Here are the new official portraits from Prince George’s christening on Wednesday. These photos were supposed to be released “on Thursday,” and like all things having to do with William and Kate, they waited until the very last minute to release them. I think the photos were released, like, in the dead of night in England. Around 11 pm or so, which seems weird. Anyway, there are lots of poses and groupings to choose from. My favorite is the tight family unit one of just Will, Kate and George. George looks very, very happy in that shot. He’s even waving his little arms like he’s about to yell “HUZZAH!” Or possibly “Yay, I get to be king!”
The photos were taken in the Morning Room of Clarence House, the Prince of Wales’ residence and offices (most of Charles’ offices are in St. James Palace, I guess). The Middletons were included in one of the portraits and in an interesting twist, Harry and Pippa were posed side-by-side. Please, let’s not do another round of “Pippa and Harry, let’s make it happen.” He’s got Cressida. He doesn’t want Pippa’s mess. I think the photo of the Queen with the next three generations of kings is an interesting photo – very interesting. Is this what modern monarchy looks like? It looks… stream-lined. Lean. Personally, though, I’m a fan of the royal “dead-weight” like Princess Anne and the York princesses. I’d trade in half of these people for the Princess Royal.
As for Kate and how it looks like she’s lost all of the baby weight (and then some), Star Mag had an interesting piece on that:
Just three months after giving birth to baby George, Kate has lost all of her baby weight. “In fact, she looks even more toned and fit than she was before her pregnancy,” says body expert Alicia Hunter.
How did she do it? Although naturally thin and likely predisposed to have an easier time dropping pregnancy pounds, a palace source confirms to Star that the Duchess “set aside time every day to work out. Kate’s trainer had her doing a lot of cardio, abdominal exercises and weight training. Her main focus was her stomach. She was determined to have a flat stomach – and she loves how it looks now.”
Kate has also been breast-feeding and her glowing skin “indicated she’s eating clean and staying well-hydrated,” says Hunter. Kate “seems to have lost 40 pounds.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
Is it reasonable for a woman who just gave birth three months ago to be doing abdominal exercises? I’m really asking. I don’t know if it’s okay. Cardio sounds fine, weight training sounds fine, but just the idea of Kate doing crunches and sit-ups…ouch. But of course she “set aside time every day to work out.” It’s not like she had a job she had to go back to!
PS… Does Prince George have brown eyes?
Photos courtesy of Jason Bell/Clarence House.
I think they went a little heavy on the photoshop in the one of just Will, Kate, and George, but you’re right that the baby makes up for it. Otherwise, I think these are really nice. And I ADORE that the Queen has her handbag in every single shot.
The handbag kills me too!
Yes! Don’t let anyone get your purse Queenie!
LOVE the purse in every shot!
I just wonder why it is on the floor??? Hasn’t she heard, “Put your purse on the ground and your money walks away from you.”???
AS if that could ever happen! LOL
I want to know what she had in it. Keys to the palace? Gum? Lipstick? A pop-up crown and retractable scepter?
agree about the photoshop.
Kate looks like a mannequin in most of those shots because of it.
ETA: that baby is ADORABLE!!! love the hands-up shot.
Doofus, you beat me to the word ‘mannequin.’ That perfectly describes Kate in the trimmed down photo.
I was thinking both Will and Kate look like wax figures…. but the baby TOTALLY makes up for it in that shot, so I kind of still love that picture!
It is hard posing with a baby though… especially when the photographer is trying to get a cute reaction from the baby…. you just have to hold your smile and hope your eyes are open when the pictures are taken… can make for some cute baby pics with very strained looking parents. Of course, that doesn’t explain the max effort on photo shop… maybe they were trying to edit the ‘smile, smile, smile… keep smiling and posing while they try to get the baby to look cute… smiling….. lips starting to quiver a bit… but keep smiling, don’t blink don’t blink’ look out of the pictures? Considering all involved, I think that picture is pretty darn cute, and if that were my own little family pic, I’d be thrilled to get such a cute baby shot, along with my hubby and I looking reasonably okay (if a bit waxy)!
Notice that in all of the rest of the pictures, there wasn’t much effort made to get a ‘cute’ shot of George. Too many other people in those to make everyone hold their smile/pose while they try to get ‘cute baby’ looks as well.
It’s her neck. Makes her look all bobble heady. Either that or they photoshopped another head on her body.
Her neck is photoshopped away, Bluhare. Her neck in other photos is almost as wide as her head. I can see photoshopping wrinkles, fine, but photoshopping a neck into a popsicle stick? That is really pathetic.
Loving the handbag too, but the whole thing needs more corgis!
This isn’t Bucks House but Clarence House. There’s a Rottweiler in residence there!
That was the first thing I noticed too!
Handbag is the best thing in the photos and deserves its own tv show…..Handbag: In Support of The Queen!
I won’t be surprised if the Handbag will have its Twitter account later today. Or perhaps there already is! 🙂
Why do they look like Madame Tussaud-esque wax statue versions of themselves, especially Kate in that first one? George is cute!
Hi! Are you new here?
GREAT name BTW 😉
Prince George: “Boom! Whattup fools?! Baby G in the house.”
Baby G is cute & I love that picture of him. Still tripping that there are kings and queens and whatnot in 2013 though.
Prince George: “Believe that. ‘Cuz it can’t stop. It won’t stop, beyooootch!”
Perfection!
Yeah, I don’t get the fascination at all. I find nothing interesting in this family. At least Kim Kardashian has a gigantic ass.
They went to TOWN on the blur tool.
