Kensington Palace refuses to release Kate Middleton’s original Mother’s Day photo after botched release

It’s a royal mess. 

Kensington Palace has reportedly refused to release the original unedited version of Kate Middleton’s Mother’s Day portrait with her children, after Kate, 42, took the blame for the photo fiasco, according to The Daily Mail. 

On Sunday, multiple photo agencies, including Reuters, the Associated Press, Getty, and AFP, withdrew the Mother’s Day photo Kensington Palace released Sunday picturing Middleton and her three children over fears that it had been digitally “manipulated.”

A “kill notification” reportedly released by AP read, “At closer inspection, it appears that the source has manipulated the image.”

The photo — the first official image released by Kensington Palace since the royal’s abdominal surgery in January — showed her smiling alongside Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5.

On Monday, the Princess of Wales apologized for releasing a doctored family photo of her and her children, blaming it on amateur editing fails.

“Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” the princess wrote. “I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused.”

She ended by saying that “I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day” — which was Sunday in the UK — and ending casually with “C,” for her first name, Catherine.

The pic was meant to put to bed some of the wild speculation swirling around the 42-year-old princess’ health, since she’s barely been seen in public since her surgery. Instead it ended up stoking the fires and creating fresh conspiracies that the family is hiding something. 

The Post reached out to Kensington Palace for comment.