It’s like they are trying to tell us something but not allowed to.
It makes me very very worried.
"No comment from Kensington Palace tonight after at least 3 international pictures agencies refuse to distribute this morning’s photo of Kate and her children. Some of them (@AP ) have claimed “the source [the palace] has manipulated the image”."
This is the ITV Royal editor, so not one of the usual suspects.
The foliage in the background looks late summer/early autumn to me.
It is a weird photo. If you Photoshop an image you do so for a purpose. It's hard to work out the intention behind this manipulation. It seems to have something to do with Kate's hands rather than her main presence.
If it’s just a marital spat it’s easily fixed. Kate has no reason to exploit or use her children in this maladroit way. She wouid pose for a real photo and put the rumours to bed, even if she’s about to divorce William
I am worried she is indeed very sick. Ugh. I hope I am wrong. I can’t think of any other explanation for this mad photo
If you look at the cuff on the daughters left sleeve, the picture is all distorted. Bit odd
The boy on the left's right hand looks odd too.
Is there a proper theory, or is it just that the stand-in for the usual photo-fiddler was a bit wet behind the ears, i.e. a non-story?
He is crossing his fingers which is weird in and of itself for a professional publicity shot
It’s like they are trying to tell us something but not allowed to.
It makes me very very worried.
"No comment from Kensington Palace tonight after at least 3 international pictures agencies refuse to distribute this morning’s photo of Kate and her children. Some of them (@AP ) have claimed “the source [the palace] has manipulated the image”."
This is the ITV Royal editor, so not one of the usual suspects.
The foliage in the background looks late summer/early autumn to me.
It is a weird photo. If you Photoshop an image you do so for a purpose. It's hard to work out the intention behind this manipulation. It seems to have something to do with Kate's hands rather than her main presence.
If it’s just a marital spat it’s easily fixed. Kate has no reason to exploit or use her children in this maladroit way. She wouid pose for a real photo and put the rumours to bed, even if she’s about to divorce William
I am worried she is indeed very sick. Ugh. I hope I am wrong. I can’t think of any other explanation for this mad photo
If you look at the cuff on the daughters left sleeve, the picture is all distorted. Bit odd
The boy on the left's right hand looks odd too.
Is there a proper theory, or is it just that the stand-in for the usual photo-fiddler was a bit wet behind the ears, i.e. a non-story?
I think the younger boys right hand is fine, hooking your middle finger over your 4th finger is just one of those things kids do. It's not hard to do, I can do it myself.
The girl's left cuff is definitely not right though.
It’s like they are trying to tell us something but not allowed to.
It makes me very very worried.
"No comment from Kensington Palace tonight after at least 3 international pictures agencies refuse to distribute this morning’s photo of Kate and her children. Some of them (@AP ) have claimed “the source [the palace] has manipulated the image”."
This is the ITV Royal editor, so not one of the usual suspects.
The foliage in the background looks late summer/early autumn to me.
It is a weird photo. If you Photoshop an image you do so for a purpose. It's hard to work out the intention behind this manipulation. It seems to have something to do with Kate's hands rather than her main presence.
If it’s just a marital spat it’s easily fixed. Kate has no reason to exploit or use her children in this maladroit way. She wouid pose for a real photo and put the rumours to bed, even if she’s about to divorce William
I am worried she is indeed very sick. Ugh. I hope I am wrong. I can’t think of any other explanation for this mad photo
This may be tosh, but it's plausible enough to get to sleep tonight;
My guess is that the photo comes from a Google Pixel 8 and whoever took it used the Best Take feature which extracts the best facial expression for each individual from a series of photos taken in rapid succession. That can create similar artifacts to those seen in this shot.
One excellent reason to hope for a May 2nd election is that it would force the parties to issue their manifestos sharpish, so we can all see what they're actually proposing to do.
This phoney war is getting boring.
It's the random ephemera within a manifesto that I most enjoy, the unusual or minor things that slip in and then get totally ignored or forgotten.
It’s like they are trying to tell us something but not allowed to.
It makes me very very worried.
"No comment from Kensington Palace tonight after at least 3 international pictures agencies refuse to distribute this morning’s photo of Kate and her children. Some of them (@AP ) have claimed “the source [the palace] has manipulated the image”."
