Why does it matter of Kate edited the photo??

[whatisheupto]

I feel like I am totally missing the point and I am fed up of being in the dark about it! Please explain it to me!

I genuinely do not know why it matters that Kate tweaked her photo?

Surely the purpose was to edit the usual things that spoil a photo a bit.

Does her editing a photo imply something?

😂🐐
On a more serious note, it's all a bit sad.

Did you read the part where the picture is actually a forgery which the RF PR team sent out to the press and claimed was taken by PoW in January? Does that not strike you as being very odd to say the least?

If it wasn’t proven or noticed to be a fake and slipped through the net then all the Royal fans would now be content thinking they all looked healthy and happy when actually that scene didn’t happen, certainly not the way it looked anyway.

Which raises the question of why publish something fabricated?

I don't get it either and people should stop speculating and leave her alone if she is not well or recovering or whatever and stop the media frenzy over it.

Well said! Patron of the Royal Society of Photographers issues an amalgam of photos with a false narrative. The only reason they were found out is because they issued it to AP. If it was the royal rota it would've been hailed as talented.

The RPS still have a lot of work to do with respect to education about manipulating photos to spread fake news.

@whatisheupto

Edited photo's (such as photoshop) are not allowed in syndication by multiple reputable press agencies. The royal family know this very well, yet have attempted to sneak one through. That's suspicious.

I thought the problem was one of editorial standards - I have only seen the head of state explanation on here.

She didn’t say she edited that photo. She said she sometimes experiments with editing photos but didn’t specify that she edited the Mother’s Day one. But

Agree op. It’s hardly crime of the century. There’s worse things going on in the world. Move on.

So KP took a gamble and it didn't work.
So if they take less gambles and be much more carefull about what they release now won't that piss the press off even more ultimarely?

Good point @Egghead68

Exactly.

I don't understand how a PR team who are this incompetent are apparently competent enough now to have fooled so many into thinking it's nothing and poor Kate was just doing some minor tweaks.

William and Kate decided to flat out lie to the press and it should matter to us that our future head or state does this. It's not the same as removing a minor blemish, it's an entire photo faked. And it was totally unnecessary - why not just issue an old photo or none.

They wanted a picture, they got a picture👍
The fact they can't monetise it must be annoying for them - my heart bleeds.

Is the worm turning?

I don't understand everything that you're alluding to here. Could you please expand?

It really doesn't matter at all. It's their business, most the bloody country edits their photos these days and when they news agencies start acting up "it's against our ethics..." I have to laugh when you see the amount of filtered and edited photos that get put out there. Every magazine cover for instance. Reuters don't mind sharing those.

I don't know that I believe this theory, but:

Rose has long been rumoured to be William's mistress. When the papers want to print a story but can't, they often print something relatively innocuous about that person - so you might have a story about a super injunction next to something seemingly boring about a footballer being papped at the supermarket. The intention is to link the footballer to the super injunction without putting anything directly in print.

The Independent ran a profile on Rose the other day. Some are seeing that as a statement that the Wales marriage is in trouble.

Yes, the curtain twitchers are always going to need some made up bollocks to titivate about. God their own lives must be dull.

Well I doubt we will see another informal photo of the Wales children until they are adults .
I find the faux outrage about a photo almost laughable .

It's not outrage, it's a concern which is genuine, not faux. And it's absolutely nothing to do with a bit of editing a photo to slightly improve the image. It's that the image as presented never existed. If you can't see why that's a problem then I can't help you

Totally agree. All this faux outrage will be doing nothing to help the POW's recovery. Cruel bullying

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Well I doubt we will see another informal photo of the Wales children until they are adults .
I find the faux outrage about a photo almost laughable .*

It's not faux outrage. It's a serious issue. As the late Queen Elizabeth put it, the RF relies on the trust and support of the public. If the trust is damaged, then the RF is damaged.

It’s their business if they created that picture for their own photo album, it became our business once they deliberately tried to publish an entirely fabricated image in order to quell rumours and questions about the current state of the Heir to the Throne’s family.

All this stuff about Rose Hanbury baffles me for two reasons.

Firstly the rumour was started by Gilles Coren (as a joke he says)If you don't know what an absolute shit he is then I suggest you go and read some of his columns. Then come back and tell me you believe him to be a reputable source.

Secondly, can anyone explain why Pippa, who seems to be a rock of a sister to Kate called her daughter Rose. Would you really do that if your beloved sister's husband was having an affair with a woman called Rose? Out of all the lovely girls names in the world you'd chose that one?

It seems to me that so much of these conspiracies are being driven by Americans who haven't got a clue what they're talking about.

That's your opinion that's what they did.

Enough with the conspiracy theories. It's absolutely bonkers.

But...exactly! This is why this is news. Loads of photos are edited these days and thats fine.

But this one was so doctored reputable news agencies couldn't be satisfied it was representative of reality. Isn't that concerning, that a future world leader would send such false representation as truth? It sounds like something out of North Korea!