“Several inconsistencies”: a photo of Kate Middleton with Queen Elizabeth II has also been retouched, assures the Getty Images agency

Une autre photo de Kate Middleton a été retouchée. EPA – ANDY RAIN

The photo of Kate Middleton with Queen Elizabeth II, alongside her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, has been digitally retouched, Getty Images announced this Monday, March 18, 2024.

Several days after the scandal of the Mother's Day photo retouched by Kate Middleton, the British royal family is doing it again the object of questioning. This time, it is a photo published on April 21, 2023, on the occasion of the 97th birthday of Elizabeth II, who died six months later, and taken by the Princess of Wales. According to Getty Images, it has been retouched.

Today would have been Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s 97th birthday.

This photograph – showing her with some of her grandchildren and great grandchildren – was taken at Balmoral last summer.

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— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) April 21, 2023

Seven retouched areas

In the photo in question, we see Elizabeth II a few weeks before her death, in a drawing room at Balmoral Castle, in Scotland, in the company of some of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. grandchildren. We discover in particular Princes George and Louis, and Princess Charlotte, indicates Huffpost.< /p>

The photo agency Getty Images, which offered this photo to its clients, modified the description of the image on its site to include the following note: & ;quot;digitally modified on the original file. The media on Telegraph specifies on its website the different areas affected by the retouching on the photo. She counts seven.

Comments have notably pointed out certain anomalies, such as the background behind little Louis, curls of Mia Tindall's hair and a cable stopping abruptly on floor. Details which only fuel suspicions as to the authenticity of the scene.

"Several inconsistencies were noted, including a vertical line where the tartan on the Queen's skirt does not match, and a copied -pasted from Mia Tindall's hair", explains the same media.

The royal family has not yet reacted to this new speculation, which risks lowering public confidence, which has already been undermined for some time.