The Fuss Over The Royal Family Photo

Last years MD informal photo she was in a tree with the kids and wearing both wedding and engagement rings. Can't get more informal than tree climbing!!

Her PR team "could do better".

Feel sorry for her. Everything she does is just picked apart. They cannot leave a seriously ill woman alone
Being on sick leave - not good enough - we demand to see her
Put out a photo - not good enough it's been touched up

Strangely these photo agencies don't seem the need to take the "high ground" with other celebrity photos do they.
The Kardashian photos are always edited
Many of the photos that Harry and Meghan put out are edited
They happily print celebrity PR shoots that are edited

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Good grief, the police are under pressure to show the original photograph

I like the photo. My rings go on and off depending on what I'm doing and how swollen/ painful my hands are. The Princess has nothing to apologise for in my view.

This was a nasty attempt by the press to make a story out of nothing, and I hope all the people who 'feel they have a right to know' and 'don't like being lied to' are satisfied.

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Some daft woman on the radio this morning asking, if we can't trust them to tell the truth about the picture, how can we trust them to run the country?

Um, last time I looked we had an elected Government to do that .
Then again .........

But what was a lie about the photograph, she didn’t mention her health

Anniebach

Good grief, the police are under pressure to show the original photograph

It's absurd isn't it?

What do these inquisitive vultures think is being withheld from them that they believe they have a right to know?

God, I'm not even a Royalist and I'm feeling defensive on her behalf.

I don’t think people have a right to know the details of someone’s health, but I don’t think people have a right to claim a significantly digitally manipulated picture as a source of truth and try to distribute it to the press, either.

Me too, Dickens. It’s just ridiculous how some people are treating the royals as a soap opera, not as real people with the right to keep at least some privacy. Who would want their health problems broadcast to the nation?

To clarify my earlier comments about Catherine and the non wearing of her rings…

I quite agree Dickens that you only see official photos when she has her rings on, and if she never wears them at home (like me) that’s absolutely fine.

I just found it really noticeable that she wasn’t wearing them, it just struck me as unusual, that’s all, nothing bad about it.

What truth did Catherine speak of ?

HelterSkelter1

Last years MD informal photo she was in a tree with the kids and wearing both wedding and engagement rings. Can't get more informal than tree climbing!!

Her PR team "could do better".

OK - in another informal photo' she's not wearing her rings.

Obviously, this seems 'odd' to you (and others) - sufficiently to raise questions and compare previous photo's.

So, come on, tell us what you think is being hidden that we have a 'right' to know?

If you were replying to me, Anniebach, it’s not about her speaking truth. It’s about the picture being truthful which it isn’t. Maybe it’s not important in terms of what was edited, but it breaks the rules that these news and photo agencies have therefore they couldn’t let it be circulated from them.

I would just like this to end for the sake of the Princess of Wales. I hope she doesn’t read the newspapers or listen to the news. I have said before I am neither a Republican nor a Royalist, but I do believe in fair play. One on line newspaper shows her in a car today with Prince William and immediately beneath is an article referring to her reply today, asking “Did she even write the message? Is she too ill?” It is not as if it is a slow news day.

I can be hope that the press has had their say and we can move on - but regrettably I am not holding my breathe,

But news agencies publish other photos that show or imply something that isn’t true. Are those acceptable?

A) Do they? Where’s the source for that? And B) the digital manipulation in the KP photo is so obvious and poor that they couldn’t very well not have killed it.

The three agencies who initially pulled it are the ones who set the standard across the industry - they’re the BBC or New York Times equivalent. That’s why it’s such a big deal.

Such longing for a total nervous breakdown or death , the media would be so excited

Anniebach

Such longing for a total nervous breakdown or death , the media would be so excited

I’m sure no one, and that includes the media, longs for that scenario.

No Dickens I haven't said we have a "right to know anything".

The Mothers Day photo with the POW looking happy and well would have helped to quell the rumours about her health.

However her PR team failed to advise her that omitting the rings she always wears in public and for her informal MD photos (and one ring was her MILs ring....William's Mother .. )was likely to raise comments. Which it has done the last thing she would probably want.

And this whole palaver has now almoat eclipsed the Commonwealth Day celebrations..

Her PR team have failed her.

Yes their PR used to be very good, even I admired it. I wonder if they are trying to operate in the way they used to and thats just not possible in the modern age.

It takes a certain mindset to think of wearing a wedding band or not wearing a wedding band