I saw that pic late last night and actually thought it was fake! Too much Photoshop, for sure. Although Kate does look more vapid than usual in all the pics. Love the pic with the Queen smiling at the baby!
Yes. My favorite is the Queen smiling at Prince Georgie. At that point, she’s not the queen, but just a great-grandmother enjoying her great-grandchild.
Are we sure that top photo is not the debut look at their new wax figures at Madame Tussaud’s?
I think sadly Kate looks EXCEPTIONALLY dead-eyed in all the photos. Like a wax figure. And I am not someone who EVER thinks that about her. On the contrary, usually she manages to pull off natural, relaxed and animated. What is going on here?
She doesn’t look like herself. She does look genuinely happy in the 1st pic, but there’s been so much editing… No smile lines crows feet, heavily reduced under eye bags , no pox marks. This is a professional photo so no one should be shocked at this or believe it’s all natural. It also looks like William got touched up with some more hair…?
That was the first thing I noticed! Such an old lady thing to do. It’s weird, but she’s the queen. I love how she’s looking at George in that one shot, the only one too. Adorable.
I know right, what is UP with the handbag? Not to mention, coat hat and gloves. The Queen looks ready to leave the h*ll out of there any second. Except for that one happy smile toward the baby.
Just what I was thinking, was Queenie late for an appointment already?
Maybe the Queen does want to get out of there pdq because she knows about the surrogacy – that means George is therefore not her rightful heir and this whole thing is a farce.
ER is between rock and hard place because if they admit the truth it will damage the monarchy beyond belief so the RF will try and keep the lid on this for as long as possible – but the truth always comes out eventually and one day the s..t will hit the fan.
All hail the Queen’s purse!
I thought it was adorable too that the Queen’s little purse was in every single shot. Too cute. And her sensible shoes are cute too.
I am so glad that I wasn’t the only one to notice that. Had no one the nerve to mention the fact that it was in the shot?
they don’t look alive.
like some inflexible plastic things in stiff suits or dead yellow lace.
Lovely pictures, I especially like the one of the Queen admiring little George, her expression is the perfect doting great grandmother.
I agree … I love that photograph of the Queen. Though, I am left wondering why she chose to sit so far away from Waity? It is interesting, is it not, particularly given how close William is to Waity. The Queen’s placement throws off the balance of the photograph. Personally, I would have loved for the photographer to take a photograph with the Queen front and center, holding the baby!
Yes! I really wanted The Queen holding Prince George and surrounded by her family, without Kate or the rest of those Middletons.
@MisJes
Honestly, I find that sentiment kind of gross. They did one without the Middletons, but Kate is part of the family now (just as much as Philip is, she’s just a more recent addition). The idea that they should chuck her out of the picture while they pose with a baby that’s 50% hers is just weird. She’s not a brood mare, she’s Will’s wife and George’s mother.
@Esti
Reviewing my comment, I concede that my word choice was not the best.
The assumptions on my view of Kate’s position in the family, that litter your comment above, are inaccurate. In fact, I did not state ANY view at all.
I was merely stating what I thought a lovely picture would have been. In my own family, we take a picture of the eldest generation of each side holding the baby, with their side of the family gathered around. It is not about “chucking” anyone out. I don’t see what is “gross” about that, but if it is to you, that is your prerogative, not mine.
Esti
The baby is genetically 50% hers. That’s where it stops. She will be the child’s mother, but she won’t have any pull if she wants the kid to not go to boarding school, or not participate in royal activities. And should Will and Kate divorce she will not have it easy. This isn’t a normal family and things aren’t done the same.
And they got seperate photos and group variations so it’s fine. I don’t see an issue.
What’s so wrong with those Middletons? They’re family too. Jeez.
Yes unfortunately
@ Esti:
TRUTH.
Princess Anne, yes. The York girls and their parents, no. Charles can cut them off.
@ A – TOTALLY!
We don’t see nearly enough of Princess Anne these days. Growing up, she was one of my idols in the horse world. More character in her little finger than in all the rest of the Royal dead weight combined, I say.
There is a funny book called The Queen and I which imagines the royal family deposed and living on the dole in a Council house. It’s quite hilarious with Charles wandering around in a cheap plastic track suit and Diana (old book!) gadding about like a chav wife with her new girlfriends, wearing too much makeup, down at the pub picking up guys. Princess Anne is wonderfully portrayed as totally unfazed and practical: reading DIY manuals and figuring how to install plumbing to connect a new washer dryer. I thought it nailed her!
That does sound good. I may have to look for it.
I’m looking forward to reading “The Queen and I” too.
In case you check back, bored suburbanhousewife, I ordered the book off Amazon. 🙂
I think you are good to go on exercising after 6 weeks. I think that’s what it was after my C-section. But did we really have to ask that. When these celebs are on treadmills at 2 weeks out?
Anyway, George is so dag on adorable. I feel comfortable saying it here because nobody knows me, I WANT ANOTHER BABY!
uhhh had to get that out
Lol Get it out! Haha
I really don’t understand how they do it… I know everyone is different but I vacummed the floors when my second baby was 4 weeks and nearly hemmorhaged, lol!
I was in top physical condition when he was born, had him in an hour and a half but it took much longer than 3 months to get back in shape. Geesh!
Because you gave birth to a baby Gigi, waity didn’t
If you have a C section the general rule is at least 6 weeks of restrictions, or longer if your incision isn’t healed right. If a vaginal birth you’re suggested to wait 6 weeks, but docs will usually give thr thumbs up if your lochia has stopped amd you’re feeling up to it. And abdominal exercises are super important after birth since they’re working to re-strengthen the muscles that were weakened and stretched out during pregnancy. They’re just fine to do, but will probably be pretty hard.
