Photo Of Princess Diana At Charlotte's Christening Goes Viral

It's an image that is bound to divide opinion- a photoshopped picture of Princess Diana looking over Princess Charlotte at her christening, held by the Duchess of Cambridge.

The photo, which has been shared 260,000 times on Facebook, shows Kate carrying her daughter into the service at St Magdalene Church in Sandringham in July, with Diana bending down, hands clasped together.

While it is unclear who created the image, which has been branded both "beautiful" and "creepy", it was shared by Mary Kohnke, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the caption: "What a great job at photoshopping ... Let's make this go viral!"

And it seems that Mary's attempts to spread the snap have worked; it has been shared 267,157 times, has generated 31,331 likes and received 2,539 comments since she posted it on August 4.

The comments on the image, which is public on the social media site, include: "Oh how I wish this were real", "this is a lovely sentiment. miss our Princess Diana" and "wow! it gives me goose bumps!!".

The original version of the Princess Diana image used is from August 1997 - just two months before her tragic death, when she was killed in a car crash in Paris.

In the original image, the Princess of Wales can be seen bowing to Mother Teresa, the foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, after the two met briefly at the Missionaries of Charity's residence in the Bronx section of New York.