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Kensington Palace no longer a “trusted source” after Kate Middleton photo debacle, top photo agency claims

Irreparable damage may have been done to Kensington Palace’s reputation among leading photo agencies in the wake of the scandal involving the image of Kate Middleton released to celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK.

That’s according to the world’s foremost photo agency, which has reportedly relegated Kensington Palace to its blacklist, claiming it’s no longer “a trusted source”.

The photo in question – depicting Kate and her three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis – spread like wildfire last weekend, only to be withdrawn by multiple photo agencies including Getty and the Associated Press over concerns that it had been “manipulated”.

Scrutiny over the British Royal Family has neared unprecedented levels of late, fueled in no small part by the mystifying circumstances relating to Kate’s January hospitalization and subsequent period of recovery.

The Palace initially outlined that Kate was undergoing a “routine abdominal procedure”, but the lack of information offered since then has paved the way for a veritable firestorm of conjecture.

Thus when the first official picture of the Princess of Wales was released to celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK, it should have heralded a moment when royal fans the world over could finally breath a sigh of relief: Kate is well, it was intended to reinforce, and her total absence from the spotlight simply a byproduct of a hardworking public figure recovering on her own terms.

Of course, that all changed when the image was swiftly removed over fears it had been edited. Journalists were even served with “kill notices” usually reserved for propaganda images that warp reality and are associated with dictatorships such as North Korea and Iran.

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