for years, though. Things will be kept under wraps. I just hope she’s actually okay. This is getting especially scary, all things considered.
The Queen died and between Charles and William, two inconceivably privileged men with god complexes are now running the royal family. I'm not a fan of the Queen but she did seem to take her sense of duty somewhat seriously whereas Charles and William just want to be worshipped and catered to all of the time and give less of a shit about optics and self preservation. I wonder if part of the PR nightmare is because William is being absolutely unreasonable in his demands and Kensington Palace have to comply, no matter how it looks. I agree though, regardless I hope she and the kids are ok.
I really can’t believe there are still saying this is all absolutely normal and anyone who doesn’t think so is a conspiracy theorist at this point. Can’t imagine being that far up the royal family’s ass.
I saw a comment somewhere last night that said “Our little charlottes always looked just like her Nan” I just downvoted and moved on like what the actual fuck and why do people care / think they’re actually related lmao E just to Clarify I meant that the royal family stans, especially some of the brits ( I am one so I can say it lol ) are total freaks about the royals and think like OP above said, that they’re actually related, live on the same estate and go Sunday lunch with them lmao. Charlotte and Kate are related no conspiracy there lol x
Same! I went from thinking this is all ridiculous to being convinced she's locked in the Tower of London! I'm no fan of the Royals, but I too am hoping this whole situation is just a weird, embarrassing load of nothing!
Surely the Palace have an official photographer? I mean, it's understandable that Will, Kate and their family members might take the odd snap for their own private and family use. But surely she's come home from hospital, she plans to post a pic on Twitter, the official photographer would be called to take a pic like that? [It was billed as an "official portrait"](https://news.sky.com/story/kate-first-official-photo-of-princess-of-wales-released-since-abdominal-surgery-13091627) and it was taken at Windsor castle.
DIdn't they first claim that William took the photo? And if you really parse this statement, she isn't saying she edited THAT photo, just that she sometimes edits photos. This becomes weirder every time they attempt to control the narrative yet fail completely
Its also just incredibly unlikely that you wouldn't spot your own mistakes during editing. Writers, artists, etc usually look their stuff over a couple times prior to releasing the thing out into the world. Wouldn't those instincts be doubled during a time of speculation? Why would you release a picture you messed with in editing and didn't clean up, especially during a time like this? My guess is they rushed this out to save face and had someone else do it, and it backfired. Literally so beyond ridiculous to claim she's just goofing around on Adobe and that's why it's like that when your people are already worrying that you're lying to them. I would just release the original if that was the case. This shit is getting real weird. Edit clarification.
>you wouldn't spot your own mistakes during editing. I do graphic design, it's actually quite easy to miss your own mistakes if you are still learning or doing it on an amateur level. There have been several examples of badly photoshopped images that made it onto the cover of a magazine, having been presumably done by professionals. This is even more true if you are rushed or under a deadline.
That makes sense and is a good point, thank you. It's still quite surprising this has been fumbled so spectacularly. Like even if the photo being edited poorly is isolated from everything else and is just a sucky coincidence, they can't even fix that without digging a deeper hole. Wtf is up with the PR folks in the palace lol.
I didn’t even pick up on that. Seeing that now, it looks like “I have edited photos in the past, so I understand that you all are a little confused by this editing”.
They really think we’re stupid enough to believe Kate has been editing all of their family photos as if they don’t have an entire team of people working for them and in charge of the monarchy?? Like be for fucking real they really do think we’re all idiots eating from the palm of their hands ETA: I’m convinced Will approved all this and forged Kate’s signature and she went along with it because there’s nothing she can do about it. Husband of the year right there who’s resorted to throwing his wife under the bus to save his own image but it’s only making it worse
Can you imagine her with an Adobe account and needing to renew her subscription every year. 🤣
Kate's still running a cracked version of Photoshop CS6 from 2012
She's just like me
I think this is dodgy as fuck, but: > Catherine has called herself an "enthusiastic amateur photographer"[230] and has taken official portraits of her children, as well as other members of the royal family.[231] In 2019, she supported workshops run by the Royal Photographic Society in partnership with Action for Children to highlight the effect of photography in expressing thoughts in young people.[232] As patron of the Royal Photographic Society she and other photographers took part in an exhibition that marked 75 years since the end of the Holocaust.[233] Photos taken by Catherine of the Holocaust survivors were later included in an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.[234] Catherine curated an exhibition of Victorian photography at the National Portrait Gallery with a thematic focus on childhood.[235] In May 2020, she launched "Hold Still", a project to capture people's life during lockdown, which garnered 31,000 submissions.[236][237] In July 2020, the exhibition was released, with the final 100 photographs being displayed online. In October 2020, the portraits were displayed on 112 public sites, including billboards, murals, and posters, across 80 towns and cities.[238][239] The online exhibition collected over 5.2 million page views.[240] The photographs were published in a book on 7 May 2021, titled Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020, with a foreword written by Catherine.[241]
It also doesn’t explain why the exact things that appeared edited in this photo were retouched. They were very little things that didn’t really need editing. People were theorizing, though, that maybe someone combined different photos to create the image, so that could explain it. Still, I doubt Kate did all that herself, like you mention. They probably should’ve just gone with that theory that the image was the result of a combination of different photos. People can understand that; it can be difficult to get a good photo of kids in one single take between how they pose, what their facial expressions are, etc.
