Kate Middleton 'shocked' by response to photo editing row as CNN reviews all Kensington Palace brochures

A family photo released for Mother's Day is at the center of a royal row sparked by concerns it has been “doctored”.

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However, this ability to manipulate photographs is not new, and fake photos are practically as old as photography itself.

Now, I don't blame her for “manipulating” the image (which is what led to several major photo agencies “murdering” it). I have done it myself. Anyone in their right mind who has small children knows how absolutely impossible it is to get them to even look in the same direction, let alone sit still.

There's a lot of pressure on moms like me to be perfect on Instagram, and the Princess of Wales has everyone watching.

Charlotte Cripps reports:

Buckingham Palace remained silent last night after Getty, Associated Press, Reuters and AFP removed the image and advised their clients to remove it from all their platforms.

The photograph, taken by Prince William in Windsor this week, was released by the royal family to mark Mother's Day and showed Kate smiling surrounded by her three children.

A major US broadcaster has begun reviewing all submitted photographs of Kensington Palace as the royal row over a doctored image by the Princess of Wales continues to escalate.

CNN revealed that it was forced to make the decision after Kate Middleton publicly apologized and admitted to posting an edited family photo of her and her three children for Mother's Day.

In a damning analysis of the furor, the channel said the image had been published for editorial purposes and that media organizations “hope those images are accurate.”

They added that they “consider it unacceptable to move, change or manipulate the pixels of an image” because this “would alter “the reality of the situation that the image is intended to document.”

A family photo released for Mother's Day is at the center of a royal row sparked by concerns it has been “doctored”.

The post does not mention how the edits were actually made: what changes were made or what software was used to make them. While it has generated a lot of speculation about artificial intelligence, there is nothing to indicate whether or not it was used in the image.

But the suggestion that it was edited in the same way that “many amateur photographers” do could be an indication that doctored images are becoming more common and increasingly convincing. There is a long history of misleading images, but they have never been easier to create than now.

In fact, edited images are now so common that the people taking them may not even realize they are doing it. New phones and other cameras include technology that attempts to improve images, but can also change them in unknown ways.

Our technology editor Andrew Griffin reports:

A Florida judge has dismissed a defamation case brought against Meghan Markle by her half-sister, Samantha Markle.

Samantha Markle, 59, launched legal action over comments Meghan, 42, made to Oprah Winfrey and on her Netflix show, Harry And Meghan.

Now he will not be able to file the case again, since Florida Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell dismissed it with prejudice.

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