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The cancer was discovered in post-operative tests after her abdominal surgery |
A new portrait of Kate, the Princess of Wales, is eliciting mixed reactions online, following a similar response to a portrait of her father-in-law, King Charles III, just a week prior.
Commissioned by Tatler magazine as part of a series of portraits of Britain's royal family, the portrait of Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William, was unveiled Wednesday as the magazine's cover.
The magazine stated that the portrait was inspired by Kate's appearance at the first state banquet of Charles' reign in November 2022. On that occasion, she wore a Jenny Packham gown, a bracelet that belonged to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and drop earrings that once belonged to the late Princess Diana.
Kate did not sit for the portrait. Instead, British-Zambian artist Hannah Uzor created it by sifting through over 189,000 photos of Kate to "capture her likeness," according to Tatler.
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"It's really important to capture the soul of the person, so I spent a lot of time looking at her and looking at her pictures, watching videos of her, seeing her with her family, seeing her in diplomatic visits, seeing her rowing or visiting children in a hospice," Uzor said in a video shared by Tatler on Instagram. "It has been really interesting for me to get a sense of who she is."
Uzor said she went through multiple sketches to correctly capture Kate's expression and chose to paint her in the Jenny Packham gown because it was "physically striking."
"[It] made her look very regal and very confident," she said.
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Chris Jackson/Getty Images, FILE Uzor's work, though, received mixed reactions online, with many commenters arguing the portrait does not look like Kate, who has been out of the public eye since January, when she underwent surgery and later learned she had cancer. |
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