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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle break their silence on Princess Kate photo editing scandal: Sussexes speak out to DENY that anyone inside their camp made claims that the Duchess would ‘never make that mistake
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.
Amid increasing speculation surrounding the Mother’s Day image of Kate and her children, which was released to the world by Kensington Palace on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Foundation spoke out to deny that any official representative for the couple had made comments
However, Archewell’s official spokesperson has now insisted to Newsweek that the information ‘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 stated 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.’
The outlet did not state that the quotes had come from inside Archewell however – and Newsweek noted that the comments could have been made by an acquaintance of the Sussexes who is not officially connected to the Foundation.
Meghan and Harry’s 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’.