Another possible twist hit in the Kate Middleton conspiracy saga when X user Ruby Naldrett presented evidence that the altered Mother’s Day photo may have used Kate’s face from a 2016 Vogue photoshoot. “[M]y analysis of the kate middleton photo saga is that they took her face from the vogue cover she did years ago and edited it in,” Naldrett tweeted on March 11, attaching the family photo and the Vogue cover.
The tweet went viral and many would-be royal prognosticators weighed in. “It’s the sloppiness that surprises me. If true, this is amateur work,” one replied. Still, several were skeptical of the Vogue photoshop theory. “Wait … are you saying a photo of Kate Middleton looks like another photo of Kate Middleton?” one X user sarcastically commented.
As the theories were debated online, even Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were dragged into the photo controversy. After Kate seemingly came clean on the snap being photoshopped, a source close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex mocked the sloppily edited picture. “This isn’t a mistake that Meghan would ever make … she has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail,” the insider told Page Six on March 11, while adding that Harry and Meghan had stricter protocol. “The same rules do not apply to both couples.”
A couple days later, Harry and Meghan reportedly responded to the claim that they chimed in on the photoshop blunder. “With respect to Page Six, that did not come from us,” a rep from the Archewell Foundation told Newsweek on March 13.
