what the f'k is all the discussion about Princess Kate photo

[Fritz]

keeps turning up. Did she try to stage a photographic insurrection?
OK, back to who looked stupidest on the red carpet.

[Speedy]

Photoshop is her hobby and it shows.

[pdq]

I think she photoshopped a family pic - you know, kids being kids, it’s hard to get a “good” picture of everyone at once.

And folks are having a cow. It’s no longer Good to be King. Being a Royal these days must be a weird life.

Fair warning: I’ve skimmed like, one article about this, so I may be way off. But regardless, being a Royal does seem to have more downsides than upsides.

[gabester]

Yes one kid's left wrist - on the right side of one photograph - doesn't line up from the shirtsleeve to the hand.

Oh noes!
What a scandal!

[Fritz]

guillotine!!!!

[GGD]

gabester wrote:
Yes one kid's left wrist - on the right side of one photograph - doesn't line up from the shirtsleeve to the hand.

Oh noes!
What a scandal!

I thought that a picture needed to have an incorrect number of appendages to qualify as a scandal these days.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....her daughter was missing a thumb [ on the left hand ].....and some of background walls didn't match.......

[Ca Bob]

No! This is serious! The future of the monarchy is at stake! It's so serious that a shortage of exclamation points threatens!

Here is the latest on exclamation point journalism:

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/e...50590.html

It even uses the word Shocked, as in friends of the royal couple are shocked.

Here is one possible take: The British monarchy is built around keeping them somewhat mysterious, in the sense that they never express a political opinion in public, nor do they assert any kind of political leadership. There are all these rules which (at least under Elizabeth) require the princesses and duchesses to remain bland, right down to limits on what color nail polish they can use. They are therefore the perfect inkblot upon which to project. And right after some royal takes over the center of town to ride down the Main Street in a horse drawn gold plated carriage, the royal palace complains because some paparazo has violated their sacred privacy, or an American television host has repeated a story that has already been on the front page of a dozen tabloids.

So what do the royals get for all that? Well, they live in splendor, get the finest medical care for life, never have to worry about their next meal or have to sleep on a lumpy bed (or no bed at all), don't have to worry about burial expenses, and have a whole staff of servants, hair dressers, cooks, butlers, and importantly, public relations flaks. The downside is that their ability to drop into the local coffee shop and be left alone is gone. You have to wonder how the royal children absorb the idea of what it would be like to be a normal person, considering that they are not allowed to be one.

[Fritz]

Ca Bob wrote:
The British monarchy is built around keeping them somewhat mysterious.

like Melania!??!?

[$tevie]

Here's the story. It's about more that the photo:
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/this-i...the-media/

Nothing like a royal "mystery" to pique social media's attention.