Vocal Voices

... and the sky is going to fall in.

It is not as though Kate made it look as though Charlotte was giving us the finger or that the Queen had an extra chin removed. She just "enhanced" the photos.

We all do it, all the time. Our phones and cameras have programs and apps to do it and we are encouraged to go ahead. We can remove red-eye or sharpen or blur areas at the push of a button. We can clone or crop and change the contrast and brightness and colourise to our heart's content. It's the modern way.

So, Kate took some fairly ordinary photos and wanted to make then look a bit better - a bit more "professional". What is the BIG problem the media is making out?

I'll bet any money that many of the photos taken by their own staffers for their own articles have been "tweaked" in some way or other. Very few "raw" images appear on the Internet or in publications nowadays.

I have looked on this story with wonder.

It is the very definition of "Who cares?"

I wish I could have taken a photo of me as a size 8

In reality who cares

The fuss over this has been absolutely ridiculous

If they are making such a fuss of this, there is something else they Really don't want you talking about.

Hmm, the media usually (sickeningly) fawns all over the Royals. A handshake here, a ribbon cutting there, a primary school visit, a walkabout; anything to promote them as meaningful - all get reported: endlessly.

But then we have these negative episodes with the 'Z listers' Andrew, Harry and Meghan. It does make one wonder what the innocuous blancmange, Kate, has done to be roped in with them.

Made herself newsworthy by going to hospital and then having the nerve to take time to recuperate and not tell the fawners what it is all about.

You do realise that many bowel patients do not have "the nerve" to take months off from 'real' work in order to survive. They "have" to go back. No choice. No £millions of public monies supporting them to "rest".

Poor dear.

And the "work" she does is sooo stressful. FCOL!

We don't know what she's had done and frankly I don't think she should be made to discuss her private medical issues. All this media nonsense is now bordering on bullying.

Hear hear Jen well said