Harry and Meghan’s Christmas card

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Anonymous wrote:I feel sure it’s Ai. It’s just too weird to be real. The kids’ clothing doesn’t make sense and is so similar to that in their other photos. The kids’ sizes too.

Someone on Reddit pointed out that in every picture of the boy he’s wearing a sweater with elbow patches and the girl a sleeveless dress with Mary Janes. A little peculiar.

He doesn't have on a sweater, but he does have elbow pads on his shirt. My mother had to put elbow pads on all my brother's shirts and sweaters when we were a kid. The boy is in dressed like dad, and the girl like mom. Mom is in sleeveless and dad is in long sleeves.

Right, but it's a bit weird that one set is wearing long sleeves and the other is in sleeveless. Kind of seems like two separate photos taken in different seasons that they glommed together.

Agree. Sewing patches on is a very old fashioned thing. For people who couldn't just buy new clothes when the old ones got holes or worn out. It wasn't a fashion statement then and I wouldn't think this was due to hard financial times now.

She must like the look. Most moms are in charge of holiday outfits and Meghan surely chose these.

These aren't holiday outfits.

Ok, Christmas card outfits.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel sure it’s Ai. It’s just too weird to be real. The kids’ clothing doesn’t make sense and is so similar to that in their other photos. The kids’ sizes too.

Someone on Reddit pointed out that in every picture of the boy he’s wearing a sweater with elbow patches and the girl a sleeveless dress with Mary Janes. A little peculiar.

He doesn't have on a sweater, but he does have elbow pads on his shirt. My mother had to put elbow pads on all my brother's shirts and sweaters when we were a kid. The boy is in dressed like dad, and the girl like mom. Mom is in sleeveless and dad is in long sleeves.

Right, but it's a bit weird that one set is wearing long sleeves and the other is in sleeveless. Kind of seems like two separate photos taken in different seasons that they glommed together.

Agree. Sewing patches on is a very old fashioned thing. For people who couldn't just buy new clothes when the old ones got holes or worn out. It wasn't a fashion statement then and I wouldn't think this was due to hard financial times now.

She must like the look. Most moms are in charge of holiday outfits and Meghan surely chose these.

These aren't holiday outfits.

Ok, Christmas card outfits.

So they bought special card outfits but then didn't bother to fix hair, wear a belt, tuck in shirts, etc?

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Anonymous wrote:They all look so disheveled and awkward both individually and with each other.

The girl’s hair definitely needs to be brushed and cut.

What up with the weird photoshopping his bald spot with tree leaves?

It is just such a bad Christmas card. So I looked up William’s. It looks classy while Harry’s looks so trashy.

Here is William’s:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9975zk98kyo

Ahhh, so sweet. Like every daughter puts their head on daddy’s shoulder while he’s holding the youngest. As awkward as Harry’s.

No matter what Harry and Meghan do, the British folks on here will find fault with it.

The British folk and Britifiles who have their minds made up by the media that the royal family pay off to write stories. People are so stupid and demonstrate their lack of ability to think for themselves.

You probably shouldn’t use words you can’t spell. Also, it’s really Anglophile.

It word is exactly what I wanted it to mean - all Britain. Anglophile is a narrower term. You should probably grow a brain before criticizing others.

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Anonymous wrote:Harry recently went on a ski trip with his friend and then they participated in a Snow Polo competition. He was introduced at the competition as Harry Wales. But Meghan was clear she is a Sussex so curious as to why they are using different names.

Harry Wales and Meghan Sussex

He's been Harry Wales since childhood because his dad was Prince of Wales then. He used that last name at school and in the military. He got the Sussex title as a wedding gift. So his wife is Duchess of Sussex. She is not a Princess of Wales OR THE Princess of Wales. I guess she was never made a Princess. Technically, I think Kate was not until William became THE Prince of Wales. There was much remark over how William put "princess of the UK" as Kate's occupation on (George's?) birth certificate. At that point she could have gone by Kate Cambridge. And was a royal duchess. At that time, she could also have been called Princess William.

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But William dropped Wales and took Cambridge as his surname after his wedding. He didn't switch back to Wales until he became the prince of Wales.

Harry got Sussex at his wedding but and despite Meghan saying that was their family surname, Harry is apparently using his brother's title.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel sure it’s Ai. It’s just too weird to be real. The kids’ clothing doesn’t make sense and is so similar to that in their other photos. The kids’ sizes too.

Someone on Reddit pointed out that in every picture of the boy he’s wearing a sweater with elbow patches and the girl a sleeveless dress with Mary Janes. A little peculiar.

