Kate Middleton celebrates UK Mothers Day with a touching message 1 year after Photoshop controversy
A lot changes in a year.Kate Middleton celebrated Mother’s Day in the UK on Sunday with a heartfelt Instagram post one year after her Photoshop debacle made headlines before she announced she had cancer.The Princess of Wales, 43, shared a video honoring Mother Nature with shots of her touching a tree and walking through a field.“Over the past year, nature has been our sanctuary,” Middleton wrote.“This Mother’s Day, let us celebrate Mother Nature and recognise how our bond with the natural world can help not only nurture our inner selves, but remind us too of the role we play within the rich tapestry of life.”On the holiday last year, Middleton shared a photo with her and Prince William’s kids Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6, after spending weeks out of the spotlight following her abdominal surgery in Jan.
2024.“Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the last two months,” Middleton wrote alongside the family photo last year.“Wishing everyone a Happy Mother’s Day.”But the image was perforated with a multitude of editing errors — with several photo agencies such as the Associated Press retracting the pic and urging media outlets not to use it as it was “manipulated.”The agencies even asked Kensington Palace to send them an unaltered version of the graphic, but they refused.Middleton spoke out and admitted she was behind the photo editing fail.
“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,” she wrote on X at the time.
The future queen later announced that she was diagnosed with cancer in a video message on March 22, 2024.Following her diagnosis, she mostly stayed out of the spotlight while she was going through chemo.In Sept.2024, Middleton announced she was “cancer free.” Four months later, she confirmed that she was in remission.“As an...