Doctored Photo of Princess of Wales is ‘a Composite’, Forensic Investigation Finds, Increasing Alarm About Her Health

If the Palace released the photo to quell concerns about the Princess’s health, the move backfired badly.

Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images
The doctored photo of the Princess of Wales and her children has created an uproar. Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images

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. 

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