Misan Harriman, an Oscar-nominated film director and photographer who captured the intimate moment, described the “virtual shooting” process.
On the Private Passions podcast on BBC Radio 3, he was asked by the interviewer: “They weren’t actually under a willow tree, but they were lying outside in a meadow, weren’t they, Harry and Meghan, when you took the photograph of them?”
Harriman, who has captured many intimate family moments between the pair and their children, replied: “Hmm, yeah,” before adding: “It really was a particularly joyous image to celebrate life itself.”
He also said: “It’s amazing what you can do with technology.”
This has not gone down well with royal expert Angela Levin, who branded the couple’s camp as “hypocrites”
Levin told The Sun: “A tree was doctored in their photograph to create a special backdrop so how dare their camp say anything about Catherine’s?'”
This came after the Sussex’s camp claimed Kate’s blunder wasn’t “a mistake Meghan would ever make”.
The insiders told Page Six: “If Harry and Meghan had ever encountered the same issue they would have been annihilated. The same rules do not apply to both couples.”
Speaking of Meghan, the source added that she would not commit the same mistake as she has “a keen eye and freakish attention to detail”.
It’s not the first time Harry and Meghan have been accused of editing their pics.
Rumours have surrounded at least three magazine shoots they have done, including the couple’s Time Magazine cover in 2021.
And before her People cover in 2017, Meghan explained she had told photographer Peter Lindbergh to leave in her freckles when airbrushing.
She said: “To this day, my pet peeve is when my skin tone is changed and my freckles are airbrushed out of a photoshoot.”
