Kate's photo appears "manipulated"?

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Have just seen news saying that associated press have withdrawn photo as it appears "manipulated". V strange

The public really doesn't have a right to her confidential medical information.

Good question - that’s what we would like to know. What if it’s not a health concern or death but a separation? With KP trying to buy time with hope there can be a reconciliation?

You think they've sat their children down and said "everyone is going to think mummy is really really ill, but don't worry, she's actually fine, even though everyone outside of this house who you come into contact with will believe she's very unwell. You must not tell anyone it's all a lie"
That would be genuinely batshit. George (and his friends) are old enough to know what is being said online, so it would get back to them.

It is all a shambles. The KP PR over this is a disaster.

I don’t need to know the details, no.
I couldn’t care less about the details, as long as Kate okay, but we don’t know even that.

We are being lied to, things are being covered up (badly) and quite frankly the truth would be infinitely better at this point, before the public’s mood turns very sour. The Royal family are on thin ice it would seem. I don’t think Camilla’s last minute trip was a coincidence either.

We don't have a right to know anything.

On the other hand, no one likes to be treated like bloody idiots.

It’s entirely possible both have happened.

Honestly this whole whoo ha is of their own making.

They could have stuck to their original statement and sent out an innocuous pic of the kids on Mother's Day.

That People speculate is not news. The public is interested not news. She's a GLOBAL celebrity, newsflash.

Seriously you'd think they'd be able to get putting out a pic right. Press agencies etc It's probably a bunch of chinless wonders on massive salaries.

Yes, exactly this.

As of yesterday morning I was saying we had no right to everything, and they were right to stick to their guns and say nothing til Easter.

The doctored photo changes that though, and while I still don't think they owe the public anything or that we have any right to Kate's personal medical info, I do think they would be wise to do something before Easter. Someone else suggested a radio interview, which would at least give her a few more weeks to hide from the cameras.

If she did an interview and said "Look, I feel like shit, I look like shit, every time a photo of me appears it's analysed to death and I just can't face that right now" then I think most people would be very sympathetic to her, but that's so much more personal than she usually gets.

I really don't know where they go from here, they've really fucked up.

People are utterly obsessed with Pippa. 😂 thinking it was her in the car, now her here. It’s utter madness.

No blossoms?

I couldn’t care less about the details, as long as Kate okay, but we don’t know even that.

Officials have said she's doing well. Clearly you don't believe them. What would satisfy you?

The Guardian’s analysis of the photo is interesting, in terms of the wording they’ve used. They’ve pointed out that the thing that’s going on with Charlotte’s cardigan is that part of it has been cut away, and they’ve said that ‘in the void that creates is Catherine’s left hand’. Her hand has been added in. I think it’s fair to assume that the whole of her has.

What a cluster fuck. I don’t think we have any right to details of her condition or photos of her- what on earth were the PR folk thinking?!

I think we now probably need to question the narrative in which she is recovering from surgery though, given that it came from the same source as a picture that has been sufficiently manipulated as to attract a kill notice from the major news agencies. If all of this were coming out of an institution less reflexively trusted, we would call it propaganda.

I couldn’t care less about the details, as long as Kate okay, but we don’t know even that.

I think we do know that. We saw her in the car, she is clearly ok if wanting to get out om the school run. Thr palace has said she’s recuperating well. I believe that.

i just think she was very ill and is on the road back. She’s young fit and healthy.

some of the hysteria though is crazy. It’s Pippa. It’s not her legs, she’s in a coma, it’s utter hysteria.

Kate photo: Princess of Wales says she edited Mother's Day picture recalled by agencies www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68534359
Apparently edited by Kate herself.

At least Charles is looking well.

Where the arms of Charlotte and Louis are in front of Catherine, that looks flat and fake, like some CGI in a film. And if you look away and glance back at it, Catherine's head looks massive.

It sort of looks like the original snap would be just George and Catherine. It would certainly have looked less of a scrum, compostion-wise.

I can't stop looking at it.

Sick to death of hearing about this animal abusing family,get rid of all of them

@BestBadger

Dying 🤣

I don’t believe anything we are being told right now, correct.

As of last week, a one or two line statement from Catherine to thank the public for support would have been perfectly adequate. The photo wasn’t needed.

Now, after the photo fiasco, I am not sure what the public needs to feel any reassurance.

I personally don’t believe for a second this is an ‘accident’ or a mishap. It’s unthinkable. So for me I am curious as to why we have been served up a photoshopped snap of a professional shoot that William said he took, when clearly he didn’t - and Kate superimposed onto it without a wedding ring. Whoever did this, wanted us to know.

@BestBadger 😂

Now this shitstorm in a teacup has (hopefully) subsided I must say I rather fear for the mental health of the kids under this sort of insane pressure/scrutiny. How many of them, particularly oldest, will now be googling "abdication"?
(I type that as a republican but still mindful that these are people).

This thread is absolutely bonkers and is realiy making me worry for people's sanity. It's like Covid all over again.

They've not cut and pasted Kate into the photo, it was Kate in the car. My trees have leaves on (some never dropped) some are brown. We've had a mild winter which has made plants do funny things, I had roses in bloom until a few week's ago, I'm sure some have buds too.

The same reason you're invested enough in a MUMSNET thread to respond instead of doing anything else more productive. What a ridiculous virtue signalling response.

They've not cut and pasted Kate into the photo, it was Kate in the car.

I'm not a conspiracy type, but the Kate in the car and the Kate in the photo look pretty different.