Questions have been raised that the first picture of the Princess of Wales to be released after her abdominal surgery may have been manipulated before it was posted on social media by Kensington Palace.

The photo of Kate, said by the palace to have been taken by the Prince of Wales in Windsor earlier this week, was posted to mark Mother’s Day and shows her sitting with her arms around Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, who are on either side of her, with Prince George standing behind.

The photograph was shared with media on Sunday but was withdrawn by international picture agencies later the same day because of concerns that the image had been manipulated. There was speculation that edits had been made to the left sleeve of Charlotte’s cardigan, and other areas of the picture also raised concerns about possible manipulation.

Confusion over the picture could fuel ridiculous online conspiracies about Kate which have been swirling on the internet since her surgery.

Kensington Palace has declined to comment.

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Several major international picture agencies have pulled the first official photograph of the Princess of Wales post-surgery over concerns that it could have been manipulated.

Buckingham Palace remained silent last night after Getty, Associated Press, Reuters and AFP removed the image and advised clients to remove it from all their platforms.

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Buckingham Palace will have made conspiracy theories about Kate worse if it has manipulated the image, Piers Morgan has said.

“If, as this astounding @AP kill notice claims, the Palace manipulated that Kate photo to quash all the wild conspiracy theories about her, then they’ll have just made things 100x worse,” he wrote on X.

A UK-based agency has not killed the photo of the Princess of Wales.

A spokesperson for the Press Agency said it would continue to distribute the image but was seeking urgent clarification from Kensington Palace.

A spokesperson for the Press Association news agency said it had not killed the picture on its service, but was seeking urgent clarification from Kensington Palace about the concerns raised about manipulation.