"Humiliating For The Royal Family!" Piers Morgan Demands Release Of Unedited Kate Middleton Photo

lurry conspiracies and wild speculation

about the Princess of Wales have

dominated conversation about the Royals

for many weeks well this beaming family

photo released to Mark the British

Mother's Day on Sunday was supposed to

end all that and for most of yesterday

afternoon it worked the picture of

smiling Kate kills the Absurd conspiracy

theory said the daily maale I'm Smiles

better Kate's joyous Mother's Day photo

made a front page splash of the Metro

the front page of Express say Kate

thanks donation for his support with

charming photo that proves she's on the

menend but just as these newspapers were

rolling off the presses last night a

bombshell development Myriad major

Global picture agencies announced they

taken the unprecedented decision to kill

the picture deleting it entirely from

their systems over concerns it had been

manipulated at source and on closer

inspection well there couldn't be much

doubt about that there's a glaring empty

space where princess Charlotte's sleev

should be Charlotte's hair seems to end

abruptly on her left shoulder the corner

of her skirt is is oddly pointed in the

background behind Prince Lou legs the

white step is a clear break and a jaggy

gap where there should be a straight

line and the list goes on and on there

are 16 basic rudimentary errors in total

That's not including question marks of

whether the leaves on the trees so this

part of the photo is actually months old

the photo apparently taken by the Prince

of Wales himself last week has very

clearly been manipulated and manipulated

pretty badly now Katherine hasn't been

seen at an official event since

Christmas Day she was hospitalized in

January for serious abdominal surgery

requir her to be in hospital two weeks

and we were told she'd then be away from

public duties until after Easter which

is the middle of April we still don't

know what her condition actually is or

what the surgery was for or how sick or

otherwise she really is and the Royals

have provided very scant details about

her recovery that's fine it's a private

matter for them but conspiracies have

inevitably filled the vacuum in this

world of social media world watch was

speculating about everything from her

health to the state of her marriage and

all this Photograph has successfully

done rather than D the Flames of Gossip

is inflamed them it's become the

gasoline well today the Princess of

Wales took the rap writing on Instagram

that she' edited the photograph herself

saying like many amateur photographs I

do photographers I do occasionally

experiment with editing I wanted to

express my apologies for any confusion

that the family photograph we shared

yesterday caused I hope everyone

celebrating had a very happy mother day

okay but it's really what she didn't say

rather than what she did say was she

well enough to pose for that picture was

it a new picture actually if it was a

composite picture how much of that is

actually from last week when we were

told in briefings from the palace that

Prince William took that image and why

didn't they realize that of the many

many unitive family pictures the public

hasn't seen any of those could have done

the trick without being heavily edited

and ceding suspicion will they now

release the original photograph and tell

us exactly when it was taken well

they're saying they won't and that's the

kind of thing that you haven't got to be

a conspiracy theorist for to think is a

bit weird this has been a humbling and

humiliating episode with the royal

family at the worst possible time for a

family that's been under so much stress

and pressure recently and of course they

made much of the transparency over the

king's cancer diagnosis although again

we don't know what cancer it is it's a

painful lesson for the monarchy perhaps

about honesty control in this new age of

social media and the only way out of the

corner they painted themselves is to

tell the full story and release the

original photograph I think they owe

that now to the public well for more I'm

joined by the Royal historian and author

Tessa Dunlop the Republican and YouTuber

Alex OK Conor and the author and daily

male columnist Morin kigan from across

the pond in the United States turn to

you moring first of all a Daily Mail

like every paper uh early on very uh

ecstatically happy to see Kate looking

so happy herself and so healthy that was

certainly my reaction but I remember

where I was last night watching the the

news when suddenly bang up popped this

fact that all these major agencies from

Reuters to AP to gy were all killing the

image completely because of uh issues

with the veracity of the image at source

in other words the people who took the

picture well we know William took it and

that Kate now edited it uh what do you

make of this I mean how how big a deceit

is it for the public and how damaging to

the public trust in the royal

family well it's quite unprecedented PE

as you noted that Global multiple Global

News agencies would unanimously kill

this image and say we cannot run it

because it's clearly a fake and it's so

strange it makes you really question who

is advising William and Kate as to their

