Among the changes highlighted by Getty Images are flaws in the checkered pattern of the monarch’s skirt and a change in the position of Prince Louis, who was digitally brought closer to the arm of the sofa that appears in the click. .
CNN cites elements such as the lighting of George and Savannah, which differ from the others portrayed, strange patterns on the same prince’s shirt, crooked alignment and repetitions of parts of the sofa and strange vertical lines in the piano region – the instrument also overlaps the leaf of a plant.
Changing photos is an old habit
The image of monarchs has been extremely controlled by the British royal public relations machine since forever. Queen Victoria, the first representative of the royal family to be photographed, at the end of the 19th century, asked, at the time, for her image to be retouched to eliminate the double chin on her face. Before this, kings and queens were depicted in paintings looking much taller, younger and more beautiful. Image is power.
Nowadays, with the ease of cell phone cameras and the large number of image editing applications, in addition to the famous filters popularized by social networks, the line between reality and manipulation is increasingly blurred and even dangerous. Much has been said about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence and the manipulation of the truth with fake news.
Therefore, photos edited by the monarchy fuel the debate about the extent to which altering an image is acceptable. How can we believe in the authenticity of what is distributed by advisors to royalty, world leaders and celebrities? In the case of the British royalty, what is at stake now is the credibility of the institution considered the foundation of the country.
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