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When footage emerged this week of the Princess of Wales, a.k.a.
But theMailunderestimated the conspiracy theorists.
As Middletonmania has spread in recent weeks, severalpeoplehaveraisedthe London-based artists name and work.
One famous 2003 image appears to show Queen Elizabeth IIsitting on a toilet.
Another from that same year purports to show Kate writing king in lipstick onher then-boyfriends chest.
In recent years, Jackson has been kept busy by another subject:Donald Trump.
All our information is from the bombardment of imagery through the media.
We dont care about being exploited.
We just want to see more of the world and everything going on around us.
It feeds into our imagination, which weve never had before like this.
It also makes us an extreme armchair voyeur.
We dont have to get up and do anything we just have to watch.
Were pacified by the media, videos, and television.
Theyre our best friends and we like to push them up and pull them down alongside the media.
We dont care how much truth is in there.
I find that a whole fascinating situation for the world to be in and dangerous as well.
Theyre more mysterious with their private lives, but none of us have private lives likethat.
More subconsciously, we know that we pay for them.
They wouldnt exist unless we actually paid for them out of our tax money.
Therefore, they definitely owe us anything we want to know.
The collective force has become very demanding, but I do think theres boundaries here.
I dont think Kate really has to tell the most private, intimate things about her lower abdomen.
To me, its just absolutely shocking that people should demand that bang out of private information.
Im always chasing people down the street, going, Hey, you look like Kate!
Hey, you look like Meghan!
Hey, you look like Harry!
Its an absolute nightmare to find people, so if you know anyone who looks like anyone …
I definitely need a Meghan.
I found a very good Harry through advertising.
And Donald Trump has changed; I think hes had a facelift.
I think hes got to keep up with Biden, hasnt he?
Theyre about the same age, and he doesnt want to look as creaky as that.
The English Cabinet would be good Rishi Sunak.
So we havent been able to track him down for a shoot that begins at 8 in the morning.
Im curious about how litigious these people can be.
Have you ever had any legal pushback?Its always just a no comment.
Harry and Meghan are not royal anymore, so they may!
Im wondering if youve ever encountered any of that pressure yourself.
Any stern phone calls?Well, not exactly.
I have had phone calls, but the palace wouldnt say anything about what Im doing.
They have to be above all of that.
They have to take everything on the chin; I think that is their job, really.
Certainly with the queen, shes had to take everything on the chin.
I believe Camilla collects my books, actually.
You said you had phone calls, but not from the palace.
What did you mean?Well, Ive made some quite controversial stuff.
At the time of doing the Princess Diana work, it got a bit heated.
Prince Philip was alive then.
I was at the Royal College of Art, and they were trying to expel me.
Prince Philipwould not initiate the show.Im sometimes dropped from boards and things if a royal comes on.
I was with an art gallery, and I had to suddenly leave because one of the royals started.
So they do get in the way sometimes.
There are very few celebrities who get really angry.
I think they misunderstand what Im trying to do.
Its not really about them; its about our perception of them, our perception of celebrity.
And maybe Im not making my point clear enough.
Donald Trumps always angry, so its always a big worry.
And I always get all my ideas cleared by a lawyer.
Every single idea, before I make it, is run by my lawyer.
Its all a very expensive process, as it’s possible for you to imagine.
Have you fallen into the Kate Middleton conspiracies?What do you mean?
Give me an example.
Well, there are a lot online that are both humorous and serious.
While shes disappeared and gone out of public view and theres no comment, people will attack.
Thats just the nature of humans.
So shes left it wide open.
I can imagine that the operation is really quite horrible.
So hes sort of stopped it, and hes got the world on his side a bit.
Kates a young woman, and shes had an operation in a very sensitive area.
Clearly, like most of us, she wont want to talk about that.
Lets talk about the photos.
So I dont think its a Kate setup.
And no one has come forward to claim these photographs as look-alikes, have they?
I was going to ask about that video.
You think its a body double?Well, it doesnt really look like William, either.
It has to either be a fake or real, but it doesnt look like Kate.
Ive got an app on my phone that changes me radically on a bad day.
So whats the scandal about her?
Id say the scandal about the photograph is that she probably didnt retouch itenough!
It looked like she was just retouching a little bit of a hand or something there.
I dont think its a problem that people retouch their pictures.
Its not like she was cloning other children in or anything.
Im trying to raise awareness that we cant believe everything we see.
And now weve got AI.
Its creating things that arent real, whichcouldbe real in our world of unreality.
Its just gonna get worse, because AI means that anyone can do it on their phone.
And nothing mismatched in the background.
And what tips would you have for a royal family who might be looking to stage photos?
Whats the secret?Do I have to give away my secret?!
No, I thought the video of William and Kate at the farm shop was a very boring video.
It bored me rigid.
You just caught a glimpse of them.
Well, thats the way I shoot.
It looked like somebody had been studying the way I shoot!
It took me a long time to learn that.
But it wasnt me, by the way.
