New Portrait of Kate Middleton Sparks Outrage on Social Media: ‘Are You Kidding Me!?’

Kate Middleton’s latest portrait has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, as waves of Royal fans took to social media to vent anger over the bizarre painting.

Tatler magazine’s July issue features the Princess of Wales draped in a white gown, adorned with a yellow brooch and a blue sash, which many have complained looks nothing like her.

The portrait follows the even more bizarre portrait of King Charles III last week, which featured a blood-red back “hellish” backdrop, more akin to Vlad the Impaler.

The inspiration for the Middleton portrait appears to be drawn from her past looks; however, fans are not pleased.

Artist Hannah Uzor defended the portrait, as she explained the process behind capturing the essence of the Princess.

“It’s really important to capture the soul of the person,” she said in a video posted by Tatler.

“I’ve spent a lot of time looking at her pictures, watching videos, seeing her with her family, and in various public engagements.”

“The process for painting this portrait, apart from studying the photographs and the videos, is actually coming up with a sketch.”

“So once I’m happy with a sketch and I’ve done a series of sketches in my sketchbook, particularly looking at her expression was really key, and so I’ve done several sketches trying to capture her expression, and once I’m happy with that, I can then proceed to figure out what she’s going to wear.”

“This looks nothing like the Princess of Wales. It’s so awful, it’s disrespectful,” one user tweeted.

“Doesn’t look like Catherine at all. If she wasn’t wearing that dress, I’d have no clue who it’s meant to be.”

Others compared the portrait to a “bad GCSE project” while one asked, “Are you kidding me? What is that rubbish of a painting? Hope you won’t sell any of those trash copies … you must be joking!”

“This picture is atrocious,” another declared, summarizing the general sentiment.

Fascinating glimpse... :^) Mary Crofts was an illegitimate daughter of Lucy Walter, who’d also had an illegitimate child with Charles II (House of Stuart) of England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Walter#Issue

Lucy Walter had two children:
Probably by Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford (1603–1677):
Mary Crofts (born 6 May 1651, The Hague),[3] who married first William Sarsfield (died 1675) and had issue, and second William Fanshawe (died 1708), with whom she also had issue.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Walter#/media/File:Sir_Peter_Lely_-_Lucy_Walter.jpg
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75242181#/media/File:Portrait_of_a_lady,_possibly_Mary_Crofts_(c._1651-1693)_(by_Sir_Godfrey_Kneller).jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sarsfield_(died_1675)

William Sarsfield was an Irish landowner of the seventeenth century. He was the elder brother of the Jacobite soldier Patrick Sarsfield.

He was of both Gaelic (he was a grandson of Rory O’Moore) and Old English descent. The Sarsfields had come to Ireland during the Norman conquest of the twelfth century and had become leading figures of The Pale. His great, great-grandfather Sir William Sarsfield served as Mayor of Dublin and purchased an estate at Lucan Manor. Like most of the Old English community, the Sarsfield remained Roman Catholic. His father Patrick Sarsfield senior took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1641, but like other Irish Confederates continued to swear allegiance to Charles I. He assisted royal forces against the English republicans during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, and lost his estates as a consequence.

After the Restoration, the family sought to have its former lands recovered. Although Patrick Sarsfield was found guilty by the court of claims in involvement in the 1641 rebellion, this did not alter his sons’ rights of inheritance. As his father’s oldest son and heir, William Sarsfield took possession of the Tully Castle estate in County Kildare, and after an intervention from Charles II, to whom he was arguably a son-in-law, it was agreed that Sarsfield would inherit Lucan Manor on the death of its occupant, Theophilus Jones. In the event, Jones outlived Sarsfield by a decade.

Sarsfield married Mary Crofts, the daughter of Lucy Walter, a Welsh woman who had a youthful relationship with Charles II when he was living at the Hague. Charles was unmarried at the time, and claims were often made that a marriage ceremony had taken place, which led him to treat Lucy’s children with particular care. Mary was the younger sister of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, who also looked out for her after their mother died,[1] but was more likely to have been a daughter of Theobald Taaffe.[2] Sarsfield and Mary had three children, Charles, Charlotte and William (the first two were named after Charles II, who Mary maintained was their grandfather).

He died of smallpox in 1675. After his death, there was a considerable dispute about his will, as his widow suggested that the Sarsfield family had manipulated it in their favour. After many years of wrangling, Lucan Manor eventually passed down to his daughter Charlotte Sarsfield, wife of Agmondisham Vesey, whose grandson became Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan.

Charles’ daughter Lavinia Bingham married George Spencer, the 2nd Earl Spencer, on 5 March 1781. A direct descendant of this marriage was Lady Diana Spencer, later Diana, Princess of Wales. As a result, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022, Sarsfield is a direct ancestor of the first seven members in the apparent line of succession to the British throne, starting with his eight times great grandson Prince William of Wales.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=british+line+of+succession

As of today, the line of succession is as follows:

King Charles III: The current monarch of the United Kingdom, who has announced he will step back from public appearances while being treated for cancer.
Prince William, Prince of Wales: The eldest son of King Charles III and the next in line to the throne.
Prince George of Wales: The eldest son of Prince William and Catherine, the Princess of Wales.
Princess Charlotte of Wales: The second child and only daughter of Prince William and Catherine.
Prince Louis of Wales: The third child and second son of Prince William and Catherine.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex: The younger son of King Charles III and the sixth in line to the throne.
Archbishop of York: The second in line to the throne, who is the Archbishop of York, a senior bishop in the Church of England.

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By Margaret Hartmann
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Two and a Half Men connection:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1258830/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Sophie Winkleman was born on August 5, 1980 in London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Wonka (2023), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and Peep Show (2003). She has been married to Lord Frederick Windsor since September 12, 2009.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1066862/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Son of Prince Michael of Kent and Princess Michael of Kent.

He and his sister are both included in the Line of Succession to the Throne, even though their parents are not. This is because his mother is a Roman Catholic.

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