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Princess Kate publicly took responsibility for the manipulated family photograph released by Kensington Palace.

The actual message posted from the Princess’s twitter account:

Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C

Here’s the direct link you can see yourself

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None of that suggests she was forced to ‘take the blame’.