Princess Catherine’s photo fiasco highlights royal transparency dilemma
The imbroglio has raised questions about how far the sanitised version of the family can be trusted, resurrecting demons that haunt the tense relationship between the royals and the press.
In the annals of royal family PR disasters, the bodged attempt by Catherine, Princess of Wales, to release the perfect Mother’s Day portrait of herself and her three children by digitally altering an image was hardly the worst.
But it has had the opposite of the desired effect. Rather than providing reassurance about the princess’s recovery from abdominal surgery, it has fuelled fresh speculation about her health, firing up conspiracy theories about the reasons for her absence from the public eye since January.