Are they supposed to look so wax-y? When I saw the top photo I thought for sure it was their wax duplicates.
Prince George is adorable.
The kid is adorable. I hope he ends up looking like Kate, because those Windsor genes are very unfortunate.
I like Pippster more than Cressida. Not with Harry, just in general.
Those Windsor genes are centuries strong.
When PG’s Windsor genes kick in, let’s hope the end result isn’t as shocking as his father and great uncle.
Failing that, let’s hope his Middleton genes have a good run like his father’s Spencer genes did.
I do think he resembles the Middletons moe than the Windscors at this point. Yesterday I was surprised by how many people thought he looked like William.
Agree the baby appears to have Middleton looks – Kate’s dad in particular. For now.
I agree. When I looked at their baby just now I thought, he looks just like Mike Middleton.
Is it just me or does Kate’s face looked like it was photo-shopped weird? She looks cartoony.
Just imagine if Diana’s genes hadn’t been thrown in there, George wouldn’t have a shot at being so damn cute
Kate is way prettier than Diana. Let’s hope the baby looks like her.
Honestly, they are/were both very attractive women. George is lucky in his genes.
Kate is pretty-ish, but no matter how much I try, I just can’t see Diana’s beauty. She was a great person, but very very plain.
George will be lucky until the Windsor genes kick in. They always do.
To me, Diana and Kate are about equal on the looks scale. Diana projected more presence, though, from the moment she appeared on the scene.
Doesn’t matter, really, because as people have pointed out, the Windsor genes always kick in and stamp out everything else. Usually at about 28 to 30 years old.
Kate seems just more “pedestrian” than Diana. Diana had “breeding” and seemed more comfortable as a princess than Kate. The way Diana moved was so sensual, and her presence so natural and graceful. It was easy to admire her. Kate’s veneers, and all that goes into making her attractive are not so winning to me, because it’s just too easy to see what she would look like, minus the “stuff”. Kate looks like she is trying very hard just to fit in. It must be daunting. I would love all the spit polish she gets for sure! Kate is great and seems very sweet, don’t get me wrong. But in my opinion, she doesn’t even come near Diana in the princess department.
Oh, I do so hate “breeding”. Diana’s behaviour as a princess wasn’t that great either, if you count affairs, stalking, and vitriol. I don’t think being raised as an aristocrat did Diana any favours at all.
Bluhare
Diana made a good point there. PDiana moved very gracefully in public. She had charisma in spades. Kate is going for a more “perfect princess” image and that means veneers, hair, clothes, vacant stares. There’s a lot to be said for a person’s inner beauty. Even if Diana had her violent/spiteful side.
Disagree Florc. Diana had charisma which has absolutely nothing to do with “breeding”.
To me, Diana had pure PR genius. She was in a class unto herself as far as that was concerned.
She had her share of personal issues. I believe Kate is probably a much easier person to live with.
Bubbles – I find it funny that you think Diana is the prettier one. Kate is so artificial and receives so much help from Mr. Photoshop, it’s hard to tell what she really looks like under the heavy make up, fake teeth, hair extensions, fake tan, etc., etc. Diana had a natural elegance about her and while not a conventional beauty per se, she was def. above Kate in terms of looks.
Bluhare
Didn’t mean to draw a comparison between breeding and charisma. Only that Diana had Charisma. No one can argue against Diana having that “it” factor. All “breeding” aside. She was graceful in photographs and video.
Suze
Kate might be easier to live with because she’s so submissive. William has lashed out one way or another in the past and she’s still around because she’s accepted that. That’s my arm chair diagnosis. He’s in control and she’ll support that as long as she’s taken care of.
Kate does not come close to what Diana had. Kate is girl next door and Diana had that certain je ne seais quoi that made her stand apart from the rest and always will. Maybe it’s because Diana had determination and drive, which I don’t see with Kate. Dressing up for a fundraiser every two months is not drive.
Yes, breeding is a bad word. But Diana was a natural.
Diana was also a dancer and that will influence how you move. 🙂
I agree, Diana had a presence that Kate seems to lack.
I will never forget Princess Diana secretly taking her two small boys out into the night and handing out blankets, food, and money to working girls and the homeless. In spite of her demons, Diana was effortlessly beautiful.
I often wonder if any of Diana’s official portraits still hang in any of the royal residences, or were they all relegated ‘to the dust heap’ like Anne Boleyn’s?
Really good question, Sloan. If I were a betting person I’d say none in BP, yes to William and Harry, and maybe to Charles. I do know her favourite portrait is at Althorp.
Diana was effortlessly glamorous and sexy. I don’t think Kate is sexy at all…sure, she has good bits, but somehow one thinks of volleyball or badminton when you see her. Too bad about all the photoshop, if that is what made her have such a weird expression on her face for the sitting photos.
Can anyone explain why she wears blue skinny jeans everywhere since she has gone to Canada? She wears them for official functions, as well as about town…I think she must have a dozen pairs. Wearing those same old bottoms and just changing up the top seems a bit uncreative, at the least.
the photo of the queen & three future kings is meant to mimic one done over a century ago of Victoria and three future kings: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/25/article-2476033-18E9748900000578-675_634x771.jpg
Lovely! Thanks for the link.
I thought of that picture when I saw it!
I think George is adorable. He looks more like baby William than I thought he would. He looks like both parents I think. He is so cute, especially in that first picture. “Huzzah!”
