The BBC has rejected complaints from UK viewers who said its coverage of the edited Kate Middleton Mother’s Day photo was over the top.
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is that on March 5 observers noticed that the UK Ministry of Defense had claimed on its website that Kate Middleton would be attending the Trooping the Colour ceremony on June 8.
Then, on the same day, it quickly and quietly scrubbed the claim after Kensington Palace announced that the princess's attendance had not actually been confirmed, per .This content can also be viewed on the site it from.What this tells us is that the Ministry of Defense, at some point, had good reason to believe that Kate would be at the ceremony.
And it tells us that Kensington doesn't yet know for sure whether she'll be at the event or not.
Which is odd.
Did Kensington Palace previously tell the Ministry of Defense that Kate would be at the ceremony, then change their minds? Or maybe the ministry was simply recycling text from the previous year and forgot to edit out mention of Kate Middleton.In either case, Kensington Palace had said that Kate Middleton was likely to be absent from public duties until Easter, which is on March 31, per .
But that is still a good two months before the Trooping the Colour.None of this would be such a big deal if the palace wasn't being so conspicuously cagey about Kate's whereabouts.
There was the digitally altered Mother's Day photo, whose poor editing was .
Then, on March 11, the published a —except the image itself is incredibly grainy, and you can see only the side of her face, leading .Seriously…what is going on?By Stephanie McNealBy Elizabeth LoganBy Melanie PauknerMore from GlamourSee More Stories© 2024 Condé Nast.
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The BBC has rejected complaints from UK viewers who said its coverage of the edited Kate Middleton Mother’s Day photo was over the top.
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Kate Middleton is quietly getting back to work on a childcare project that is close to her heart. It's understood that the Princess of Wales has been working from home on her early years project, which aims to better the lives of babies.
dip her toes into work at the start of February, when sources close to the royal said she was “working from bed” to prepare for her return to official duties.Now, it appears as though Middleton is doing more than just that — she’s shifting all of her focus on her early years project to improve the lives of newborn babies.The mom of three has been very hands-on with the campaign for the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood’s (RFCEC) Shaping Us project, which has yielded “overwhelmingly positive” results of the study she kickstarted, the palace added.The Princess launched the project in January with the aim of it highlighting the importance of early years development in children.It’s been said that the campaign has been her “life’s work” during her recovery process.“The Princess has been kept updated throughout the process,” a palace spokesperson told the Telegraph.But the royal’s recovery has not all been smooth-sailing.In her absence from public life, several conspiracy theories have taken root, which only intensified after she posted a heavily edited UK Mother’s Day image that received a “kill notice” from major press agencies.And earlier this week, three staffers at the London Clinic — the private hospital where Middleton underwent surgery and recovered for two weeks — were placed under investigation over an alleged data breach involving the Princess.The CEO of the London Clinic said the hospital would take all “regulatory and disciplinary steps” as three staffers were under investigation for the alleged breach.It’s believed that Middleton has been made aware of the situation.She currently remains at Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, where she was recently spotted hitting up a local farm shop with William.Since news
alleged data breach of Kate Middleton’s personal information on Wednesday at the London Clinic.The monarch, 75, who is currently receiving outpatient cancer treatment at the luxury private hospital, underwent a “corrective procedure” for an enlarged prostate in January.There, doctors discovered “a separate issue of concern” that requires treatment.
Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, has reportedly been quietly working from home on a childcare project that's close to her heart. After her abdominal surgery at the London Clinic in January, she's now slowly getting back to normal life and work.Today, March 21, a report will be published about her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, which funded a trial of a baby observation tool.
The hospital at the centre of claims staff attempted to access the Princess of Wales’s private medical records has broken its silence to say “all appropriate investigatory, regulatory and disciplinary steps will be taken”. Chief executive of the London Clinic, Al Russell, said: “There is no place at our hospital for those who intentionally breach the trust of any of our patients or colleagues.” The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which is the UK’s privacy watchdog, is checking into the claims of an alleged royal data breach at the private hospital where Kate had her surgery.The Mirror reported that the Clinic had launched an investigation after at least one member of staff tried to access Kate’s notes while she was a patient there.
has been caught out again—this time for a picture that was released nearly a year previously.After the British Mother's Day photo Kensington Palace released in March was pulled from major newswires, including the Associated Press, because it was found to have been misleadingly edited, the palace posted a statement to social media in which . “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” the statement read.
