Is a video that shows Princess Leonor of Spain wearing a yellow mini dress real? No, that's not true: An online detection tool rated the video as 99.9% likely generated by AI. The fake video appears to have been manipulated from real footage filmed during a July 2024 event when the Spanish national football team met with the royal family after winning the European Championships tournament.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) by the @TheWyteRabbit1 account on X on Oct. 8, 2026. It read:
The Princess of Spain is facing backlash for dressing like this in public
This is what a screenshot of the video looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @TheWyteRabbit1 on X.)
This is what the video looked like on X at the time of writing:
The Princess of Spain is facing backlash for dressing like this in public https://t.co/rcWar3Om6H
-- The White Rabbit (@TheWyteRabbit1) October 8, 2026
Lead Stories entered the video into Hive Moderation, an online AI-detection tool, which rated the video as 99.9% "likely to be AI-generated."
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
Princess Leonor did not wear a skimpy yellow mini dress while meeting the Spanish national football team.
The fake video matches similar footage from 2024 when the Spanish national football team met with the Spanish Royal Family at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on July 17, according to the Express news outlet (archived here). Princess Leonor wore a red Adidas team jersey with white jeans, as the news report stated and photos from the event show. This is a screenshot of the article showing Leonor's outfit:
(Image source: article by Express.)
Video from the event posted by ¡HOLA! TV on it's YouTube channel shows Leonor in the red jersey and white jeans standing with the team (archived here).
The jersey and medals the players are wearing in the video posted by ¡HOLA! TV match the uniforms the players are wearing in the video posted on X.
Here is a screenshot of the players from YouTube:
(Image source: post by ¡HOLA! TV on YouTube.)
Here is a screenshot of the players from the X video:
(Image source: post by @TheWyteRabbit1 on X.)
