You guys, what the hell is happening at Kensington Palace? I’m a broken record at this point, but the clownery is out of control and it’s absolutely bonkers to watch this unfold in real time. Not only that, it’s f–kup after f–kup, shambles on top of shambles. Last night, four major media/photo outlets “killed” the Mother’s Day photo of the Princess of Wales. Meaning, the photo was removed from Getty, Associated Press, AFP and Reuters’ sites and archives, all because Kensington Palace would not provide them a clean copy, and there were strong suspicions that the photo had been heavily manipulated. This morning, the Press Association also pulled the image too. Prince William and his staff spent roughly fourteen hours in a blind, likely drunken panic. Then they came up with a solution – blame the whole thing on Kate. Behold, the Kensington Palace Brain Trust:
Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) March 11, 2024
The “C” means this message came “from Kate,” which is debatable, given all of the shenanigans we’ve already seen. Their argument was that Prince William TOOK the photo, a photo of Kate wearing jeggings and sitting up after serious abdominal surgery, and now the argument is that Kate decided to edit the photo William took of her? THAT is what they came up with? More from Rebecca English at the Mail:
A source stressed this was ‘an amateur, family photograph taken by the Prince of Wales’ because the couple wanted to offer an ‘informal’ picture of the family together.
The Princess made ‘minor adjustments’.
‘The Wales family spent Mother’s Day together and had a wonderful day’
— Rebecca English (@RE_DailyMail) March 11, 2024
The family wasn’t together! William wasn’t in the photo! It didn’t look like an amateur photo either. Again, more questions than answers.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Kensington Palace.