This is the ITV Royal editor, so not one of the usual suspects.
The foliage in the background looks late summer/early autumn to me.
It is a weird photo. If you Photoshop an image you do so for a purpose. It's hard to work out the intention behind this manipulation. It seems to have something to do with Kate's hands rather than her main presence.
If it’s just a marital spat it’s easily fixed. Kate has no reason to exploit or use her children in this maladroit way. She wouid pose for a real photo and put the rumours to bed, even if she’s about to divorce William
I am worried she is indeed very sick. Ugh. I hope I am wrong. I can’t think of any other explanation for this mad photo
This may be tosh, but it's plausible enough to get to sleep tonight;
My guess is that the photo comes from a Google Pixel 8 and whoever took it used the Best Take feature which extracts the best facial expression for each individual from a series of photos taken in rapid succession. That can create similar artifacts to those seen in this shot.
It’s like they are trying to tell us something but not allowed to.
It makes me very very worried.
"No comment from Kensington Palace tonight after at least 3 international pictures agencies refuse to distribute this morning’s photo of Kate and her children. Some of them (@AP ) have claimed “the source [the palace] has manipulated the image”."
This is the ITV Royal editor, so not one of the usual suspects.
The foliage in the background looks late summer/early autumn to me.
It is a weird photo. If you Photoshop an image you do so for a purpose. It's hard to work out the intention behind this manipulation. It seems to have something to do with Kate's hands rather than her main presence.
If it’s just a marital spat it’s easily fixed. Kate has no reason to exploit or use her children in this maladroit way. She wouid pose for a real photo and put the rumours to bed, even if she’s about to divorce William
I am worried she is indeed very sick. Ugh. I hope I am wrong. I can’t think of any other explanation for this mad photo
If you look at the cuff on the daughters left sleeve, the picture is all distorted. Bit odd
There’s actually part of the girl’s cuff missing. There seems to be several errors. Oh my!
The sill under Louis's hand has a kink in it.
George's lower teeth are wrong too.
There's a whole line of distortion parallel to the sill, crossing the step and the tiles.
I think the Google Pixel 8 explanation is plausible. That a feature on the phone has used an algorithm to crudely merge several photos together, and this has created these weird artefacts in the photo, and so the picture agencies have pulled it as manipulated.
But that's still consistent with Kate being perfectly healthy and the marriage in no trouble.
It’s like they are trying to tell us something but not allowed to.
It makes me very very worried.
"No comment from Kensington Palace tonight after at least 3 international pictures agencies refuse to distribute this morning’s photo of Kate and her children. Some of them (@AP ) have claimed “the source [the palace] has manipulated the image”."
This is the ITV Royal editor, so not one of the usual suspects.
The foliage in the background looks late summer/early autumn to me.
It is a weird photo. If you Photoshop an image you do so for a purpose. It's hard to work out the intention behind this manipulation. It seems to have something to do with Kate's hands rather than her main presence.
If it’s just a marital spat it’s easily fixed. Kate has no reason to exploit or use her children in this maladroit way. She wouid pose for a real photo and put the rumours to bed, even if she’s about to divorce William
I am worried she is indeed very sick. Ugh. I hope I am wrong. I can’t think of any other explanation for this mad photo
This may be tosh, but it's plausible enough to get to sleep tonight;
My guess is that the photo comes from a Google Pixel 8 and whoever took it used the Best Take feature which extracts the best facial expression for each individual from a series of photos taken in rapid succession. That can create similar artifacts to those seen in this shot.
Royal fluff is a constant background noise in our media landscape (Kate seems to be staring out at me from the magazine rack every time I go to the shops). If it ever rises to get primary focus either something is wrong or else literally nothing else is going on in the world.
If the Royal Family were going to fake photos could they at least do it properly and bring the Queen back?
Has Camilla died?
In other royal-related news, John Lydon, aka Lord Johnny Rotten, singer of "God Save the Queen", has been sounding off against immigrants, seemingly oblivious of the fact that he himself is the son of immigrants to Britain, and indeed he himself is an immigrant to the USA:
It’s easy to over interpret now we are all so sensitive to AI fakes
However the tree the sleeve and the fingers definitely look wrong to me. And why not release a series of images? Flatten the rumours entirely?
