Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have issued a strongly worded statement denying that they were behind comments that appeared to criticise Princess Kate for editing a family photo.

It comes after Page Six ran quotes from a source “close to Prince William Harry and his wife” stating that the editing error “isn’t a mistake Meghan would ever make”, adding that “she has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail”.

But Archewell’s official spokesperson has now insisted to Newsweek that the comments “did not come from us”, stating simply: “With respect to Page Six, that did not come from us.”

The explosive quotes in the US gossip column also claimed that the Sussexes “would have been annihilated” had they released a similar-edited image.

“If Harry and Meghan had ever encountered the same issue they would have been annihilated,” the source quotes read. “The same rules do not apply to both couples.”

“This isn’t a mistake that Meghan would ever make … she has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail.”

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