Yesterday was Mother’s Day in the UK, and so the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge posted a collection of photos to celebrate. The first image is a never-before-seen photo of Kate, William, George and Charlotte from a Matt Porteous photoshoot from 2018. Will and Kate used an image from this same photoshoot for their 2018 Christmas card, I know because I recognize Kate’s muted sweater. It’s a cute photo and I’m glad they released it. It makes me wonder how many professional shots they’re sitting on, saving for a rainy day when they want to change the subject. The other photos are: an old photo of Princess Diana when Harry and William were just boys; Carole Middleton looking very chic; and a Mother’s Day card made by Prince George.
To mothers new and old and families spending today together and apart – we are thinking of you all at this difficult time.
Happy Mother’s Day 🌷 pic.twitter.com/Qu0gkUYGdQ
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) March 22, 2020
1. The Duke & Duchess with their children
2. Diana, Princess of Wales with Prince William and Prince Harry
3. Carole Middleton with her daughter Catherine
4. A card from Prince George to his mother this Mother’s Day© @mattporteous/Jayne Fincher/The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) March 22, 2020
Who knew that Carole Middleton used to have thick bangs?!?! Honestly, her bangs are – gasp – cute?? I saw some sites say that Carole and Kate are “look-alikes” but… Carole looks like Alexa Chung in that photo.
As for William and Kate’s Mother’s Day plans… Hello Magazine said that they spent the day “privately” and likely did not travel, but that they probably spent the weekend at Anmer Hall. This is the one time where I would actually want them to just stay at Anmer Hall for a month or so and stop trying to convince everyone that they’re “taking over” because Charles and the Queen are so old.
Photos courtesy of Matt Porteous for Kensington Palace, Jayne Fincher, Avalon Red.
Carole looks great in that picture. I don’t see a lot of Kate in her face, maybe a touch of Pippa.
Minx, yes my thoughts exactly.
Carole is quite stunning. I personally think Pippa, like her husband, is a bit of a butherface so I don’t see the resemblance.
She also dresses better than either of her daughters.
Minx – part of the problem is that her daughters dress too much like her. Carole almost always looks nice, IMO, and often Kate and Pippa look like they are copying her. She has a different figure from them and is older. What works for her isn’t going to work for Kate and Pippa but they don’t seem to get that sometimes.
Becks1–yep.
Yep, I agree.
Carole looks like she is posing up a storm and the baby is just a prop.
Taste of things to come?
Holy shit, Carole’s a babe. I can see why William wanted to marry her.
Carole 🔥🔥🔥
Where is prince Louis?
If you told me the Cambridges had only two kids I would believe it at this point.
carole looks really good in that picture. I don’t see a lot of Kate in her besides the coloring.
I hope they spent the day privately. They should be spending all their time privately right now and cut out the engagements like the one from last week.
I did think it was a little…not strange…but noticeable? That they released a picture that is a year and a half old and that doesn’t include Louis? But, its a cute picture and Kate and Charlotte are the focus, so maybe that was the point?
Yeah, I’ve always thought Kate took after her father. Pippa is the one who looks like Carole.
They have three kids so it’s really weird they couldn’t use one that includes all three of them. And using pics from 2 years ago is also odd when there is an alleged photographer in the family.
@Nic – right? Its a cute happy picture so I bet that’s why they picked it, and I’m not saying that there is something “going on” with Louis or they are actively hiding him. But its starting to become noticeable, like I said.
My tinhat theory is that I believe that will and Kate dont live together anymore. That’s why they are using that 2018 photo . Last year only one photo during summer mustique trip beacuse William affair trends on twitter to show them they are family but it’s also odd that they use that photo for christmas card instead of new photo. This is what happens when diana and Charles in their early stage of separation where they only photograph together in offical event . Often diana photograph with the boys alone. Again last year cambridge arrived in different cars and everyone asked them why and they left in same car. It’s very weird and their body language is weird where obvious keen Kate makes manic and fake smile for the press. Some shit went down in the house of cambridges. I dont think William is going to change anytime soon beacuse in this age Philip alleged had two female companion and that’s why queen ordered Philip to come to windsor instead of staying at his usual christmas home.
