This week’s issue of The Daily Beast Magazine features a cover story written by editor Tina Brown that some are calling “creepy,” “horribly offensive,” and “cheap, insensitive dreck.”

Is it creepy to digitally age, clothe, and paint the nails of a woman who died in 1997 and Photoshop her standing next to her son’s new wife, whom she never met, on the cover of an American news weekly? Is that so “horribly offensive”? For the sake of our forthcoming September issue, we at Vanity Fair certainly hope not. Special preview after the jump.

Photo illustration by Hamish Robertson. Photo by Wikipedia/Billpolo (William and Harry); Flickr/Sheng Jiong (Hyde Park).