Yes, thank you for the link!
That’s also the last time that a ruling monarch and 3 kings of England took a picture together if memory serves.
Except Victoria actually bothered holding the baby, intead of perching at the end of the furniture with her purse, ready to escape.
I enjoy that the Queen’s handbag makes an appearance in the photos.
That baby is such a cutie!!
Really, like a little Gerber baby.
I think baby George’s eyes are deep blue 🙂
It’s too soon for his eyes to be brown, right? They’ll be blue for at least another month.
Not necessarily, I had brown eyes from day 1. But I was wondering about his eye color as well.
Why would it be too soon? My kid’s eyes were a lighter brown/hazel at birth but were fully brown by 5 months. They were never blue. Is that a thing?
They usually start turning at 3 or 4 months — I’ve heard the change can go as late as 12 months. And it took my kid’s eyes a couple of months to go fully from blue to brown. And one of my nephews had bright blue eyes (not the dark blue-gray newborn color) until he was three — and then they turned green.
Since both parents have blue eyes, it’s very, very unlikely (although not theoretically impossible) that they would have a brown-eyed kid.
Whoa – somebody else whose child had bright blue eyes until 3 years old – and then turned green! My daughter had brilliant blue eyes, not dark at all. One day when she was 3 I looked at her and realized they had turned a lovely shade of green. Still very beautiful of course! 🙂
However Kate does not have blue eyes – more greenish-hazel that I can see.
William and Kate both have hazel brown eyes. Look it up if you don’t believe me.
I hear sometimes in photos they do not come off as the real color they are.
Justme, someone who has seen William and Kate in person says they both have hazel brown eyes.
That baby looks a lot like Harry.
I can’t stop laughing at the fact that the Queen wanted her bag in the picture. It’s like the bag too is part of the family or she didn’t trust anybody enough to let the bag out of the pic. ‘No you silly tarts, the bag stays with me! Blimey!’
I find it hilarious. 😀 😀 😀
HM is *very* peculiar about her purses. Dressers have tried to get her some different purses, different purse colours, even changes in gloves. And HM steadfastly refuses to alter her gloves, purses, or even her shoes. It’s kinda funny & endearing! 🙂
Call me a sap, but the picture of all the future monarchs (and Charles) was quite wonderful.
Absolutely the best!! One for the history books!!
I see what you did there!
I can’t get over how tall Will and Harry are! It must come from Di’s side because they tower over Charles and Philip.
Yes, but I think Prince Phillip has shrunk a great deal. He used to be quite taller than Charles.
Philip was only a tad taller than Charles.
Yes, the height is most definitely a Spencer/Roche trait.
I dont think its shopped, its just lighting effects of diffuse daylight and lighting setup for the portraits, which also had to counter the backlight. That, and Kate is smiling way too hard.
The Queen is in the same light as Kate and William and she doesn’t look half as airbrushed as them, it’s especially obvious in the higher res pics.
But yeah, it doesn’t help that Kate’s smile is bordering on manic. You’d think if she had just one thing down pat it would be having her photo taken, but apparently not.
I rambled on about this above, but it is hard to pose for photos with a baby. If they are trying to get a cute look from the baby (as they obviously did in that first picture), it usually means the parents are holding their smiles way too long… and even trying not to blink, for fear they will catch a great shot of the baby, but someone else will be blinking or otherwise ruin a darling picture. Smiles can end up looking forced or strained… but most parents happily live with it to get such a cute shot of the baby in their ‘family photo’. 🙂
I remember taking photos when my girls were babies… and looking through proofs… it was frustrating. In this one, the baby looks darling, but my smile looks really strained… hubby blinking in that one… everyone looks great in this one, except baby is looking down. Getting a photo where everyone looks great isn’t easy… a baby to the mix and it can be rather difficult.
oops, meant to say ‘add’ a baby to the mix.
+1 — you’ve described it perfectly. Getting that wonderfully cute animated picture of George cancels out the somewhat strained looks on his parent’s faces. (I was always the biggest problem in pictures – I always close my eyes!)
Think they are shopped,only because Prince Phillip’s dark eye circles are completely gone. I am pretty confident he would never wear make up, even for a photo shoot.
Hooray for the hand bag.
Love the Q and Prince Charles. The baby is cute. The rest I can do without.
So tired of the hype over this couple. They need to remember as well as mainstream media that Charles is next in line to the throne. End of story.
Seconding every comment above about the Queen’s handbag 🙂 🙂 🙂
Anyway, despite the stories about how she treated Diana and was distant to her children, I still can’t help but admire her work ethic and energy. Probably she does more physically at the age of 87 — with all the events she has to attend, and the travels — than me. I think at times she even looks younger than Charles.
I do tip my hat to her. She works quite a bit, and travels, too. That’s tiring!
Terrible photographs. Kate and William and even the baby are all photo-shopped to high heaven. In the group photo every one else looks normal and those three look like cardboard cutouts.
Wow prince Charles looks exactly like his mum (if he put on a hat he would be her) lol! Baby George is adorable he looks like his dad when he was a baby.
Sigh. I wish I had an army of nannies, cooks, house cleaners etc, so is be able to “set aside” some time each day to work out with a trainer, despite having a one-year old at home.
People without all those helpers work out everyday around the globe and have babies. Some people can make it happen; some can’t. But it’s not just for the wealthy.
