WATCH: ‘My wife is the arty one’, says Prince William

Britain’s Prince William has joked his wife was the “arty one” during a visit to a London youth centre.

His joke came days after Kate issued an apology on social media for “any confusion” caused by an edited photograph which had been issued by her office Kensington Palace the previous day.

“No, it’s really not that impressive. My wife is the arty one. And my children are artier than I am,” William told a group of young people while decorating cookies at a youth centre in London’s White City neighbourhood.

Several leading news organisations including Reuters withdrew the picture of Kate, 42, posing with her three children after post-publication analysis showed it did not meet their editorial standards.

The picture had already attracted huge media attention as it was the first official photograph of Kate since she spent two weeks in hospital after undergoing abdominal surgery in January for a non-cancerous but unspecified condition.

Although her office said she would not return to public duties until after Easter and that she was recovering well, her absence has led to intense speculation about her health on social media in recent weeks.