People have been busy improving Kate and William’s Christmas card
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s Christmas card is a distinctly non-Christmassy affair this year.
No red and gold, no Rudolph, not even the merest hint of a bit of tinsel.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are pleased to share a new photograph of their family. The image features on Their Royal Highnesses' Christmas card this year. The photograph was taken earlier this year by @ChrisJack_Getty at Kensington Palace. pic.twitter.com/p8jm6zDfl0
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) December 18, 2017
Fortunately people have been dicking around with it to make it better. And boy did they make it better.
Some alternative backdrops for your consideration pic.twitter.com/GiiChdQiUW
— Ciara (@Ciara_Knight) December 18, 2017
And here they are.
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This is a little more festive. pic.twitter.com/RFMunKmG8c
— Richard Stanley (@grizzlygorrila) December 18, 2017
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#pokechallenge pic.twitter.com/WrggoC6w2H
— Jamie Gemmell (@GingerPower_) December 20, 2017
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Celebrating Christmas with Prince Edward and friends.#pokechallenge pic.twitter.com/0xdVumT9ON
— Keith Garro-Ho-Ho (@keithgarrow) December 20, 2017
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Stacked in Santa hats is an improvement. #pokechallenge pic.twitter.com/z3wksDJ23j
— Andy Lang (@HRH_Duke_of_Url) December 20, 2017
There is also a reward for anyone who finds Kate’s right arm. Contact Clarence House on the usual number.
Here’s what the Guardian made of it.
Are the Cambridges entering their Blue Period? They have eschewed the classic Christmas palette of red, green and gold to wear the hue on their family’s 2017 Christmas card, choosing a far more formal to-camera portrait than the relaxed and candid images of previous years.
So formal, in fact, that if rendered in black and white with a two-up, two-down house Photoshopped into the background, it would look like an advert for suburban postwar, prefab housing (just Google Levittown in the 1950s).
It takes matchy matchy dressing to a whole new level (take note, Harry and Meghan). Prince William’s tie picks out hues in Princess Charlotte’s cornflower florals; the duchess’s dress matches the stripe in Prince George’s shirt; and navy grounds the feet of all but one (you can’t have expected Kate to give up the nude courts at Christmas, surely). Clearly, the family that dresses together, impresses together.
Phew.