Comments like these, while holding some validity, largely come across as bitter and defensive. I was a single mom (of one), worked full-time, went to college full-time at night (a few nights a week), and got up 6 days a week at 4:30 a.m. to work out, which I did in my own home with dumbbells, an adjustable bench, a squat rack, olympic bar and plates (mostly for deadlifts), my yoga mat, and a (cheap, used)treadmill. I got all of the equipment at yard sales, used stores, and some from family and friends when they were getting rid of stuff (although you need not one piece of equipment to stay fit: yoga, bodyweight exercises, metabolic circuits, stairs, walking, hiking, etc.). I didn’t require a housekeeper (good god, I would love one, though!), a nanny (my kiddo went to a family day care during the day when I worked, but has never ever had a babysitter…and he’s 17 now), a personal trainer, a chef, etc. I just did it. Every day. It’s honestly that easy. I understand that it’s not necessarily fun, and it can be hard to stay on track sometimes, but if it’s something you actually want to do, anyone can make it happen. Sure, for a few years I got 5-6 hours of sleep on weeknights, but I got 8-9 on the weekends. I actually enjoyed the routine. If one wants it, one can easily make it happen. Working out need only take 20 minutes if that is all you have–if you do it right.
I think I sound preachy, but I don’t feel preachy. I think I’m just honestly sort of curious about and exasperated by these sorts of comments that I see venomously (or snidely or dismissively) flung around when someone famous loses weight after a baby (or whatever). It’s interesting. If I sound like a douchey, uppity bitch, forgive me. I don’t mean to sound that way. (I do have Asperger’s so sometimes I struggle to understand my tone, so go gently on me if you wanna bitch me out….)
It read as “I wish” to me, and there’s nothing wrong with that. “I wish” too.
I don’t think the original comment came across as remotely bitter or defensive. It was a simple “I wish” statement. There was certainly nothing venomous, snide or dismissive about it.
Your post-partum exercise routine was both admirable and consistent. I’m glad it worked for you. Maybe someone will read your post and decide to follow your example. Then again, perhaps that won’t happen.
@themummy:
You’re alright!
An “I wish” comment is not defaming, just simply wistful.
I think, themummy, you’re expressing an “I’m in charge” or “I’ve got the power” sentiment to change my life or my body. Nothing wrong with that because sometimes one forgets how many obstacles can be overcome.
Beautiful photos, beautiful parents and baby! What a relief it must be to the Queen, after all the horror of Charles!
I had a vaginal birth and was walking the day I came home from the hospital. I was back to a formal exercise routine (including abs) within a week. I’d already asked muly doctor, and he was fine with it. FWIW, I didn’t lose the last ten lbs until I stopped breastfeeding.
Wow, that is early. Can I ask if you needed to have stitches?
I’m shocked.your doc was okay with that, since you still would have been bleeding and your uterus wouldnt have returned back to its normal position. Usually thr recommendatin is 6 weeks Post Partum. That said, you got the Ok and it sounds like everything went alright for you!
The bit about 3 months being “so early!” to do crunches made me LOL. So clueless.
Old ladies are partial to their cake hats and handbags. I bet it’s full of hairnets and dog food! George is soooo cute. I think he just has the really dark blue eyes many babies have at birth.
George looks just like baby William did. So cute. William and Harry are a credit to their mother.
Charles has been their sole parent for over half their lives, William and Harry are a credit to their father.
Well said!
Im sure she was talking about their looks. Charles is no prince charming.
Not to shade Charles but he is NOT a hands on father. Even when the boys were teens and getting into a bunch of trouble. In all fairness, it’s very common for the upper classes to kinda be a hands off parent (in that regard, Diana was extremely unusual). In fact, a lot of biographers kinda slam Charles because he didn’t really fill the void after Diana died. Camilla didn’t really help that either as she was a typical upper class hands off mother too.
Sorry but it’s the truth.
I can see his mother in there as well. And I hope she is, as it doesn’t bode well for his hairline if she isn’t!
Holy airbrush! They really went nuts with the editing, didnt they?
swoooooooosssssssssssssh! But that baby is so lovely!
The only picture I like is of The Queen with her son, grandson and great-grandson. Four generations. I think it is just beautiful.
Exactly! Not many families get to do that. Good for them! And HRH George is really a cute little thing.
I have fourth generation photos with two sets of my great-grandparents, and my children have them, too. They are such precious heirlooms. (My family tends to have their babies young, which helps make that possible. If my grandfather lives a few more years, we could theoretically have a five-generation photo with a cousin’s branch of the family….)
I really like that picture too. I just wish QE was holding the babe in it. I also like the way Kate and William are leaning into each other in their picture.
George looks a lot different in these photos than the candid ones and video, right? They photo-shopped out all his grumpy face wrinkles!
Baby’s eye colour isn’t set until they are older , they can change hue or get darker, but they won’t get lighter.
To be factual… eye color can change at any time throughout a person’s life, becoming lighter or darker, or different color.
And yes, caucasian babies can be born with brown eyes.
Thank you! My kid definitely had brown eyes at birth. Sometimes they looked hazel-like if you put light directly in them but otherwise-brown. I never knew people thought it wasn’t possible.
Yes! You hear it all the time… my SIL’s kids (all blondies or gingers) were all born with nearly black eyes. My youngest was born with brown eyes – still brown. My oldest was born with very dark blue, then they turned bright blue, now very light grey. My son was born with muddy hazel eyes which went light blue and are now back to muddy hazel.
In my mom’s family (native american) her siblings were all born with brown eyes, but now in their 50s, 60s & 70s, their eyes have all lightened considerably to be almost green.
That handbag just slays me. Love it.