Why one single suspicious image? Hmmmmmm
The thing that fascinates me is that they clearly felt they had to do a proof of life photo to quash rumours, but their best choice was something so obviously dodgy? That's weird.
It’s easy to over interpret now we are all so sensitive to AI fakes
However the tree the sleeve and the fingers definitely look wrong to me. And why not release a series of images? Flatten the rumours entirely?
Why one single suspicious image? Hmmmmmm
The thing that fascinates me is that they clearly felt they had to do a proof of life photo to quash rumours, but their best choice was something so obviously dodgy? That's weird.
Yes that’s exactly my thinking. Either a massive error - or they are desperate because something genuinely bad needs to be hidden
If the Royal Family were going to fake photos could they at least do it properly and bring the Queen back?
Has Camilla died?
In other royal-related news, John Lydon, aka Lord Johnny Rotten, singer of "God Save the Queen", has been sounding off against immigrants, seemingly oblivious of the fact that he himself is the son of immigrants to Britain, and indeed he himself is an immigrant to the USA:
Got it - Harry has launched a coup and taken Kate hostage, the parties are in negotiation to restore him to the working royals as a compromises so he can stop whinging about paying for his own security, and they had to put out a photo of Kate in a normal, non-hostage situation whilst they sort that out.
It’s easy to over interpret now we are all so sensitive to AI fakes
However the tree the sleeve and the fingers definitely look wrong to me. And why not release a series of images? Flatten the rumours entirely?
Why one single suspicious image? Hmmmmmm
The tree thing I'm not convinced about. There are plenty of plants in full leaf at this time of year, and a professional photographer would surely utilize them as a backdrop on this occasion. Having said that, when I first saw the image I did think it was a bit too good to be true: Kate brimming with health and happiness and seemingly without a care in the world. Not the look of someone who's just undergone lengthy and serious hospitalization. These news agencies need to tell us what exactly about the image they regard as manipulated. We need to know!
It’s easy to over interpret now we are all so sensitive to AI fakes
However the tree the sleeve and the fingers definitely look wrong to me. And why not release a series of images? Flatten the rumours entirely?
Why one single suspicious image? Hmmmmmm
The thing that fascinates me is that they clearly felt they had to do a proof of life photo to quash rumours, but their best choice was something so obviously dodgy? That's weird.
Yes that’s exactly my thinking. Either a massive error - or they are desperate because something genuinely bad needs to be hidden
It should be remembered that all marketing and communications folks are playing with the joys of ai just now. Adding a daffodil to fill in a gap here, making a sky bluer there. It's plausible that some silly tit at Kensington Palace thought it was a great idea to just pop it through ai to give it 'the wow factor' and this shite is the result. It's very peculiar. They should bring a professional PR firm in and stop half-arsing the job.
It’s easy to over interpret now we are all so sensitive to AI fakes
However the tree the sleeve and the fingers definitely look wrong to me. And why not release a series of images? Flatten the rumours entirely?
Why one single suspicious image? Hmmmmmm
The thing that fascinates me is that they clearly felt they had to do a proof of life photo to quash rumours, but their best choice was something so obviously dodgy? That's weird.
Yes that’s exactly my thinking. Either a massive error - or they are desperate because something genuinely bad needs to be hidden
It should be remembered that all marketing and communications folks are playing with the joys of ai just now. Adding a daffodil to fill in a gap here, making a sky bluer there. It's plausible that some silly tit at Kensington Palace thought it was a great idea to just pop it through ai to give it 'the wow factor' and this shite is the result. It's very peculiar. They should bring a professional PR firm in and stop half-arsing the job.
I’m right down the rabbit hole now
Is this even Kate in the paparazzi photo in the car? It certainly doesn’t look like the woman in the Mother’s Day photo
Ok, there's gonna be some hapless underling trotted out v. soon to take the whole blame, isn't there?
'I thought I was doing my best for the Waleses and took it entirely upon myself to whip up this crap AI image withouth consulting my betters who are of course entirely blameless'
Ok, there's gonna be some hapless underling trotted out v. soon to take the whole blame, isn't there?
'I thought I was doing my best for the Waleses and took it entirely upon myself to whip up this crap AI image withouth consulting my betters who are of course entirely blameless'
I'm placing money right now that TSE will declare that person this generation's Thomas Wentworth when that happens.
