Lovely photo of Catherine for Mothering Sunday

Me neither!
Just thinking how royalty today can digitally enhance their image, while hundreds of years ago royalty just tweeked the figure on the canvas.

Queen Victoria stood on a box for photos and one very small king (the famous painting on a white horse) was painted bigger than he was.

I honestly don't see the relevance.

Even back in Elizabethan days, way before cameras, I think monarchs manipulated their image by choosing particular portrait painters. Elizabeth1 always wanted her skin to look flawless, even when she was an old lady, and the painter obliged. I can't remember who, but another monarch wanted to appear taller, so the painter added a few inches.

I expect the photos from the Palaces have, in the past, been assumed to be legitimate.

I expect they will be more carefully scrutinised in future!

Of course there may be members of the RF who are open to a bit of bartering ,😄 seriously though I very much doubt it.

I very much doubt it.

I don't know if anyone has asked this yet, but do the press agencies pay the RF for the photos? Not the newspapers who probably pay the press agencies, but the press agencies themselves. A GN may know.

Yes. I read that too Avalon. Some parts were very badly done in the photo you mention.

This is not the first time. Apparently the photo of the late Queen with all the gc was photoshopped too. It was also taken by Kate. It explains how they are all smiling at the same time. It looks like all previous photos are being scrutinised.

This is (only) about meeting press photo standards in my opinion.

Edit away for your family snaps at home!

But, by the way, I don't tug my forelock to anyone
Silly remark

It is ridiculous! I didn't curtsey when I met a couple of Royals and last time I looked, my head is still intact and I'm still in my own home. Orf to the Tower!

LovesBach

The sub headline on the BBC news front page this morning reads 'Can Royals move on from Kate photo media storm?' Please excuse me while I go and bang my head repeatedly against a hard surface.

The BBC has made a mountain out of a molehill, created a storm in a teacup, much ado about nothing.

What is their agenda?

The sub headline on the BBC news front page this morning reads 'Can Royals move on from Kate photo media storm?' Please excuse me while I go and bang my head repeatedly against a hard surface.

What a huge fuss about something so trivial. I often edit my photos, just for fun. Why are there always people ready to pounce on the slightest thing .(I don't mean on GN). Catherine must be worried enough already with RF problems and health problems. And now this . I feel sorry for her.
But, by the way, I don't tug my forelock to anyone.
Silly remark.

You're so right. Done for the best of intentions, I bet they wish they'd kept their photo to themselves, they won't make that mistake again. The real sadness is that from now on there will be no more casual happy family snapshots taken informally, just formal, posed, dull pics taken at certain appropriate times.

All the speculation and baying for evidence she is alive and well due to some crackpot conspiracies on SM obviously made them think this was a good idea.I bet now they wish they hadn't bothered and waited until after Easter for Catherine to reappear.Probably totally unrelated but I've kept thinking about a relative who has raging endometriosis and needed major surgery for abdominal adhesions.Her work were understanding snd she was given ample time to recover. Prior to that she had outwardly seemed fine but struggled with pain and fatigue for years.Poor Catherine if it's a similar condition and now this we'll intentioned photo has caused more upset.

I don't think anybody tugs their forelock anymore, and for certain the RF don't expect or indeed want anyone to. Bowing and curtsying have been optional for years now, shaking hands being perfectly acceptable. The media are still in full cry after their prey this morning! If only they could just leave it alone now. Poor Catherine is said to be very upset at this unintentional error and has apologised, when no apology was necessary. Why can't everyone just leave her alone. It won't happen again, only formal photos in the future. The hateful media should feel well pleased with themselves!

Totally agree Pably15

why can't people leave Kate alone, for goodness sake this was a lovely photo that she shared on mother's day, so what if it was edited....I don't think that's a crime

I find all this adoration and forelock tugging quite nauseating. And I am a royalist. But moderation is in order here.

Yes Anniebach it’s NOOB but the GBP want more! e.g.
Why should she be allowed to keep her medical information secret?
Why shouldn’t we be able to comment?
Even the kinder ones who might be sending sympathy or get well soon cards are rubbing in the fact that she’s not entitled to any privacy.
I’ve been waiting for the we pay for them claim. Have I missed it.
She made a mistake by offering a photo that had been edited, so in effect wasn’t truthful, but does that really mean we should hound her further?

All she has done is chosen not to disclose why she needed surgery and pose for cameras, released a photograph not for
money or publicity but showing her children happy and relaxed, big crimes not

JenniferEccles

It seems significant to me that ‘the team ‘ have said they won’t release the original picture, the one allegedly taken by William, a week or two ago.

Why is it significant?

I don’t blame them. It would just be pulled apart again by all the conspiracy theorists.

Imagine it was a prolapse op? Would you like the world to know?
I believe Catherine is very conscientious and a worrier. All this hoo ha won’t help someone convalescing.
I’m reluctant to drag Diana into this, but she did enjoy stirring things up and even possibly the drama it invoked. I think Catherine is the opposite, she desperately wants to do the right thing and this will have a bad effect on her.

But GN arent the reactions that count, what counts is that it was against the regulations for the press. All of GN could think it was a work of art and that fact would remain the same.