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Kate's photo appears "manipulated"?

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Tulipsandpansies123 · 10/03/2024 22:13

Have just seen news saying that associated press have withdrawn photo as it appears "manipulated".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

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Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 14:08

areyoutheregod · 11/03/2024 14:07

yes, thats also a good question. I don't think he did take it. Why would they want us to think he did?

To allude to the fact Kate and William are still together when it’s an open secret that they are no longer living together - Maybe?

Primrosecottagelover · 11/03/2024 14:08

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 13:34

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.

Edited

Maybe it was Kate that wanted us to know if she edited it.

Westfacing · 11/03/2024 14:08

Editing a photo to make you look better is understandable, I'd do it myself given the chance, but for the life of me I can't get why Kate would bother to fiddle with Charlotte's hand/cuff - what was that about?

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 14:09

Primrosecottagelover · 11/03/2024 14:08

Maybe it was Kate that wanted us to know if she edited it.

Yes I believe this is entirely deliberate.

Artemis6 · 11/03/2024 14:09

A pp has suggested the missing wedding ring was a possible statement from Kate.

Haven't there been rumours about William playing away with Rose Hanbury??

Lampslights · 11/03/2024 14:09

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 14:06

The public pays £183 million pounds PER YEAR for what? To be lied to, misled, treated like imbeciles. What an utter PR disaster! If I didn’t know better it would look like someone was sabotaging from the inside…

And this is the issue, people having utter meltdowns like this.

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 14:10

Artemis6 · 11/03/2024 14:09

A pp has suggested the missing wedding ring was a possible statement from Kate.

Haven't there been rumours about William playing away with Rose Hanbury??

And the pegging….ssshhhhh

Stringagal · 11/03/2024 14:10

Westfacing · 11/03/2024 14:08

Editing a photo to make you look better is understandable, I'd do it myself given the chance, but for the life of me I can't get why Kate would bother to fiddle with Charlotte's hand/cuff - what was that about?

Maybe she was giving the middle finger to her dad, the dirty rotten scoundrel

ImNotAsThinkAsYouDrunkIAm · 11/03/2024 14:10

Westfacing · 11/03/2024 14:08

Editing a photo to make you look better is understandable, I'd do it myself given the chance, but for the life of me I can't get why Kate would bother to fiddle with Charlotte's hand/cuff - what was that about?

To add her hand in. They’ve cut part of Charlotte’s sleeve away to add Catherine’s hand.

That’s also why one of her hands is blurry. Neither hand was in the original photo.

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 14:10

Lampslights · 11/03/2024 14:09

And this is the issue, people having utter meltdowns like this.

What part of that figure paid by the taxpayer is untrue?

Stringagal · 11/03/2024 14:11

Artemis6 · 11/03/2024 14:09

A pp has suggested the missing wedding ring was a possible statement from Kate.

Haven't there been rumours about William playing away with Rose Hanbury??

Ah yes, the harlot who Pippa named her daughter after just to annoy her sister, and who was at the Queens funeral.

Lampslights · 11/03/2024 14:12

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 14:10

What part of that figure paid by the taxpayer is untrue?

Did you quote the wrong person, I certainly didn’t say it was untrue.?

Bigtrip2026 · 11/03/2024 14:12

Omg...PW takes the camera, presses the button, hands camera (or phone) back to POW,who takes camera/ phone/ whatever and edits it...how can this be so problematic? POW seems to be the photographer in the family so makes sense she would edit it. If they release a picture with one of the children with a cut to their finger it will literally make headlines, so POW edits it out. If everyone smiling except.Louis who is sticking his tongue out but everything else perfect, why not edit it out. If I could do this I would to some.of my pictures but I'm not great with technology.

No conspiracy. No wondder she wants a break from the madness.

Calliopespa · 11/03/2024 14:13

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 13:34

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.

Edited

Wanted us to know what?

Calliopespa · 11/03/2024 14:14

Calliopespa · 11/03/2024 14:13

Wanted us to know what?

Was it a cry from Kate: help they’ve swapped my head, eaten my children’s fingers and stolen my ring ?

AutumnCrow · 11/03/2024 14:15

they are trying to cover something else up which is worse than this shit show

What IS the point, though? Everyone will find out sooner or later.

I find it hard to believe that a 'secret' is being successfully kept by the Wales family, the Royal Family, the Middletons and their friends, the Wales's children's friends, schoolmates, school staff and all their families, all the Windsor estate staff and their families, all the staff at Kensington Palace & Buckingham Palace and their families, sections of the press & media ... I mean, really?

