Creepy or touching? Photoshopped image of Princess Diana, the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte divides the internet
The image has been shared more than 250,000 times on Facebook
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Your support makes all the difference.A photoshopped picture of Diana, Princess of Wales cooing over Princess Charlotte is creeping people out.
The image, which was created by an American Lori Eastwood, shows the Duchess of Cambridge at her daughter Charlotte’s christening earlier this year alongside Lady Diana.
Ms Eastwood, who says she creates “Diana photo blends every Sunday in her memory”, merged the photograph with another taken of the then Princess of Wales meeting Mother Teresa in 1997.
The result shows the late Princess of Wales bending over her granddaughter, held in the daughter-in-law’s arms. And it looks like this:
What a great job at photoshopping ... Let's make this go viral!
Posted by Mary Kohnke on Monday, August 3, 2015
Mary Kohnke, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shared the image on 4 August with the caption: “What a great job photoshopping … Let’s make this go viral!” And it has, being shared more than 250,000 times on Facebook.
For arch-monarchists everywhere, it was too much to take:
Others, however, felt the picture was disturbing to say the least:
Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash in a Paris tunnel on 31 August 1997.
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