By George! How he has grown
A new portrait was released this week of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and sweet Prince George (and pup Lupo, too!) just in time for Mother’s Day (in the United Kindgom). I’m personally a bit disappointed that we only see the side of Prince George’s cherub-like face, but he sure looks cute from the side. He is reported to have ‘Middleton eyes‘ and is wearing a personalized sweater from grandpa Prince Charles.
Awkward family photo
To be honest, at first I wasn’t even sure if this photo was real. It reminded me a lot of the spoof photos artist Alison Jackson often does.
It’s a bit washed out, and I was surprised they would pick such a photo that 1. has George looking the wrong direction, and 2. makes Kate look as though she is gritting her teeth in disdain. It’s still a sweet photo, I just wouldn’t have picked it myself.
Kate Middleton Review wrote a blog post about the photo and touched on a lot of things I had previously overlooked. Like the fact it’s incredibly staged and appears to have a feeling of gloom about it.
Is it a coincidence that we are viewing them through the window? It’s not an invitation into their intimate family moment—as other royal baby pictorials have been—it’s giving a peek into their family, but still blocking the viewer out. There is literally a wall there between the viewer and the Cambridges. It’s like they’re saying, “We’re in here, you are out there and you don’t get to come in.” It’s a reflection of William’s attitude toward the press and public.
They go onto point out how often the press was granted family photos of the Prince and Princess of Wales when Prince William himself was a child.
You know what’s a happy family baby photo? This one. And this one. And this one. And this one. Oh, and this one, too. And those are just the top Google searches. There are plenty more. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting that from George.
It makes me particularly uneasy seeing as how unhappy they look in such a staged, calculated photo.
Here’s to hoping their upcoming tour proves the couple to be a bit more, shall we say, happy to be in one another’s company.
the are sooooooooo fake these two !!!!!!!