Is pressure on Kate after photo chaos unfair?

It’s a terrible look. It’s often said that the monarchy has to be seen to be believed, which means that they need to be visible to the public. But this photo controversy shows it’s even more important that we are able to believe what we see of them. Trust is central to the relationship with the royals. When they manipulate an image, will the public feel manipulated too? And we still don’t know what was changed, with no sight of the original picture. We don’t know, for instance, if this was a composite image from a series of pictures. And we’ve got the unusual spectacle of a royal handout picture being so brutally taken down by photo agencies.