public relations and going forward with

Kate's recovery this is a completely

self-inflicted wound they did not have

to issue this photo they did not as you

said have to issue any photo but if they

felt it was necessary it could have been

one taken at any time in the past year

yeah this image of Kate this morning

that we saw in the United States of Kate

with William in the back of a car but

her head turned away from

cameras indicates a sort of defiance

that she's now being trotted out to

prove how well she's doing but she does

not want to play along it makes one

wonder why Kate was the one who had to

fall on her sword and say she

manipulated the photo when Prince

William was given the photo credit

Kate Middleton has a ton of Goodwill on

both sides of the pond I don't think

anybody feels she owes the public any

explanation as to her health but when

the palace starts playing fast and loose

with the facts when they start playing

around with imagery meant to prove her

health in an era of deep existential

fear about deep fakes and AI you're

going to lose some trust and it really

just throws into relief how much Queen

Elizabeth

masterfully engendered that trust and

took care of that trust and this new

Slimline monarchy that we're seeing with

two of its most important charismatic

figures down seems to be cracking under

the strain yeah it does um Tessa I mean

the late great Queen her great Mantra

was always never complain never explain

rarely be heard speaking in public to do

your duty and the public will respect

you and and she was the most popular

public figure on the planet when she

died um I've got a I've got a horrible

feeling this picture was not taken last

week now I might be wrong and I hope I

am wrong because the implications if I'm

right are that they have really spun a

deliberate lie on the public to protect

the public or to hide from the public

not protect to protect themselves but

hide from the public the reality of how

she looks and how she may be now I don't

I don't know that I just have a gut

feeling if you compare the paparazzi

picture taken last week that TMZ ran in

America with the picture that was

released yesterday it is light and shade

in terms of one person looking pretty

unwell and the other person

looking a Bastion of good bursting

Vitality in health what do you make of

this I think there are several issues

one there the immediate media Feeding

Frenzy and the clumsy inevitably and the

clumsy way in which even you can't blame

the media I don't I don't blame the

media and the clumsy way the palace has

handled this current crisis and the

second is a is a larger existential

crisis for their all family so let's go

to the the first one uh what's happened

and and the Very dubious response from

Kensington Palace this morning with Kate

their vulnerable unwell player being the

one put forward to take the flak a

photograph she clearly didn't take

because she was in it and yet she was

the one editing it the story didn't even

stack up at that point well I on that on

that point it was just jump in there she

has in recent years taken almost all the

pictures right of her with the kids and

willing with the kids whatever and you

know she's done that to remove the media

who to do that that's about control

right it's about control so there is a

long track record in recent years of her

taking the pictures and presumably

editing we remember the Christmas C

picture at Christmas I mean Louis you

know his hands all over the place and so

on clearly not the first time she had

editing issues so on that point it's

quite possible that that he took it and

she edit it I found it quite unlikely I

mean just as someone who's got children

and to the first thing that struck me I

didn't hone in right closely on knees

and elbows but I did think wow Future

King and budding photographer I mean

have you ever managed to take such a

brilliant amateur photography with all

four absolutely as they should be it was

an extraordinarily accomplished effort

by William if indeed he took it that s

immediately Peak my interest but okay

even if Kate was the one to edit it

clearly the Gaff arguably wasn't hers it

had to go through filters at the palace

it was in Williams name why was she the

one put up to take the flag do you know

why because the palace knows full well

we are much less likely to come down

hard on Kate than we are on William or

indeed the suits yeah she's a softer

Target and that's what they're hoping

for for us to back off a it yeah maybe I

mean Alex look you're not a massive fan

of the monarchy by any means you're an

anti-monarchist from a PR perspective

though what do you make of this

disastrous and amusing I must say it's

good to see you again P congratulations

on becoming a YouTuber thank you it's

it's a lifelong aspiration it is nice to

speak to you as I like it on YouTube you

just take more time we can have a debate

here and just chew the fat until we run

out of steam P You're so old it couldn't

have been a lifetime aspiration because

there was no YouTube there was no

YouTube was a young man I like the new

format perhaps uh unlike Prince Andrew's

former pal I might actually manage to

get to the end of my sentence this time

we'll see I don't know it's nice by the

