Why the Kate Middleton scandal just won’t die

Internet CultureHow a bad Photoshop job turned into an existential crisis for the British monarchy.

By Elizabeth Lopatto, a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.

Yikes! Photo by Paul Ellis / AFP via Getty Images

The curious thing about the image that launched a thousand conspiracy theories is not that it was photoshopped. It’s that it was photoshopped badly.

The British royal family is like a corporation without an underlying business, a C-suite that is image only. The job is just to be a symbolic representation of the UK. The person who

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