Royal Family
Prince William & Kate Middleton Continued A Royal Birthday Tradition
The couple’s daughter celebrated her 9th birthday on May 2.
Prince William and Kate Middleton continued a long-standing tradition to celebrate Princess Charlotte. On May 2, the couple shared a new photo of their 9-year-old daughter in honor of her birthday.
Taken by the Princess of Wales in Windsor, the newly released photograph shows a smiling Charlotte posing alongside some flowers and shrubbery. “Happy 9th Birthday, Princess Charlotte! Thank you for all of the kind messages today,” the couple wrote in a caption.
Sharing unseen photos to mark their children’s birthdays has become common practice in the Kensington clan. On April 23, William and Middleton posted a new portrait of their youngest son, Prince Louis, on Instagram to mark his 6th birthday.
Middleton often takes these photos, but for Prince George’s 10th birthday in July 2023, his portrait was snapped by photographer Millie Pilkington instead.
Ahead of Charlotte’s ninth birthday, Prince William revealed the young royal’s favorite joke while visiting a school in the West Midlands, England, on April 26.
“Knock Knock,” the Prince said, prompting school students to ask, “Who’s there?” When William replied “Interrupting cow,” the students again asked, “Interrupting cow who?” — to which he responded with the punchline, “Mooo.”
Charlotte and Prince Louis’s birthdays aren’t the only recent family milestones celebrated by William and Middleton. On April 29, the couple marked their 13th wedding anniversary by releasing a supposedly never-before-seen photograph from their 2011 wedding.
