2024-03-19 03:18:27
Princess Kate’s digitally altered Mother’s Day photo became a scandal. Now the holiday photos of the Swedish royal couple are also stirring up emotions.
There has been a stir surrounding Princess Kate for weeks. First, the wife of the heir to the British throne disappeared from the scene after abdominal surgery. When she finally returned with a photo for Mother’s Day on March 10, it only sparked more speculation about the 42-year-old’s condition. Because the picture that shows Kate with her three children was edited using Photoshop. Despite an official apology, the scandal is spreading widely.
But the British are obviously not the only royals who change their photos before publication. Now snapshots from the Swedes are causing a stir. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia were on a state visit to Mexico last week. They documented their trip with numerous pictures, which the palace also shared on the official Instagram account.
Photo agency admits image editing
A photo showing the royal couple in the ruined city of Uxmal on the Yucatán Peninsula excited the minds of followers. Carl Gustaf poses next to his wife in a casual look consisting of beige trousers, a white shirt, a hat and sunglasses. But the contours of the two look unnatural and seem blurry.
This did not go unnoticed by numerous observers. After the comment function was turned off on the post, comments about possible image editing quickly began to accumulate on the X platform. The journalist Emanuel Karlsten linked the responsible photo agency and confronted them directly with the allegations as to whether the photo had been altered.
When asked by the Swedish newspaper “Expressen” it admitted: “The picture was edited using Photoshop.” The reason for this is simply the lighting conditions. The royal couple is in the shade, the ruins behind them are in the sun, which was originally very bright. “So, as always, the photographers made the background darker so that it wasn’t completely white so that you could see what was there,” explained agency boss Mats Schagerström.