You know how the Prince and Princess of Wales organize “photoshoots” for their family photos, and they spend months recycling through one day’s photos for every major holiday and birthday? Well, Prince William and Kate are trying to be less obvious about it, finally. They’re encouraging the kids to wear different clothes for different photo set-ups. Costume changes for everybody! All of which to say, I’m certain that Princess Charlotte’s 11th birthday photo and video were taken/filmed at the same time as Louis’s birthday shoot, not to mention that weird “anniversary photo” released last week. Prince George’s 13th birthday photo will likely be from the same Cornwall beach vacation over Easter too.
So, yes, this is Charlotte’s 11th birthday portrait. I’ve already seen some criticism of Will and Kate for releasing new portraits of their kids, but I’ve always been sort of fine with it. They’re just nice birthday photos, it’s not that deep. There are a million other reasons to criticize Will and Kate. I do think the which-kid-looks-like-which-royal discourse is always going to be heated, especially since the kids are growing into their faces these days. For the record, I think Charlotte looks the most like William, and she also looks like Princess Margaret’s daughter Sarah Chatto. Louis is the one who looks like Kate. George also looks more like a Middleton to me. Charlotte’s hair is so long these days! That’s probably why Kate insists on wearing that too-long doll wig, right?
Another reason why I believe these are all from the same photoshoot? Charlotte’s blue nail polish! She had the same blue manicure in her parents’ anniversary pic. It’s crazy how nail polish is allowed these days, because I remember when a certain duchess wore dark polish and royalists were still screaming about it years after the fact.
Last thing – Will and Kate also announced the name of their second dog: Otto. I assume Otto is Orla’s son, part of Orla’s litter of four puppies last year. We heard that the Keens kept one of the cocker spaniel puppies, so there you go.
Photos courtesy of Kensington Palace.
Related Posts:
- Royals release photo of Princess Charlotte on her 11th birthday News Princess Charlotte turns 11 today, and the royals released a new snap to mark the special day (Picture: Prince and Princess of Wales) Princess Charlotte celebrates her 11th birthday today, and the Royal Family released a sweet portrait of her to mark it. Charlotte, the middle child of Prince William…
- Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie Have Not Abandoned Their Exiled Father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Entertainment <p id="par-1_38">After King Charles stripped his brother, <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/embarrassing-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-didnt-know-use-credit-card-machine.html/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor</a>, of his <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/king-charles-just-put-his-foot-down-as-andrew-can-no-longer-use-prince-title-and-must-leave-royal-lodge-home.html/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">regal titles and evicted him</a> from his massive Royal Lodge estate, the ex-prince moved more than 100 miles away to a <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/andrew-mountbatten-windsors-new-swamp-home-pest-problem.html/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">smaller, more modest home</a> in Norfolk.…
- Princess Diana’s recordings for Andrew Morton will be made into a docuseries Entertainment Towards the end of Princess Diana’s marriage, circa 1991, Diana instinctively understood that she needed to get “her side” out there by any means necessary, partly because she couldn’t keep it all bottled up and partly because she couldn’t stand the status quo of her sh-tty marriage to a serial…
- Mail: Princess Kate is trying to copy Meghan’s ‘Live Laugh Love’ aesthetic Entertainment Given the Prince and Princess of Wales’s efforts to overshadow King Charles and Camilla’s US state visit this week, there’s been precious little commentary about it. I think that’s because most of the royal reporters were part of the traveling press corps in the US with Charles & Cam –…
- Princess Diana ‘Bent’ the Royal Family, Prince Harry Tries to ‘Burn It Down,’ Expert Says Entertainment <p id="par-1_26">Prince Harry is following the lead of his late mother,<a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/what-was-princess-diana-known-for-how-she-changed-the-royal-family.html/"> Princess Diana</a>, in dealing with the royal family, but with very different results, an expert says. </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-prince-harry-is-following-his-mother-s-playbook-expert-says">Prince Harry is ‘following his mother’s playbook,’ expert says</h2> <p id="par-2_77">Royal commentator Rob Shuter says that <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/prince-harry-meghan-getting-invite-royal-wedding-close-family-member-attend.html/">King Charles III’s…
(Visited 1 times, 1 visits today)
pic.twitter.com/kOOXV1rJW6