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A second royal photograph issued to the media by Kensington Palace, the office of Prince William and his wife Kate, was digitally altered in eight places, Reuters saidafter an analysis of the picture by the news organisation\u2019s photo editors.<\/p>\n
The picture, released in April last year to mark what would have been the 97th birthday of the late Queen Elizabeth, showed the former monarch surrounded by some of her grandchildren and great grandchildren.It had been taken by Kate, 42, at the Scottish royal residence Balmoral Castle the previous summer, Kensington Palace said at the time.Earlier on Tuesday, Getty Images flagged to its clients that the Balmoral picture had been \u201cdigitally enhanced at source,\u201d without giving further details.\u201cGetty Images is undertaking a review of handout images and in accordance with its editorial policy is placing an editor\u2019s note on images where the source has suggested they could be digitally enhanced,\u201d a spokesperson said.While Getty, Reuters and other news organisations did not at the time spot any issues with the handout, the examination of the photograph by Reuters photo editors has found that there were eight places where the picture had been clearly altered by digital cloning. Reuters could not immediately establish why the alterations were made.Digital cloning involves copying pixels to either move or mask objects or areas in a photo.Kensington Palace has declined to comment on the photograph.A Reuters spokesperson said: \u201cReuters is updating its procedures related to vetting images from Kensington Palace after confirming a second altered photograph. Consistent with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles, Reuters requires that photos meet its editorial standards for image quality, accuracy and reliability.\u201dEarlier this month, Reuters and several other leading news organisations withdrew a photograph of Kate with her three children which was issued by the palace to mark Mother\u2019s Day after post-publication analysis showed it did not meet their editorial standards.The following day, Kate issued an apology for any confusion.\u201cLike many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,\u201d she said in a statement on X. \u201cI wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused.\u201dThe issue with the edited photographs comes amid widespread speculation on social media about Kate\u2019s health since she underwent abdominal surgery in January.On Monday, she appeared in footage for the first time since her operation in a video posted by the Sun newspaper.Follow the
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A second royal photograph issued by Kensington Palace, the office of Prince William and Kate, was found to be digitally altered in eight places according to Reuters, after an analysis by the news organization’s photo editors. The picture, released in April of the previous year to commemorate the 97th birthday of the late Queen Elizabeth, depicted the former monarch with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren at Balmoral Castle, taken by Kate. Getty Images informed its clients that the Balmoral picture had been “digitally enhanced at source” and is reviewing handout images for digital enhancements. The alterations were made through digital cloning, but the reasons for these changes were not immediately clear. Kensington Palace has not commented on the alterations. Following this, Reuters is updating its procedures for vetting images from Kensington Palace to ensure they meet editorial standards. Earlier, a photograph of Kate with her children was withdrawn by news organizations after failing to meet editorial standards, leading to Kate issuing an apology for any confusion caused by her editing of the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1247,461,1240,279,3,2636,2635,2367,280,1326,2459,250,210,1245,456,2634,817,1959,1827,1681,2389],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-abdominal-surgery","tag-british","tag-clear","tag-comment","tag-cyprus","tag-digital-cloning","tag-digitally-altered","tag-editing","tag-editorial","tag-editorial-standards","tag-family","tag-google","tag-health","tag-kate","tag-photos","tag-royal-photograph","tag-social-media","tag-speculation","tag-statement","tag-trust","tag-video"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n