Royal expert and commentator Richard Kay wrote in the Daily Mail that he believes the Firm have never been closer to losing the public’s trust.

Royal Family ‘perilously’ close to crisis and ‘we are at eleventh hour’

The Royal Family is “perilously” close to crisis as social media speculation and theories continue to swirl. Royal expert and commentator Richard Kay wrote in the Daily Mail that he believes the Firm have never been closer to losing the public’s trust.

He told the newspaper: “The photograph issue, while small in itself, nevertheless exposed tensions that lie close to the surface in the family, as well as the fragility of an institution that for decades seemed impervious to any external threat.

“But if we are not quite at the 11th hour, we are ­perilously close.” He went on: “There still may be time for the high tide of public disapproval to recede, but the cost to the royal image and to individual reputations has been high.”

He added: “Yet the problems go beyond the two medical emergencies. Family cohesion and other certainties that we once took for granted are fast disappearing.” It comes after the Kate Middleton photoshop scandal this week.

The Royal Family also faces a health crisis with King Charles battling cancer, with Queen Camilla and Prince William stepping in to fill the void. Kate, meanwhile, has been resting up in the wake of her surgery which came back in January.

Earlier this week, dad-of-three Wills, who is an Aston Villa fan, made an amusing quip about his art skills today amidst Princess Kate’s Photoshop blunder. The Prince of Wales stepped out in West London to visit WEST, a new OnSide Youth Zone.

During the engagement, the prince mocked his creativity as he decorated biscuits in a kitchen with children from the youth charity. The dad shares three children with Kate in the form of Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte and eldest son Prince George.

William commented: “My wife is the arty one. Even my children are artier than me.”