In a phone interview with Vanity Fair, Ken Goff, who owns Goff Photos, the British agency that released the image, emphatically scoffed at the idea the image had been doctored in any way. “That’s a load of crap,” said Goff, who has been photographing the royal family since 1980. His better known pictures include Princess Diana in Zimbabwe in 1993, and Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, shushing a gaggle of children during Trooping the Colour in 2022.
Goff said he considers himself a royalist, and agreed with that decision. “I wouldn’t have touched that,” he said, adding that those at the palace “were really upset” about the picture of Kate and her mother. Asked whether recent pictures of Kate exist that haven’t been released to the public, “There have been no photographs taken to my knowledge, and I talk to different people,” said Goff. “There’s no rumors or anything, if someone’s got a set of pictures.