Royal Family wish Prince Harry happy 40th – but people all say same thing about pic, AI generated?

The Royal Family has wished Prince Harry a happy 40th birthday – much to the annoyance of pretty much everyone on social media, with several people pointing out one thing.

The exiled and highly controversial California-based Prince hasn't been a working Royal since leaving the country in 2021 to make a new life away from the media in the quiet, media-shy area of Cali known as Montecito.

He did so with Meghan Markle and their children . . . and has thus caused anger on social media simply because he was wished a happy birthday – but for two key reasons.

The first is because he's no longer a “working Royal”, and the second is because many people are claiming that the image used by the Royal Family's social media account team has actually been generated by Artificial Intelligence.

The image – said to have been taken in 2018 during a trip to Dublin – shows Prince Harry laughing while sitting at a table with a glass of water in front of him. It also shows the now-40-year-old with full head of his iconic ginger hair, something which has been thinning greatly in recent years.

And taking to social media site Twitter/X, one commenter wrote: “Is it me or does this image seem rendered by AI?” And another posted: “Oh dear, that’s an AI generated photo or it’s from 15 years ago? The hair now is spare!

“Or is it how it will look like after he gets all the money today and finally pays for a transplant? That’s absolutely not how Haz looks like!” And a third raged: “Now that DOES look like a Photoshopped picture!”

But they didn't stop there, as others wrote: “Still going by the royal titles? From the official royal family account? Wow surprised.”

And another said: “Not a working Royal - and actually a very divisive figure for many British family. Look forward to @RoyalFamily now marking other non-working Royal Family member birthdays, for consistency.”