Donald Trump in an orange prison overall, the Pope in a white hunting jacket and hug between Megan and Kate. Of the three photos created by artificial intelligence and therefore fake, the most unlikely is the last one. After a scathing interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Sussex television series Netlix, an explosive memoir, and numerous TV personalities, it’s truly unthinkable that two daughters-in-law could be back next to each other and with this degree of confidence. Daughters of two different worlds so far apart that they have never met in terms of lifestyle or the way they act or speak, Kate and Meghan could never achieve that kind of closeness.

However, a series of AI-produced shots immediately spread around the world, and even managed to make believe that the two women were reunited in connection with the coronation ceremony on May 6th. A kind of truce for the good of the Crown and for the joy of Karl, who only wanted his family to be reunited. And in fact, it is easy to be deceived if we limit ourselves to observing the subjects of photographs from an aesthetic point of view, reproduced with impressive accuracy. Eye to eye, hands on hips, gentle hugs, understanding smiles: Kate and Meghan, more than daughters-in-law, seem almost like sisters.

However, the real question to be asked is not if we will ever see them so close and trusted in the future, but if in a parallel reality, without Megxit and the transfer of Sussex to Montecito, Kate and Meghan would never have become friends. The story is not built on “ifs” and “buts”, even royal ones, but it’s hard to imagine that real harmony would ever arise between the two women. Enough to confirm the story of their first meeting, made by Meghan in the Netflix documentary: “Even when Will and Kate came to us for the first time, I remember that I was in ripped jeans, barefoot. I always hug people, I love hugs, I didn’t realize it annoyed a lot of Brits. I started to become aware of the formality inside and out, and then you close the door and you think, “Okay, now we can relax, but this formality is maintained on both sides, and this was unexpected for me.”

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On this occasion, Harry confirms, his wife showed up in very casual attire and, to say the least, informal manner, perhaps too much for a first meeting, as if highlighting her irresistible difference from her husband’s family, with whom he mostly interacted. never cared so much about integration. On the other hand, Kate was wearing a classic dress, and her British manner, gentle but aloof, contributed to the coldness between the two women, which deepened in the following months with unpleasant episodes and misunderstandings: from lipstick, which Kate was asked to borrow, to a quarrel over a girlfriend’s dress Charlotte’s fiancee. It is possible that if Meghan had less ambition in the royal family and the press did not blow on the wind of discord, the two women would have maintained a cordial relationship – as happened between 2018 and 2019 after the Sussex wedding – without being able to be friends. So, in case we’re wondering, yes, AI-generated ones are probably the only photos we’ll ever see of Kate and Meghan hugging and smiling in the same room.