Photo agency issues correction after claiming Prince Archie christening photo was ‘digitally enhanced’

Getty Images has issued a correction after claiming a photo taken at Prince Archie’s christening had been edited, following Kate Middleton’s admission that she had Photoshopped a Mother’s Day snap.

Photographer Chris Allerton rejected the claims that the five-year-old photo of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s oldest son had been “digitally enhanced” after Getty Images added a note to the image labelling it as “manipulated”.

The photo agency then removed the message and clarified the situation

Allerton told Express UK, “I would like to state very clearly and thus clarify matters that the photograph you are referring to, taken by me at Windsor Castle on July 6, 2019, has not been manipulated and was distributed to the best of my knowledge in adherence with the submission guidelines required by Getty Images, via the Palace press office.

“It would be utterly false and indeed defamatory to suggest that I had somehow changed or materially manipulated any of the subjects or content of the image.”