This looks interesting. Reduced contrast and increased exposure on the dark area below Kate's head. Seems it is a different zipped jacket and different actual head
It’s easy to over interpret now we are all so sensitive to AI fakes
However the tree the sleeve and the fingers definitely look wrong to me. And why not release a series of images? Flatten the rumours entirely?
Why one single suspicious image? Hmmmmmm
The thing that fascinates me is that they clearly felt they had to do a proof of life photo to quash rumours, but their best choice was something so obviously dodgy? That's weird.
Yes that’s exactly my thinking. Either a massive error - or they are desperate because something genuinely bad needs to be hidden
It should be remembered that all marketing and communications folks are playing with the joys of ai just now. Adding a daffodil to fill in a gap here, making a sky bluer there. It's plausible that some silly tit at Kensington Palace thought it was a great idea to just pop it through ai to give it 'the wow factor' and this shite is the result. It's very peculiar. They should bring a professional PR firm in and stop half-arsing the job.
I’m right down the rabbit hole now
Is this even Kate in the paparazzi photo in the car? It certainly doesn’t look like the woman in the Mother’s Day photo
I think that looks like her. And I'm glad she hasn't done something radical to ruin her face - she looks fine.
Not sure wtf the photo today is about though. Combined with William's no show at that memorial service, and the fact that they haven't been seen together, it all seems very volatile.
It’s easy to over interpret now we are all so sensitive to AI fakes
However the tree the sleeve and the fingers definitely look wrong to me. And why not release a series of images? Flatten the rumours entirely?
Why one single suspicious image? Hmmmmmm
The thing that fascinates me is that they clearly felt they had to do a proof of life photo to quash rumours, but their best choice was something so obviously dodgy? That's weird.
Yes that’s exactly my thinking. Either a massive error - or they are desperate because something genuinely bad needs to be hidden
It should be remembered that all marketing and communications folks are playing with the joys of ai just now. Adding a daffodil to fill in a gap here, making a sky bluer there. It's plausible that some silly tit at Kensington Palace thought it was a great idea to just pop it through ai to give it 'the wow factor' and this shite is the result. It's very peculiar. They should bring a professional PR firm in and stop half-arsing the job.
I’m right down the rabbit hole now
Is this even Kate in the paparazzi photo in the car? It certainly doesn’t look like the woman in the Mother’s Day photo
I was fooled for a minute, but the glasses are wrong.
Since there's nothing else going on, and I know some people are strategy fans, apparently something truly monumental has just occurred.
Crusader Kings 3's latest DLC, Legends of the Dead, arrived last Monday, bringing with it new legend mechanics that let your characters live on after death. But whatever, frankly, because it was accompanied by a free patch that finally introduced the game's most long-sought-after feature: functional male pattern baldness.
CK3's 1.12.1 "Scythe" update dropped Monday, and has "Added balding hairstyles and a system for male pattern baldness. Characters have a baldness value in their DNA which affects the age at which (male) characters start losing their hair.
I wonder if an MP might use Parliamentary privilege to say what's going on with RF (assuming MP's are in the know obviously) ?
Was gonna say George Galloway would probably do it, but he is a unionist, so I guess he's also a royalist. An SNP MP might I suppose, even though their official position is to keep the monarchy.
I wonder if an MP might use Parliamentary privilege to say what's going on with RF (assuming MP's are in the know obviously) ?
Was gonna say George Galloway would probably do it, but he is a unionist, so I guess he's also a royalist. An SNP MP might I suppose, even though their official position is to keep the monarchy.
George Galloway is not a royalist. He is a republican. Being a unionist in the GB sense doesn't stop someone from being a republican in the anti-monarchist sense. He's for a republic of GB and also an all-Ireland republic.
Hopefully he will use his maiden speech (if it counts as a maiden speech when an MP returns after a break) to talk about a far more important issue than the health of a member of the royal family.
The middle front teeth are usually the first adult teeth to come through, so if they're relatively longer in the group photo it suggests that it's older than the other one.
GB News speculating publicly that its divorce or death
Eeeesh
That doesn't really make sense. If it's death we'd know. You can't just hide a death, no matter how important you are. If it's divorce, why would you need to fake a photo like that?
It's probably just someone photoshopping the photo to make it look better, not realising the implications of that.
