“No, completely not,” Chetwynd stated, when requested if the Palace was nonetheless a trusted supply. “Like with something, while you’re let down by a supply the bar is raised.”
Final weekend, a number of information companies — together with The Related Press (AP), Reuters, Getty Photos and AFP — issued “kill notices” for a Mom’s Day picture launched by Kensington Palace, which confirmed the Princess of Wales embracing her three smiling kids.
The picture had been launched partly in an obvious bid to quell a surge of on-line conspiracy theories concerning the whereabouts and well-being of Kate, who has not been seen in public since she underwent stomach surgical procedure earlier this yr. However the world’s prime media companies shortly pulled it from circulation after discovering that it appeared to have been manipulated— a bombshell which solely fueled the already out-of-control rumor mill.
Kate later admitted to enhancing the picture, apologizing for “any confusion.” However the harm was accomplished, because the scandal infected the disaster of belief already brewing in Kensington Palace.
“One factor that’s actually necessary is you can’t be distorting actuality for the general public. There’s a query of belief,” Chetwynd stated.
Chetwynd stated AFP initially validated the picture, however that ought to by no means have occurred because it “clearly violated” its tips.