@Aria I actually think that tinfoil theory is pretty accurate. I think they live very separate lives at this point and that could be why we have an 18 month old picture here. If this was a year ago, the picture wouldn’t seem off to me (as in, if they released this pic in March 2019, even though it was taken in the fall 2018 for their family photos/Christmas card, that would have made sense to me, bc it IS a cute picture.)
George and Charlotte are the heir and spare and close in age. Louis is notably younger and is going to have a different life than the two of them – it wouldn’t surprise me if he were treated a little differently from the outset.
But this is mothers day photo not about birth order. Also one of the cambridges motto is they are so normal people , normal mothers have all their kids not selected two according to their birth order.
He’s not that much younger though. He’s less than 5 years younger than George and just shy of 3 years younger than Charlotte. That’s still close enough to have a sibling relationship and overlap in activities and such. It’s not like he’s 10 years younger or something.
I would say if they had huge gaps in age yes they would make sense but these kids are pretty close plus, you want to paint the picture of the family ….that includes all the kids not just the first two.
He was around for that original photo shoot. Excluding him just seems weird.
Also heir and spare justifications are simply ridiculous, especially when they have been promoting themselves as a normal family. A normal family doesn’t exclude one of their kids from a family photo. Maybe the aide who chose the photo didn’t think of Louis. But again it looks odd.
The heir vs. spare argument is also moot when you consider what they just did to Harry and Meghan. It may be that George will be the only working royal out of their kids.
kate is the focus of the photo and she doesn’t change that much every year. She probably just thought it was a cute photo.
It’s a lovely photo and I don’t think Louis is losing any sleep because he’s not in it.
I do find it a bit odd they released a photo from 2018 that doesn’t include Louis, but it’s a cute photo.
Glad to hear they’re staying at home now!
OMG what are they hiding? Where is Louis?! Why are they so spiteful?! They OWE us a photo and photocall of that baby when we demand it because taxpayer money! How dare they do this!
Oh wait. Never mind. These are the Cambridges, not the Sussexes. That’s Louis, not Archie. Totally not different but absolutely different according the RRs.
What are they hiding?
Where is Louis
I mean, a couple of commenters above you are making that exact comment, so…
Edit: Oh, wait, I thought you were continuing HMC’s point but I just realized you’re one of the commenters doing that. Thanks for making my point instead of HMC’s then!
Nah, commenting that its noticeable we haven’t seen Louis, even in a picture, since the summer when we HAVE seen the other two, is not the same as the “Archie is a fake baby” line that anti Sussex people push.
I don’t even think its weird we haven’t seen him, but like I said above, it IS starting to stand out.
Louis was photographed with his family on 18 December 2019 arriving for the Christmas Luncheon at Buckingham Palace.
Hahahahhaha!
Carole’s hot! Remember those stories of William resting his head on Carole’s lap? Anyway I jest…but she’s hot!
@ash where is louis
Looking at that photo of Carole, she is def the looker of the women in that family. You can see where Unable and PippaTips get their love of the eyeliner from.
But they still continue to be pretty much ignored by the media because of a) COVID-19 and b) the Sussex’s. The only rag that made a big deal about this was the Fail, as usual.
I know this is different, but Royal family has a tradition of visiting people during the hard times, Queen Mother was known for her visits during the II world war, and she was beloved for that.
Nah, they shouldn’t be seen going out. People are still not taking quarantines seriously, I don’t think it would be a great look to have the RF out and about spreading germs to others. This isn’t war, this is a deadly virus that should make people stay inside and stop socializing.
This is different, full stop. they shouldn’t have made that visit.
When the queen mother made visits in WWII she wasn’t carrying the risk of spreading more bombings and she wasn’t going to carry any bombings home. That’s the difference.
