Do the Royal Family just think we are really really stupid?

[Bex5490]

Just that really. From Harry’s car chase to Prince Andrew being at a Pizza Express kid’s party.

And now we’re supposed to believe that the country’s biggest PR machine in the middle of a media storm just let Prince William take a casual Mothers Day pic on his iPhone, let the missus edit it and then post it to the world?

😒

I have to say I was surprised that with all their support it came down to a photo that Catherine herself had been left to photoshop. I’d have expected a more watertight “presentation” of any image. But I didn’t expect a fully candid snap with one child sulking and their mum sans make up. I think we all expect something a little managed.

I am not going to interact with you further as your posts are either showing you do not understand or are being deliberately obtuse.

the photo is a composite image. This means the pixels have been swapped out from another image. Its authenticity is in question. It has been pulled by all major agencies for this reason. If you do not understand please spend some time with google and learn about digital manipulation. This is not simply applying a filter so she looks better.

It is unlikely to habe been just Catherine who manipulated it. Someone used a very specialised tool on it. There is also sloppy editing, so yes she probably did some of it. It was edited and saved twice on a Mac computer

The suggestion seems to be the best shot of each child ( and Catherine presumably) was used to compile the final image.

I think if I were K and W I would use a professional photographer in future .

🤣Agreed!

It was for Mother’s Day. It was a nice picture. They have shared photos on similar occasions in the past.

I don't understand the fuss about the photo. Why is this news?

You have to wonder about the mindset of someone who would desire such a lifestyle. I mean sure, huge media attention COMES WITH certain professions - pop star, film star, top footballer - but that’s different to a position where that relentless media focus is the actual “job” itself. I feel sorry for the kids being born into it - it boggles my mind why anyone would voluntarily marry into the fishbowl.

So while Meghan may well have been naive or greedy in thinking she could have her cake and eat it so to speak, once the reality of royal life became apparent, I think that as a family they did the only sane thing possible. Get the hell out. And yes, of course yes they are at the moment still choosing to an extent to be under the spotlight (for financial gain). But that’s different to being forced to being under the spotlight. And different again from your kids being forced to be under the spotlight.

And staggering unearned wealth passed around tax free.

The Wales generation seem to be completely devoid of any sense of the work ethic which kept the late Queen's generation and some of the next (Anne for instance) dutifully cutting ribbons and doing all the "duties" well into old age. At least they understood the importance or presenting an image of doing something in return for the wealth and privilege.

You could pick up a newspaper and ask the same thing about two dozen articles on it. If sufficient people are interested in reading about some current event - it’s news.

If they can tell it was taken last week, what is the fuss about? Why do people want to see Kate looking ill? Maybe her face and hands are swollen (hence no rings and face and hands edited).

Are people really not getting that it's more than just a touch up?

If you were making small edits to blur out a spot or something that would be one thing, but why would you need to edit zips, sleeves, etc?

Seems pretty obvious Kate's head has been superimposed from a different picture, presumably because she doesn't want her face to be seen right now. That's also why she's looking away in the car.

I actually do think she's entitled to her privacy on this, and KP should have just reiterated that she's recovering well and will resume duties after Easter.

What makes this newsworthy is the fact that they have actively tried to deceive the public by releasing this photo, and that's a really silly and quite reckless thing to do.

No one wants to see Kate looking ill. Please point out one person who has requested this?

the issue is the image is effectively faked. It is a heavily edited photo that uses multiple images for the final product. It’s a composite, with Kate’s face the heaviest edited. So the palace has tried to mislead the public. It isn’t a genuine photo. There was no need to release anything.

I think the last picture of the Queen and her great grandchildren was also a composite image (which seems forgivable given the ages of the people involved).

The Royals are paid to present something that isn’t real. However because of feverish speculation and pressure from media deprived of a story, they rushed out a photo that just had too many errors. That is all.

MyNameIsFine: "Why is this train so full?"
anotherside: "because there's so many people in it."

It’s the lying and hiding that’s the issue.

What have they lied about and hid?

But do you think it was left to the queen to edit that photo?

The weirdness comes from them making out that this was just a casual home snap.

The world’s media have been going crazy for a glimpse of her so I’m pretty sure they would have at least had a conversation about what the first public image should be.

Does this seem plausible?

PR Team: The world’s going mad. We should just put a picture out to show Kate’s fine.

Kate: I’m not ready to be seen on camera because of insert whatever reason.

PR Team: Ok well we’ll just do an edited one like we did with the queen.

Kate: Ok great… out of all our expert royal photographers and editors, who shall we get?

PR Team: You?

William: Great…I’ll get the camera.

No-one wants to see her looking ill. If she's too ill to be photographed, don't photograph her. No one was expecting a picture to be released. I suspect it's just incompetence rather than anything sinister, but the whole thing has been astonishingly badly handled by KP.

Yes this …poor Catherine.

No ones wants to see her ill

yet there are threads in mn asking where is she a few days ago and so was in the news I believe.

Asking where/how she is not the same as wanting a picture of her looking ill.

As I said, it's all been badly mishandled by KP. If they aren't going to be truthful, they should stick with saying nothing.

No-one wants to see her ill but people are complaining they can’t see her properly in the car, people have been speculating since operation announced what is wrong, why haven’t we seen her, is she in a coma, dead, divorced! People commenting on the photo with her possibly in the car with her mum, picking holes in the photo with her and William in the car.

There are a load of ghouls who want to know/see what is wrong with her.

She normally issues a photo on Mother’s Day, if she didn’t this year, more calls that she is dead! Photo only of the kids, she must be dead, coma, divorced!

If they aren't going to be truthful, they should stick with saying nothing.

What have they not been truthful about?

Yes, I agree, I think they would have done better to have stuck with nothing.

And the "where's Kate?" bollocks definitely did include repeated calls for "just one photo and then all this speculation will end"

And that is tantamount to wanting a picture of her looking ill - because there's a real possibility that that's exactly how she does look.