A royal reporter on the fallout from the photoshopped image heard round the world and what this means for the future of the monarchy.
You’d have to be living under a rock to have missed the ongoing chaotic saga swirling around Catherine, Princess of Wales. From late-night talk shows to White House press briefings, no corner of the cultural zeitgeist seems safe from the Kate Middleton discourse.
To make some sense of everything we’re consuming, we spoke to Ellie Hall, a freelance reporter and correspondent who covered the royal family for BuzzFeed News from 2013 until the newsroom shut down in April 2023, and now writes for Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab and The Cut. In the video above, she sheds light on the “royal institution,” the fallout from the photoshopped image heard round the world, and what this means for the future of the monarchy.
