BREAKING NEWS HRH Kate & William seen today

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Now please stop the silly rumours

I wish HRH Kate a speedy recovery

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13183233/Kate-leaving-Windsor-Castle-Prince-William-Westminster-Abbey.html

Always nice to see buddies standing up for each other @Samcro !

They surely, surely, surely can't be so stupid as to have tried another badly faked photo. The brick thing looks dodgy as though...

They're going to go full "Weekend at Bernie's" with her next.

The bow in her hair, its the same bow

Kate knew, just like any other person what they are marrying into.

I am not so sure. I think that the reality of life as a senior or senior-ish royal is scarcely imaginable, which is why several marriages have failed and why aristocrats like Jecca won’t touch it with a barge pole. I believe that C wanted it and did her homework and was very willing to learn. But she didn’t “know”. No one who marries in can “know”.

I miss the days of my Kodak Instamatic

Thats all lovely but the news certainly here In London is that they have been separated for months… it’s an open secret that William lives in Kensington Palace and Kate stays in Windsor.

You'd really hope not wouldn't you. I initially dismissed it as conspiracy rubbish but someone on either Reddit or twitter has run it through some colour correction and brightening filters and it is REMARKABLY spot on, right down to the bow in her hair and the silhouette of her jaw...
There is very obviously something we are not being told regardless. I'm not sure if it's something we have a right to be told or of it's more private but I am now of the opinion that there is definitely SOMETHING.

Was ready to poo poo that, but you’re right it’s very similar.

I reckon that for any photo of that woman from any angle you could find an almost exact duplicate somewhere, just because there's so many out there.

The difference in the bricks is weird though. I haven't gone looking so hopefully someone has debunked it and that wall does have a change in the brickwork at a really unfortunate point.

I think gynae surgery, is on steroids and doesn’t want to photographed until her face has gone back to normal.

What the hell the palace are doing buggering about with fake pics I don’t know.

You can take off your tin foil hats https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/world-news/photographer-who-snapped-kate-middleton-hits-out-at-claims-image-was-doctored/

Phew, I really wouldn't want to think they're THAT stupid.

Who knew the paps were so principled?

I think the stupidity spectrum is more tiltled to breathless idiots coming up with outlandish conspiracy theories - that this was an image from Kate cut from another photo and given to a pap to insert, or the vogue stretch

That's not how it works. You put it out there, it's wide open for any replies.

Checks out on Google maps too - here is the backdrop when you stand where the photographer says he was standing to take the photo. Note - two differing types of brickwork on house and fence, with the car masking the line between them.

That's twisted.

“We don’t change our photos in Photoshop other than adjusting the light levels if necessary,” photographer Jim Bennett told The Post."

after various debates where people that like to word play, the photographer could be completely correct then the missing statement could be because we use x program, the devil is in the details its like me saying i was not at the garage at 9am and thats truthfull but it could be i was there at 9.01 instead

Problem is, the damage is done now. Every time a photo emerges of Kate in the future it's going to be subject to intense scrutiny...is it real, is it AI...we're at the stage now where press photographers have to state the precise spot they took a photo so the brickwork can be confirmed

Yes the photographer has said it is 39 Datchet High Street, you can see it in Streetview that the bricks are indeed like in the photo - it’s a wall in front of a building

edit: can see a pp has beaten me to it with the image

Thanks @Serenster for always being factual.

Don't think it will stop the unhinged posters though. I'm having flashbacks to 1997, the public really are rather something at times.

Yeah I've already acknowledged that a few posts up.

This is so true. I really wasn't bothered about any of it until the fake photo and all the furore around it.

The problem with the Mother's Day photograph is that, by directly issuing it to the press it was in essence an official Palace statement (albeit pictorial rather than prose). The fact that the content of the photo was deemed by the AP to have been so far manipulated that it could not be seen to be a true depiction basically boils down to them issuing a lie as a sanctioned Palace statement. This is turn means that they have pretty much destroyed the public trust and faith in what they say being true. Everything they release now will be absolutely scrutinized beyond all recognition because what they say or release to the public, even via official channels, no longer has an assumption of truth and authenticity.

Totally agree and I have said endlessly I do not know how they can be so stupid with this.