Mastodawn

"Associated Press and Reuters have publicly released instructions not to use the photo saying it had been manipulated "at source"."

Presumably that's because someone forgot to include her engagement/marriage rings on her digitally added hand 🙄

Princess of Wales: Agencies recall first image of Kate since surgery
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/511355/princess-of-wales-agencies-recall-first-image-of-kate-since-surgery

Princess of Wales: Agencies recall first image of Kate since surgery

The image, released by Kensington Palace, shows the Princess of Wales with her three children but some noticed an unusual element.

RNZ

@Phil_Tanner amazing, especially because we may be at "this image can't be real as it doesn't meet the societal expectations of pair bond display as required"

seems likely the social requirements error was backed up by image analysis upon investigation, but this is quite funny to me regardless