A major Japanese news agency has admitted that a photo it published of Prince William was actually of a waxwork statue.
Jiji Press had intended to publish an image of the smiling Duke of Cambridge alongside a story about his planned visit to Japan in February. But instead, a photo of his wax counterpart from the Madame Tussauds attraction in New York was sent out, The Asahi Shimbun reports. The error wasn't picked up until the following day, when a different member of staff noticed the photo was not as lifelike as perhaps first thought.
"The photo was not that of the real McCoy but rather that of a wax figure," Jiji Press said in a correction. It said the mistake happened when an employee did not carefully read the English caption underneath the photo, which indicted that the image was actually of a lifeless wax replica. The agency has since apologised to its readers. "It's a very embarrassing mistake," Naoto Takamura, from Jiji's editorial department, was quoted as saying in The Japan Times. The photo in question was taken in October, whe n the New York attraction unveiled wax figures of Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry.
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