If Britain’s royal family thought the saga over Kate, the Princess of Wales, was going away, there was little sign of salvation Friday after a leading news agency compared the family to North Korea and another monarch offered gentle public ridicule.
Meanwhile, Prince William and Prince Harry both spoke Thursday evening at an awards ceremony in honor of their late mother, Princess Diana — an event somewhat overshadowed by the brothers’ ongoing feud when William left before Harry even started his video-link address.
The crisis over Kate’s health and edited photo has rocked the British royal family, but another of Europe’s sovereigns managed to find the funny side. At an event in the Dutch city of Zutphen on Thursday, the country’s King Willem-Alexander was told by a young girl that she had a photograph of him and his family.
“At least I didn’t photoshop it!” he said to laughter from the children’s parents.
That belies just how serious this crisis has become for the British family’s reputation.
It emerged Thursday that Agence France-Presse, one of the news agencies that issued a “kill notice” for Kate’s picture, no longer considers Kensington Palace a “trusted source.”
