The Cambridges release a Christmas Card

[CheeringCharm]

Cute family. The kids are super adorable and Charlotte does look just like her great grandmother.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5190525/Duke-Duchess-Cambridge-new-family-portrait.html



I wonder if Harry and Meghan will be releasing one.

[bex]

George and Charlotte are cute but overall this picture is so boring to me lol.

[bugandbibs]

This makes me feel better about our family picture this year.

[mbcdefg]

That's a nice pic but it's SO BORING. And I know it's tough to get kids to smile, especially two at once, but they really didn't have anything where the kids looked cheerful?

Charles and Camilla's card is more interesting (pic is from her 70th birthday party):




Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden releases a video of her family every Christmas, which is really cute:




www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWRyxRK6LQE&feature=youtu.be 

[thelurkylulu]

I think it's cute! I read Charlotte will be starting nursery school in January. It sounded like she's going to a different school than George...? Is that normal?

[karinothing]

Oh that is boring. Why can't they at least do a good background!

[CheeringCharm]

It is kind of a boring photo (esp. Kate's suit). The candid they released a few years ago was a lot more interesting. I wonder why they went this route. They didn't even release a card last year.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Cute, but boring. I like my Christmas cards better this year.

[mbcdefg]

I saw on Twitter that George is wearing the same shirt as he wore in the birthday portraits they released ... so who knows if they just snapped a family pic at the same time, or if he wore the same outfit twice.

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

Dec 18, 2017 10:42:03 GMT -5 thelurkylulu said:

I think it's cute! I read Charlotte will be starting nursery school in January. It sounded like she's going to a different school than George...? Is that normal?

Do they have a lot of single-sex education over there? That is all I could think of. 

[hopecounts]

Dec 18, 2017 10:42:03 GMT -5 thelurkylulu said:

I think it's cute! I read Charlotte will be starting nursery school in January. It sounded like she's going to a different school than George...? Is that normal?

She is going to nursery school, George is in ‘real’ school.

That’s why they will be at different schools for now.

George’s school is co-Ed so when she starts real school she may well go there too.

[mrshandy]

That picture was taken in July.

Kids are adorable, but it's definitely boring and not very recent.

[eclaires]

All I know is that if I was them with the access to whatever I wanted and money to buy whatever I wanted, my holiday card would be BALLS OUT.

As it is I am *fairly* ridiculous when it comes to my holiday cards. I love my kids' outfits this year.

[pandora89]

This photo was taken this summer (before Kate cut her hair).

They are so weird, last year they didn't do a new photo because everyone saw them "enough" during the Canada tour and now an old photo. It all just seems so... ungrateful? I know no one has any "rights" to them and they don't "owe" anyone anything. But come on.

[debatethis]

If the royal watcher speculation is true, Kate and I are due the same week. We're not even doing Christmas cards this year, I feel like hell and IDGAF that we're falling down on any obligations. I wouldn't be surprised if she feels similarly in terms of coordinating everything to take a cute family Christmas photo. Hard pass this year.

[4speedy]

I’m imagining Kate woke up on the day they were scheduled to take their Christmas card photo and said, “William, I feel like shit and I look like hell. Just pick something out from the old photos.” And this is what he came up with. I’ll cut them slack one more year but they better have something good next year.

[Velar Fricative]

Dec 18, 2017 11:13:34 GMT -5 debatethis said:

If the royal watcher speculation is true, Kate and I are due the same week. We're not even doing Christmas cards this year, I feel like hell and IDGAF that we're falling down on any obligations. I wouldn't be surprised if she feels similarly in terms of coordinating everything to take a cute family Christmas photo. Hard pass this year.

Yeah, I was going to say that since she was dealing with HG again for a while, I'd be using a pic from July too...

[amberlyrose]

It's alright. I loved the year where they posed in the window at.. Windsor? or Kensington.

I feel like Charlotte is lost in Kate's skirt. If she was also in a navy or dark blue, it'd be better.

[thelurkylulu]

Dec 18, 2017 11:00:53 GMT -5 pandora89 said:

This photo was taken this summer (before Kate cut her hair).

