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The Telegraph
The Telegraph
16 Mar 2024
Tony Diver


Pranksters trick Tucker Carlson by pretending to be behind Kate’s photo edit

A pair of pranksters pretending to be behind the Princess of Wales’s photo editing debacle tricked Tucker Carlson into being interviewed for his channel.

Posing as “George”, a disgruntled former employee of Kensington Palace, Josh Pieters and Archie Manners told the US journalist that they had been “let go” from the Princess of Wales’ employment after poorly editing a photograph of her and her children on Mothers’ Day.

Last week, the photograph caused a major PR headache for the Princess, who is recovering from abdominal surgery, after photo agencies pulled the image because it had been edited.

Royal fans noticed several irregularities in the photograph, sparking online conspiracies and forcing the Princess to release a statement offering her “apologies for any confusion” over the edit.

Mr Pieters and Mr Manners told Mr Carlson they had been “scapegoated” by the palace for the photo edit, and that the Prince and Princess of Wales were “willing to fire staff in order to conceal the truth”.

They gave Mr Carlson’s website, the Tucker Carlson Network, a faked employment contract from Kensington Palace that incorporated a Latin translation of the Tesco strapline “Every Little Helps” into its royal crest.

Interview has not yet aired on Mr Carlson's online show, and Mr Manners said they decided to reveal their trick before it appeared
Interview has not yet aired on Mr Carlson's online show, and Mr Manners said they decided to reveal their trick before it appeared Credit: Chip Somodevilla/GETTY IMAGES

The contract said that the Prince and Princess reserved the right to “amputate one limb of their choosing” if an employee failed a probationary period.

The pair secured an interview, and told Mr Carlson that the photograph had actually been taken by the Princess’s uncle in December, and that a Christmas tree in the background had been edited out.

In a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, they showed the filming of the interview, in which Mr Manners posed as the former employee.

After hearing the concocted story about the photograph, Mr Carlson said: “That was great, and really interesting too. I didn’t expect to be as interested in it as I was because you told a really great story.”

The interview has not yet aired on Mr Carlson’s online show, and Mr Manners told Deadline the pranksters had decided to reveal their trick before it reached the network’s 500,000 followers.

“We didn’t want to cause any more rumours that are not true to go out to lots and lots of people,” he said. “We just didn’t want to be too worthy about that in our video.”