Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have broken their silence on the Princess of Wales’ photo editing furor to deny that sources inside their camp made comments about how the Duchess of Sussex would have handled a similar situation, Dailymail reports.
Amid increasing speculation surrounding an image of Kate and her children, which was released to the world by Kensington Palace on Saturday, a spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Foundation spoke out to deny that a source close to the couple had made comments about the controversy to Page Six.
Speaking to Newsweek, the spokesperson addressed quotes published by the outlet, which stated that a source ‘close to Prince William, Prince Harry and Meghan had not come from inside the Sussexes’ camp.
The so-called source in question stated that the editing error ‘isn’t a mistake that Meghan would ever make’, noting that ‘she has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail’.
However, Archewell’s official spokesperson has now insisted to Newsweek that the information shared with Page Six ‘did not come from us’, stating simply: ‘With respect to Page Six, that did not come from us.’
The statement marks the first time that Harry, 39, and his wife have officially addressed the photo editing controversy in any official capacity.
In addition to the claims made about Meghan ‘never making the [same] mistake’, Page Six also published quotes from an insider who said that the Sussexes ‘would have been annihilated’ had they released a similarly-edited image.
‘If Harry and Meghan had ever encountered the same issue they would have been annihilated,’ the source quotes read.
‘The same rules do not apply to both couples.
‘This isn’t a mistake that Meghan would ever make … she has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail.’
Prince Harry and Meghan response to those claims has come after an explosion of conspiracy theories, after six of the world’s top picture agencies including the Press Association, sensationally pulled the photo from their wires and libraries amid concern that the ‘source has manipulated the image’.
Princess Kate publicly took the blame for the family photograph released by Kensington Palace on Sunday as she issued an apology for the ‘confusion’ in a statement posted on the Wales’ official Instagram account.
‘Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused,’ she wrote.
‘I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day,’ Kate then concluded, before signing off the statement ‘C’ for Catherine.
The photo of the mother-of-three beaming with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis was the first official picture released of the princess since she underwent ‘planned abdominal surgery’ in January.