If it turns out she's been murdered and eaten I'll probably feel bad for saying this...

[conuly]

but I still don't care about the British Royal Family and their shenanigans, and only harbor a vague resentment that I know enough about them to have any sort of opinion at all.

With that said, I don't know what's up with that photo or what, but making/asking/allowing Kate to apologize for meddling with it was shitty. Even if she was the one who did that poor editing job (for fun? to hide scars? as a plea for help?) they could throw the blame on some unnamed nobody, surely! Somebody safely imaginary who isn't going through a trying time - and whatever's going on must be very trying. It certainly sounds that way.

But whatever, she's probably in rehab or something. I mean, wouldn't you be if you had to deal with all this nonsense all the time? (And couldn't those people afford better photo manipulation? I mean, really! They have enough money!)

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[conuly]

I mean, maybe they do? Probably? You gotta have a hobby, after all...? (I just hope they put it to better use than following their gossip. That'll drive them all even crazier.)

[cimorene]

Yeah, she's like forty, and she grew up middle class and went to college, so I'm sure she has, at least in the past, used computers some. And it's even plausible that she is personally in charge of photos of the kids, but that doesn't mean she was the one photoshopping. I'm sure she has a personal assistant, regardless of what else she's up to.

[movingfinger]

Phones and tablets nowadays have photo-editing software, so the edits could have been done that way---but not the "merge photos" functions, which tend to return better results. The discontinuities are consistent with working on a small screen.

I must say I fully expected to hear that Kate's head had been photoshopped onto a stand-in body (perhaps her husband's mistress), and nothing about the edits revealed thus far disproves it, although I expect the best pixel-peepers in the world are going over it to check for that.

[cimorene]

I thought that at first, but apparently the hand around the girl's waist was photoshopped in. Unless it was just someone who didn't dare hug.