Prince William abandons Kate Middleton: royal commentator

nypost.com:

Kate the Princess of Wales is in no danger of being dragged off to the Tower anytime soon, but metaphorically? Reputationally?

The 42-year-old has, this week, been tarred, feathered, put on the rack and paraded about for some rotten fruit throwing, and all while the men of the royal family are closely inspecting their fingernails in another room.As this week closes out, the AFP (Agence France-Presse) has declared that Kensington Palace is no longer considered a trusted source, CNN has announced it’s “reviewing” all the images previously supplied by the palace and Instagram has added a warning to the Instagram shot that was heard around the world.What should have been a heartwarming blip on the radar, a new photo showing Kate with her three kids (and really doing her utmost to promote the British wicker chair industry) has instead snowballed into one of the biggest crises of the princess’s otherwise blemish-free career.We now know pretty much exactly how things played out.

The photo of the princess, along with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, was taken last Friday afternoon after the Wales kids got home from school.

The family had a 40-minute window to get the image, which was snapped by none other than Prince William, Flat Cap Wearer magazine’s annual man of the year.Later that night, at 9:54 pm UK time, someone, presumably Kate, edited the photo before again tweaking it the next morning at 9:39 am.