AInightingale · 11/03/2024 14:16

Don't forget that when Diana's marriage to Charles was seriously melting down, she chose to be photographed, alone, in front of the Taj Mahal. The royals can't say much until there are official announcements, but she did let the photograph tell the story that day.

sunglassesonthetable · 11/03/2024 14:18

*Omg...PW takes the camera, presses the button, hands camera (or phone) back to POW,who takes camera/ phone/ whatever and edits it...how can this be so problematic? POW seems to be the photographer in the family so makes sense she would edit it. If they release a picture with one of the children with a cut to their finger it will literally make headlines, so POW edits it out. If everyone smiling except.Louis who is sticking his tongue out but everything else perfect, why not edit it out. If I could do this I would to some.of my pictures but I'm not great with technology.

No conspiracy. No wondder she wants a break from the madness.*

Tbh you've got that wrong. Pic was sent to Computer with Photoshop software. Edited there.

( BBC)

Enough to fail Press Agency standards.

I don't care but I think it's really embarrassing for their advisors.

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 14:18

What DO we know for sure:

Kate is NOT wearing a wedding ring. Surely that is the very first thing that anyone will check and notice. It’s not there. Quite deliberately.

Its unlikely that Kate was even in the original photo looking at the proportions.
Why bother photoshopping when an abundance of beautiful photos of Kate and the children are available to them?

Why choose a late summer season as a backdrop?

Why has William let his wife that is apparently far too ill to go out or be seen in public take the flak for this?

Why has Camilla and Anne disappeared on an unscheduled trip so suddenly?

Why is Charles trying to carry on as normal despite having cancer?

This is not a conspiracy theorist pursuit, there are some genuinely very concerning behaviours and decision making - dubious lies now in full public view.

BigWillyLittleTodger · 11/03/2024 14:18

Offwiththecircus · 11/03/2024 13:35

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).

I’ve been saying for a while now that as much as I like having a monarchy I don’t think for the mental health of the main players that it can continue, this photoshopped picture is being treated as if it’s an international incident, it’s insane. It would not surprise me if this is the catalyst for William to request a phasing out of the monarchy, I’m sure the future he sees for his children is only going to get worse if the past few days is anything to go by. I really feel for Kate I don’t know how she copes mentally with the onslaught she has had to endure in the past few years.

NonPlayerCharacter · 11/03/2024 14:20

BigWillyLittleTodger · 11/03/2024 14:18

I’ve been saying for a while now that as much as I like having a monarchy I don’t think for the mental health of the main players that it can continue, this photoshopped picture is being treated as if it’s an international incident, it’s insane. It would not surprise me if this is the catalyst for William to request a phasing out of the monarchy, I’m sure the future he sees for his children is only going to get worse if the past few days is anything to go by. I really feel for Kate I don’t know how she copes mentally with the onslaught she has had to endure in the past few years.

William is absolutely not going to try to phase out the monarchy.

Lampslights · 11/03/2024 14:21

AutumnCrow · 11/03/2024 14:15

they are trying to cover something else up which is worse than this shit show

What IS the point, though? Everyone will find out sooner or later.

I find it hard to believe that a 'secret' is being successfully kept by the Wales family, the Royal Family, the Middletons and their friends, the Wales's children's friends, schoolmates, school staff and all their families, all the Windsor estate staff and their families, all the staff at Kensington Palace & Buckingham Palace and their families, sections of the press & media ... I mean, really?

Agree, I think it’s as simple as she looks shit at the moment.anything else they’d say,

but if they have taken an old image and tried to fake it as new, there is a real issue there, they can’t admit it or release the real image a everyone will know for sure they lied, and a royal family who blatantly lies to the public is in real trouble.

Calliopespa · 11/03/2024 14:21

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 14:18

What DO we know for sure:

Kate is NOT wearing a wedding ring. Surely that is the very first thing that anyone will check and notice. It’s not there. Quite deliberately.

Its unlikely that Kate was even in the original photo looking at the proportions.
Why bother photoshopping when an abundance of beautiful photos of Kate and the children are available to them?

Why choose a late summer season as a backdrop?

Why has William let his wife that is apparently far too ill to go out or be seen in public take the flak for this?

Why has Camilla and Anne disappeared on an unscheduled trip so suddenly?

Why is Charles trying to carry on as normal despite having cancer?

This is not a conspiracy theorist pursuit, there are some genuinely very concerning behaviours and decision making - dubious lies now in full public view.

Edited

Well why do you think? Because frankly I can’t see it all pointing to anything in particular.

Severalwhippets · 11/03/2024 14:21

Time to come clean with the actual truth Kensington Palace. Chop chop. The future of the monarchy is now at stake.

aliceinthecities · 11/03/2024 14:22

I agree, a child lying to the teacher in school would get in trouble for such behaviour. And we are supposed to pat them on the head and say, oh we understand, it happens...

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