ROYAL EXPERT STATED THAT KATE MIDDLETON MIGHT NEVER RELEASE ANOTHER PICTURE AGAIN AFTER THE SCANDAL
After sharing a manipulative picture on the Mother’s Day, Kate Middleton immediately shared an apology online. “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C.”
After many agencies had released a kill notice for the picture, and AFP’s global news director Phil Chetwynd stated that Kensington Palaca lost their credibility.
“No, absolutely not. Like with anything, when you’re let down by a source the bar is raised … We sent out notes to all our teams at the moment to be absolutely super more vigilant about the content coming across our desk — even from what we would call trusted sources,” Chetwynd said.
“To kill something on the basis of manipulation [is rare. We do it] once a year maybe, I hope less. The previous kills we’ve had have been from the North Korean news agency or the Iranian news agency,” Chetwynd continued.
On the other hand, Middleton always interested with photography, as she is also talented. For many years she took pictures of her children, but never manipulated them. She was only a child when she started to interest with photography, after her grandfather Peter Middleton.
Collections Curator at Historic Royal Palaces Claudia Acott Williams said, “Her grandfather was a very good photographer. When she was a child, he would show her his slides. It was him who taught her how to take photographs.”
Kate Nicholl said in her book, Kate: The Future Queen, “Until now the Queen had met Kate only fleetingly at the wedding of Peter and Autumn Phillips, but she went out of her way to make her feel welcome, giving her permission to take pictures at Balmoral.”
“As a woman who has lived her entire life in the public eye, the Queen rarely lets her guard down, and very few apart from her family and closest friends get to see the real Elizabeth,” Nicholl said.
When COVID hit, Middleton had launched Hold Still project with the National Portrait Gallery. In her appearance on This Morning, “I really hope that through a project like this, we might be able to showcase some of those stories and to document and share a moment in time, I suppose, that we’re all experiencing.”
“I sort of learn on the way, but actually during this time [in lockdown], I spent lots of time picking up my camera and taking photos of the children because they’re always around us when we’re doing stuff together,” Middleton said.
“One of the fantastic things about photography is really capturing that moment so it’s not staged; it’s not setting it up perfectly; it’s not clearing your house away so you got a perfect studio setup but it’s really capturing those moments that feel real to you.”
In 2022, Middleton took pictures of Queen Camilla for the cover of UK magazine Country Life. “She immediately replied, ‘Oh I’d quite like Catherine to do it.’ I spent the next three or four minutes desperately racking my brain trying to think of a professional photographer called Catherine,” editor ıf Country Life, Mark Hedges said. “Then suddenly, I grasped what she meant — one of the most amazing things that could happen. I found it one of the easier things to nod my head at.”
“She did very good pictures and she does it sort of naturally. We had a lot of fun doing it. It was very relaxed and, of course, very kind of the [ Princess of Wales ]. She came with her camera and she’s an extremely good photographer.”
Royal photographer Arthur Edwards said, “The picture that I love most that she’s done is William and the three children on the swing.”
“I would have killed to have taken that picture.”
“Everybody’s laughing at their mum, and you know that only a mother or a father could get that picture, and it’s an absolute winner. Charlotte with her arm around daddy, you know, ‘daddy’s girl.’ It’s a lovely picture, I was so full of praise for her on that.”
Royal editor of Daily Mail, Russel Myers said, “They put the picture out and I suppose they will have to have a review of this process. What I think is going to be the biggest shame of all, is Kate may never put a picture out again.”
“And we’ve had years of her putting out pictures of the children on their birthday, Louis’ first day at school, their Christmas card. If she doesn’t do that, that’s such a massive shame for her.”
Royal expert Hilary Fordwich said, “The certainty is that a ‘slimmed down monarchy’ means fewer are guiding the royals and those who are aren’t as media savvy as they need to be.”
“In our fast-paced world with tech-savvy media outlets, the palaces need to hire the best and brightest in such fields.”
“While this certainly isn’t ‘business as usual’ nor what we would expect from a royal household… it shows great humility to admit one’s mistakes,” Fordwich added. “Others might have either remained silent or tried to blame another. Kate issued a straight-up, no-nonsense apology. Many could learn a lesson from such.”
Another royal expert, Tom Bower, accused the palace with not protecting Middleton, as he said, “People around the world just want to bring her down because it gives them pleasure. And then, when she did, they should have got a professional photographer in to make sure there were no hiccups like has now occurred.”
“She’s undergone the most very serious operation imaginable. She needs a long time to recover. And I fear that she has been under terrible pressure to perform and instead of protecting her, her staff in Kensington Palace failed to give her the support and protection she needs.”
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