Princess Charlotte turns one year old today. It’s crazy that it’s been one year since the Duchess of Cambridge quickly gave birth in the wee hours of the morning, then quickly got up and posed for photos outside of the hospital just a few hours later. Unlike Prince George, we haven’t gotten to see Charlotte out and about in public very much at all. Beyond her big debut as a newborn and the christening, all of the photos of Charlotte have been formal photoshoots by professional photographers or Kate herself. So on Sunday, just ahead of Charlotte’s first birthday, Kate released some new photos of Charlotte which she (Kate) had taken. Charlotte is walking! The Camrbidges’ spokesperson released a statement:
“The Duke and Duchess are delighted to share new photographs of Princess Charlotte. The Duchess took these pictures of her daughter in April at their home in Norfolk. The Duke and Duchess are happy to be able to share these family moments, ahead of their daughter’s first birthday. We hope that everyone enjoys these lovely photos as much as we do.”
I definitely see a family resemblance, even though Charlotte and George’s coloring is so different – George looks, to me, just like a brown-eyed version of William. And George has always been super-blonde. Charlotte has had brown hair (like her mom) from the start, but Charlotte has William/Diana’s big blue eyes. I think Charlotte is going to end up looking a lot like Kate, just with William’s eyes.
Photos courtesy of @KensingtonRoyal.
The Middleton is strong with this one. Such a little cutie!
Yes, she looks a lot like Carole.
To me, she looks like a mini Pippa.
I don’t think she look much like her mom’s side. She looks a lot more like Queen Elizabeth and William. The Windsor genes are very strong. Charlotte looks almost exactly like her brother except with brown hair and blue eyes. The facial features are almost the same though.
I, too, see HM QEII. Like, STRONGLY like QE.
she is a cutie pie.
I also see HM QEII !!
+2 @Kibbles
Me too, she looks exactly like George except with blue eyes and brown hair. If you put their pictures side-by-side at the same age, they look like twins.
I see QEII/Queen Mum in her too, something about the facial expressions/the way she holds her mouth. That grimace means business!
I see Her Majesty in Charlotte, but also a tinge of Carole Middleton.
Agreed, I see HRM QEII in this one, adorable!
Yes, my first thought was she is a mini QEII, even in some of the earliest photos. So adorable.
Same here !!! In the photo where she’s walking THE QUEEN.
I also see more Windsor than Middleton.
Yes, she looks very much like George, especially in the pic with her in pink looking up. Not quite as much of the Winston Churchill vibe that George had at that age, maybe she’s just leaner.
I echo the Queen look as well.
All I can see is William!
I see Carole and Pippa, no Windsor or Spencer.
Babydoll. I love her pushing her little cart!
Me too!
I feel the opposite. To me, George is a dead ringer for Kate’s dad and Charlotte is a dead ringer for William as a baby.
It’s funny how everyone sees something different. I just saw a baby/toddler photo of William that to me looked just like little George.
Agreed- I totally see George as a little Michael M. I also see Charlotte as a little Carole (with an “e”) – with bits of Spencer and Windsor thrown in for good measure.
Funny, in the first pic of Charlotte, in the chair with the beige (beige!!!) toy dog, I thought “pure Carole M”. But once the snow pics came out, I immediately saw HM. Now, in these pics, I see HM again, except for the last one (in profile); she looks just like George in that one.
Either way, sweet pics. Such a cutie pie! Whatever you can say about the parents, they make beautiful babies 😊👨👩👧👦
I love the cute baby pics in the morning. She is adorable.
Royal flush. She looks just like her brother. Twins..
Aw, she’s very pretty. I love when a person’s upper lip turns down that way. She doesn’t really remind me of anyone but George.
I just want to scoop her up. I love chubby little babies and toddlers. The photos of her are precious.
She looks just like Kate to me.
Those legs! In those little blue tights and tiny shoes! My favorite. The photos are precious.
Is May 1st also labor’s day in the UK? I am being cynical about the release of these photos one day ahead…
ps: She is a cutie!
Yes, but we still call it May Day. Public holiday here today.
Thanks, Sixer!
Some people can be cynical about almost anything. Enjoyed the beautiful baby pictures and have a wonderful day. Why does everything have to have a hidden agenda. Even if it was done just before Labor Day, Who Cares?
She has William’s nose
Ah she is so cute!
Both George and Charlotte have very mischevious faces. I bet they will be more than a handful when they’ll grow up!
Interesting how perspectives are so different.
In the second picture of Charlotte I see William.
In the rest of the pics I see George.
I don’t see Kate anywhere.
Lovely eyes.
