Fans could finally breathe a sigh of relief after waiting for so long. The palace has released the first official photo of Princess Kate on the occasion of Mother’s Day. But now there has been a new uproar over the princess, who had undergone abdominal surgery in January and has since disappeared completely from the public eye: numerous international bodies removed the photo because it was suspected of being fake.
It was a beautiful Mother’s Day image, designed to calm nerves and quell vicious internet speculation about the Princess of Wales’s condition.
However, on Sunday evening questions arose about possible digital manipulation of a new family photo showing Kate with her three children.
The now dubious recording was shared via the official Kensington Palace account:
The photo marked the first time 42-year-old Kate has been seen in public – at least officially – since her abdominal surgery in January. But on Sunday evening, foreign photo agencies suddenly withdrew the Mother’s Day photo on the grounds that it may have been digitally manipulated.
Charlotte’s sleeve as ‘evidence’
The AP news agency has issued a warning calling for the image to be removed from its system, saying: ‘Upon closer inspection, it appears that the source has manipulated the image.’ Others are calling for the image to be removed from ‘ to remove it from image libraries for ‘editorial’ reasons.
There is currently a lot of concern in the news industry about photo manipulation using AI technology – although it is not clear whether this was the case in this case.
Some observers pointed out that Princess Charlotte’s wrist and the sleeve of her sweater appeared to have been digitally altered. There also seemed to be a problem with the heel of Charlotte’s boots and with the sidewalk behind the family.
Fans had been worried for weeks: “Where is Kate?”
In recent weeks, there has been increasing wild speculation about Kate’s whereabouts. The wildest conspiracy theories emerged.
“Where is Kate?” it was written in large letters in the tabloids, fans of the royal family could not understand the secrecy of the palace – which had dealt so openly about Charles’ cancer…
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