way to hear you also calling for

accountability from the royal family

that's something that I suppose I'm not

used to when sat in this room well hang

on I do think they should always be held

accountable the taxpayer in this country

pays for the royal family I just think

there's a deal there where the Royals

put in the duty I think they're entitled

to the Palaces and the trimmings and

everything else if they put the duty in

and I do believe that the net some Zero

Effect of the Royals they wash their

face by bringing you more money than

they cost so that's my position on them

right you and I have debated that but I

don't think that they should never be

unaccountable I certainly don't believe

in that they're not elected officials

but absolutely they're accountable to

the British public and my issue with

this story is it goes to the heart of

trust how are they accountable to the

British public if not by well by people

like the media actually by us and that's

where I think Alex has a point you have

dropped the ball a little bit recently

because you've been focused on ha of

monito and actually Focus which means

that I mean if that means that the roal

family is about as accountable as any

other form of celebrity I mean every

celebrity is accountable to the media um

except that they they are publicly

funded yeah I suppose for that reason

they should probably have a level of

higher accountability that we can't

argue the royal family don't get

accountability they're the most

scrutinized family in the world we seem

to agree on the point of accountability

I suppose we disagree on the mechanism

and the extent uh the reason I say this

is amusing is because uh for for one

thing this seems to me something of a of

a non-story I mean every single photo

that ever goes out and I'm not

exaggerating here unless it's your

friend on Facebook or something every

photo that ever goes out is manipulated

in some way usually that might you're

missing you're missing the point of the

story which is that they gave they

released this to the context of this no

it's very straightforward they they

release this to all the major news

agencies who all have the exact same

cardinal rule they will only put out

they're all neutral they're not

delicately partisan at all they will

only put out images if they are genuine

images and they were clearly led to

believe by the palace these are genuine

images hence the embarrassment for

everybody when it when they discover

pretty quickly from probably from the

internet from social media people

pointing out well hang on look at Miss

hand look at Miss cardigan look at Miss

whatever they all realized this picture

had been edited they just weren't sure

how much now like I say the really

damaging thing for this may still be to

come if it turns out that picture was

not taken last week and they said that

to the media to spin a lie about this

this is how Kate now looks that's a

question of trust that's of course an

important thing to point out but I would

say that if there uh so whatever edits

have been done here and it is blatantly

obvious it's it's almost comical how bad

some of these cuts are we don't know

what it is but I would say that if

there's anybody harboring conspiratorial

Notions that this is some Grand concept

to try to deceive the press and the

British people into thinking something

is the case that it's not you don't

think they might have taken a little bit

more care than to allow such egregious

mistakes to fall through the CR I don't

think they thought about it that

carefully that's the problem If This

Were if this was seriously an attempt by

Kensington Palace to paint a a knowingly

false image of of the royal family I

reckon you know what I reckon I don't

think they they you think that they

would have allowed for a start you think

they would have allowed and William

themselves think advis and secondly you

don't think somebody would would would

look over this before it goes out I have

a big issue however if however well now

you say hold on but finish like you say

we have the opportunity here to expand

the conversations and hopefully get to

the end of a a sentence Maybe make it at

the end of a full stop it'll be nice

it'll be novel again something that I

haven't experienced yet in this if you

spent more time saying I got so close I

just want to I just want if you spend

more time making your point than telling

me you can't make you've equated this to

every other person fiddling about on

Facebook if that's the case why don't

they just throw into the public domain

the original photograph oh look here

Charlotte is with the real sleeve and

here I am with my half zip I think I

know I fear the reason for that I'm not

trying to interrupt you I'm make a point

I Fe you don't start I Fe let Grandad

finish listen listen you you can talk

you just have to at some stage make a

point and finish and let me

respond oh is it time now that's fine

look you may be you it may be true it

may be true all I'm saying is that

whatever these edits are if if if this

has been edited as I suspect for a

relatively minor reason as some people

have suggested family photos are

difficult because children fidget and so

if they wanted to release the original