Lorraine Kelly discussed her perspective on the controversy surrounding the edited Mother’s Day photo of Princess Kate during her Tuesday morning show.
The Kate Middleton drew attention to the image, shared by Kensington Palace on Sunday, featuring her and her three children at home. Amid concerns that the photo had been altered, the Associated Press and other prominent photo agencies issued a directive to withhold the image.
Talking about the ordeal on Lorraine with royal editor, Russell Myers, she said: “Gosh this isn’t going away is it? It’s just crazy. At the end of the day she just wanted a nice picture with her kids. It’s really blown up in their faces hasn’t it?
Discussing the social media conspiracy theories over Kate’s absence, Russell added: “They have really just thrown fuel on the fire,” to which Lorraine added: “They really have.”
“I think it’s time now, enough is enough now, the poor woman is recovering from serious surgery, you’re not going to be in hospital for two weeks for something small, just leave her. Just leave her, this is not fair, she doesn’t need it.”
Russell added: “To the palace’s credit they have been pretty consistent from the off[…] we weren’t going to see her until after Easter, for people [on social media] to ask for proof of life, it is pretty bizarre.
“The issue is I think the palaces are caught between two different sets of rules because the King is going through his cancer treatment and has been very open, and Kate doesn’t want to do that, she’s been very guarded about her ailments. She just needs a bit of time to rest and recuperate.”
Lorraine said: “She definitely doesn’t need to be bounced or bullied into making a statement or doing a video or doing anything like that, it’s just unfortunate that nobody had a look at that picture and went: [noise], ‘I don’t think so’.
Following the public reaction to the image, on Monday morning, a message from the Princess was shared on her official social media channels.
It read: “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing.
“I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C.”
Following the controversy, the Princess was photographed traveling to an appointment with her husband. The couple was seen inside a black Range Rover as they departed Windsor.
They were en route to London, with Kate attending her previously mentioned appointment and William joining his stepmother, Queen Camilla, to lead the senior royals at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.