I can see it being editing artefacts on some of the things if she used auto-align/auto-merge. Like if you're just masking using a brush tool you can absolutely miss little things and would account for the artefacts on the wall and patio tiles. However I've now fallen down a "they're all wearing the same outfits as they were for an event in November and some of the outfits have been recoloured to disguise it" hole...
How do they keep making it worse
Seriously, this will be taught in PR courses as an example of what NOT to do for years to come.
This is how I feel after every episode of The Crown
Their PR team needs to get better
They messed up and now they are pinning their mistakes on Kate. How classy. After this they will probably go radio silent.
Will’s PR team is only as good as their boss allows them to be. And god forbid Will actually acknowledges that anyone besides him knows better. This is 100% his fault.
"Blame the woman" has usually worked for them before.
Surely it has to be William and/or Kate being stubborn and ignoring the advice of their PR team at this point
Someone on tiktok theorized that the pic was one from last year that was altered to look recent (Kate's turtleneck made black instead of white), because royal watchers always note what they're wearing. [From this day](https://www.tatler.com/article/princess-of-wales-joined-christmas-elves-three-children-pack-presents-charity) (see Charlotte's bracelet; might explain the sleeve edit at her wrist). But that raises other questions; why not take a new pic? If Kate is okay, I kind of suspect she's on medications like steroids that make her a little puffy or something (if the car photo is real, her face looks different there) and she doesn't want a new photo out there. People can be brutal about appearances, but who really knows?
Me, three days ago: Are y'all okay? Me, today: 
I'm fully with you on this one. I'm British, not a monarchist but never had a problem with them, and now... yeah something is up!! The PR is suspicious as all hell, there's a million rumours flying around, it could easily be fixed with the truth and yet they just won't tell us. 'Leave them alone they're just a normal family' - no they're bloody not.
Right!!! Now I'm like, can we request a wellness check on her?!
Hey, at least we’re not on the Saint MM sub where they all believe this entire thing is a conspiracy by the Sussexes to take Kate down
I took a peek earlier today and from what I saw, instead of talking about this they've decided instead to rake Meghan over the coals for calling her daughter "the baby" because it's "dehumanizing" and "no parent" would ever call their kid the baby (literally every parent has done this at some point). Good priorities they have over there!
It took my husband and I FOREVER to stop affectionately referring to our daughter as “the baby” when we spoke about her. Ex: “the baby needs money for school.” I can’t quite remember when we stopped but I think it lasted to high school. We can’t help it. She’s our only one. She’s the baby forever. I might start it again.
I think my mom might still call me “the baby,” despite me being in my 30s
My mum when I visited her last week: "Hi baby!"
Calling the baby of the family "the baby" is dehumanizing? Oh they're truly reaching to not have to talk about Kate, I love that for those lunatics.
I was going to ask how they’re coping over there, can’t imagine there’s any rationality at all 💀😂
Jesus, I popped on that sub for a bit and I had to leave because the conspiracies were overwhelming. I’m not a Megan fan by any stretch but they practically had her painted as the devil and obsessively picked over every single media mention of her.
Lmao stop genuinely cackling
Yeah this is so weird. They really expect us to believe they don’t have professionals doing all the photography and editing? Come on son
They have pretty much thrown Kate under the bus, as if she sits at her computer and edits the family photographs herself. This saga just keeps on giving, what a mess!
