The shot has backfired on the Windsors, and lately they haven’t given a right. Catalina’s confession of having manipulated a photo with her children – the first since her operation almost two months ago – has only fueled speculation about her state of health, and even unleashed other even more dangerous ones (for not appearing in the photo). image with the wedding ring) about the status of their marriage.
The photo, published by the Princess of Wales on social networks on the occasion of Mother’s Day, was intended to show her smiling and happy, implying without words or further explanations that her recovery is on the right track. But the result has been quite the opposite, adding more fuel to the fire of the conspiracy theories that have been circulating for a month and a half, in the absence of official information about that mysterious “abdominal intervention” that prevents any public appearance and has her between cotton wool.
Five of the world’s main graphic agencies (Reuters, AP, AFP, PA and Getty Images) removed the photo in question, taken by Guillermo, after discovering discrepancies in the alignment of the sleeves, hands and zippers, grain problems and other details that suggested it had been manipulated, and given that Kensington Palace did not give them any clarification. Just after a few hours, in response to the commotion that the matter was causing, Catalina herself came forward to clarify that she herself had edited the image amateurishly, and it turned out badly.
Later, and to address questions on social media about why she is not wearing her wedding ring in the photo, the Palace had Catherine and William seen together in a car leaving Windsor Castle (the Prince of Wales was going to a religious service at Westminster Abbey on the occasion of Commonwealth Day), and the princess was going to a “private event.”
Catalina apologized in a statement for the “confusion caused”, thanked the support received in recent weeks and assumed responsibility for the manipulation, but did not detail whether she did it for aesthetic reasons, nor did she give any explanation about her health. Despite all the regrets, the Windsors continue to put their right to privacy before any other consideration, but for the British the secrecy is beginning to be too much.
