Disappointment at informal snapshots of Prince George
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Prince William and his wife Kate released two informal family snapshots as the first official photos of their son, Prince George, yesterday disappointing royal fans hoping to get a good look at Britain’s newest royal heir.
George, the third in line to the British throne, was born on July 22.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge gave the world the first glimpse of their son when they left a London hospital the day after his birth but he has not been seen since.
However, instead of a traditional formal photograph for George’s first official photo shoot, the couple released two shots taken by the duchess’s father, Michael Middleton, in early August in the garden of her family home in Berkshire.
One photograph shows Prince William, in a blue, shirt and jeans, with his arm around Kate, dressed in a fuchsia-colored dress and holding their sleeping son wrapped in a crocheted, white blanket.
The second picture shows the couple on a picnic blanket with Kate again holding a sleeping Prince George. With them is their beloved black cocker spaniel, Lupo, while the Middleton family’s golden retriever, Tilly, lolls at one side.
These are a far cry from the formal photographs released of Prince William a month after his birth in 1982 in which he was alert and wearing a laced gown. The pictures with his mother, the late Princess Diana, and father Prince Charles were taken by his great-uncle, photographer Lord Snowden.
Royal watchers were disappointed that the first released pictures of George failed to show his face clearly and were not of a professional quality.
But the decision to eschew tradition for a more informal approach was seen as true to form for William and Kate, both 31, who have tried to break away from royal traditions of rigid formality.
“They like to do things their own way, and that is not a bad thing, but in this instance they may come in for a bit of flak,” Joe Little, managing director of Majesty magazine, said.
“People would have liked a better look at George and you can’t see his face clearly. These are not much more than family snapshots and they are not of a professional standard.”
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