Have the royals lost all trust? On Sunday a doctored photo set off a fever of conspiracy theories. Some say it is a PR disaster that could cause lasting damage to the monarchy.
Palace ridiculed over manipulated Kate photo
Photoshop fails: All the major news agencies withdrew Prince William’s image yesterday. Glossary
Innocuous - Harmless.
Kate Middleton - The wife of the UK's Prince William, now more often known as the Princess of Wales. She is Britain's future queen.
Retracted - Taken back or recalled.
Speculation - Guessing.
George IV - The King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1820 to 1830.
Obnoxious - Offensive, unpleasant or rude.
Anthropologist - Someone who studies human beings and societies. The word "anthropology" comes from the Greek "anthropos", meaning "human". It developed as a subject in Europe in the 19th century, although some regard the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun as the first anthropologist.
David Hume - The Scottish philosopher argued that all human knowledge is acquired through experience and therefore embracing the unknown is a fundamental part of being human.
Free-rider problem - In economics, a type of market failure when people who benefit from resources do not pay for them, or under-pay.
Adam Smith - An 18th-Century Scottish economist often known as the "father of economics".
Dictators - Rulers with total power over a country.
Joseph Stalin - Dictator of the Soviet Union. Stalin has been accused of numerous human rights abuses, including sentencing around a million political opponents to death and prison.
PR - Public Relations — the practice of managing how others see a brand or person.