I was watching a let’s play of a Peppa Pig game recently where the family travels to London and meets QE2, which was developed before her death but released afterward. She drives a double decker bus over an open drawbridge and then splashes around with them in puddles in front of Buckingham Palace before the game fades to a black screen with an In Memoriam.
It’s quite the mood shift.
How I wish we could “like” posts here.
An oddity; the Palace issued a photo of Princess Kate with her kids, which AP syndicated, then withdrew after determining that the Palace had “manipulated” the photo.
Doesn’t sound like anything misleading (assuming there’s nothing wrong with the software that identified issues).
It’s a really bonkers story, and no end of sustenance for the conspiracy theorists, but I think it’s just a really dodgy photoshop job where they’ve comped different shots together to make sure everyone’s smiling, so now everyone thinks Kate is dead. There’s a graphic designer somewhere in the Kensington Palace press office who’s in for a terrible Monday morning.
Yeah, that seems pretty ridiculous - if anyone was going to fake that photo, they’d pose the shot with a person of similar height and build, then swap the face/head. What possible use would there be in futzing around with a sleeve?
(Oh, I know the CT answer: the obvious photoshop error is there to distract our attention away from the undetectable invisible photoshopping of the face, which we know must be present, because it cannot be detected)
I think it’s basically a conflict between two different understnadings of what Royal Family photos are for:
The first is business as usual: the photos are to project a near-idealised image of the RF as joyful, serene and damn near perfect. In which case manipulation of the image to project this ideal is entirely in keeping with the strategic purpose.
The second is specific to this image: the photo was taken to dismantle ludicrous conspiracy theories by providing an authentic image of Princess Kate as she really is today. In which case manipulation of the image is absolutely fatal to the strategic purpose.
But force of habit is a terrible thing.
Counter to expectations, the princess is outing … herself(?) … as that graphic designer. Most strange? Or plausible?
Ha! That’s a pretty smart way to crush the story without some poor office intern taking the slack/the PR team looking like idiots. Also helps to show us Kate isn’t actually dead/hasn’t fled to Barbados.
It’s smart if it’s true. And hey, if she says that she regularly fires up the old Macbook and noodles around on photoshop rather than relying on the professional skills of her dedicated PR team, whomst amongst us would be so unpatriotic as to disbelieve her.
On the other hand, if this were a less than accurate account of how this photo got distributed to news agencies under the guise of being a genuinely authentic image, the fact that she’s taking a bullet for her own PR team and also telling a wee fib would be distinctly ungreat.
Now I want her next photo-op to be Tea with Sir Paul McCartney 
Or not.
It is a terribly amateur bit of photoshop though, so I don’t find it that hard to believe!
A picture of her having tea with George Harrison would put all the conspiracy theories to rest for sure.
Spain isn’t that far off the UK in size, and The Nethelands and Belgium are still within an order of magnitude of the UK (and more densely populated).
I wouldn’t say iInternational connections were such a major factor, the British parasites don’t travel that much (And nowadays aren’t all that welcome everywhere, when they do)
More like Carl Jr, 
I recently saw an ad for (IIRC) the new Google phone which has a function where if you take multiple similar photos you can edit in everyone’s best facial expressions or whatever from the range of photos into one.
Instant reinvention of reality.
Or walking across Abbey Road with Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant.
When I first saw this story I thought it was going to be some attempted hack on the system to get information. Instead it appears that someone at the clinic was curious and tried to see something they shouldn’t have access to.