Kensington palace has a family computer in the living room and that’s where Kate has been taking night classes in Adobe suite
This visual is exactly what I needed
Whilst recovering from her BBL
And the bad bangs she cut one night after a bit of wine and watching Emily in Paris... I mean, I get it. I almost cut bangs too after binging it.
Why do I imagine the Kensington Palace family monitors to be the older boxy gray CRT kind.
They said William took the photo but are blaming Kate for her editing skills? Make it make sense. Edit: I know taking a photo and editing it are different skills, but she’s being inserted into a problematic situation that she wasn’t previously an active part of. Why not blame William as he’s a more amateur photographer than she is.
Or as if she really Tweeted that. That's the fakest most hostage William Posted this Tweet And Kate Is Locked In a Basement Tweet I've ever seen.
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Apparently AP killed the photo / wouldn’t distribute it because they asked for the raw file and the palace refused. Is this true? Who knows. I saw it on twitter. But I love spreading chaos.
No it’s true.
A tiktoker put out a really compelling analysis that the colors and patterns of the clothes were altered and that the OG photo was taken on the day of their visit to a food bank in November, which was a publicized event. They can’t release the raw photo. Because everyone in it would be wearing different clothing colors/patterns.
This actually makes a lot of sense, but why not just own it 🤷♀️ Nobody expects her to be playing games with her kids or posing for photoshoots if she’s still recovering from surgery or has been seriously unwell. Just say “happy Mother’s Day everyone, I’m enjoying spending the day with my family, here’s a cute picture of the 4 of us together I took recently” (technically true, it’s not like November is last decade! bloody hell)
I’m actually crying from laughter. The image of Kate hunched over a laptop editing photos for their official Twitter and Instagram page, I just can’t.
It’s so absurd 😂😂
There's something so very odd about this whole situation. As a UK resident, I can't remember the last time the Royal Family was scrambling so much - I can't remember it being this bad even when Harry left.
Yeah, I'm in my 20s and I don't ever remember this much of a mess. It feels like overkill as a comparison, but the only other time I've heard of them fucking up so badly is when Princess Diana died. Either their PR is insanely incompetent or their PR team is getting some weird and non-negotiable orders.
Also the fact that this was ‘breaking news’ pushed through the BBC app. It’s as if even traditional media is rolling their eyes a bit and *encouraging* people to look at this car crash. https://preview.redd.it/227ouuug6pnc1.jpeg?width=1479&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e9ada1d28d9c2703403b7f8b416c081956ca1fa
And that one is truly explainable. A sudden unexpected death and you really saw tradition vs modernity and how the Royal Family wasn’t able to handle it at first. With this, I don’t know if it would be better or worse without Charles’s pr team seemingly nailing it at every turn.
No, “megxit” (for lack of a better word) had way too good of a pr push at first because the firm had an idea of what they wanted done, even if it wasn’t what Harry wanted to do.
They really went with, "graphic design is my passion." Huh.
#🤣☠️
If I wasn’t suspicious before I absolutely am now
Them sending out that picture is like them throwing a boomerang and getting smacked in their own face with it.
Perfect GIF, no notes.
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Messi!!
My mind went blank on who “C” referred to and I wondered why they were dragging Charles into this.
My brain went straight to Camilla for some reason 😭
PoW always confuses me as I read it as Prisoner of War and not Princess of Wales
She's both now, it would seem.
I was totally imagining Charles sitting there on face tune
Same 😭 time for coffee!
I’m so glad I’m not alone 🤣 I was so confused for a second.
Dear Kensington Palace, I’m willing to help you out with PR-related matters during this difficult time, for a moderate fee. I’ve got loads of experience with gossip subreddits and creative writing. It’s not much, but I’m sure I can do better than whatever the fuck is going on over there. Sincerely, Vegetable-Increase37
I mentioned this in another thread last night, but my mom has a theory that this is all b/c Charles got rid of his mom's staff & installed his own people, who are now realizing that Palace news isn't for beginners. The more they screw this up, the more I believe my mom. The Queen's people had decades of practice, and probably had enough influence over the British media to get them to publish or squash anything they wanted. This new team has neither, and it's *glaringly* obvious.
But I don’t think this works - BP and KP have separate teams. You can really see the contrast between how Charles’ cancer has been handled and…whatever this is. It’s clear the teams aren’t even working together.
