This Kate Middleton finger optical illusion is confusing the internet

What is going on.
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Sam Haysom
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Unfathomably massive levels of press coverage are pretty much a daily occurrence when you're a member of the Royal Family.

You go out for a drive? Coverage. First day at school? Coverage. Telling a photographer to "just take the fucking picture"? Definite coverage.

Oh, and if you hold a bag in a way that makes three of your fingers look a similar length, you had better believe there'll be some coverage.

Yep. The Duchess of Cambridge recently visited a primary school in Oxford, UK. During the visit, she held her bag.

Not long after, her fingers were making headlines.

After that article featured on the front page of the Daily Mail's Monday edition, Twitter took note. And it wasn't long before the headline was entering meme territory.

Britain is a strange place.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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