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?

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Remember when the Palace announced Meghan had been admitted to hospital in labour when she had given birth hours before? It's all the same terrible communication.

Given their fortune is probably in the billions I doubt they would have much problem paying the bills. The money would run out in a few generations though.

So the PoW is lying about editing it herself?

What's your theory on why she did that?

You say that, but Charles was caught stealing £26 million from dead people in Lancashire recently.

Why do something so heinous if you don't need the cash?

ETA: sorry it was £60 million he stole, not £26 million.
https://www.businessinsider.com/king-charles-dead-residents-assets-property-empire-duchy-lancaster-2023-11

The question is how much of the private wealth should actually belong to the nation. When the royal family has not been properly separated from the state, it all feels a bit blurry. And I think that's why people are tolerating them...

And of course, they would believe they are doing it for the public good. Imagine the accident of birth that makes you a royal. if you didn't find a way to believe in it, you'd not psychologically survive.

He wasn't caught. They are entitled to it for historical reasons apparently although they did lie and say they were giving it to charity, I think.

old royal habits

In what sense is that not stealing??

To be fair, a lot of the public are stupid. You only have to go out your front door and you’ll see lots of stupid people. Some people don’t even have to leave their house to see stupid people. Nevertheless I think I could do a better job of running their PR machine and I’ve never done PR in my life. I’m not anti monarchist but sometimes they can make even the most patient person 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

It's not stealing if the law states that the Duchy of Lancaster is entitled to the money of those who die without a will. Historically they have kept the money and although recently they have said that they would transfer the money to charity they don't actually have to unfortunately.

This genuinely made me giggle.

I was thinking piles surgery myself, I wouldn’t want people to know that and can be a pain to recover from.

Maybe she was editing out Uncle Andy gurning in the window 🤓

And in answer to OP. Yes. They still think the public will swallow any old guff they choose to churn out.

Fortunately more and more are seeing through it.

Maybe it was a multi-shot photo put together by software and she then also edited it? And perhaps she committed the rookie error of not reading 10,000 comments on Mumsnet and Twitter to work out that some of the apparent discrepancies don't correspond to the bits she remembers editing?

The whole thing is so bizarre and inexplicable , I honestly can’t think of the reasoning behind it all,
The whole secrecy dealing with her surgery is just strange.

The image is definitely not AI composite editing. The original one has extremely high-resolution as proven by the closeup DM posted here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13180643/Kates-Mothers-Day-picture-taken-Prince-William-digitally-manipulated.html

You can even see a scratch on Charlotte's knuckle and detailed skin texture. No phone camera in the world is able to capture that level of detail, nor have the processing power to edit photos of that size. I've used Google Pixel's perfect image and it requires quite a bit of time to even AI splice a few very basic snapshots together.

It was definitely a human who did the editing and there are telltale signs of Photoshop tools like the clone brush and liquify. I mentioned before that I don't really believe it was Kate as some of the editing appears more sophisticated than you might expect and not that obvious to an untrained eye. The big mistake on the sleeve could have been a layer visibility error and obviously not intended to be seen on the finished image.

It's not just the royal family though. All those in charge, or higher up in society than us peasants, think we're stupid.
I still can't get over Dominic Cummings and his drive to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight. I mean come on. Did anyone accept that?
I find their utter arrogance so insulting.

Was going to post the exact same sentiment

Seriously? I knew it wouldn’t be long before some people would blame Harry and Meghan for Kate’s health. If she’s had a breakdown, don’t you think it’s more likely to be because of William’s long standing affair with her friend Rose Hanbury, which is reported on frequently in media publications outside the UK, but is not allowed to be reported in the UK due to a press blackout.

I tend to agree with this. I am in no way a conspiracy theorist but:

• Covid party gate
• Tony Blair’s war in Iraq
• (Still won’t let go of) Prince Andrew at Pizza Express
• Oxfam’s aid workers abusing women in crisis

Like you say, it’s the arrogance of the lies. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Or it's a photo from an old Vogue shoot: https://twitter.com/rubynaldrett/status/1767184942859997400

Of course they think we're stupid.

Bloody peasants have been funding their lifestyle of privilege for centuries, and happily at that.

Same people can't turn their heating on but are still willing to kiss the Royals' boots and defend them to the death.

Of course they think we're stupid. And they are right.

Yes lots of people did. Loads and loads of social media posts at the time defending him. Not necessarily defending what he did but saying we should give the poor guy a break, this criticism might result in him killing himself 🙄 That kind of thing.

I start to wonder if they’re actually trying to divert public attention to this story (which is in a way “no-story” but created a lot of PR around the royal couple as even a negative news coverage is still a coverage), so that other issues that this country and Europe are gripping with are left unnoticed.

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