TODAY, The Sun says this to all the social media trolls, crackpot conspiracy theorists and astute media critics: Fire Kate.
Their furious attacks on the future queen for photoshopping a family photo for Mother’s Day are not just absurd.
They now look like a campaign of bullying against a devoted mother, recovering from major surgery, who simply wanted to offer the public a perfect portrait of her and her children.
She knew that the smallest flaws would be looked at closely and tried to iron them out.
Millions of others are doing the same in the Instagram age and are sometimes let down by their Photoshop skills as well.
The suggestion that Princess Kate has thrown the Royals into some kind of credibility crisis is laughably exaggerated.
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Kate was an ordinary girl from the Home Counties who found herself in the spotlight through her relationship with William and led a life of public duty – and has never put a foot wrong since.
The response when ‘editing’ photos comes as:
And yet she has been one for a long time goal for deranged and unjustified defamation, not least of a certain former royal couple from Montecito, California.
But it was typical of her that as soon as the changes to the photo were visible, she held up her hands and apologized.
She meant well, made a mistake and made a mistake. Reasonable.
Now leave her alone to get over her surgery.