GB News speculating publicly that its divorce or death
Eeeesh
That doesn't really make sense. If it's death we'd know. You can't just hide a death, no matter how important you are. If it's divorce, why would you need to fake a photo like that?
It's probably just someone photoshopping the photo to make it look better, not realising the implications of that.
I hear you but I don’t buy the last theory either
There is too much at risk here. The rumours are wild and damaging and releasing a photo this bad and strangely manipulated makes it all much worse. I don’t believe it’s just a cock up by a PR intern
It’s either an act of desperation or someone trying to undermine the royal family
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The girl's left cuff is definitely not right though.
… a big story.
Android. Pah!
Should've got an iPhone.
I think the Google Pixel 8 explanation is plausible. That a feature on the phone has used an algorithm to crudely merge several photos together, and this has created these weird artefacts in the photo, and so the picture agencies have pulled it as manipulated.
But that's still consistent with Kate being perfectly healthy and the marriage in no trouble.
However the tree the sleeve and the fingers definitely look wrong to me. And why not release a series of images? Flatten the rumours entirely?
Why one single suspicious image? Hmmmmmm
In other royal-related news, John Lydon, aka Lord Johnny Rotten, singer of "God Save the Queen", has been sounding off against immigrants, seemingly oblivious of the fact that he himself is the son of immigrants to Britain, and indeed he himself is an immigrant to the USA:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13173005/sex-pistol-john-lydon-immigration-division-uk.html
Exclusive: Intervention by Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Amber Rudd just before Michael Gove unveils official definition of extremism
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/10/three-ex-tory-home-secretaries-warn-against-politicising-anti-extremism
The whole photo is a bizarre composite fake
I have no idea why they would release such a thing
Lots of news in this @moetkacik piece. The Change Healthcare hack is the biggest story in the world almost nobody knows about. This feels like the shotgun weddings of banks during the financial crisis. Only UnitedHealth caused the problem. https://prospect.org/health/2024-03-10-unitedhealth-exploits-emergency-change-ransomware-oregon/
https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1766882603330838538
Is this even Kate in the paparazzi photo in the car? It certainly doesn’t look like the woman in the Mother’s Day photo
'I thought I was doing my best for the Waleses and took it entirely upon myself to whip up this crap AI image withouth consulting my betters who are of course entirely blameless'
https://x.com/markdorenfast/status/1766918596494549107
https://twitter.com/KristinBingham/status/1766967436195119185
Not sure wtf the photo today is about though. Combined with William's no show at that memorial service, and the fact that they haven't been seen together, it all seems very volatile.
Crusader Kings 3's latest DLC, Legends of the Dead, arrived last Monday, bringing with it new legend mechanics that let your characters live on after death. But whatever, frankly, because it was accompanied by a free patch that finally introduced the game's most long-sought-after feature: functional male pattern baldness.
CK3's 1.12.1 "Scythe" update dropped Monday, and has "Added balding hairstyles and a system for male pattern baldness. Characters have a baldness value in their DNA which affects the age at which (male) characters start losing their hair.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/crusader-kings-3-finally-gets-its-most-hotly-demanded-feature-in-years-an-authentic-male-pattern-baldness-system/
Did I accidentally log onto Heat magazine instead of PB tonight?
Hopefully he will use his maiden speech (if it counts as a maiden speech when an MP returns after a break) to talk about a far more important issue than the health of a member of the royal family.
That’s so bad it is inexplicable
Eeeesh
It's probably just someone photoshopping the photo to make it look better, not realising the implications of that.
There is too much at risk here. The rumours are wild and damaging and releasing a photo this bad and strangely manipulated makes it all much worse. I don’t believe it’s just a cock up by a PR intern
It’s either an act of desperation or someone trying to undermine the royal family
I seriously doubt today’s photo is from this year. It’s been released in a botched attempt to reassure the public.
@nayibbukele
We saw similar images in El Salvador a few years ago. Gangs bathing with the skulls of their victims.
All the “experts” said they couldn’t be defeated, because they were an “intrinsic part of our society”.
They were wrong.
We obliterated them.
The same must be done in Haiti.
Or perhaps they are arguing about Gaza, with Kate posting here as Barty.
But some reason my instinct is she is more right wing than Wills.