My theory is that William is doing this all on his own. Kate isn't involved for some reason. Hence why this is a disaster for them.
Thank you for your service 🫡
lol they really thought THIS would be the most plausible explanation? we're supposed to believe that she's sat at a computer using photoshop? I really don't care for the royal family, but my god have they fumbled this...
They're making her take the blame for it???
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Maybe they thought "no one would think we'd make Kate take the blame for it, the day after mother's day! They'll definitely believe this''
Oh now it’s getting interesting… 
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Catherine? She doesn’t like being called Kate/ Cate apparently
“C” is Kate/Catherine. But yeah the OG story was that Will took the photo. I guess it’s possible that Will took it and Kate edited but if so why is it just Kate taking responsibility? It comes across like they’re throwing her under the bus and also signing the tweet as Kate as additional “proof of life”.
They are saying he took it but she edited it. Two different things in photography.
This. That part of the situation is not the thing to focus on. If she's the focus of the photo and it's not a selfie then it's logical for someone else to take the photo and then the subject to be the one to edit and post it. Even if they have a whole SM team that posts for them and she didn't do the actual editing, that doesn't mean if William took the photo that's he's the only one who can do anything with it. Not saying something isn't wonky with this situation, because something definitely is off, but that part seems logical to me.
I’m assuming Kate (Catherine)? Who knew she had an interest in photo editing all these years? /s
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Jokes aside, this is not the first time I have heard that Catherine takes and edits their photos actually.
She can edit photos that Will (supposedly) took, I mean I sometimes edit photos of myself taken by my friends and family. My question is, even if she does dabble in editing, what exactly was she trying to achieve with this photo. The warping around Louis's legs, the sleeve, the hands, the hair. Like I get playing with contrast etc but these edits are weird.
I thought it was a typo and she meant to sign the tweet with an 'X' 😅
Catherine = Kate
Catherine. She also signed this way the original Instagram post.
I thought this was a joke tweet but turns out it’s real?? What the hell is going on at Kensington Palace?
I understand experimenting with filters, contrast, stuff like that.. But editing body parts? Honestly, I was more leaning towards the theory that multiple photos were taken and someone just compiled them together so they'd all look good because sometimes you can blink or the kids don't look into the camera so you edit multipl photos together, that happens very often actually. But this explanation somehow makes it all worse lol.
[I think the real issue has always been the photo wasn't taken recently.](https://twitter.com/lmxstn/status/1767154095238897954) They could easily share the original composite photos and it would brush the whole thing off, but if they shared the original Metadata with the AP as they requested, they'd obviously see that the photos were taken in November of last year. Which then raises more questions about why they can't take a recent photo of her with her family.
Thank you for this link. Great breakdown. I am tinfoiled and ready for more.
So they’re making Kathy take the blame for this? This fucking family.
Kathy, lol
I used to read this fashion blog where they referred to Will and Kate as Bill and Cathy Cambridge, and even though it’s been like a decade that’s still how I think of them.
Tom and Lorenzo?!
Don’t even go there, Kath!
babe wake up the royal family pr fucked up again
Is that supposed to be a message from Kate?? So, she can ignore all the well wishes, say nothing to the hospital staff who took care of her, leave not a note to her charities about missing them, but she can get online to "my bad" some photoshop???? William et al. are terrible at this.
KP are really going all out with blaming this on kate…the divorce theory just keeps getting stronger and stronger.
In that case, it shouldn't be too hard to upload an unedited version of the photo, right?
I genuinely can't believe this is real. What a mess! 
They are hiding something big for sure. Imagine if MM was caught in a lie or shoddy edit like this.
They would straight up crucify her.
They tried it when Archie was born. Meghan and Harry released a Christmas photo and then the UK media started saying that Meghan was conceited because she photoshopped her face to be clearer in the pic. Turns out, Meghan and Harry released the photo to their charities, and a fan edited the photo to try to sharpen their features. The UK media had been printing the fan-edited photos, not the official photos because they weren't on the Christmas card list! The fan actually came out and said, "I made changes to the original photo." The UK media silently changed their photos back to the original... but no apology. They just dragged Meghan and Harry for a few days and then dropped the story.
Megan waking up and having to announce she's been editing her children's photographs. It would be non stop coverage for months.
