Prince and Princess of Wales release Princess Charlotte Birthday Portrait at 11
The Prince and Princess of Wales released a new princess charlotte birthday portrait and video to mark Princess Charlotte’s 11th birthday. The image shows Charlotte smiling in a sunny field, wearing a black and red striped jumper with blue jeans, while the video gives a wider look at the same family holiday in Cornwall.
Kensington Palace posted the birthday message, writing: “Thank you for the lovely birthday messages for Princess Charlotte, 11 today!” The release arrived a day after Prince William and Princess Catherine shared a new family portrait as they marked 15 years of marriage, with both sets of photographs taken by Matt Porteous during the Easter break.
Charlotte in Cornwall
Charlotte was photographed during the family’s Easter break in Cornwall, where Matt Porteous shot the portrait and the separate video. In the video, she bowls a cricket ball, pats the family dogs Orla and Otto, and uses white shells to write a message in the sand.
That same holiday produced another image of Prince William and Princess Catherine lying in the grass with their children and their two dogs Orla and Otto. The Waleses had shared that photo on Wednesday as they marked 15 years of marriage, linking the birthday release to a short run of new family pictures from Cornwall.
A brief public glimpse
Princess Charlotte, the couple’s middle child and only daughter, was last seen publicly at the Royal Family’s annual Easter Sunday church service in Windsor, where she smiled and waved at crowds. Born at 08:43 on 2 May 2015 at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, Charlotte is third in line to the throne and has two brothers, Prince George and Prince Louis.
The new material also follows the family’s post about Otto, the second dog, whose first birthday was marked just a day earlier with the caption: “Welcome to the family, Otto! 1 today.” For royal watchers, the sequence leaves a fresh set of family images to read alongside Charlotte’s birthday, with the child shown at play rather than in a formal portrait setting.
The next public milestone in this sequence is already fixed by the family’s own calendar: Charlotte’s 11th birthday has now been marked, and the photographs from Cornwall have added another snapshot of the Waleses’ private time into the public record.
