Prince George and Princess Charlotte pictures released

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A series of photos of Prince George and his sister Princess Charlotte have been released by Kensington Palace.

The four pictures show the princess being cradled by her elder sibling as they sit on a cream couch at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, their family home with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The pictures were taken by Catherine just weeks after Princess Charlotte was born on 2 May.

In an earlier tweet, Kensington Palace said the images were "very special".

In each of the pictures, Charlotte is lying on her brother's lap, wearing white. The prince is wearing a white shirt, blue shorts and blue socks.

In one, he appears to be kissing his sister on the forehead.

On Friday, it was announced Princess Charlotte will be christened on 5 July.


Prince George and Princess Charlotte pictures released


6 June 2015
BBC News


The pictures show Princess Charlotte being cradled by Prince George


A series of photos of Prince George and his sister Princess Charlotte have been released by Kensington Palace.

The four pictures show the princess being cradled by her elder sibling as they sit on a cream couch at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, their family home with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The pictures were taken by Catherine just weeks after Princess Charlotte was born on 2 May.

In an earlier tweet, Kensington Palace said the images were "very special".

In each of the pictures, Charlotte is lying on her brother's lap, wearing white. The prince is wearing a white shirt, blue shorts and blue socks.

In one, he appears to be kissing his sister on the forehead.


Anmer Hall, the family's Norfolk home



The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children have been at Anmer Hall since leaving London shortly after the birth of the princess.

Prince William and Catherine are expected to be based there for the next few years as they raise Princess Charlotte and Prince George, who is almost two, with the help of a full-time nanny.

Photography is listed as one of the duchess's hobbies in her biography on the royal website. The pictures were taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera.

The first official images of Prince George, released in 2013, were taken by the duchess's father, Michael Middleton, in the garden of their home in Bucklebury, Berkshire.





On Friday, it was announced Princess Charlotte will be christened on 5 July.

The christening will take place at St Mary Magdalene Church at the Queen's Sandringham estate.


The christening is set to take place at St Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate on July 5. It is the same church where the late Princess Diana was baptised

Commentary: BBC Royal Correspondent Peter Hunt

The photographs provide a rare glimpse of, as things stand, the future of the British monarchy.

Such glimpses will remain reasonably rare as these royal children grow up.

They'll next be captured together when Princess Charlotte is christened in July.

In all of these four images the baby princess - just a few weeks old at the time the photos were taken by her mother - is in the arms of her brother, Prince George.

As the toddler destined to be king continues to adjust to having a new addition to his family, his parents will hope the 22-month-old and the one-month-old will forge a bond as strong as the one enjoyed by Princes William and Harry.

Harry has spoken of how they understand each other and give each other support.

His older brother told someone recently that George was very lively and Charlotte had given her parents a "few sleepless nights".


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Blackleaf

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Course they are. They're royals. These are the offspring of members of the finest in our society, the top of the top. They aren't the offspring of some 15-year-old Vicky Pollard on some sink estate on the outskirts of Blackburn who got up the duff by one of her fellow members of the spaghetti-and-chips-eating, Daily Mirror-reading set just so she can jump the queue for a ****ty, rat-infested council flat. We're talking the finest members of our society here, the caviar-eating set. Not mere hoi polloi.
 

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Course they are. They're royals. These are the offspring of members of the finest in our society, the top of the top. They aren't the offspring of some 15-year-old Vicky Pollard on some sink estate on the outskirts of Blackburn who got up the duff by one of her fellow members of the spaghetti-and-chips-eating, Daily Mirror-reading set just so she can jump the queue for a ****ty, rat-infested council flat. We're talking the finest members of our society here, the caviar-eating set. Not mere hoi polloi.
:roll::roll::roll::roll::roll:
 

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A couple cute looking German kids. The House of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha must be so proud.
 

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I like pictures of kids because you can't hear them.
 

Sal

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I like pictures of kids because you can't hear them.
AND

they clean them up first before snapping the pictures

I simply hate when people take pictures of kids covered in food goo....who could think that looks cute? It looks gross.
 

Sal

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Course they are. They're royals. These are the offspring of members of the finest in our society, the top of the top. They aren't the offspring of some 15-year-old Vicky Pollard on some sink estate on the outskirts of Blackburn who got up the duff by one of her fellow members of the spaghetti-and-chips-eating, Daily Mirror-reading set just so she can jump the queue for a ****ty, rat-infested council flat. We're talking the finest members of our society here, the caviar-eating set. Not mere hoi polloi.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm they have their share of ugly mugs too...
 

Blackleaf

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A couple cute looking German kids. The House of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha must be so proud.


How are they German? They've hardly got any German blood in them.

Prince William was born, like Prince George and Princess Charlotte, in the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. His mother, Princess Diana, a member of the prominent Spencer family which Churchill was also a member of, was born in Park House on the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. His father, Prince Charles, was born in Buckingham Palace to a Greek father and a mother whose own mother could have been considered to have been Scottish.

The children's mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire to an English mother and an English father.

It's safe to that Prince George and Princess Charlotte have barely any German blood in them.
 

Blackleaf

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You don't know where the Windsors came from or why they changed their name to Windsor?


There is no way these children can in anyway be considered to be German. They've never even been to Germany. Their mother and maternal grandparents are English. Their father was born in the same hospital they were born in to an English mother and a half-Greek father.
 

Blackleaf

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Which dude is George and who is the other guy?


Two children whose mother and maternal grandparents are English and whose father was born in England to a half-Greek father are in no way German. They've never even been to Germany.

Come on. It only takes a bit of commonsense.
 

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Why did they change their family name from a German name?

House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (/saːksˈkoʊˌbɜrɡəndˈɡoʊθə/; German: Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) is a German dynasty, the line of the Saxon House of Wettin that ruled the Ernestine duchies including the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Founded by Ernest Anton, the sixth duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, it is the royal house of several European monarchies, and branches currently reign in Belgium through the descendants of Leopold I, and in the Commonwealth realms through the descendants of Prince Albert. Due to anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom during World War I, George V of the United Kingdom changed the name of his branch from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor in 1917. The same happened in Belgium where it was changed to "van België" (Dutch) or "de Belgique" (French).