He doesn't have on a sweater, but he does have elbow pads on his shirt. My mother had to put elbow pads on all my brother's shirts and sweaters when we were a kid. The boy is in dressed like dad, and the girl like mom. Mom is in sleeveless and dad is in long sleeves.

Right, but it's a bit weird that one set is wearing long sleeves and the other is in sleeveless. Kind of seems like two separate photos taken in different seasons that they glommed together.

Agree. Sewing patches on is a very old fashioned thing. For people who couldn't just buy new clothes when the old ones got holes or worn out. It wasn't a fashion statement then and I wouldn't think this was due to hard financial times now.

She must like the look. Most moms are in charge of holiday outfits and Meghan surely chose these.

These aren't holiday outfits.

Ok, Christmas card outfits.

So they bought special card outfits but then didn't bother to fix hair, wear a belt, tuck in shirts, etc?

Sure appears that way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel sure it’s Ai. It’s just too weird to be real. The kids’ clothing doesn’t make sense and is so similar to that in their other photos. The kids’ sizes too.

Someone on Reddit pointed out that in every picture of the boy he’s wearing a sweater with elbow patches and the girl a sleeveless dress with Mary Janes. A little peculiar.

Really?! I have 2 daughters and they lived in dresses, leggings and Mary Jane’s for about 3 years. So every photo of them would’ve similar

It's not about dresses and Mary Jane's.
People are pointing out the weather contradiction of one kid is a sweater or sweater type shirt and one in sleeveless.

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Anonymous wrote:Harry recently went on a ski trip with his friend and then they participated in a Snow Polo competition. He was introduced at the competition as Harry Wales. But Meghan was clear she is a Sussex so curious as to why they are using different names.

Harry Wales and Meghan Sussex

He's been Harry Wales since childhood because his dad was Prince of Wales then. He used that last name at school and in the military. He got the Sussex title as a wedding gift. So his wife is Duchess of Sussex. She is not a Princess of Wales OR THE Princess of Wales. I guess she was never made a Princess. Technically, I think Kate was not until William became THE Prince of Wales. There was much remark over how William put "princess of the UK" as Kate's occupation on (George's?) birth certificate. At that point she could have gone by Kate Cambridge. And was a royal duchess. At that time, she could also have been called Princess William.

Actually, Meghan is a princess. She is Princess Henry of Wales.

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Anonymous wrote:Harry recently went on a ski trip with his friend and then they participated in a Snow Polo competition. He was introduced at the competition as Harry Wales. But Meghan was clear she is a Sussex so curious as to why they are using different names.

Harry Wales and Meghan Sussex

He's been Harry Wales since childhood because his dad was Prince of Wales then. He used that last name at school and in the military. He got the Sussex title as a wedding gift. So his wife is Duchess of Sussex. She is not a Princess of Wales OR THE Princess of Wales. I guess she was never made a Princess. Technically, I think Kate was not until William became THE Prince of Wales. There was much remark over how William put "princess of the UK" as Kate's occupation on (George's?) birth certificate. At that point she could have gone by Kate Cambridge. And was a royal duchess. At that time, she could also have been called Princess William.

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But William dropped Wales and took Cambridge as his surname after his wedding. He didn't switch back to Wales until he became the prince of Wales.

Harry got Sussex at his wedding but and despite Meghan saying that was their family surname, Harry is apparently using his brother's title.

No, Harry is Prince Henry of Wales.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a cute pic. Better than the Wales’

Nope. Not in any way.

At least the Wales' are wearing some green, even though what is with the daffodils? My Christmas cards are better, and my friends' Christmas cards are a million times better than mine, and we make them at CVS!

The Prince and Princess of Wales are keenly aware that daffodils are the national flower of Wales. That is what royals do for a job. They communicate in symbols. They embody symbols. That is what is "with" the daffodils.

Thank you for clarifying! Can you explain the symbolism of releasing a completely photoshopped card? (And it’s not even a good AI image, it’s pretty sloppy)

https://www.theroyalobserver.com/p/royal-fans-are-pointing-out-a-major-issue-with-william-kates-2025-christmas-card

PP. Okay. Since you asked. It's probably because Kate wasn't born into royalty so she, like many other normal moms, does her own photoshopping. She also takes some of her kids' portraits herself and has asked her dad to take some too. Probably to keep her kids' lives a little more normal.

Can you cut a recent cancer survivor a break?

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Anonymous wrote:Harry recently went on a ski trip with his friend and then they participated in a Snow Polo competition. He was introduced at the competition as Harry Wales. But Meghan was clear she is a Sussex so curious as to why they are using different names.