HMC During rough times we need humor and that was a fabulous statement about bombings vs a virus. Hahaha!
Yes, sending out lots of videos with care and information would be the best things they can do while they stay home and be good examples. Why be in personal contact with people NOW? Because the stage is empty as other royals are displaying common sense and staying home? Very dumb.
➕💯👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Excellent HMC. I tried to make the same point yesterday, but you did it much better. And funny too.
It’s different. End of.
Will and Kate have never taken their royal duties and visits particularly seriously, so why are they starting now in the one time it would actually be better for them to stay away?
The Elizabeth and George VI were not going out during a pandemic where they could bring home a virus to their two young children. I wonder if Kate and William are deluded enough to think they are the new Elizabeth and George VI and Harry is the Duke of Windsor. Would not put it past them.
Kate and William could be spreading the virus with this visit. No one actually knows at this point which is why their visit was incredibly dumb. They could have boosted morale with a Skype call. This was selfish and idiotic.
William and Kate’s publicity stunt to the emergency center only interfered with the real workers who have important work to do.
Only Keen would pic a pic where her sweater is riding up the back just like her unweighted skirts. Also she seemed to pic a pic of QE and QM where they too battled wind and hems- subconscious? Happy Mother’s Day to mothers of all types!!
Quick, pass me the smelling salts, I’ve just seen the small of Kate’s back as she was giving her daughter a piggyback ride.
😹😹 Right?
@JUSTBITCHY Kate breaks protocol by bearing her back
Considering the level of petty shown from the Cambridges lately, I am surprised that they used a picture of Diana with William *and* Harry.
They included harry to either generate hate towards him or to generate hate towards him.
It’s so passive aggressive, which sums up the Cambridge’s perfectly. They are pretending to say ‘we care about harry’ but really saying ‘please trash him in the comments section’
Yeah “Harry is a part of our family (even though we treat him like $hit adnd you don’t)” and belongs here, Harry must find this so random and tiring.
It’s a cute photo and I love the card George made. No shade here.
George’s painting is very impressive for a 6 yr. old.
Did Carole have a drifty eye?
Quarantine Day 9: I want Carole Middleton’s hair from 1982?!
And on that note, I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but don’t cut your hair! IG is showing me nothing but “cut your own bangs!” videos and now this!
Don’t worry – go ahead and cut them. No matter how badly you butcher them, they’ll have plenty of time to grow out by the time it’s safe to go out in public again, I fear.
I read something that was like “If you’re having trouble staying home, just shave your eyebrows off.” 🤣
if you already have them, you can cut them. as Golly Gee said they will grow 🙂 However, I had to dye my hair solo and I have been doing that since moving to London cause you know, it’s quite expensive here. So at least I got practice now and it’s fun. I mean I don’t experiment but at least in this lock down I’m in I won’t be looking totally grey. Though I was thinking about letting it spread and see what it would look like. Has anyone done that? I feel like first two months just make you look like you don’t care but then it gets to look cool.
I sometimes get lazy and let me gray grow in always hoping it’ll grow in cool streaks or something. Nope. Always looks like a cobweb landed on the top of my head. Just grows wide and not down.
I’m so sorry @Courtney B, but you just made me laugh and made my misserable day by letting me imagine my hair like that. i mean it in a really good way: my country had an earthquake yesterday, in the midst of all of this corona news, and I needed this one moment of letting out a legit laugh. Thank you, and thank you Universe for making me get an extra pack of dye… hope you got it too.
I have been video / FaceTime with some clients. My concern too is if I have to start missing salon visits (for cut & color) due to pandemic. I have short pixie cut and it is going to be a mess quickly. Worse the color situation. I may just let it go gray. My patients might have a difficult time getting used to the new normal therapist. I am so glad I am not alone in this dilemma! Thanks for the giggle too.
