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In an attempt to silence rumors and conspiracy theories, the photograph of

Kate Middleton

(42) with her children to show that everything is continuing its course has had the opposite effect.

When they released the image this Sunday, the five most important agencies in the world,

Getty Images, AP, Reuters, PA and AFP

, rushed to withdraw it from the market because it was too retouched and did not meet their quality standards.

It is tradition that the press departments of Kensington and Buckingham palaces have as an axiom

"never apologize, never explain"

,

but

in light of the scandal caused, the Princess of Wales issued a brief statement.

"Like many amateur photographers, I experiment with editing from time to time. I want to apologize for

any confusion caused by the

family photo we shared yesterday. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother's Day," he said.

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This is not the first time that

royals

or other celebrities screw up in photographic retouching to achieve perfection or

distort attention from certain issues

concerning the protagonists.

The Telegraph

newspaper

compiles some examples that occurred throughout history with the British royal family.

The black and white Christmas greeting from

William and Kate for 2023 with their children

, Prince George (10), Princess Charlotte (8) and Prince Louis (5) had several editing errors: the youngest was missing a finger From the left hand, Carlota had an extra foot growing on the right and Kate was missing another foot.

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In another endearing photograph in which Queen Elizabeth II appears with ten grandchildren and great-grandchildren on what would have been the monarch's 97th anniversary, editing was also used,

The Guardian

collects the statements of businessman

Christopher Bouzy

, creator of the analysis service X called Bot Sentinel, who believes

the portrait has been photoshopped

and you can see where two sides of the couch have been butted together.

He says: "Yes, they Photoshopped it, so what? It's not easy to get the perfect photo with 10 kids. It looks like they took several takes and then

edited the photo to make it perfect

. I would have done the same thing."

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Kate Middleton's photo manipulation that creates even more concern and rumors

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Kate Middleton's photo manipulation that creates even more concern and rumors

Without going any further, in the official photo of the 1999 wedding of Prince Edward with Sofia, Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, there was a surprising fact that

Sri Geoffrey Shakerley revealed

after publishing the photo he had taken.

As he told

ITN News

, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh felt that his nephew, Prince William, was not as ecstatic as he should be.

Therefore, digitally we were able to put

another photo of Prince William from one of the other

shots where he is smiling and laughing," the photographer said.

Hugo Vickers, the prolific writer who is an expert on the Windsors, has assured the British newspaper that

Cecil Beaton

, mentor of light who had the British royal house and Hollywood stars as clients,

"was a master of retouching"

since "at that time At that time it had to be done with white paint and he would remove pieces of shoulders, fix people's hair, etc.

In this regard, he apologizes to Beaton and other professionals since he assumes that the members of the royal houses are touched by a special aura because "we want them to be perfect and if there are hairs out of place

or stains of dirt

, the image will be breaks. After all, they're not meant to be like the rest of us."

It so happens that Vickers is also a specialist in the life and work of the photographer to the stars.

The Windsors are not the only ones who have been fodder for Photoshop.

You don't have to go that far to find out about other

victims

since we have

several examples with the Bourbons

.

In 2014, National Heritage removed a portrait of Kings Felipe VI and Letizia from the official website because Photoshop retouching was discovered.

The monarch's pants seemed to have been cut at the height of his hand, his thumb and knuckles

appeared to have had some retouching

... The image has not reappeared.

One of the most tender photos is the one that Zarzuela sent at Christmas 2005 in which the emeritus posed with all their grandchildren, except for Infanta Sofía, who was born in April 2007. But there was a problem.

Due to the incompatibility of agendas,

it was impossible to get everyone together for the photo session

and when the fiasco was discovered, Queen Sofía intoned the

mea culpa

, alleging that she had been the cause of the mess of artificially putting the little ones in the image.