That this is MASSIVE news

[Flowerfairie]

Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by three news agencies amid 'manipulation' concerns https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68526972

Oh my goodness. The UK has arms deals and other trade deals worth billions of pounds with Israel and Saudi Arabia. Our tax money absolutely helps fund the bombing in Gaza and Yemen! You can't even compare the importance of these issues with the royal family

Go for it (but don't be surprised if I have concerns about your state of mind).

I won’t be surprised and I wont care 😂. But I suppose you had to come back with something.

Independent have just released an article on Rose Cholmondeley - is that relevant. I'll be fucking furious if he's mucked Kate around.

I admire your optimism.

I'm about as anti-royalist as you can get, but this is indeed massive news.

Those of you suggesting she's just a regular mum fiddling with her phone post surgery. Actual LOOOOOOL!

This is a huge step in de-stabling the monarchy.

I'm a republican and ordinarily this picture wouldn't be on my radar at all, but I do agree with the OP that now it's evident it's been tampered with significantly, the implications are massive. It's a piece of news media that was submitted to news agencies, who originally used it in good faith, presumably because it came from a hitherto trusted source.

What next? Would it be OK for the Downing Street press office to provide photos of the PM shaking hands with a foreign dignitary when one or both of them weren't actually present? What about a photo of him shaking hands with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon? You can't have news photos that are substantially untrue, which this one must have been to attract a kill notice - not just a little bit of photoshopping out of podge or whatever. This is a particularly sensitive area at a time when AI, deepfake images etc are rightly in the spotlight and causing anxiety prior to the upcoming general election.

It's only no big deal for the RF to have done this if it's also no big deal when the Kremlin does it.

I am usually uninterested in Royal goings on, but this even has me intrigued.

Either their comms and PR team are self-sabotaging and incompetent, or there is something weird going on behind the scenes.

And yes, it seems clear that the press have insider knowledge that's maybe subject to a super injunction or similar, because they go like this at times like that.

They hate being suppressed so get "mentionitus"

Yes, in an era of AI and fake news, it's extraordinary that this picture was allowed to be released.

It raises more questions than it answers.

The British press have been pretty weak on all of this. There’s no commentary or information. I would have thought they would have a better of understanding of how rare a ‘kill notice’ is and the implications & gravity of it.

It is common knowledge in certain circles that she is severely bulimic and is under treatment for that including surgery.

Charles' cancer is a lot more serious that we have been led to believe and W&K are needed to step up.

This news story in the Independent which is basically a puff piece, biography of Lady Rose, is quite random. It was published an hour ago. I didn’t think The Independent ran random puff pieces on aristocracy.

What circles and how are you vaguely connected ?

What surgery would you have for bulimia though? Gastric rupture or prolapse are the only ones I cna think of. Gastric rupture is usually fatal if not treated immediately.

Also I suppose, oesophagal tear. Or stroke through electrolyte imbalance.

I think if you are going to speculate about eating disorders it’s best said in private and not on the internet. If there is any truth to it, it’s very dangerous to have it ‘out there’

Why is this such big news?! of course they airbrush their photos the same as all celebs do 🙄

The public is being softened up for the big reveal/rehabilitation of an alleged adultress?

I think she’s too fit to have bulimia. I think more likely it’s the stress of the worlds media on her.

Because the press association and Reuters deemed the picture to have too many alterations for it to be suitable for publication. It wasn’t a case of just fluffing the hair up a little and softening some wrinkles. It was a doctored photo. The palace also refused to release the unedited version. It’s a quite substantially more than what celeb magazines and the Kardashian’s do on their instagram.

Plus she is the future queen. If you want to continue in the roll and have the press report on you in a favourable light, give them a genuine picture

This certainly does all fit with the evidence that we see.

I'm inclined to believe what we have been told in relation to Kate but this does make me question things. It's certainly very typical of what the press do when they know the story but can't print it. I hope I'm wrong, I really do. And that Kate is recovering as planned.

MASSIVE news. Really? In the grand scheme of things and the golden age of photoshop and filters, is an edited photo really massive news? 🤨

Agreed. The tabs did this a lot a decade or so back with Elton john when he had his super injuction and all that 'stuff' was going on. Then they did it again with Schofield just before his scandal. "Mentionitis" another poster upthread called it

Yup.
Catherine wanting a bit of peace is hardly “ Massive news”.
What’s happening in Gaza is appalling.

This is not a bit of airbrushing