Ready for the latest news in the Kate Middleton photo scandal? That news story, in which England’s royal family had to admit that the Princess of Wales had edited a photo of her family sent to news agencies, is still churning. Only now, a different photo of the princess is coming under fire.
The photo agency that provided a picture of the Prince and Princess of Wales together in a Range Rover on Monday, the same day the princess apologized for her editing, is speaking out about its own photo.Â
In a statement, Goff Photos said it didn’t change its photo beyond the most basic updates.
“[The] images of the Prince and Princess of Wales in the back of the Range Rover have been cropped and lightened,” but “nothing has been doctored,” the statement said, according to Today.com. Goff Photos didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The photo of William and Kate in the Range Rover is hard to see, and online detectives didn’t find as many things wrong with it as they did with the family photo. But there was still enough fuss about it — with some questioning the brick wall shown, and others claiming Kate’s hair was edited in from an older photo — that Goff Photos felt it had to make a statement.
NBC News also reported that it found no evidence that he picture had been digitally altered.
It’s a reminder that we’re in a brave new world of edited images now. Even prominent figures are comfortable attempting to pass modified photographs off as authentic, it’s never clear how much editing has been done to a published image, and people can’t be blamed for being suspicious of such photos.
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