News agencies have removed Kate Middleton’s latest photo

International news agencies, including Reuters, have demanded the removal of a photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales, recovering from abdominal surgery.

A freshly released photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales, who had not been seen in public for weeks while recovering from abdominal surgery, was demanded to be taken down by international news agencies on Sunday, including Reuters, Getty Images, and the Associated Press.

The reason given was that the photo had been altered. The photo, the first official image of Catherine made public by Kensington Palace following her surgery, included all three of her children: Prince Louis, Prince George, and Princess Charlotte. The agencies slapped statutory kill notices on the image. The AP reported in an amended story about the image that Princess Charlotte’s hand displayed an “inconsistency in the alignment.”

The source had manipulated it in a way that did not adhere to photo standards; the AP continued, explaining why it had issued a retraction. A representative for Reuters stated that the image was taken down following a post-publication review and that the company was looking into the situation. The Washington Post reported that Prince William, Catherine’s husband, took a photo of the couple at their Windsor residence, which was later removed from its initial article.

As of Sunday night, Kensington Palace had not commented on the news organizations’ reversal.