A Royally Botched Kate Middleton Cover

Australian weekly Photoshops a slap in the Duchess's face

In case you missed, the latest cover of Australian weekly magazine Woman’s Day has been stirring up a puzzled storm. The editors took a perfectly good January 19 photo of the Duchess of Cambridge and turned it into this:

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Today, in the Canberra Times, a fellow Aussie journalist breaks down the futility of these efforts:

Sydney Morning Herald photo editor Daniel Adams says this is a case of someone going a bit overboard with the retouching. “They’ve overworked the image,” says Adams.

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