Inside Kate and William’s hectic 40-minute photoshoot which led to royal chaos

The internet has been trapped down a royal conspiracy rabbit hole for days since the first official picture of Kate Middleton post-surgery was released on the Prince and Princess of Wales’ Instagram with glaringly obvious alterations.

The image, shared to celebrate Mother’s Day, was almost immediately called out for Kardashian levels of obvious editing: Charlotte’s sleeve was weird, all the children’s fingers were cross. And then, Kate herself apologised for “experimenting” with altering the image. We did not have her down as a Facetune girlie.

Anyway, in the days of fallout which have followed photo edit gate Kensington Palace have released more and more details about what they claim went down in the moments leading up to Kate hitting “share”. So, here’s all you need to know about the rushed photoshoot and enhancement fiasco which has us buying into tin hat theories:

William allegedly took the picture in a rushed 40 minute photoshoot on Friday

According to the palace, it was actually William who took the now famous photo and not a professional photographer. On top of that, the whole shoot – with three children – was done in 40 minutes flat last Friday while they were all together, which seems like a rushed task for people with legitimately limitless time on their hands.

Conspiracy theorists have also pointed out there seemed to be a lot of leaves on the trees in the background for something taken at the very start of March.

It was taken on a £2,900 Canon camera not snapped on an iPhone

Although the editing might be low quality, the photo of Kate and her kids is very HD. And, apparently, William got into professional photographer mode using a £2,900 Canon DSLR camera. Strange they didn’t invest the same in a photo editor, too.

“This was an amateur, family photograph taken by the Princess of Wales,” a source said of the snap. “Their Royal Highnesses wanted to offer an informal picture of the family together for Mother’s Day.”

Kate supposedly edited the photo on Photoshop to ‘make it the best it can be’

We’re not saying that Kate called her kids ugly. But she did say she photoshopped a picture of them “for their own sakes”, according to an insider who chatted to The Times. Apparently, Kate just wanted to make the picture the “best it could be” and was “thinking of her own children when editing the picture, hoping that they looked good for their own sakes.” Ouch?

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