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Kate Middleton's Photoshop Controversy and Conspiracy Theories: Royal Expert Weighs In (Exclusive)

ET spoke with Katie Nicholl in the wake of the Princess of Wales' recent photo editing kerfuffle.

To sort through the rumors and speculation surrounding the photoshopped picture, ET spoke with royal expert Katie Nicholl, who shared some insight on Kensington Palace's choice to release the photo to the press and why conspiracy theories are proliferating rapidly online. While airbrushing is likely common among all photos released to the press, Nicholl explained, "What's been unusual in this is that four major picture agencies pulled this photograph late last night, two more followed this morning, because they believed that they had been digitally manipulated and the extent to which wasn't quite sure. "Some of the more crazy rumors out there [include] that she's been in a coma and therefore wouldn't possibly be well enough to be in an intimate family picture like this... [or] there is a theory that this was an image of Kate's face that was superimposed from an old Vogue shoot."

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