MUM KATE SHOWS HER PHOTO SKILLS
PRINCESS Charlotte lovingly plants a kiss on her newborn brother’s forehead as she gives Prince Louis a cuddle.
The tender moment was snapped by their proud mum Kate on Charlotte’s third birthday on Wednesday – and released by they royals last night.
The duchess, a keen amateur photographer, also shared a photo she took at their Kensington Palace home of Prince Louis when he was three days old.
The youngest member of the Royal family is wide-eyed in a white outfit, propped up on top of a white frilly cushion.
Four-year-old Prince George is mysteriously absent from both photos.
But the picture of Charlotte is similar to one Kate took of George puckering up to his little sister a few weeks after her birth.
This is not the first time Kate, 36, – one of the world’s most photographed women – has gone the other side of the lens. In 2015 she took the first official photographs of Charlotte.
Kate has also released pictures to mark other milestones in her children’s lives, including George and Charlotte’s first days at nursery school.
Last year she accepted a lifetime honorary membership of the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of her talent and enthusiasm.
Kate’s work also gets the thumbs-up from Mirror photographer Ian Vogler. He said: “It’s always hard to get a nice picture of very young children. I know from my own experiences. But the Duchess of Cambridge has done a really good job with the picture of Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. “It’s a really charming image of a big sister proud of her new sibling. “Both pictures are nicely lit with natural daylight the best way to photograph children. The picture of Prince Louis on his own is more formal looking but at the same time it’s very good. “Just getting such a young baby to keep his eyes open is an achievement.” Kensington Palace said William, 35, and Kate were very pleased to share the photographs. Staff said the royal couple “would like to thank members of the public for all of the kind messages they have received following the birth of Prince Louis, and for Princess Charlotte’s third birthday”. Charlotte celebrated her big day privately with her family, just nine days after the birth of Prince Louis on April 23. The arrival was a historic day for Charlotte, as a 2013 change in the law means she is the first royal female not to be supplanted in succession by a younger male. The last time the public saw the princess was when she arrived at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, to meet her little brother for the first time. She stole the show, waving enthusiastically at the throng of wellwishers in West London while shy George stared at his shoes. Charlotte will appear again in two weeks at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding at Windsor Castle when she is likely to be a flower girl or bridesmaid.