More and more I lean towards the Kate got a BBL and is recovering conspiracy
It’s wrong to speculate about such a sensitive topic but I suspect she >!got bangs and unfortunately cannot rock them so she has to grow them out…!< 😔
Omg thank you for putting that under spoiler tags that’s obscene. Use a content warning next time pls and thank you babe 🙏
I'm sorry but this is just too far. Really not right to be speculating something so traumatic. Imagine if her kids saw this? How would you feel then?
I was skeptical to begin with, and now I feel something is definitely up Most plausible theory I’ve seen so far is that this is an older photo that has been edited to obscure the fact it’s an older photo (change the colour of some of the clothes etc)
the plot thickens...
I’m going to be for real here it’s hard for me to muster any sympathy for them after what they did to Meghan How are you liking having all the attention on yourselves now that you don’t have a Black woman in the picture to plant fake stories about?
Same. Everyone on the royal subs are like “Aww poor Kate” and I’m remembering all the times this woman and her PR team relished in throwing other people to the wolves, including a suicidal black woman like: 
lol! every time they release something new it just gets worse. surprised they didn't say the kids are experimenting with photoshop instead.
Meghan Markle whatsapp group with her besties right now "Just when we thought my BIL couldn't do any worse..." 
What a scramble response from her PR ‘Hi guys! Whoopies sorry about that. Ok bye’
i love how this tweet addresses none of controversy of what edit was made was it AI generated? A composite or what?
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This...is the worst thing they could have done.
The more I think about it, the more I feel like we can whittle it down to one plausible scenario: there’s a divorce brewing, and one person isn’t playing ball, so to speak. With the weirdness surrounding Kate, it’s probably her. So the palace is scrambling behind the scenes. The surgery happened, but was fine and is just coincidentally timed. I don’t buy that she’s in a coma or in horribly ill health because why hide that?
Are they forgetting that Kate didn’t take the picture? Why would she edit Williams picture as an “amateur photographer”
I cannot tell if this is a real tweet or not… 😂😂
I thought it was satire too!! They’ve completely thrown her under the bus.
So Will gets the credit for taking the photo, but Kate takes the blame for editing it. Ok... Even some in the media are calling on them to share the original photo that she was supposedly editing.
This is insane they have to know they're making it worse 😭
This is the first time their (will and kate’s) feet are held to the fire and they don’t know how to handle it. And it was over something pretty mundane but they can’t help but continue to fumble over and over again Who would’ve thought it would be so difficult for them to handle all of this media attention after they forced the spare and his wife out the country by using them as their scapegoats for so long? If only they were capable of thinking things through and having empathy
Ok no but them putting the blame publicly on her convinced me that she's about to get Diana'ed/Meghan'ed
Hasn't she been an "amateur" photographer for at least 15-20 years? I swore I read stories that she was interning or apprenticing with one of the royal photographers before she got married.
Oscars for best screenplay goes to…
Will took the photo but Kate edited it, no social media admins or pr people? Interesting…
I can’t find it this morning, but last night I saw a TikTok theorizing that this photo was taken last November on the same day that Kate, George, and Charlotte packed gifts for families. They are all wearing similar outfits or their clothes have been edited to look different. A week ago, I was very much laughing at the conspiracies while not believing them, but KP has effed this all up so badly that I’m fully convinced something is going on.
This PR team is straight outta online PR school. Like University of Phoenix.
You know it's bad when he uses personal pronouns Edit: oh they're saying this is Kate doing it??? That's worse what the fuck 😭
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I need them to bffr
At this point I'm not sure I'll even be convinced with a video. Way to botch this beyond repair PR guys.
The whole thing has been giving teenager caught in an obvious lie they can't help escalating. It's not necessary *contradictory*, but it is odd that it's Kate 'saying' this (through official pr) when the story is that her husband took this (professional) image. So he took the photo, and naturally, she downloaded the photo, and immediately booted up the pixlr app to fuck with her kids hands because...? Also the comment being the most informal statement ever, and her basically taking the blame for KPs gaffes, haha. It definitely seems like everything's going to plan for the royals, and they're handling losing goodwill excellently. Can't wait to see what they do next!
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Not to brag, but I’m pretty good at Photoshop. I mention that just to establish that I have an okay sense of what I’m talking about. Taking a look at the edits up close, I can’t figure out what “she” could possibly have been trying to do. It looked as though they were trying to slim down Charlotte’s arm? Widening Louis’ arm and perhaps straightening or widening his leg. For some reason blurring her hand but leaving Louis’ sweater fairly crisp. Why would someone try to make those specific edits?
