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The Royals Are So Bad at This


First rule of the internet: Why believe a boring, simple explanation when there’s so much more pleasure in rampant speculation?

The slow burn of curiosity about the princess’s status accelerated into a bonfire over the weekend when Catherine and William’s official Instagram account released a photo of her with their children that appeared to be poorly Photoshopped in several places. The AP circulated a “ kill notification,” informing publications not to release the image and noted that “it appears the source has manipulated the image.” Then came a tweet from the Prince and Princess of Wales’s official Twitter account, casually signed “C” for “Catherine”: And also,Kensington Palace has seriously screwed up its public response to every even vaguely imperfect blip in these people’s lives since Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, and the internet has magnified its PR faults a thousandfold.

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