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There have been many pictures of new dad Prince William on TV news in the last 10 days - but none of them quite like this...

The comedy glasses, moustache and beard might be idle doodling, but that definitely is not a crown on his head.

The Prince Willy moment came during a BBC Breakfast trailer for their feature on Barbershopera, billed by presenter Louise Minchin as "barber shop singers who perform comedy songs about people you might just recognise".

The quartet, made up of three men and one woman, were seen smartly dressed in a drawing room-style setting, with newspapers laid out on a coffee table in a clip from their song "I could have married Kate".

Eagle-eyed BBC viewers spotted the graffiti - with Mirror racing correspondent David Yates one of the viewers to be astounded, rewinding his TV to check he had seen right.

He said: "I was shocked when I was eating my breakfast this morning when I saw a penis drawn on the future king's head on BBC Breakfast. It was a surprising one."

Sharing the picture on Twitter Anthony Walton commented: "Guessing BBC Breakfast didn't vet the video clip before they used it this morning."

The show then continued with no mention of the incident.

After the show on 1 August the BBC said in a statement: "This image was shown fleetingly within a comedy promotional video for Barbershopera, a humorous barbershop group, who were appearing later on in the programme.

"The material was provided by Barbershopera but we failed to spot the offending material within it. We apologise for this."

The show has not been added to the iPlayer online TV service.