The royal family has to be visible and beloved in order to continue existing. Kate Middleton has vanished. Now, a bad Photoshop job is threatening the monarchy.
The curious thing about the image that launched a thousand conspiracy theories is not that it was photoshopped. It’s that it was photoshopped badly. The British royal family is like a corporation without an underlying business, a C-suite that is image only. The job is just to be a symbolic representation of the UK.
In the absence of other information, speculation has run rampant from serious surgery complications to divorce . So that made the Mother’s Day photograph important to get right: it was, at minimum, proof Middleton was not in a coma. 'Imagine a literal princess hunched over a laptop, trying to figure out the heal tool' Unfortunately, the image released was sloppy. The Photoshop job was so bad that multiple press agencies issued “kill notices” advising people not to use the photo.
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