The Cambridges News and Updates ( Prince William, Kate Middleton, George, Charlotte and Louis)

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What is wrong with all of you criticizing the photo of a child. I say this as someone who's a part of the "pro-Meghan" camp - I shudder to think what people will start saying when photos of Archie and his sister emerge.

Charlotte looks like any happy child here. Please. Let's stop with the weird over-analyzing.

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The resemblance is really uncanny! The unedited photo is adorable.

This is the edited one.

?????? It looks like someone just used the photo from the newspaper for a side by side. I still don't understand why so many posters are hung up on this issue. That clearly is Charlotte's face. The coloring looks legit -- she has blondish hair like her brothers and William.

It's weird because both her brothers have hair that does the same thing. Also if you look back at photos of Meghan and Harry's wedding you can see similar highlights in her hair then, it seems her hair might be turning which is totally normal and not crazy considering there's plenty of blondes in her family including her father. Much ado about nothing.

Not how hair works: https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/what-color-hair-will-baby-have#Albinism

It doesn’t “turn” from darker to lighter after age 3.

Except it can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with all of you criticizing the photo of a child. I say this as someone who's a part of the "pro-Meghan" camp - I shudder to think what people will start saying when photos of Archie and his sister emerge.

Charlotte looks like any happy child here. Please. Let's stop with the weird over-analyzing.

Archie has been around for 2 years. We've seen photos of him and people reacted accordingly. Take the Christmas card photo, most people said Archie was a cute baby, but the editing of the photo was terrible and gave it a weird quality which took away from the picture.

Basically what is being said now Charlotte is a cute kid, the photo editing is bad .

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The resemblance is really uncanny! The unedited photo is adorable.

This is the edited one.

?????? It looks like someone just used the photo from the newspaper for a side by side. I still don't understand why so many posters are hung up on this issue. That clearly is Charlotte's face. The coloring looks legit -- she has blondish hair like her brothers and William.

It's weird because both her brothers have hair that does the same thing. Also if you look back at photos of Meghan and Harry's wedding you can see similar highlights in her hair then, it seems her hair might be turning which is totally normal and not crazy considering there's plenty of blondes in her family including her father. Much ado about nothing.

Not how hair works: https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/what-color-hair-will-baby-have#Albinism

It doesn’t “turn” from darker to lighter after age 3.

Who told you that? It can and it does.

[Anonymous]

I feel bad for Kate. It’s obvious they’re trying to hard to rebrand and this month was supposed to reset the conversation. Instead it’s all coming out very awkwardly and she’s once again being overshadowed by Harry and Meghan.

Here’s how it was supposed to go:

Their anniversary would set everything in motion with the video and photos on Instagram to flood media with nostalgia stories about their fairytale wedding. Palace sources leak to the tabloids that Kate cried before her wedding just to throw a little shade. William takes part in a social media blackout against cyber bullying in sports. Charlottes Birthday would keep more positive attention on them until Kate’s book release. The photography book about life during lockdown is Kate’s biggest project yet and should drive more glowing coverage.

How it’s going:

The official days of mourning following Prince Philip’s death was the first bump in the plan. They were able to convince the queen to reduce the traditional 30 days to just 2 weeks so they could proceed with the original timeline. Next up, the anniversary video was poorly received since it was obviously filmed a long time ago and felt very commercial. Perhaps the worst coincidence is that Kate’s Covid lockdown photo book releases the same week as Harry and Meghan participate in the VaxLive concert. The timing of the massive global effort to raise billions for Covid vaccines easily overshadows Kate’s book. Worse still, the photography book seems to closely follows the same structure as Meghan’s charity cookbook published last year. Meghan wrote a foreword followed by a collection of recipes by women from the Hubb Kitchen. Each recipe was accompanied by the story of the woman who shared it. Kate also wrote a foreword followed by a collection of photos and stories from the person who shared it (none of the photos are hers.)

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The resemblance is really uncanny! The unedited photo is adorable.

This is the edited one.

?????? It looks like someone just used the photo from the newspaper for a side by side. I still don't understand why so many posters are hung up on this issue. That clearly is Charlotte's face. The coloring looks legit -- she has blondish hair like her brothers and William.

It's weird because both her brothers have hair that does the same thing. Also if you look back at photos of Meghan and Harry's wedding you can see similar highlights in her hair then, it seems her hair might be turning which is totally normal and not crazy considering there's plenty of blondes in her family including her father. Much ado about nothing.

Not how hair works: https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/what-color-hair-will-baby-have#Albinism

It doesn’t “turn” from darker to lighter after age 3.

Except it can.

That’s true. My hair turned blond at the age of 16 and again at 23.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for Kate. It’s obvious they’re trying to hard to rebrand and this month was supposed to reset the conversation. Instead it’s all coming out very awkwardly and she’s once again being overshadowed by Harry and Meghan.

