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Lovely new photo of Catherine and the children has been released

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BirthdayRainbow · 10/03/2024 09:10

I know there will still be people saying it proves nothing, it was taken pre op but why not just enjoy the photo..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68526972

Kate and children

Princess of Wales: First official picture released since surgery

The image, taken by Prince William, shows the Princess of Wales with her children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68526972

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Diddlydays · 10/03/2024 23:03

Roastiesarethebestbit · 10/03/2024 23:00

I find it pretty much impossible to get a photo where my three similarly aged kids are all smiling and looking at the camera at the same time! I often snap half a dozen shots and then wish I could Merge them together to have one image where everyone is looking their best. If I had the photoshop skills I’d definitely use them!

Yes and new technology adds that in as a feature now, so it's possible it's just a bad Google pixel merge

Although I always imagined that they would have an old fashioned camera with someone turning the handle under a raincoat 😀

Myotheripodisayoto · 10/03/2024 23:04

The thing here isn't that the photo is edited.

Its the agencies pulling it publicly. They are not doing as asked by the RF and that is very telling.

Serenster · 10/03/2024 23:07

I feel sorry for the KP press team who probably they were going to watch Death in Paradise and have a quiet night! 🤣

I admit I had thought they had probably stitched together the best shots of the children. If Kate really didn’t want her photo released and so they used an older shot for her, I have nothing but sympathy for her. The pressure focussed on her has been quite ridiculous.

GuinnessBird · 10/03/2024 23:07

I'm now starting to believe that something is going on behind the scenes.

Bringtheweatherwithyou · 10/03/2024 23:08

Myotheripodisayoto · 10/03/2024 23:03

I'd estimate this thread might get pulled tonight.

Possibly seeing as the photo has been pulled. nothing to see here (wish KP).

Flandango · 10/03/2024 23:09

The original un-photoshopped image has been released to put our minds at rest

Lovely new photo of Catherine and the children has been released
CapybaraBara · 10/03/2024 23:10

Can someone PLEEEEAASE finally sack the person who does PR for Kensington Palace?! Things are going worse in ways that nobody even imagined possible.

Graphic designer here and I personally think the Photoshop edits are innocuous but extremely disastrous considering the context. The edge of Charlotte's sleeve is typical of a "clone brush" or wrongly blended copy-paste which is used to move elements around to create more space. This meant Kate's hand was either Photoshopped in, enlarged/rotated, or the grass on the other side of Charlotte's arm enhanced to make it greener. There could also have been a mistake with the Layer visibility which meant the corner of the sleeve covered the obvious error was mistakenly made invisible.

The edits were most likely done to fix compositional errors. I think the most likely explanation was that they spliced minor elements from another picture taken at the same time into this one because everyone's face looks the best. Kate's hand may have been at an odd angle where a finger looked missing so they replaced it with one that clearly shows her hand at a visually pleasing angle. Looking at the position of Charlotte's arm, I also think it's possible the original shot had her arm going out of the frame. So they copy-pasted another arm (obviously her own from a different shot) just to make the composition more pleasing. The elbow seems curved at a slightly awkward angle and incidentally fits "perfectly" inside the photo allowing for a visible strip of green grass. This very convenient posture that runs almost parallel to the edge of the cropped image is bit of a red flag for trained Photoshop eyes. At the very least, it looks like some Liquify was used on the outer edge of her sleeve. (This is when you nudge the outer edge around to customise the shape of one area).

shams05 · 10/03/2024 23:13

I wonder what the government is Upto?
Normally when there's this much scrutiny on the royal family, the powers that be in Whitehall are Upto something dodgy.

MuggedByReality · 10/03/2024 23:15

PropertyManager · 10/03/2024 22:28

The Associated Press (one of the biggest news agencies, and distributor of the picture to news outlets) must now have very real doubts as to its authenticity, such a big agency would not request the removal of an image without very real concerns, especially knowing that pulling it will likely cause a lot of speculation.

The plot thickens...

Spot on.

AP is as credible & respected as media organisations get, and they would not have pulled this image without very good reason.

