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Metadata from Kate Middleton’s suspicious Mother’s Day photo confirms it was edited at least twice before being published — the first bit of verifiable truth about the infamous snap since the Princess of Wales owned up to doctoring it.
Information encoded in the royal shot shows two timestamps, with the first reading “2024-03-08T21:54:11Z,” and the second reading “2024-03-09T09:39:47Z” — indicating the photo was first edited at 9:54 p.m. on Friday, March 8, and then again at 9:39 a.m. the following morning.
Those timestamps corroborate Middleton’s Monday admission that the photo was edited, but does not offer any insight into whether it was actually taken last week as the royal family initially claimed when it was published.
The royal family first released the photo on Sunday in an apparent attempt to quell rumors swirling about Middleton’s health. She underwent abdominal surgery in January, and except for a brief and blurry sighting Monday, hasn’t been seen in public since December.
But glaring editing flaws in the photo only wound up fueling the fire of conspiracy theories, with sleuths analyzing the shot to speculate that it had either been edited from a months-old photoshoot, or cobbled together from a number of other shoots.
Others feared the photo indicated something was seriously wrong with Middleton.
“Something is terribly wrong,” one source close to the situation told The Post. “The idea that Kate could not sit for one photo session tells me this is a much more dire situation than anyone knows.”
Metadata can be pulled from photos using editing software, and can be used to tell details of its creation. It was first examined in the royal family photo by SkyNews.
Analysis of Middleton’s photo indicates it was taken using a “EF50mm” lens, which is attached to a Canon SLR-style camera.
The timestamped edits were for changes made using Adobe Photoshop, the industry-standard for photo editing.
It is unclear based on the metadata who made the edits or when the photo was first taken, but the edits were made and saved on an Apple computer.
Since the admission of editing, royal fans have demanded that the original photo be released, but the family has so far declined to do so.
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