Maybe she looks puffy or something and she always has to look perfect. Once I got meds in the hospital. A nurse thought I was Chinese, because my face was so puffed up that I got Chinese looking eyes LOL.
https://www.nu.nl/uit-andere-media/6305287/prinses-kates-gerommel-aan-fotos-past-in-traditie-van-britse-hof.html
Princess Kate's fiddling with photos is in keeping with British court tradition
At the beginning of her life, British Queen Victoria and prominent contemporaries were only immortalized by painters. It took some getting used to when photography came along. Portraits suddenly became a lot less flattering and shocked the clients.
With a public figure such as the Queen of the United Kingdom, also Empress of India, others also gave their opinions, disguised or undisguised. "It seems as if she is suffering from edema and is retaining fluid everywhere," was said about the official portrait for Victoria's golden jubilee on the throne in 1887. No wonder that the queen and those around her did not shy away from manipulation. of images.
Tampering with the photo of Princess Catherine and her children last week is part of a long tradition at the British court. Although the adjustment - the princess took responsibility herself after a fuss - could have been a lot more professional with the current digital resources. Moreover, the manipulated family portrait fuels all kinds of rumors about Catherine and her health. Part of the British media is already talking about Kate-gate.
Every subject in the farthest corner of the British Empire could know what Victoria looked like
In 1839, two years after Victoria was crowned at the age of eighteen, the world was introduced to photography for the first time. During the 1840s, the queen and her husband Prince Albert built up a beautiful collection of portraits of themselves, family and acquaintances, which they enjoyed looking through in their spare time.
At a later stage, photography increasingly played a role in royal propaganda. Portraits could now also be multiplied ad infinitum, so that eventually every subject in the farthest corner of the British Empire knew or could know what the monarch looked like. Photographers who received an assignment could earn a nice penny from it.
It was an art to portray the small, plump queen as the symbol of the greatest superpower of that moment. Victoria knew the art of radiating great imperturbability. Laughter was not part of that. After Albert's death at the age of 42, the queen consistently dressed in black.
In those later years, the court and the court photographers also increasingly tampered with portraits: Victoria's double chins and some of the wrinkles disappeared and brushes retouched her waist.
From around 1888 amateurs could take photographs more easily. From now on, the images could be recorded on films in the camera, which could then be developed and printed. Various members of the British royal family now also started making pictures themselves. It resulted in much more informal snapshots than before.
Victoria grew old enough to experience the rise of another medium. Film recordings were made during the festivities on the occasion of her sixtieth anniversary as queen in 1897. It may be the first report of a news event in this manner.
The court also distributed a special photo in which part of the old queen's belly was hidden behind a large fan. That was also a way to disguise reality. Towards the end of her life, Victoria's girth corresponded to her height: 1.5 meters.
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