Today I can tell readers of The Bug and those news outlets around the world who publish my syndicated reports, that there is nothing suspicious at all about the recently published photograph of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales and her young children.

Certainly Her Royal Highness has issued an apology for touching up the photo, but I believe even that is unnecessary.

I believe she has felt the need to apologise simply to end the conspiracy theories and rumours circulated around the world about her state of health, led as usual by ill-informed speculators on social media.

Such rumours have included claims about the Princess being digitally inserted into the photo, or that the photo was actually taken years ago and is just being published now to “cover up” her true health status.

I can put an end to such wild speculation because, as a respected royal commentator, I was invited to Kensington Palace just yesterday and was fortunate enough to view the original photograph (main picture) and I can tell you I saw nothing suspicious about it whatsoever.

Yet so many “experts” in the media have made long lists of supposed “editing errors” in the photo. Let me rebut just one of them

Much has been said about the way young Prince Louis is holding his fingers in the photo (inset in main picture), yet as someone who has closely observed the young royal from a long distance I know there is a simple explanation.

It is only logical that Prince Louis is now old enough to have concluded that the life of a monarch is not necessarily one he would choose or even like.

He knows that his big brother Prince George will assume the role one day. So Prince Louis  keeps his fingers crossed almost permanently in the hope that Prince George will let him off the hook by surviving long enough to be crowned King and have children and heirs of his own.

Unfortunately, as the kerfuffle over the photo drags on one unfortunate result has been the response by the Duke of York Prince Andrew who has taken the opportunity to recycle his own claims about the veracity of the now-famous photo of him and the young American woman who accused him of sexual assault (below) at the US home of the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

The Duke has always claimed the photo is a fake, largely because he says he cannot remember it being taken and that it is physically impossible for him to hold the young woman in the manner shown in the photo.

I can only hope that the claims being resurrected by Prince Andrew’ (below) do not gain traction with the media and that we can all move on from this latest entirely unnecessary and baseless “royal scandal”.

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