Royal visit

Sarah AJ - that's the other person Charlotte resembles! Thanks for that tip off as I knew she was like another member of the royal family.

I agree that George is his maternal GF's imagine.

Jalima I was looking in John Lewis knitting dept this afternoon and they had patterns for tiny pullovers!

I am surprised they are SO old fashioned in their dress as they are supposed to be modern royals Those blooming black long socks keep getting raked out and the plastered down hair I think you can dress children very smartly in modern clothes they don't have to be Prinark or scruffy jeans There are beautiful boys as well as girls clothes nowadays I don't get it at all they can be classically dressed without seeming trashy The royals supposedly have the best designers and they certainly aren't short of a bob or two

I can't help it I just want to ruffle Georges hair up every time I see a picture of him, and now I ve seen the little one with the same drawn back hair in a slide I want to do the same to her hair

I think Charlotte closely resembles Sarah AJ. She is supposed to be very sweet. Doubt if Kate thought about what might happen if she slipped. Too busy trying to live up to her title!! Cannot imagine Her Majesty is too enamoured of the trowelled on make-up and simpering ways of Princess Minnie Mouse!

I wish Charlotte's hair wasn't clamped back with that slide. My mother used to do my hair like that 60 years ago and I've always hated it.
There was a lovely photo of William cuddling George and they really did look like a normal father and son.

Oh, I have only seen those little blue shorts, not seen the red stretchy ones

I'm not for one minute suggesting that he wears 'trash', a nice pair of linen chinos would be better than whatever those red shorts he had on were made of they looked almost knitted/stretchy material, awful but I agree Next sell some lovely boys clothes.

SueDonim I think those sleeveless pullovers are very trendy now, and the clothes George and Charlotte wear are so much nicer than some of the cheap trash that is around these days.
tight shorts? look better than those horrible baggy things made out of sweatshirt material that are popular nowadays, and Next sell a version of the classic George shorts.

Quite right. They are lovely little children. Its nice to see them but its good that they aren't overexposed to the media (us!) Kate and William seem to get it right.

I think Charlotte looks very like the Queen's niece, Sarah (Armstong Jones) at the same age. George is the spit of his maternal Grandad, Michael Middleton. I don't mind the clothes. Whatever they dress him in will be criticised by someone.

I'm glad it isn't just me who think Charlotte looks like the queen!

I saw a baby boy of 12mths today dressed just like George. In fact maybe even more old-fashioned - he had on a shirt with a knitted sleeveless pullover on top.

That's the first thing I said when I saw yesterday's photos of Charlotte - that she looks just like the Queen! I bet the Queen is delighted if it's acknowledged in the Royal Family.

I agree Charlotte does look like the Queen, I just wish George didn't have to wear those tight shorts they are very dated surely there is something they could put him in that didn't make him look so old fashioned compared to all the other little boys in shorts.
I know he is 'different' but I can just imagine him years to come looking at those photos and saying 'what the hell have a I got on'

Yes she does, but without the Shirley Temple curls

GKvery funny!

I thought that too Lully Dully.

I can't get over how Charlotte looks like the Queen.

There are some amusing photo-jokes doing the rounds, here's one.

George and Charlotte look lovely, i cant stand it when parents dree their little boys in "here comes trouble" t shirts or their little girls like tarts.

JessM I thought that 'William's mum' (aka Princess of Wales) took him to Australia when he was just a tot.

Of course, the Queen was criticised for leaving her children at home when she went on Royal visits

Can't win whatever they do
Jane10 yes, gets boring doesn't it!

mcem I agree with you re the clothes
I would have said they were 'classic'
(What's wrong with them, or Charlotte's pretty dresses?)

I expect he has jeans, dungarees etc for playing in the garden

Since that photo opportunity have the children been seen?
I expect they will be wheeled out again for departure.

I suppose if you can afford not to shop at Sainsbury s then why not. I thought George looked quite smart. Just shorts, shirt and jumper with his school shoes buffed up. Not a sailor collar or curl in sight.

Yes, I think Diana was quite old-fashioned in her choice of baby/young children's wear. Not saying that was a bad thing.

I'm sure I remember William and Harry going along on business trips though, Jess, and they did wear a lot of smocked romper suits!

Wondering if William's mother would have approved of either taking the kids on a business trip or dressing him up to impersonate his grandad as a child.

To be fair I think George was wearing the sort of clothes my GS's would wear for a formal affair like a wedding. I suppose meeting a foreign Prime Minister is at least as formal as the average wedding.
I think the visit is aimed at improving relations with Canada with a view to establishing new markets there when we're out of Europe.