The doctored photo purporting to show the Princess of Wales and her children on Mother’s Day was likely a composite and “a copy and paste function was used, most likely in the section featuring her face,” according to a forensic analysis by the Telegraph, a major British broadsheet. 

The revelation comes amid a full-scale uproar over the Princess’s well-being, which erupted over the weekend – after stewing for weeks – when, on Sunday, the Associated Press and other news agencies “killed” the Mother’s Day photo, which had been released by Kensington Palace, when editors decided it had been doctored and violated their news standards.