Harry Wales and Meghan Sussex

He's been Harry Wales since childhood because his dad was Prince of Wales then. He used that last name at school and in the military. He got the Sussex title as a wedding gift. So his wife is Duchess of Sussex. She is not a Princess of Wales OR THE Princess of Wales. I guess she was never made a Princess. Technically, I think Kate was not until William became THE Prince of Wales. There was much remark over how William put "princess of the UK" as Kate's occupation on (George's?) birth certificate. At that point she could have gone by Kate Cambridge. And was a royal duchess. At that time, she could also have been called Princess William.

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But William dropped Wales and took Cambridge as his surname after his wedding. He didn't switch back to Wales until he became the prince of Wales.

Harry got Sussex at his wedding but and despite Meghan saying that was their family surname, Harry is apparently using his brother's title.

No, Harry is Prince Henry of Wales.

William is.

Just face it. Harry is obsessed with William and Kate and wants to be William.

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It's widely known that Harry's not the sharpest tool in the shed. He doesn't even know how to properly wear pants for a family picture. It wouldn't surprise me at all that he doesn't know his name/title.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a cute pic. Better than the Wales’

The Wales picture is adorable.

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Anonymous wrote:It's actually semi-relatable because they clearly hired a photographer and chose a location and got everyone dressed up to take a family photo, but Harry's pants are sagging and his shirt's coming untucked, Archie's pose is awkward, Lillibet's hair is frizzing out and her shoes don't really match her outfit (maybe she threw a fit about wanting to wear her silver shoes like my kid would), and Meghan's dress is transparent in the sunlight.

Like... this is how our family photos go as well. And then you pick the one that looks the best and call it a day. Or in their case, pick the one where you can't see their kids' faces that looked the best.

I remember one year my DH and I got into a huge fight right before taking our family photo for our Christmas card, because he was engaging in like his least useful ADHD behavior just as I was trying to wrangle us out the door (he became convinced he needed to bring our camera and a tripod to the shoot and take a "backup photo" using that and a remote that he needed to download to his phone in case the professional photos didn't come out -- this is legitimately the most insane thing he's ever done and I was trying to convince my DD to wear one of the three dresses I had picked out instead of her oversized soccer jersey while he was doing this). And then DH and I fought all the way to the photo shoot because when I told him to please stop with the camera/tripod thing, he got very hurt and accused me of caring more about impressing people with our photo than about him. Seriously one of our worst fights ever.

Ironically, our holiday photo came out amazing that year, probably the best all around photo we've ever taken as a family, and when I look at it I only think of that fight. I vastly prefer the photo we used the next year, which was a group selfie I took of us in the car on our way to the beach.

So.... yeah. Relatable.

I think those are 2 different photos photoshopped together, maybe 3 photos.

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It’s sad that the kids are growing up without any British culture. They will never have the chance to develop that in a very very small community in CA.

They will never know their extended relatives and the children of close family/school friends their father knew. There is a comfort knowing you can go to a friends country estate and not have paparazzi around or that your lifelong friend us going to take a picture of your kid or talk to the press.

There is a specific way of acting, talking, living that British aristocracy has. These two kids will never really be exposed to that so will never later fit in. Yet they can’t be carefree CA kids because their parents don’t have many CA friends so can’t always be sure who to trust.

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Anonymous wrote:They all look so disheveled and awkward both individually and with each other.

The girl’s hair definitely needs to be brushed and cut.

What up with the weird photoshopping his bald spot with tree leaves?

It is just such a bad Christmas card. So I looked up William’s. It looks classy while Harry’s looks so trashy.

Here is William’s:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9975zk98kyo

Ahhh, so sweet. Like every daughter puts their head on daddy’s shoulder while he’s holding the youngest. As awkward as Harry’s.

No matter what Harry and Meghan do, the British folks on here will find fault with it.

The British folk and Britifiles who have their minds made up by the media that the royal family pay off to write stories. People are so stupid and demonstrate their lack of ability to think for themselves.

You probably shouldn’t use words you can’t spell. Also, it’s really Anglophile.

It word is exactly what I wanted it to mean - all Britain. Anglophile is a narrower term. You should probably grow a brain before criticizing others.

To test your assertion I went to the Oxford English Dictionary website, which you must admit is a much better arbiter of what is and isn’t a word, particularly a word concerning Britain, than either you or I. Neither “Britophile” nor “Britifile,” your charmingly moronic spelling, appeared in the OED. “Anglophile” did. But please, come back and argue some more about how you’re right and the OED is wrong.