Honestly to me she looks like a mini Queen Elizabeth
This! In the picture of HM with her grandchildren, I was startled by how much Charlotte resembles HM.
said the same above. I think she strongly resembles the Queen.
I agree.
I completely agree!
SAME. I didn’t see it before but yea in the picture of her standing near the chair all I see is the Queen. With George I see more of a mix but leaning Middleton. The Windsor genes are so strong in Charlotte
I think she looks just like her brother.
She’s so cute! She looks a lot like George. I see the Queen in her, actually.
these are great pics! So Kate is at least a good photographer. 🙂
And IMO Charlotte totally looks like George.
She’s a little sweet dumpling lovables. Those cheeks beg for kisses. I see George here mostly.
Adorable! She looks just like her brother 😍😍😍
Well played Do Littles. release photos of adorable children to make us forget – well, pretty much everything else.
I’m surprised no one commented sooner about this.
Exactly! I have to say, it works for me: more munchkins less Kate and Wills. Please and thank you.
what a cutie-pie!
i think she has her mother’s eyeshape but with her father’s coloring. those adorable cheeks!
and did i sight Lupo in the background? pooches and baby smooches!
The wording on their social media page with these photos makes it seems like they are doing people a favor instead of the other way around. The condescending is strong with those two.
Both of those kids are super cute, and look very much alike.
I love the shot with her pushing the rolling blocks cart. It is nice to see an actual little princess mixing it up with an active toy in primary colors!
I see some resemblance to the Queen, but also to the Queen Mother. I think as she gets older we will see a lot more of the Middleton jawline.
Absolutely ordinary child.
Ditto.
Very ordinary looking, if this were Blue Ivy we all know how the comments would have gone.
are you new here? I’ve never seen even one nasty comment about Blue Ivy. I think any time she’s been pictured on here everyone goes ga-ga for her, too, as she is very very adorable.
what exactly are you implying?
+1
Totally, 100% agree. Now little Mia Tindall is another story . . .
I’m glad you’ve never seen me when I was a toddler.
I realize that I am in the minority, and I usually love babies, but I don’t see anything with the Kate/William babies. And since they’re still children, I’ll leave it at that.
Ditto.
same here.
The children are very cute, but why do they always dress them like they’re in a World War II movie? Their clothes could be lifted straight out of those old “Dick and Jane” books.
Yes! I always wonder that too!
Lol. I think that has always been and always will be the Royal style. You can find that stuff at high end baby stores. Someone bought me an outfit like one of George’s fancy ones for one of my sons. I know it must have cost a fortune and I put him in it once to take photos and then it went back in the box, where it still sits 15 years later. It’s not even practical to give away like I did with all his other clothes.
I used to babysit for a little boy whose parents were loaded. the mother, however, came from a working class background and when she got access to $$$, she assumed that THIS is how rich people dress their babies. he had all sorts of little suits with suspenders and fancy white button-down shirts that he’d wear with a little cardigan…it was very cute, but NOT practical for playing outside. she also did the whole “cloth diapers” thing, which was SUCH A PAIN. big, clunky cloth diapers, with huge pins (careful not to stick the baby!) and then giant rubber pants over the diaper. poor kid.
by the time she had her second, she had learned. disposables, and PLAY clothes for number 2!
lol
my very hipster sister-in-law dresses her toddlers like this.
That’s the one thing I think is adorable about them.
It looks like Kate is trying to dress her like Princess Estelle. Maybe she thinks she can garner some positive attention by having her look like another Princess that many people love.
George’s head shape and very thick hair remind me of his grandfather Michael Middleton. He’s like a cross between William and Pappa Middleton.
Charlotte I can see different thinks —chubby cheeks like George, something of the queen and definitely see her morphing a bit into her mom, Kate, over time.
Obvious PR is obvious.
No kidding. What happened to no papers publishing anything that came from the Cambridge’s social media? I was hoping that particular rumour was true.
That baby is a near twin of the queen
She’s so gorgeous!! But these kind of make me sad thinking about what a great grandmother Diana would have been 🙁
PRECIOUS and ADORABLE!!!!
It’s hard for me to identify who Charlotte resembles at this point, but she is adorable with those big blue eyes and I like the picture of her scrambling in the chair. And how nice to see Lupo even at a distance, l was wondering where that pooch has been!
She absolutely has the Queen’s facial expression!
In the smiling pic with her pushing the cart she looks like QEII and even more so like Sarah Chatto.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/29/22/0D17462400000578-0-Lady_Sarah_attends_a_Sunday_church_service_to_at_Windsor_Castle_-m-68_1461967025072.jpg
I may be in the minority on this one but I think she looks like the queen. Something in her eyes and expression. She is a beautiful little girl!
She strikes me as the calm child while little George will raise and hell and take names, thank you very much!