Okay, some people really do choose their own reality. There is a comment on the KP page, offering sympathy for Carole because the Middletons have had so much abuse hurled at them since Meghan came along! How? How is that view point possible?!
Why they are using diana with harry and William photo. According william harry is disgraced to his family where he refused to put his family over his own family. Then why kp send those photo with diana, surely they had many photos with diana and william alone before harry born. Including the photo of harry is odd. But again this sick family open the door only for harry not his son nor his wife. And where is louis?? Diana has picture with both the boys equally but that’s not what happens with cambridges. William always have george, kate char and louis .
Because this is petty manipulation by Cain, showing that he still considers Harry his brother even thou in his twisted mind Harry has ‘abandoned him’.
It annoys me that Carole is being given the spotlight in this PR message, as if now she is supposed to be one of our national treasures (I’m British). I know she is the mother of the future Queen, but Kate is not yet Queen and Carole is definitely not Royal. Personally I find her to be very hard faced, albeit attractive. I feel as though this picture is rubbing her social ambitions and success into our faces. Even if this is not it’s immediate purpose, it is still in some way showing the world that Carole Middleton is relevant. Overall, I just don’t find her to be a ‘cheering’ or ‘inspiring’ role model of any kind.
They are trying Sussex route beacuse Meghan always include her mom, so now they are including kate mom which is weird where she didnt include her favorite kid. I think carole is the glue that hold the Middleton family together. I think they dont get along that much personally but they are faking the image for Kate and her future role. I bet those Middleton siblings will fall apart after carole . Maybe in the past middleton sister used to be close. But after pippa marraige I hardly doubt beacuse pippa want Kate job for fame and adoration. Kate want pippa life with rich hubby, kids and no worry about work. They are wrong in their role like the queen and Margaret where queen wants quite life in countryside where margret enjoys the attention and crowd and public speaking. But the queen and margret are unfortunately they were born like that and they cant do anything . But Middleton sisters life can be avoided. For me they married the wrong lifestyle. Pippa is certainly fame hungry with her never ending pap stroll daily.
I reckon growing up it was Pippa who was the star in that family especially in ma Middletons eyes, and not kate. I think a lot of Kate’s insecurities and dislike of other women comes from her competitive relationship with Pippa. I think the only reason ma Middleton pushed kate forward towards William is because they were the same age and would have been in the same year at uni. Otherwise in would have been Pippa all the way and Kate probably would have been sidelined. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Pippa threw herself at William during the dating years. I can’t imagin kate being too please at the attention pippa got at HER wedding. Kate was probably secretly smug when Pippa got rejected by all those rich eligible aristo men.
Pippa was the star of the family and was expected to be the one to marry well. She allegedly threw herself at every available (and some say non-available) male aristocrat. This included George Percy, the heir to the Dukedom of Northumberland and Prince Harry.
I can see Pippa being the star of the family, she has Carole’s grift. Kate and James both seem on the lazy side, happy to coast along with other people picking up after them.
That reminds me of those yacht pics from 2006 of William and the middletons. In one pic Pippa is topless and changing her bikini top and William is literally lurking right behind her in the sea. You can tell it’s William even though you can only see the back on his head. She must have known he was there being a creep trying to catch a glimpse, but doesn’t seem too bothered.
Why is Pippa a showoff? In the pictures of Kate and Pippa’s clubbing years it was always Pippa walking in the back, Kate was older and competitve and wasn’t going to let her little sister outshine her. None are great beauties though, slim and young, yes like most colleged aged girls, great beauties no.
To be honest, I think Pippa looks exactly like Carole and appears to have her go-getting character also. I never get the references about Kate looking like Carole because to me she has her dad’s rounder and softer features, like his nose. It’s also typical for the eldest child to more closely resemble the father.
Kate’s face is asymmetrical. Half looks like Pippa, the other half like Carole. The eldest doesn’t always resemble the father. Guillaume of Lux looks like Maria-Teresa. Grand Duke Henri also looks exactly like his mother – put a wig on it.
