Two days after Princess Beatrice celebrated her 18th birthday with a private meal with friends, a new portrait has been released of the divorced Duke and Duchess of York's eldest daughter. And as you can see, it's a portrait the like of which we've never seen before......that is if we are to believe what we see.

The image was taken by Beatrice's childhood friend, Nikolai Bismarck. He was "thrilled" to be chosen for such a high profile commission, but his apparent decision to alter the colours on the Princess's face has led to some perhaps understandable criticism.

Veteran photographer Terry O'Neill is not impressed with 18 year old Nikola's technique, telling the Daily Mail: "She’s an attractive girl and there is a good interaction between the photographer and the subject and the picture is alive which most royal portraits are not. However he spoilt it by changing the colour. It just makes the picture look very unreal."

That is if the stark Daily Mail image really is being displayed as Bismarck wished. For, oddly enough, the very same portrait looks completely different and far more normal, when viewed in the Daily Mirror.

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Name: Karmen Day	Comment: I think she looks gorgeous!!! It is just a matter of the type of printing each paper does, I think. Why, though, does the British press always feel the need to make a "scandal" or issue out of every article? Can't they just say how gorgeous she looks and leave it at that? Instead of having their "sources" or "experts" come out and say something negative? It's getting tiresome!

Name: Christina

Comment: I think it's simply a bad job of colorizing. Or, perhaps the Daily Mail has a problem with showing the York princess as she is, healthy, glowing and a beautiful young lady. Printing presses can show weird colors if the print is not properly converted. Maybe their color conversion isn't so much trying to be avante garde, but results from inexperience. Whatever it is, it makes them look bad by comparison to the other image!