The Sussex Family Christmas Card

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Shared by Meghan on Instagram.

Meghan Shares the Sweetest Christmas Photo with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet

I don't think she does have enormous feet - that's one of the photoshop oddness. If you zoom in it looks like the heel of her other food is slightly behind the foot in the foreground but something about the way the photo has rendered perhaps a filter has blurred the line between the back of the second foot and the front one. It's one of the things that makes photo feel off.

There's bad photoshopping here.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a staged Christmas photo that clearly isn't designed to be in the family album" as Meghan released it as her social media holiday message.

What is it then?

Personally I can't understand why they have decided to use the children as part of their brand marketing as I thought one of their reasons for leaving the UK was privacy and one of their big projects is the danger of social media. Many celebrities and public figures keep their kids off social media - there is actually a law that supports this in California so I don't really understand the reason for it.

I wonder how she’ll feel about this as an adult - her parents repeatedly breaching her privacy and exposing her to internet hate in order to get attention and promote their brand.

Nice try. I haven’t commented on the children, I don’t care about the children, they might as well be invisible. My comment was about the family’s appearance as a group.

Aahh ok, I thought they didn’t photoshop … my bad, apologies to the little princess 👸🏼

Fair point.
Also, not one person has used what Harry said "20 years ago" to have a swipe at Lilibet.
No-one on this thread has done that.
I do wish people would actually read what people write, rather than what they imagine.

Which included children. You said they all look scruffy.

Which is commentary on the parents because they are responsible for how their children are dressed.

Posters regularly criticise Kate for how she dresses her children - too formal, too try hard, too old fashioned etc. Noone thinks that's a criticism of the Wales kids - we know they don't have much say at this point in their lives on their appearance.

This seems to be really bothering you. I have a passing opinion on how they look in that photo as a family group. Individually I couldn’t care less.

It’s still includes commenting on how the children look, regardless of the reasons. Someone trying to claim they’re not commenting on the children’s appearance because they didn’t say ‘the children’, instead they said ‘all’ and now someone trying to justify it by saying it’s a criticism of the parents, when it also means the children are criticised is ridiculous. The children were criticised. They were called scruffy.

I think it’s wrong to criticise the appearance. I think everyone should think it’s wrong to do that. It’s really low to criticise how children look.

I guess we will have to disagree. I think commenting on how the children look in a critical way based on something they can't change - body shape, hair colour, nose size is cruel. Or speculating on ND behaviour like people did with Louis at the Jubilee thing.

Wondering why their parent hasn't brushed their hair, or has dressed them in something odd isn't a comment on the children, it's a criticism of the parents - including that the parents are responsible for putting them in this position in the first place.

And yes, that includes those who comment on the Wales kids outfits - it's not a comment about the kids.

People in the thread have said that they brushed their children’s hair but it still looked like that soon after, due to the hair type and texture. Thats not something you can change as a child, unless people think she should be sitting in a hairdressers having treatment for hours or having lots of products put on her hair so that she has a more pleasing appearance for weird adults who feel she should look different to please them. Awful.

Then there were the comments about huge feet and weird ankles, which some posters tried to hide behind photoshopping. Mumsnet has deleted at least one of those.

Posters are criticising parents for not brushing their child’s hair, when some of you probably have kids and are the type of parent to criticise children. Which of those type of people do you think damages children more? Not brushing hair before a photo won’t damage a child, but being the sort of parent that makes nasty comments about children sure will.

People in the thread have said that they brushed their children’s hair but it still looked like that soon after, due to the hair type and texture. Thats not something you can change as a child, unless people think she should be sitting in a hairdressers having treatment for hours or having lots of products put on her hair so that she has a more pleasing appearance for weird adults who feel she should look different to please them. Awful.
Totally agree. And those comments about brushing her hair are all over all social media. It's so unpleasant and it doesn't even make sense given that her hair looks totally fine and not at all unkempt. It just isn't naturally straight or smooth.

It’s a photo created and published for public consumption so critique is natural and invited. I agree that including their children is gross and hypocritical.

ignoring them for the moment, imagine seeing a photo with your arse hanging out and thinking yes, that’s the one. That’s the one I’ll publish to millions of people.

Arse hanging out? Nothing like a bit of hyperbole on a Meghan thread. 😂

Could you link the picture showing her arse hanging out. I haven't seen that one and haven't seen Meghan's arse

Why is including their children gross? When many other famous people do it including royalty.

The criticism on here is laughable. And pathetic

I wasn’t trying to hide anything behind photoshopping - I don’t know if it’s photoshopping, a filter or simply a trick of the light but Lili’s left foot heel is sticking out behind her right shoe in such a way that without zooming in and spotting the issue it looks like one enormous foot out of proportion to a little girl.

That’s not a criticism of Lili’s feet - it’s pointing out that the photographer and or the editor didn’t notice how odd it makes the photo look.

Most people don’t obsessively pour over a photo in order to dissect it. Certainly, they don’t focus on things like the size of a child’s foot, or the hair. And then rush to the internet to comment on those things.

The see through skirt isn’t great from a professional viewpoint - maybe ‘a sweet nod to Diana’ using the favourite Daily Mail lingo 😁, but what you get away with as a spontaneously snapped 20 year old isn’t the same as a posed photo for a 40 something. I’ve a feeling she said her legs are her best feature so she’ll be delighted they feature so strongly.

But each to their own.

I would be surprised if she said her legs are her best feature .

You missed the Kate photoshopgate then?

After that all these types of photos are under more scrutiny.

And this one’s composition and detail issues were not subtle.

People were obsessively pouring over these sorts of photos before the Kate ‘photoshopgate’ incident.

Lilly‘s first Christmas, the Sussex‘s Christmas card - there was much discussion on social media over the length of Lily’s fingers and the length of her feet etc. and criticism of Meghan for actually photoshopping. I don’t doubt it was occurring before that.