Check out the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in the photo with the Middletons. Everyone else is looking at the camera, they’re looking at an aide asking, how did THOSE people end up here?
I jest, sort of. But how many photos did the Queen allow, if there weren’t any of the big group with everyone looking in the same direction at once?
(My take on the release time? They waited until the end of the day so they got two full cycles of Christening news. One day for the informal photos at St. James, one day for these formal ones. Or it took that long for the photographer to photoshop everything. Take your choice.)
I am disappointed with the photos. I would’ve liked Queen to hold adorable George,u know it’s bad when Queen Victoria looks more warm and good in comparison. The photo shop looks really bad, K&W look so plastic and weird with no wrath towards adorable Georgie. They all look so stiff and awkward even Harry. Also in both the group photo Harry should’ve been behind Kate to give her beige, light yellow, cream whatever dress some background. Pippa behind Kate with the same colour dress does not look good. Also I would’ve liked 1 photo of grandpa Chuck holding George.
Having said all that little Georgie is just so adorable! I want to eat and smother him, God those cheeks are so kissable. Now I like something about w&k, they come off as good parents. I also liked their choice of God parents. Adorable Georgie looks like a calm, happy, well looked baby. God I love his cubby cheeks, he looks more cute then both of his parents were as babies IMO.
I would have liked to see HM holding George as well. That would have been lovely. And I’m so with you about George. He is just adorable. I’d be all over that baby like a cheap suit! 🙂
I adore this baby. ADORE. He’s just so expressive and gorgeous.
Just an aside – I had no clue that William and Harry are so tall!
William is 6’3″ and Harry is 6’2″.
If and when William become King he’ll be the tallest British Monarch. 🙂
oooh i think tall is sexy but actually Edward I (Longshanks) and Edward II (thought to be the first unanimously gorgeous Plantagenet prince) hold that distinction at 6’3″ and 6’2″
Tara, You sure about that? As Henry VIII was said to be the one that William will top if/when he ascends.
ETA:
Apparently we both are wrong! (Assuming Wikipedia is correct too)
Edward IV was 6’4″. 🙂
Did anyone else notice that in that first photograph, William and the baby have the exact same hair?
Father and son both have a mini-combover!
Honestly, I don’t know how she did it.
As I understand it, there is a condition called diastasis recti. Basically, your ab muscles part like a curtain if you do too much strenuous exercise while pregnant or immediately following pregnancy.
I really, really dislike her. It’s because of women like her, women go all crazy trying to be super fit and slim again after pregnancy when in fact they should be enjoying their babies. There is something seriously off about her. It’s not normal . . . she doesn’t appear to have a stretch mark, or even a bit of extra skin. How is that even possible?
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/diastasis-recti/AN02153
You don’t get that from working out, you just get it from being pregnant.
In fact, ab exercises while pregnant help keep them strong and pulled together. I think some people are also just predisposed to having that.
But honestly – none of my girlfriends have a concern about this after having kids – it’s ALWAYS about the loose skin… also a genetic predisposition thing. I didn’t have any after my first, but the second one killed my tummy.
You can get that just from being pregnant. My sister didn’t do any working out before/after and had that issue. Same goes for pelvic floor issues (which I’d recommend people don’t google unless you want to be grossed out)
It happens to a large % of pregnant women-regardless of the working out. That’s a old wives tale.
Remember, that info comes from a rag. For all you know, she still has her kangaroo pouch under there. I gained 43lb while pregnant and have lost 55lb since. 41 of those pounds came off in the first 3 months and I did no ab work (just breastfeeding and normal activity). I’m pretty damn good at hiding that pouch, though, and I’m built quite like Kate. Things aren’t always what they seem or what is written in a tabloid. People are just built differently and makeup and photoshopping can do wonders. I don’t doubt she is watching her calories and working out but I doubt she did anything incredibly dangerous.
Yes, a friend of mine is very similar build to Kate (tall and lean), and while her stomach looks super flat if you just happen to see her top riding up, there is definitely loose skin if she’s out in a bikini.
I’m sure Kate is watching what she eats and she obviously has the time/resources to exercise as much as she wants or as is safe. She knows she’s going to be photographed and scrutinized so she has a lot of incentive. That said, I hope she does NOT start looking like she did pre-pregnancy, that was too thin/”toned”. If you saw photos of her from the charity event last night, it’s obvious that she has a little more flesh on her arms than at this time last year and it looks much better!
Diastasis recti has nothing to do with exercise during pregnancy or postpartum.
And honestly, it’s not that everyone needs to be super thin after having a baby (it takes 9 months for that weight to come on, ggive it at least 9 mo ths for it to come off) but exercising is wonderful to do as a new mom. It helps keep you strong, fit and healthy, and it’s a great way to help combat postpartum depression or even just the baby blues.
I’m a nurse, and once examined a 12 hour postpartum patient with an abdomen I could have bounced a quarter off of. Hate on Kate if you want, but it’s mostly genetics to be credited, along with the discipline to gain only a healthy amount of weight, and a body that was already toned well before pregnancy.
I’m thinking that Pippa and Harry are together to break up the cream (if he and camilla switched places, it would be 4 people in cream right in the center) Having camilla behind the queen allows her bright blue suit to pop in the picture. Plus the way everyone is semi-arranged by height brings the eye to mom/dad/and baby.
Good composition work professional photographer.