told the Daily Mail.An official plan will be put into place closer to the time.The Post has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.Trooping the Colour is a batch of ceremonial events that mark and celebrate the birthday of King Charles III — even though the monarch’s actual birthday is in November.With senior members of the Firm pulling back from the royal fold one at a time over a myriad of health issues, the royal family has faced a difficult start to the year.Charles has taken a noticeable step back from official duties in recent weeks, which has subsequently caused some confusion over upcoming royal engagements.The Ministry of Defense took down a web page appearing to confirm Charles’s attendance at Trooping the Colour.The same goes for Kate Middleton, whose name was quietly removed by the British Army’s website from the list of attendees for the Colonel’s Review after it was speculated that the event would be one of her first appearances since her abdominal surgery.Prior to the removal of her name, it was reported that the Princess of Wales, 42, would have been examining the Foot soldiers as the honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards at the pre-Trooping the Colour event.Following the inspection, the members will line the processional route along the Mall in London.Middleton has been in attendance for all of the events since she married Prince William, 41, in 2011.Since undergoing a “successful” abdominal surgery on Jan.
recent photo-editing scandal.The Dutch monarch, 56, spoke to members of the public at a royal engagement in Zutphen, Netherlands Thursday where a little girl asked him about his family portrait.After exchanging a few pleasantries with the schoolgirl, the King reportedly quipped, “At least I didn’t photoshop it,” referencing Middleton’s recent digital mishap.The joke seemingly landed with royalists, who burst into laughter at the cheeky jibe.The Princess of Wales, 42, was forced to issue an apology this week after she released a doctored family photo for UK Mother’s Day on March 10.Just seconds after the image was unveiled on social media, eagle-eyed followers noticed a myriad of editing mishaps in the photo of the royal with her three children.The widespread speculation prompted conspiracy theorists to come out of the woodwork, with claims being made not only about Middleton’s health, but also her whereabouts.Middleton returned to social media to set the record straight on what had happened with the snap.“Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” she wrote on X in the wake of the controversy.
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her family released to celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK, internet sleuths decided to take a critical look at the latest picture of her, . In the picture, the princess faces away from the camera.A widely circulated TikTok theory is that Middleton’s profile was actually lifted from an earlier picture, and that the brick wall(s) behind the car are also a giveaway that something about the image is amiss.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.But the photographer and the photo agency who distributed the car pic are standing behind their work.
doctored post-surgery family photo.Elliot Higgins, the founder of the Netherlands-based Bellingcat investigative journalism group, demonstrated on X on Monday why it was highly unlikely that the Princess of Wales’ image from the June 2016 issue of British Vogue had been recycled for her viral UK Mother’s Day snap.“There’s so many minor differences, like the reflection of the light in her pupils, the light and shadow on her face, the teeth visible, wrinkles, etc. etc., that it’s clearly just a photo of the same woman from about the same angle, not the same exact photo,” Higgins explained.
forced to issue an apology after releasing a doctored family photo for UK’s Mother’s Day on Sunday.After eagle-eyed social media users noticed a myriad of editing mishaps in the image, the mom of three reportedly felt “awful” about the backlash it has caused.Sources close to the Princess told the Telegraph that Middleton tried making the photo “the best it could be.”Another insider close to the Palace told the Mirror that the Princess is no doubt “deeply upset by the furor” and media frenzy the “innocent family photograph” had caused.On Monday, the Princess was spotted leaving Windsor Castle with her husband, Prince William, just hours after her photo-related clarification.Middleton was pictured in a black Land Rover to accompany her husband on the ride to Westminster Abbey, where the prince will attend the annual Commonwealth Day service without her.It was the royal’s first public appearance in more than two months following her surgery, with her last appearing on Christmas Day while attending church in Sandringham.She is not expected to return to her public duties until sometime after the Easter holiday. Kate’s absence from the public eye had stirred up conspiracies over her health, which were only exacerbated by the release of the edited family snap.“Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” Middleton wrote on X.
It was meant to be a wholesome image to celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK, but a photo of Kate Middleton and her children has ended in controversy for the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Royalists and fans have grown increasingly concerned about Catherine, Princess of Wales (aka Kate Middleton) over the past few months.
and shared a new photo of Middleton with her three kids, which was reportedly taken by Prince William at Windsor “earlier this week” in honor of the UK's Mother's Day, according to . “Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the last two months,” the caption read.
planned abdominal surgery. but her health battle has knocked her confidence and left her feeling “fragile,”, one expert asserts.
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