They are so weird, last year they didn't do a new photo because everyone saw them "enough" during the Canada tour and now an old photo. It all just seems so... ungrateful? I know no one has any "rights" to them and they don't "owe" anyone anything. But come on.

In all honesty, they are damned if they do and damned if they don't (regardless of whatever they put out). "Too extravagant! Not extravagant enough! Old pic! New pic!" etc. etc. I feel like 90% of the holiday cards we receive are staged pics.

[wambam]

Guys, you have a millionty dollars. Spring for an interesting background. This looks like it was taken at Picture People in the mall.

[heyjude]

Does George always do that knee thing or what?

[Velar Fricative]

Dec 18, 2017 11:28:30 GMT -5 wambam said:

Guys, you have a millionty dollars. Spring for an interesting background. This looks like it was taken at Picture People in the mall.

HEY. If this was done at Picture People than I have something in common with royals.

[pantsparty]

Dec 18, 2017 11:19:03 GMT -5 4speedy said:

I’m imagining Kate woke up on the day they were scheduled to take their Christmas card photo and said, “William, I feel like shit and I look like hell. Just pick something out from the old photos.” And this is what he came up with. I’ll cut them slack one more year but they better have something good next year.

I want ugly Christmas sweaters and I will accept nothing less.

[wambam]

Dec 18, 2017 11:34:19 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Dec 18, 2017 11:28:30 GMT -5 wambam said:

Guys, you have a millionty dollars. Spring for an interesting background. This looks like it was taken at Picture People in the mall.

HEY. If this was done at Picture People than I have something in common with royals.

Last time my family did pictures there, my niece had a giant booger hanging down from her nose and the photographer didn’t tell us! Jeebus, it would’ve taken 15 seconds to fix that problem.

[karinothing]

Dec 18, 2017 11:28:30 GMT -5 wambam said:

Guys, you have a millionty dollars. Spring for an interesting background. This looks like it was taken at Picture People in the mall.

Yeah, this is what bothers me. I have no issue with staged pictures, but at least go outside or to your living room or something.

[pandora89]

Dec 18, 2017 11:38:01 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Dec 18, 2017 11:28:30 GMT -5 wambam said:

Guys, you have a millionty dollars. Spring for an interesting background. This looks like it was taken at Picture People in the mall.

Yeah, this is what bothers me. I have no issue with staged pictures, but at least go outside or to your living room or something.

Yeah, this is what is bothering me too. They just have access to so many resources, so much money and so much help. I get being pregnant and miserable but this isn't the first time they have just reused images from other photo ops for their holiday/birthday/whatever photo.

[raangoli]

Dec 18, 2017 11:40:40 GMT -5 pandora89 said:

Dec 18, 2017 11:38:01 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Yeah, this is what bothers me. I have no issue with staged pictures, but at least go outside or to your living room or something.

Yeah, this is what is bothering me too. They just have access to so many resources, so much money and so much help. I get being pregnant and miserable but this isn't the first time they have just reused images from other photo ops for their holiday/birthday/whatever photo.

But doesn't this go along with the thought they're just normal like everyone else thing? I agree with the comment above that they are damned if they do or don't. 

[pandora89]

Dec 18, 2017 11:43:50 GMT -5 raangoli said:

Dec 18, 2017 11:40:40 GMT -5 pandora89 said:

Yeah, this is what is bothering me too. They just have access to so many resources, so much money and so much help. I get being pregnant and miserable but this isn't the first time they have just reused images from other photo ops for their holiday/birthday/whatever photo.

But doesn't this go along with the thought they're just normal like everyone else thing? I agree with the comment above that they are damned if they do or don't. 

But they're not normal like everyone else. lol

Really, I don't have a bone in this and I am a pretty big royal family fan. But compared to a lot of other royals they just seem to be more "stingy" in what they are willing to share with the public.

But like I said before, they really don't owe anyone anything.

[karinothing]

I mean I don't think it is odd that they reused pictures. Whatever to that. I just think it is odd that they took pictures in front of the background to begin with!

[meshaliuknits]

His poor hairline.