Um…it’s Mother’s Day. Carole Middleton is Kate’s mother. I can’t really see how this could be something to nit-pick over. Both Kate & William’s mothers were highlighted. I thought it was sweet.
for heavens sake she IS Kate’s mom after all, I would add her to my collection of pics if I were her, we are after all celebrating Mother’s day.
What’s up with Carole’s weird ceiling eyes in that pic?
I think it’s a weird photo choice. Why not choose one where CM looks actively engaged with the baby she’s holding (presumably Kate)?
I agree, it seems very emotionally void and awkward.
I wondered that too, but I think she’s looking at the mobile hanging in the foreground (and presumably hanging over the crib). My guess it was to be a portrait-like. Or she wanted to avoid looking jowly? (Which she’s young there do didn’t need to!)
So, back in the “olden days”, there were no digital cameras. You didn’t take 1,000 shots to get the best angle and lighting. You took the photo, took it in for processing, waited a couple of weeks, and then you got what you got. It was a rare occurrence when you actually fluked into looking good.
I seem to recall people in the olden days looking at the camera and smiling when getting their pic taken. Or in pics holding a baby looking at the baby and smiling too. Looking at the ceiling not so much.
I actually really liked the mother’s day post they shared in their insta stories, about how mother’s day is not an easy day for most people even without the shit storm that is Corona happening. I lost my mother when I was a teenager at an age where nobody really fathoms that you do not have a mother in your life anymore. Days like mother’s day and ‘family’ holidays are hard for me, so I was really touched that they shared something like that. That it’s okay for me not to be okay with it.
I liked George’s card. That’s all I got here.
Lol look at Carole scheming there.
Ha! I will say George’s card is cute, but regarding some of these other comments: Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.
I screamed when I saw their Instagram post. Last year, nada; nothing; zilch. This year (because they were probably convinced H&M were going to release a new photo with Meghan and Archie) they pulled out all the stops—too bad they forgot a kid! (And a dog: is Lupo still alive?)
They had their Bots all set up to criticize What they thought H&M would be posting for Mothering Day, boom they got busted, H&M only posted different names to call mothers.
Since they had the message all set up, about using professional photographers, it was LOL about their ranting about a post that was not there.
We can’t go a whole month without people demanding pictures of Archie but miss ma’am is tossing out 2 year old pics without the kid who we’ve been assured is terribly more important….
These people tire me
It’s a nice post. The pics are sweet. Carole was a stunner. I have no desire to pick it apart and analyze it or even think about conspiracy theories, so that’s all I got.
She really was stunning. She reminds of a younger Emma Peel in that picture.
Cosign all of this. Also very impressed with George’s artistic talents — showing the kids art could be a fun way for the family to share more on social without having to provide pictures all the time.
Megs posted a picture of Diana and Harry and one of her mom and beautiful grandmother it was perfect and thoughtful, the first picture Kate puts out is one of her, as I expected so full of herself. Later she puts out a wierd picture of Carole looking up and one suspicious one of Harry and William (is this supposed to make up for how you treated him in the eyes of the public?) not for me, Diana would not be proud of you, stop using her.
What post was this? The Sussex Mothering Day post is just the blue card, no photos.
Lol my fault! I just realized it was an unofficial twitter page I was following…sorry. Meghan is a humble mom, not posting about herself even on mother’s day!
you need to seek professional help
Everyone harasses Harry and Meghan about Archie but girl, where is Louis??? They don’t have any formal pics with all the children? George’s painting is nice!
The haters had some seriously lame excuses at the ready for the missing Louis, such as William featured him on Father’s Day; Louis doesn’t care; just because he’s not shown doesn’t mean they don’t love him; and, of course, the whataboutisms like “If this was Meghan, it would have been all about her, not her mother, blah, blah, blah.
@ S808 and Olenna, Yup, I said the same. How many times have we seen Louis, and yet the expert taxpayers who like to comment on these threads are quiet about not seeing Louis.
