Criticism continues at Kensington Palace for circulating fake photo of Kate Middleton: “This is no longer credible evidence”

Media and news organizations around the world agreed this Thursday Kensington Palace By spreading a fake photo of the princess Kate Middleton Is with your children Unacceptable And the result is A Exceeding their work standards and the trust their clients and readers place in them.

Director Agence France-PressePhil Chetwind commented in conversation with BBC Radio After a meeting with colleagues around the world, it was decided that the Princess of Wales press team's actions last Sunday. “clearly violated” their rules. When asked about The credibility of this source, he says, is “No. In any case, when a source lets you down, the bar is raised..

On Mother's Day, February 10, a picture of her with her children was posted on Middleton's social networks. Within minutes, internet users apparently began to notice Touches In the clothes and arms of the protagonists, this led to an apology message in which the princess herself admitted that she had made the changes.

“Like many amateur photographers, I experiment with editing from time to time. I wanted to apologize for any confusion caused by the family photo we shared yesterday. “I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day,” the statement said.

However, this did not stop agencies from circulating the image as genuine content remove And publish an announcement to all the publishers in the world. Chetwynd explained “Kill Notice” A manipulated photo is a rare but necessary occurrence in a case of this magnitude.

“We have major internal issues with how we verify that image. we shouldn't have done Violates our guidelines So we sent notes to our entire team at that time Be more alert About the content that reaches our desk, we call it credible sources,” the director added AFP.

Robert Jobson, Contributor ABC News For his part in royalty matters, the crown's actions added further mystery to Middleton's sudden hospitalization and disappearance after emergency stomach surgery.

“The truth is, now, The Conspiracy theories have been shot. Everything they say is clearly proven to be true. Where's Kate? Is this really a photo? “If they can play with Charlotte's hand, how do we know it's Kate's face?” He added: “If Kensington Palace's intention was to quell this crazy internet speculation, it didn't work.”

To do this, Jobson explained, Royalty must be published in “original photograph Kate might be looking in the wrong direction or Charlotte isn't paying attention or Louis isn't smiling… it doesn't matter.”

Another contributor to the media, Victoria Murphy, also described the controversy as the palace's fault. “It is wrong to edit the film in any way Especially funny because it's a time The palace must have known that people would scrutinize it in great detail“, although he insists, in his view, “I don't think the royal family intended to hide anything important in these versions.”

However, journalists agreed that the ultimate responsibility lies with William and Kate's press teams, who should have paid more attention to the publication.

“The most important thing here is that Kate has done nothing wrong, William has done nothing wrong. They're paying a lot of professional people to run the communications team, and ultimately they have to have the strength of character to go back and say, 'We can't put it out because if we do, people will ask questions.' They will start, no. How are they going to trust the information we put out about the honesty of our photos… about personal events?' “It's integrity and integrity that matters when you're dealing with a serious situation like this,” Jobson concluded.