Here’s how it was supposed to go:

Their anniversary would set everything in motion with the video and photos on Instagram to flood media with nostalgia stories about their fairytale wedding. Palace sources leak to the tabloids that Kate cried before her wedding just to throw a little shade. William takes part in a social media blackout against cyber bullying in sports. Charlottes Birthday would keep more positive attention on them until Kate’s book release. The photography book about life during lockdown is Kate’s biggest project yet and should drive more glowing coverage.

How it’s going:

The official days of mourning following Prince Philip’s death was the first bump in the plan. They were able to convince the queen to reduce the traditional 30 days to just 2 weeks so they could proceed with the original timeline. Next up, the anniversary video was poorly received since it was obviously filmed a long time ago and felt very commercial. Perhaps the worst coincidence is that Kate’s Covid lockdown photo book releases the same week as Harry and Meghan participate in the VaxLive concert. The timing of the massive global effort to raise billions for Covid vaccines easily overshadows Kate’s book. Worse still, the photography book seems to closely follows the same structure as Meghan’s charity cookbook published last year. Meghan wrote a foreword followed by a collection of recipes by women from the Hubb Kitchen. Each recipe was accompanied by the story of the woman who shared it. Kate also wrote a foreword followed by a collection of photos and stories from the person who shared it (none of the photos are hers.)

+1

Honestly, for all the British have to say and sneer about Americans, you've gotta give it up to that good ol' American work ethic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for Kate. It’s obvious they’re trying to hard to rebrand and this month was supposed to reset the conversation. Instead it’s all coming out very awkwardly and she’s once again being overshadowed by Harry and Meghan.

Here’s how it was supposed to go:

Their anniversary would set everything in motion with the video and photos on Instagram to flood media with nostalgia stories about their fairytale wedding. Palace sources leak to the tabloids that Kate cried before her wedding just to throw a little shade. William takes part in a social media blackout against cyber bullying in sports. Charlottes Birthday would keep more positive attention on them until Kate’s book release. The photography book about life during lockdown is Kate’s biggest project yet and should drive more glowing coverage.

How it’s going:

The official days of mourning following Prince Philip’s death was the first bump in the plan. They were able to convince the queen to reduce the traditional 30 days to just 2 weeks so they could proceed with the original timeline. Next up, the anniversary video was poorly received since it was obviously filmed a long time ago and felt very commercial. Perhaps the worst coincidence is that Kate’s Covid lockdown photo book releases the same week as Harry and Meghan participate in the VaxLive concert. The timing of the massive global effort to raise billions for Covid vaccines easily overshadows Kate’s book. Worse still, the photography book seems to closely follows the same structure as Meghan’s charity cookbook published last year. Meghan wrote a foreword followed by a collection of recipes by women from the Hubb Kitchen. Each recipe was accompanied by the story of the woman who shared it. Kate also wrote a foreword followed by a collection of photos and stories from the person who shared it (none of the photos are hers.)

Phillip was more than just a bump. The W/K team had the Westiminister Abbey social media team ready to start the rollout of the big 'wedding' renewal weeks in advance. I think they were supposed to have a lot more happy joy-joy posts as well but they ended up bunched into one week like a runaway train because Louis' birthday was on the last day of the reduced mourning period (and even that looked awkward as f - suddenly we're back to all smiles when everyone was looking somber and in tears days prior?), then it was W/K wedding week and then it was Charlotte's birthday. On top of Charles and Camilla's wedding anniversary just getting lost in the shuffle.

I truly believe they built up this anniversary as the big 'let's go post-lockdown' to make up for being basically MIA all 2020 and its just...*crickets*. Still death, still dying, in their own family.

As for her book, I don't even think anyone remembers its coming? That's the problem with the Cambridge 'keen, keen, promise, promise' campaign. No one remembers it, not even the Cambridges.

[Anonymous]

Even before Covid the royal reporters talked about the 10-year anniversary as a big one and there's nothing. A fake video? Not even behind-the-scenes pictures of the wedding and getting ready? I really thought they would at least do that.

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Anonymous wrote:Even before Covid the royal reporters talked about the 10-year anniversary as a big one and there's nothing. A fake video? Not even behind-the-scenes pictures of the wedding and getting ready? I really thought they would at least do that.

Their grandfather just died. You would be complaining if they made a big deal out of it. "They are supposed to be mourning, but they're celebrating their anniversary instead???"

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Anonymous wrote:Even before Covid the royal reporters talked about the 10-year anniversary as a big one and there's nothing. A fake video? Not even behind-the-scenes pictures of the wedding and getting ready? I really thought they would at least do that.

Their grandfather just died. You would be complaining if they made a big deal out of it. "They are supposed to be mourning, but they're celebrating their anniversary instead???"

