New details emerge about Kate Middleton’s edited family photo
Yet more details have emerged about the altered photograph published by Kensington Palace of Kate Middleton and her kids on Mother’s Day.
The Princess of Wales admitted this morning that she had ‘experimented with editing’ a photograph of her and her three children Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, nine and Prince Louis, five.
She shared the picture on the @KensingtonRoyal X account alongside a touching message marking Mother’s Day on Sunday – the first she’s penned since her abdominal surgery in January.
Within hours of its publication, several global picture agencies including Getty Images, Associated Press (AP), Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP) withdrew the picture from their archives.
In its ‘kill notification’, AP said: ‘At closer inspection, it appears that the source has manipulated the image. No replacement image will be sent.’
The agency added: ‘Please remove it from all platforms, including social, where it may still be visible.’
While Reuters said: ‘This has been withdrawn following a post-publication review. Please make no further use.’
Further analysis of the image by Sky News has now provided more details about when the picture was edited and the camera it was taken on – just hours after she was seen leaving Windsor Castle with her husband, Prince William.
Analysis of the photo’s metadata found the image had been saved in Adobe Photoshop twice on an Apple Mac – but it is unclear if it was saved on the same device.
The first save was made at 9.54pm on Friday night, with the second at 9.39am on Saturday morning.
The image was taken at Adelaide Cottage, the family’s home in Windsor, on a Canon 5D mark IV with a Canon 50mm lens.
The camera retails at £2,929.99 while the lens sells for £1,629.99.
The Press Association news agency, a major agency in the UK, initially did not kill the picture on its service.
But it later said it would withdraw the image, with a spokesperson saying: ‘Like other news agencies, PA Media issued the handout image provided by Kensington Palace of the Princess of Wales and her children in good faith yesterday.
‘We became aware of concerns about the image and we carried a report about it last night, and made clear that we were seeking urgent clarification about the image from Kensington Palace.
‘In the absence of that clarification, we are killing the image from our picture service.’
Kensington Palace has refused to release the original image, and has not responded to Metro.co.uk’s request for comment.
Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.
For more stories like this, check our news page.