Happy birthday,Princess Charlotte!
In honor of the royal’s fourth birthday on May 2, proud parents Kate Middleton andPrince Williamreleased three new photos of their daughter on Wednesday.
“The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to share three new photographs ofPrincess Charlotteahead of her fourth birthday tomorrow,” the palace said in a statement.
In one of the photos, Charlotte sits sweetly in the grass with her hands crossed over her blue flowered dress fromTrotterswith a Peter Pan collar — and adorable retro-stylenavy canvas shoes. Mom Kate also styled her hair with a matching navy bow.
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The photos come just one week afterWill and Kate released new photosofPrince Louisfor his first birthday.
The little princess’s birthday will be spent at home privately where there will be a family celebration. Her big day comes after a public holiday for May Day in the U.K, so her family and friends will have no trouble getting time off to help the royal family celebrate the little one.
It has been a memorable year for Charlotte. She had a big role in not just one, but two royal weddings. She served as a bridesmaid inMeghan Markle and Prince Harry’s nuptialsin May and then again forPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s weddingin October. And theyoung royal took chargeon the big day.
“She was really sweet,” a royal wedding guest of Meghan and Harry’s wedding told PEOPLE. “There was one girl who wanted to go and she said, ‘No you can’t go yet. We have to wait until we are asked.’ She was really organized!”
The royal has also beenperfecting her pirouettes and pliés at a dance schoolin South London, where she has been taking private ballet lessons, PEOPLE has learned.
“My daughter Charlotte loves dancing,” William proudly told attendees at a Commonwealth reception in March.
Charlotte will join her big brother,Prince George, atThomas’s Batterseain the fall.
Candid portraits have become a tradition for the royal family. ForCharlotte’s first birthday, mom Kate got behind the camera to take the sweet pictures, which showed Charlotte playing around the family’s home of Anmer Hall in adorable pink and blue outfits (with matching bows!).
Princess Charlotte.
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For hersecond birthday, Kate took another adorable photo outside of Anmer Hall — this time Charlotte sported a navy bow.
Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte.Duchess of Cambridge/PA Wire
source: people.com