I respectfully disagree. There’s so much distance between these people (which the camera exaggerates) that they look like a bunch of business people posing at a convention instead of a family. The photographer should’ve brought them in closer together. Of course, maybe they didn’t cooperate. There’s so much bad here–the overuse of Photoshop to the point that Kate and Will look plastic, the angle of the “3 future kings” photo is unfortunate (see two painted heads over Will’s shoulder)and has too busy of a background, and the lighting was not well thought out.
I feel like the Queen is ready to run out any second, with her gloves and handbag. Like she could only be there for a minute and had to go!
I think I read somewhere that she allowed a period of time and then was out of there. She did look a bit separate from the occasion; I noticed it.
I was told I could resume ab intensive work 6-10 weeks after birth–whenever I felt I was ready. I think I was back in the gym at 6 weeks and started allowing myself to do more abs intensive stuff around 8 weeks, just to be safe (c-section).
Anyway, George is really cute. Looks just like Will. I like the “Woot! I get to be KING!” photo.
“Personally, though, I’m a fan of the royal “dead-weight” like Princess Anne and the York princesses. I’d trade in half of these people for the Princess Royal.”
Yay, Kaiser – +1000!!!
Love, love, love the four generations photo. And I ADORE the handbag. Seriously, I have “owning a Launer of London Encore bag” on my bucket list…
The photoshop on Kate in the top photo is creepy. Maybe Hilary Mantel was right and she is a jointed doll…
Also, did anyone read the article in The Telegraph on Oct. 9th about how Prince Philip doubled his workload for the coming month compared to last year? I couldn’t help an eyeroll when I thought, wow he’s doubling up at 92 and Wills is taking a gap year at 31, LOL!!!
I’ve never had kids, but a cast member in a musical revue I was in had a son by caesarean section two weeks before rehearsals began. I remember her rehearsing with us from the very beginning, but she couldn’t do somethings at the start. By showtime she was able to do “Mein Herr” from Cabaret and that is pretty strenuous in terms of core work while on the chair. So I guess it’s possible vis-a-vis Kate’s weight loss/volley ball photos.
You all are not debating the most important point!
Is George GINGER???
would be cool, but i think it looks like the beginning of brown hair
You can’t really see it in the close up of him, but there was one at the christening that really showed red. He looks auburn haired to me.
Looks that way, doesn’t it ; )?
And if he grows up with red hair, dark complexion and brown eyes, he could be quite good looking. That is an unusual combo.
He sure is a cute baby, isn’t he? That poor kid would have raspberries blown all over his little belly if I were around him!
@ bluhare…
I think that’s what Kaiser may have implied with the “brown eyes” comment, lol.
Scandale! ; )
Let the uncle/nephew bonding begin! I see rusty hair as Diana’s contribution.
At first glance I thought Ginger too. It looks dark auburn. Brownish red. Hmm hmm hmm.
He’s a cutie that’s for sure. Harry lucked OUT getting Spencer genes. The Windsor genes are horrible. They go from cute to GOOD LORD WHAT HAPPENED!
Harry has a good dose of both Spencer and Mountbatten. 🙂
sweet photos and all are very good dressed. George is the best looking!
What is wrong with Kate´s face? Look at the first picture. Her face looks curious. The position of her head, frozen smile and dead eyes. Bad photoshop? It looks not normal.
William is unphotognic as hell! And his socks 🙁
The group photos: They all have very much space between each other. Look at the Queen and all the space between her and George/Kate
Kate’s smile was so phony and her head tilt was not flattery. Her eyes looked weird also.
To be fair, Kate’s smile never looks genuine since she had her veneers put in. Her only smile moments her fans and critics are in agreement is a genuine smile are her cheshire cat grins.
This looks like a combo of tired holding a smile for the cameras, veneers looking unnatural, and photo shopping.
😀 yea, the socks kind of ruin it for me. also i find the watches on Will&Kate annoying. it’s not like they have to rush somewhere. just take that thing off for the picture only, if you are so attached to it.
I think the overuse of photoshop was unfortunate. I find Kate to be an attractive woman, but official portraits of her are always airbrushed to high heaven and she doesn’t look relatable or real.
The baby is adorable, as babies all are. I like the hands-up pose, and like the shot of the queen peeking at him. Human elements in photos that look unfortunately staged and sort of stiff.
All their photos are stiff. Even the wedding photo of Kate compared to Diana’s. Kate’s is stiff, proper, formal. Diana’s was relaxed with giggling and leaning into each other. Like they’re really trying to present an image of regal perfection, but it just comes across to counter their “normal/relatable” image.
The Middleton brother is looking very George V with his beard. He kind of looks like an anachronism among this lot. I like his look though.
I wondered who he was. I agree, he looks very good in that photo.
OK I’ll say it I keep staring at all the negative space in these pics. There’s a lot of wall and window and paintings, ex. the the 4 generations pic.
Baby George is major cutie! Those cheeks! He looks like a good mix of Will & Kate.
Like many above me, I love the presence of the handbag!
They look like wax figures in that first picture. Holy photoshop!
The rest of the pictures are nice. Happy baby. Happy family.
George is so cute. Those cheeks! Chubby babies… 😀 Looks very much like William. Those Windsor genes are so strong.
His eyes are not brown. I saw a blown-up photo of his face and his eyes are murky green right now. He’s either gonna have Kate’s eyes, which sometimes look hazel or light green depending on the lighting, or William’s blues.
The photos don’t look that great to me. They’re very stiff and lifeless even though they’re smiling, especially the one of Kate tilting her head and her eyes looking vacant. These photos look rigid, even by BRF standards.
love the first picture. baby G is just too cute.
