Princess Kate's portrait is causing controversy again amid her battle with cancer.
Two months after the Mother's Day photo-editing incident, a new portrait commissioned by British fashion magazine Tatler from Zambian-British artist Hannah Uzor has sparked a backlash for its depiction of the princess.
The portrait was inspired by a real-life photo of Princess Kate wearing a floor-length white gown and the pin of the late Queen Elizabeth II at Charles III's first state dinner as reigning monarch in November 2022. That's what I got. For her banquet, Princess Kate also wore Queen Mary's Lover's Knot tiara, which was worn by her husband Prince William's late mother, Princess Diana.
USA Today has reached out to Tatler and Hannah Uzor for comment.
'What a terrible portrait': Social media users react to Princess Kate's portrait
But some people think Uzor's portrait of Princess Kate doesn't paint her very well at all.
Social media users took to the comments section of Tatler's Instagram to express their displeasure with the portrait.
One commenter wrote, “It looks like something an amateur drew in elementary school. It's terrible. It's terrible.”
“Who is making the decisions about these commissions? The portraits are getting weirder and weirder. It looks pretty amateurish and doesn't look like the Queen. Given what the Queen is going through, this… The Queen will laugh a lot at that,” said another person.
“A terrible portrait of a beautiful woman,” one user said.
At X, the reaction mirrored people's frustrations in the Instagram comments section.
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One commenter said: “It doesn't look like Duchess Kate at all. If she wasn't wearing that dress, I'd have no idea who she was.”
“This does not resemble the Princess of Wales at all. So awful and disrespectful. Why did they choose an anti-monarchist to portray the Princess of Wales,” commented another.
Princess Kate: 'No plans to return to work anytime soon'
The monarch made headlines in March after a photograph released on Mother's Day in the UK was found to have been “digitally altered,” according to major photo agencies including the Associated Press, AFP and Reuters.
Eleven days later, Kensington Palace announced that Princess Kate had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing “preventative chemotherapy treatment.” She Princess also underwent surgery on her abdomen.
Questions have now arisen about a possible return to royal duties, but Kensington Palace told the Evening Standard and the BBC on Tuesday that the princess will not yet return to her duties.
Contributors: Taijuan Moorman, Brendan Morrow
