Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Photographer Denies Editing Photos from Archie's Christening

Photoshop-gate continues and now, photo agency Getty Images is getting Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, and their son, Prince Archie involved. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported that in the wake of Kate Middleton's photoshop fail (s) — a Mother's Day shot and a photo of Queen Elizabeth with her great-grandchildren were both doctored — Getty had issued an "editor's note" on another family portrait from Archie's christening in July 2019.

The photo shows Markle and Harry holding Archie while seated on a loveseat in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, surrounded by family members including Queen Camilla, King Charles, Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, Princess Diana's sisters, Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Prince William, and Kate Middleton.

The publication claimed the shot was "digitally enhanced." However, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's photographer, Chris Allerton (who also took other pictures on Archie's big day) denied the claim, saying it "was a load of cobblers." The photographer added that the image "has not been manipulated" and had "very minimal tuning" in order to capture "a relaxed and pleasing moment quickly and efficiently for them."

A spokesperson for Getty has since confirmed to People that "no issues" were found with the portrait, and the photo was under review simply as a part of a new process for verifying handout images.

"Getty Images is undertaking a review of handout images and, in accordance with its editorial policy, is placing an editor's note on images where the source has suggested they could be digitally enhanced," the source told the publication. "The image in question had an editor’s note placed on it while under review and that note has now been removed with no issues found."

Markle and Harry's good friend and photographer Misan Harriman (who also recently faced his own photo editing accusations) stood up for Allerton on social media. "I've just spoken to Chris Allerton, Getty Images should never have put that editors note on his image, I am sure @GettyImages will make a statement about this in due course," Harriman wrote to X on Wednesday. "More importantly, the newspapers should have spoken to him BEFORE publishing what has now become a global non-story about his work. He’s a great photographer who doesn’t deserve any of this. Please leave this man alone."