That would be the case if they hadn’t reduced the official days of mourning to make a big deal of their anniversary. If you’re going to go do that to get attention, at least do something! Because if all you’ve got is an old video and a copy of the book your SIL published years ago, then the death of a beloved family member is the perfect excuse (to continue) to do nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Even before Covid the royal reporters talked about the 10-year anniversary as a big one and there's nothing. A fake video? Not even behind-the-scenes pictures of the wedding and getting ready? I really thought they would at least do that.

Their grandfather just died. You would be complaining if they made a big deal out of it. "They are supposed to be mourning, but they're celebrating their anniversary instead???"

That would be the case if they hadn’t reduced the official days of mourning to make a big deal of their anniversary. If you’re going to go do that to get attention, at least do something! Because if all you’ve got is an old video and a copy of the book your SIL published years ago, then the death of a beloved family member is the perfect excuse (to continue) to do nothing.

They could have leaned into being respectful and honoring a monarch. They could have followed the traditional 30 days of mourning. Instead they insisted the focus be on them and they’re surprised people are underwhelmed and disappointed.

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Anonymous wrote:Even before Covid the royal reporters talked about the 10-year anniversary as a big one and there's nothing. A fake video? Not even behind-the-scenes pictures of the wedding and getting ready? I really thought they would at least do that.

Their grandfather just died. You would be complaining if they made a big deal out of it. "They are supposed to be mourning, but they're celebrating their anniversary instead???"

That would be the case if they hadn’t reduced the official days of mourning to make a big deal of their anniversary. If you’re going to go do that to get attention, at least do something! Because if all you’ve got is an old video and a copy of the book your SIL published years ago, then the death of a beloved family member is the perfect excuse (to continue) to do nothing.

They could have leaned into being respectful and honoring a monarch. They could have followed the traditional 30 days of mourning. Instead they insisted the focus be on them and they’re surprised people are underwhelmed and disappointed.

I couldn’t have said it better. They curtailed the mourning period for a consort of 60 years and a Royal of equal standing with the Queen by birth for what? Three photos - one of which in terrible need of edits - and a video that would have been better use to sell Range Rovers.

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Anonymous wrote:Even before Covid the royal reporters talked about the 10-year anniversary as a big one and there's nothing. A fake video? Not even behind-the-scenes pictures of the wedding and getting ready? I really thought they would at least do that.

Their grandfather just died. You would be complaining if they made a big deal out of it. "They are supposed to be mourning, but they're celebrating their anniversary instead???"

That would be the case if they hadn’t reduced the official days of mourning to make a big deal of their anniversary. If you’re going to go do that to get attention, at least do something! Because if all you’ve got is an old video and a copy of the book your SIL published years ago, then the death of a beloved family member is the perfect excuse (to continue) to do nothing.

They could have leaned into being respectful and honoring a monarch. They could have followed the traditional 30 days of mourning. Instead they insisted the focus be on them and they’re surprised people are underwhelmed and disappointed.

I couldn’t have said it better. They curtailed the mourning period for a consort of 60 years and a Royal of equal standing with the Queen by birth for what? Three photos - one of which in terrible need of edits - and a video that would have been better use to sell Range Rovers.

The mourning period that generated an epic number of complaints to the BBC?

Good for them not leaning in on that.

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Anonymous wrote:Even before Covid the royal reporters talked about the 10-year anniversary as a big one and there's nothing. A fake video? Not even behind-the-scenes pictures of the wedding and getting ready? I really thought they would at least do that.

Their grandfather just died. You would be complaining if they made a big deal out of it. "They are supposed to be mourning, but they're celebrating their anniversary instead???"

That would be the case if they hadn’t reduced the official days of mourning to make a big deal of their anniversary. If you’re going to go do that to get attention, at least do something! Because if all you’ve got is an old video and a copy of the book your SIL published years ago, then the death of a beloved family member is the perfect excuse (to continue) to do nothing.

They could have leaned into being respectful and honoring a monarch. They could have followed the traditional 30 days of mourning. Instead they insisted the focus be on them and they’re surprised people are underwhelmed and disappointed.

I couldn’t have said it better. They curtailed the mourning period for a consort of 60 years and a Royal of equal standing with the Queen by birth for what? Three photos - one of which in terrible need of edits - and a video that would have been better use to sell Range Rovers.

The mourning period that generated an epic number of complaints to the BBC?

Good for them not leaning in on that.

What generated complaints was canceling regular broadcasts to cover the funeral. That was ONE day.

That has nothing to do with the royal family’s official 30 days of mourning. William and Kate were given a golden opportunity with the timing. Honoring the traditional 30 days for Will and Kate would have meant they would have skipped traditional engagements focused on them personally like anniversary press conferences and birthday pictures. It would have shown the world they honor tradition above all else and they are willing to sacrifice for the monarchy. In short, it would have been seen as the ultimate act of service. This is the type of thing that would have become part of their narrative forever.

And they blew it.