Either this is a catastrophic PR clusterfuck by the palace, or something very serious is going on which the public are not only not being told about, but major media organisations are being actively misled about. Obviously, my money is on cock-up rather than conspiracy, but the latter can’t entirely be discounted.

MeinKraft · 10/03/2024 23:15

Myotheripodisayoto · 10/03/2024 23:04

The thing here isn't that the photo is edited.

Its the agencies pulling it publicly. They are not doing as asked by the RF and that is very telling.

Exactly. The photo is what it is, the real story is the press turning very publicly on the RF - they know the reaction the story will get on Twitter and so on...something has happened to spark this and it isn't just that photo.

TerrysCIockworkOrange · 10/03/2024 23:17

I really didn’t want to get sucked down this rabbit hole but KP are making it very difficult NOT to conclude something is seriously amiss.

Having looked back at pics of her last couple of public appearances over Christmas, to my (completely medically unqualified) eye, her expression seems a little off/lopsided.
I wonder if she’s suffering from something like Bells Palsy and needs time to recover? That would explain the long absence and total reluctance for even a photo.

Myotheripodisayoto · 10/03/2024 23:18

Its been pulled late at night, possibly a last decent gesture by the press, probably knowing shit will hit the fan and giving the RF essentially over night to construct a response

Ellmau · 10/03/2024 23:20

I suspect this will be the last home produced family photo released, it will only be official pics in future.

HollyKnight · 10/03/2024 23:22

Did Willy try to touch up Kate's greys and wrinkles before releasing the photo?

LadyNijo · 10/03/2024 23:22

Myotheripodisayoto · 10/03/2024 23:18

Its been pulled late at night, possibly a last decent gesture by the press, probably knowing shit will hit the fan and giving the RF essentially over night to construct a response

Like ‘Ok, we’ll come clean about being lizards’?

Bringtheweatherwithyou · 10/03/2024 23:23

The concerns are that it was manipulated from its original source.

Does anyone think the press are aware of more going on than is being said and this is their way of saying it.

(It happens when there is a big story about to break but the press aren't allowed reveal it in case they are sued, so instead they publish unrelated stories about the person in question for seemingly no reason at all?).

Flandango · 10/03/2024 23:26

It is like that episode of Only Fools And Horses where Del Boy and Rodney think Boycie has killed Marlene because nobody has seen her for weeks, then she reappears having had a boob job

BirthdayRainbow · 10/03/2024 23:26

Well. This isn't how I expected my thread to go.

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Imbringingsaxonback · 10/03/2024 23:27

BirthdayRainbow · 10/03/2024 23:26

Well. This isn't how I expected my thread to go.

Understatement of the year there OP 😂

Serenster · 10/03/2024 23:28

Does anyone think the press are aware of more going on than is being said and this is their way of saying it.

The Royal reporters on Twitter seem bewildered though, not suggesting there are breadcrumbs to be dropped.

Flandango · 10/03/2024 23:29

Serenster · 10/03/2024 23:28

Does anyone think the press are aware of more going on than is being said and this is their way of saying it.

The Royal reporters on Twitter seem bewildered though, not suggesting there are breadcrumbs to be dropped.

Don't be ridiculous, Kate hasn't eaten carbs in decades. They are not going to catch her that way

Bringtheweatherwithyou · 10/03/2024 23:30

Ellmau · 10/03/2024 23:20

I suspect this will be the last home produced family photo released, it will only be official pics in future.

I thought the home photos were the Wales's way of keeping the photographers away from the children? Of course they dressed it up as Kate being a wonderful photographer and wanting to release more informal, intimate family photos but the crux was they wanted complete control of the press when it came to the kids.

NossyFramed · 10/03/2024 23:31

Some ppl are saying the press are doing this to force kate out of hiding early

Nono22972 · 10/03/2024 23:33
  1. Imo, all of this mess is more about KP's incompetence than something drastic going on. This is probably just a bad photoshop

  2. Their entire PR team need to get fired

  3. I believe they will never post a mother's day picture again because of the reactions the same way they never did again after they released pictures from their ski trip years ago.

Maia77 · 10/03/2024 23:33

No way her face could have changed that much in a space of a few days.

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