I agree! I see SO much of the Queen in her. IMO this is quite unfortunate. George is so much cuter.
Wow! She looks so much like the queen!
She, like all babies, is adorable.
Sigh. Waiting to be a grandma is going to be tough.
Gorgeous little girl!
LMAO!
Should ‘ve baked a lil longer in the oven
I see more of William in her features than Kate. She is a cross of both parents, but the Windsor/Spencer genes are stronger right now. Yes, she resembles George, but that is hardly surprising especially since both have big cheeks and small noses.
Time will tell who she takes after – but I already see many Diana Loons screaming she looks exactly like Diana. Hope they give her a chance to grow into her own person.
I think they’ll be disappointed if they’re counting on a Diana resemblance. She looks like everyone else, but Diana.
Google pictures of Diana as a toddler and you’ll see Charlotte and Diana don’t resemble at all. As for the QEII resemblance, it’s just not there. The one who looks like the Queen is Lady Louise Wessex and to a lesser extent Anne’s granddaughters.
On the other hand, I noticed that Charlotte looks very different in pictures taken by Kate than in pictures taken by other photographers (the Christmas card,the Alps vacation and the Leibowitz picture). In Kate’s pictures, Charlotte is obviously photoshopped to the max to make her look like a conventionally cute toddler. In pictures taken by other photographers, Charlotte is the opposite of cute (sorry, I know it’s PC to say all kids are adorable) and her resemblance to Carole Middleton and Pippa is uncanny.
Both kids take after the Middletons and look nothing like the Windsors or Spencers, despite the fact that George’s hair is bleached( my mom’s a hairdresser and she noticed it first thing) and they dress him up like William.
I agree that George looks more like a Middleton, with his dad’s hair colour. I’m on the fence with Charlotte because she does look different in the photos taken of her. I see a lot of William in her – more so than Kate (except the cheeks!) – her eyes, nose, lips, even some of her expressions are 100% William.
I don’t see the resemblance to the Queen either. I agree that Lady Louise is the only grandchild who looks like her (probably because Edward looks so much like her). The Philips girls look more like the Queen than Charlotte does.
Does anyone else think George’s hair is bleached?
Lol @ George’s hair is bleached comment. Most ridiculous thing I’ve read in a while. To me, Charlotte looks like William when he was a baby.
I don’t know if it’s bleached but it is a very unusual color.
Most babies are cute, and this one is no exception. It’s easy to look back when kids are older and see their older features in their baby faces, but I can’t see what she might look like now.
I just hope for her sake that she has the strength of personality to overcome the poor example her parents are setting and learns to be a productive member of society. Same to her brother. Hope Nanny Maria and the under-nannies provide more discipline for these two than William got.
Plug that baby, plug it.
She is much cuter than in previous pictures. Kate has done a good job with these photos. I can see a strong resemblance to George. Have to disagree with those who say she looks like the Queen. Thankfully she does not resemble HM or the rest of the windsors.
There is something about her mouth when she smiles that isn’t pretty.
yeah… I know.
To me, all I see is Queen Elizabeth.
Too many recent Honks for Harry–had to do something drastic after that Mic Drop vid war w/Michelle and her M!
Thanks for the charming photos, the baby looks like William.
She’s like a mini-Queen. The windsor genes are powerful in this child.
What an adorable little princess.
Beautiful kids. I hope their parents are able to educate then and raise then with the sense of duty and sensibility expected when you are born into this kind of environment.
You’re silly. “Sense of duty” by these two?
(Which is not meant to be an insult to you, by the way.)
I was trying to sound hopeful and positive for this new generation 🙁
W&K release photos of their children, always on weekends. I remember with George and now Charlotte. It’s not a coincidence. They prefer releasing images and other news on sundays. Wasn’t the last photo (the Cambridges in the Alps) released on a weekend too?
Those are sweet photographs. I just wish they would stop with the 1940’s fashion. There’s kitschy and then there’s overkill.
What 1940s? She is wearing a couple of cute little dresses and cardigans. I dressed my daughter that way in the late 1990s. It’s just classic children’s clothing. And she looks adorable. Why does classic children’s clothing offend so many people? The clothes are not uncomfortable, nor do they restrict the children.
+1
Pretty baby.
These threads always make me laugh because there is so much speculation. Charlotte resembles— HM, William, the Windsors, Carole M, Pippa M, Sarah Chatto, and the late Queen Mother !! Ask 10 people for their opinion, and you will get 10 different answers.
How do you close this out?
she looks like grand mother !!!
shes a princess and dianas granddaughter, apart from that shes just too plain/ordinary looking!!!
both kids creep me out and glad to be an American LOL