Sorry. That picture of Carole is weird. The way she is holding the baby and looking up to the heavens has serious Madonna vibes.
That’s a nice painting from George. It is odd they left a kid out but the focus is on moms so I suppose that’s the photo that reflected Kate the best for the day: looking at peace out in nature with husband and older children.
I don’t think it’s that unusual we don’t see much of Louis. We didn’t see much of George when he was really little, either. And we actually have seen plenty of Louis when the garden was debuted and during the last Trooping. Those were the outings on which I’d expect to see him. He’s adorable and jolly and seems fine.
I’m not a fan of Carole Middleton but it is the UK Mother’s Day and I can appreciate that Kate would want her mother celebrated as well. Just as we shouldn’t expect Meghan to have cut off her own life and mother when she joined with Harry’s family, I don’t see the need for Kate to do the same.
It was nice of the Cambridges and the Sussexes to wish mothers a happy Mother’s Day. I must say, though, I got quite a start thinking I forgot my mother amidst sickness and quarantine! I had to stop and actually Google things to make sure I didn’t forget Mother’s Day here in the US! Lol I’m so disoriented by this lock-in.
I have seen that the Sussexes are being roasted alive for daring to try and celebrate UK Mother’s Day after “abandoning Britain”. Sheesh, so much for keeping calm and carrying on and keeping a stiff upper lip. I never heard so much whining. And I’m confined with a teenager!
Really, these are hard times. If there is any hope at all for mums in the UK to have had a happy day, I hope they had it.
It looks like Carole is gazing up at the mobile, maybe pensively plotting her first-born’s future.
Haha
After seeing Kate during the Commonwealth service, either those pics have been airbrushed or she has been stressed out in the time between them being taken and now cos she looked super tired at the service.
Carol was and still is a beautiful lady. I never really saw the fuss with Pippa, I always thought Kate was much prettier, but overall they are a very attractive family.
These pictures are from 2018.
That’s only two years right? Kate’s still fairly young. I dunno, maybe I’m just being harsh. She’s always been very slender and athletic build but does seem particularly guant recently. I was quite shocked how tired she looked at the Commonwealth service; it’s might just be stress.
@Ruby – I agree with you re: how she’s been looking recently; I was just pointing out that these pictures are from fall 2018 so about 18 months old, so its possible that she is more stressed now. But, these pictures were also touched up and a lot of the ones from the commonwealth service weren’t.
Wow, Carole Middleton is attractive. I swear I’ve seen a doppelgänger of hers somewhere in Brooklyn (and her haircut is making a comeback). Even with this average photo, she comes off chic and elegant. I think I see a bit of her face in Princess Charlotte.
That haircut was popular here in the UK 2018/2019, (i had it) now it’s a middle part Bob with or without side fringes. It’s a nice haircut though can be chic or kooky depending on dress sense.
Carole Middleton is such a stunning woman.
Someone on Twitter had a good point about the cambridges holding off on Louis pictures until Archie’s pictures are released. If you look at likes and coverage of cambridge kids, louis by far has the most (even more than Charlotte’s birthday pictures). The only problem is that it’s no way near Archie’s😏
Equally people in the UK are coming under huge fire for “escaping” London for their country homes thus running the risk of putting additional strain on rural hospitals and supplies. They’d probably face a fair amount of backlash if they, the fit young royals, escaped for a month
Prince Charles went to his home in Aberdeeenshire, on the Balmoral estate, a week ago and almost immediately fell ill with the virus. Camilla with him but does not have it.
George, Charlotte and Louis are all in a video released today by Kensington Palace clapping the NHS and other frontline workers. A lot of the British public went to their doors to clap at 8pm tonight. The Wessexs also released a similar video.
The Queen kept Andrew under wraps for the first year or two after he was born and there were rumours then that something was wrong with him.
Carolind, either that are Phillip wasn’t the father!