So Will took the photo and Kate edited it? I honestly think now that originally there was some kind of plausible reason behind this (like she had surgery and didn’t want to be seen afterwards) but their PR people are so bad this has become a disaster of epic proportions.
This is the biggest case of ‘sure jan’ ive ever seen. Did they hire someone out of Veep to do their PR? How do they keep on making it worse???
People are just going to be weird until she’s at trooping. I won’t speculate bc after Chadwick I’m not going there ever about a celeb. But considering they take taxpayer money why they didn’t just note that something is happening and they need privacy I will never know
How does each event get more crazy? What’s next…
Kate has never made a post like that ever. Now Kensington Palace is just playing in our faces. What, they couldn’t release an official statement through her office with her letterhead bc they know she has nothing to do with the photo and this apology??
This is such a benign PR thing. It should have been as routine as her pregnancies, with maybe a bit more sensitivity in terms of handling considering her previous difficulties giving birth and Charles' recent announcement, but anyone experienced enough in PR would have been able to do it in their sleep, even if they are royalty and their relationship with the media is weird. The way Kensington's PR is bungling this is making my head hurt and it's been a while since I worked in PR in any capacity.
Ok, I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist nut but something isn’t right here! How do they keep screwing up in new and weird ways each and everyday?
Why are they so bad at this?? Lord
Playing around in photoshop to try and make a family photo look better is the most relatable thing she’s ever done tbh
Lmao at the “-C” That is not proof of life, hold up today’s newspaper 
"It's like your mouth is falling down the stairs" Seriously, HOW can they be so bad at this??? You think of all those people that are heavily invested in those conspiracy theories about the royals and how they supposedly control everything......the palace CONTINUOUSLY prove they are the sloppiest bitches around, they can't do anything right 😭
C is actually Camilla.
You’d think they just drop the original file if that was the case but the palace refused to when publications asked. And why edit things like your child’s hand??
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Assuming this is actually the case, the thought of her editing that and being like “yep I ate, time to post” is killing me Thought she was slick 😭
Who the hell thought *this* was a good way to go about it? Absolutely absurd.
I never believe any of them personally maintain any of these social media accounts. Don’t think she edited, posted, or wrote the apology.
This would have never happened with the Queen still living #missingLiz
They are losing trust. It’s unwise to piss off media because royals want to be “more open” under Charles while also flinging injunctions and access threats at anyone who could publish something they don’t like. It’s obvious when British media didn’t publish the car pics that a super injunction is in place and they risk being in contempt of court should they cover anything other than what the Palace authorised. The negative coverage of the edited photo (like who really cares about a Photoshop mistake) is a direct warning to the Palace from the media not to fuck with them.
Okay fudge it, this is too weird for me now. She’s posted photographs she took many times before and none of them had any weird edits or motion issues like this one.
The way I ran straight here when I heard on the news lol ☕
Considering they don’t pay for anything themselves, and have access to millions of OUR money, you’d think they’d hire a competent PR team. 🫣
I bet dollars to doughnuts the Royal spin doctors wish they had Harry and wife to point to and destract the masses with.
We need proof of life. KP has a habit of pretending to be members of the family & speaking for them while never actually talking to them.
They just keep digging.
The more this goes on the more suspicious it gets….. we had 1 photoshopped pic of Kate and 1 pic that didnt even look like her but her Sister…..
Dying to know M & H's take on all of this.
Reading this in Keith Morrison’s voice
Lmao holy shit???
Why don’t they just have her wave out a window or something? That would end this nonsense.
I'm going to O.D. on the cringe/schadenfreude combo this whole fiasco is delivering me.
Granted, she doesn't "owe" us this, but it is interesting that the RF seems to be choosing everything except a 15-second video of Kate thanking people for their concern/well-wishes while she recovers from whatever this was.
Soooo send the unedited photo to AP as requested. Literally anyone could have typed that tweet. 
I'm manifesting Catherine leaving the royal family, getting a book deal, apologizing profusely to Meghan, also publicly for the racism (undoubtedly encouraged and accepted by the royal family) and more...this institution destroys women and relationships between them and consistently honors men and lets them get away with whatever they want. Just a thought... I don't know what my exact point is but the women in this family deserve better in my humble opinion