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Photoshop suspicion! Prince Louis’ hand sparks debate
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This year, just in time for Advent, the Waleses are delighting everyone with a new family portrait, which they are publishing as a Christmas card. This time, however, the royal fans only have eyes for little Prince Louis – for an insane reason.
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“Is anyone talking about why Prince Louis is missing a finger?” asks a user under the Instagram post on the Waleses’ official account. “It’s all Photoshop…Prince Louis is missing a finger. Very bad editing,” says another fan. “I love it…but they cut off Prince Louis’ finger” and “Where is Prince Louis’ finger,” are further comments under the post.
The left hand of the baby of the family lies on the armrest of the chair on which his sister Princess Charlotte, 8, sat down for the shoot. At first glance, you can actually see a gap between the five-year-old’s fingers. Well, did the Waleses publish a picture with such a serious editing error?
Is Prince Louis’ finger missing?
However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the family has not made such a mistake; after all, they are absolute media professionals. Prince Louis spread his fingers around the armrest in such a way that there is a gap between his middle and ring fingers, which appears brighter due to the exposure.
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This also seems obvious to some eagle-eyed fans among her fans. “He’s not missing a finger! Stop creating drama where there isn’t any,” one of them says angrily. A photographer also explains: “If you zoom in, you can see all 4 fingers that he actually has. Spread your own middle and ring fingers and look at your hand. What appears is a point of light on the skin between the middle and Ring finger that looks like a knuckle with the rest of the finger missing.” So there is an all-clear for fans of the royal cheeky badger: he still has all five fingers.
Sources used: instagram.com, Getty Images
This article originally appeared on GALA.