Kate looks very stepford wife-ish. still pretty though.
love me some Lizzie with her ubiquitous handbag!!
I don’t understand the shade for Kate exercising. It’s perfectly healthy to return to the gym six weeks after a v-delivery. And I know a ton of moms who work out daily, with and without jobs.
Especially because she exercised throughout her entire pregnancy.
I love the pic of the Queen looking at the baby. I am pretty sure she has done that with all of the royal babies.
Love the photo with the queen looking at little Georgie! Like any doting great-grandmother!
Why is there a crumpet on her head? Is it cos she’s representing Britain? 😛
When I first saw the photo of the happy trio (mum, dad, & George) for a split second I honestly – swear to God – thought it was a joke of some sort. Their expressions, especially Catherine’s, are so funny. They look like an advertisement from the 1950s, for a sofa or an insurance company. I can almost hear them: “You too can enjoy a happy carefree family life – with Prudential! Call tollfree for our brochure today!”
You nailed it!
*gets out paper & pencil*
The number please? 😉
Hahahahaha, glad I was not the only one to see it! 😉
With all the buzz about the celebrity photographer, I was expecting something a tad different.
Ok, I have what is probably a really dumb question, but I’m not very informed when it comes to the royals: if something were to happen to William, would Harry be next in line, or would baby George preced him?
George would precede him, but (if still a minor at the time) he would have to have a regent ruling in his stead until he became of age. The regent would probably be Harry.
William and Kate look plastic and bland. Par for the course. I didn’t think low key meant dead.
Georgie is the only alive creature. A cutie!
Really bad photography all round.
“Is it reasonable for a woman who just gave birth three months ago to be doing abdominal exercises? I’m really asking.”
I have no personal experience, but my mother started doing abdominal exercises immediately after my birth, while still in the hospital bed. And, in fact, her figure became even better after my birth (having been athletic and lean before). At age 51 (I am looking at a photo of her at that age, in a bikini) she had an hourglass figure.
These pictures are airbrushed as hell. Kate looks like a constipated wax figurine.
And where are George’s GODPARENTS??? I wanted to see Georgie with his godparents.
Me too. And Zara (who I love) is pregnant now as well.
I want to know what is in the Queen’s purse. It has to be something special if someone else can’t look after it while she sits for a portrait. I noticed her purse/clutch in other portrait photos too. What does she carry around that is so important??? I’m dying to know.
That’s 100% an HM thing! See my post above. 🙂
The handbag is also used to send signals to HM’s entourage.
In general terms how she holds her bag and which arm she holds it on, if transfers it to the other arm etc is a signal to the entourage as to her wishes.
That is bloody funny, LAK. I’ve now got a visual of HM’s security team whispering into their hidden mics!
awww thinking of Diana… Love the “I am king of the world” pose by baby in first picture.
It’s just fine to do abdominal work not long after having a baby – different precautions have to be made if the mother had a C Section, but aside from that they’re just muscles. The general guideline is to wait until 6 weeks postpartum to begin an exercise regimen (not only to wait until the lochia stops, but also to make sure that the uterus has fully gone back to it’s original position as well as simply because the moms joints most likely feel very wobbly with all the relaxin in her system.
Thank you!!! So good to see other level headed people on this page.
Abdominal exercises are so important postpartum and are unlikely to be sit ups etc and instead exercises that focus on pelvic stability and recovering the pelvic floor.
The Queen can do what she likes. The photo with the 3 kings and the Queen is lovely. The last group shot is nice too.
Is George a redhead….?
OMG Harry is the father (I am kidding)
The baby is adorbs. Kate looks like a wooden dummy, I’m sorry to say.
That baby is too cute for words.
I just had a baby and 2 weeks post partum I am below my pre-pregnancy weight. Some women gain a lot of “extra” weight while pregnant, some women actually lose weight from severe morning sickness, like Kate had, and some women just gain the actual weight of the baby. It can be diet or exercise, but mostly it is just genetics. I think the pressure to erase any sign of having had a baby immediately after birth is harmful and ridiculous. Even though I don’t have extra weight, my belly is still big, but with Kate’s body type and the pregnancy she had, I doubt she has had to work out to look like she does.
Kate never appeared to lose weight during her pregnancy which is a blessing. And we have seen her thin before. 🙁 Her face never went to that yucky thin we’ve seen before.
I just think she managed her weight gain throughout and breastfeeds, all which greatly help get her back into shape after.
too much photoshop. I think the way the queen is looking at the baby is cute tho
Seeing all the photoshop comments, it occurred to me that before cameras- all portraits were photoshopped on the fly by the painter… 🙂
LOL. And you hoped he liked you!
Was just looking at the Daily Mail, and another photo’s been released. It’s really quite nice.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477642/Giggling-George-basking-radiant-glow-mothers-love-An-utterly-captivating-new-Royal-christening-portrait–released-VERY-proud-parents.html
yes it´s a sweet photo, George´s smile is super cute! But Wills should look more like a proud daddy or even look happy.
Now with the new photo of the trio i´ve realized why Kate looks so weird in the christening photos. No joke. Kate has crazy eyes. Am i the only one who notices Kate´s crazy eyes?
Ok maybe it´s because i´ve just watched the old HIMYM-episode where Marshall has a date with a woman with crazy eyes…
Georgie is not ‘basking’. Who knows what Georgie’s look means. Perhaps it was a startle response.
And his mother is grinning at him with the same headlights she uses for photo ops. I don’t see softening, or all encompassing love or emotion.
William looks like he’s working.
They should have photo shopped Carole…out of the picture!