Harry and Meghan’s Happy Holidays card

I dislike Happy Holidays but it is common in North America. goodness knows why when as a whole they're more religious than UK.

The RF family photos for their Christmas cards will be posed, but seated or standing together, all smiling at the camera. Not of them at 'doing good' functions, so there is a difference. Does anybody not know that Catherine's name is Catherine, she has expressed a wish to be addressed such, and yet still people including you Grannynannywanny insist on calling her Kate. If you spell Meghan's name in full do you do her the courtesy of including the 'h' which is not the traditional spelling?

They look a delightful, healthy, happy and well blessed little family.

I hope the King gets to see some photographs too this Christmas. He must miss them in his life.

Mr. Markle too.

Sad really. Too many years now of bitterness. We only get one life. Try to be nice. Not just ‘inclusive’ (happy holidays) with strangers, publicists, donors, hangers on.

Log pile ! a Christmas card ?

We rarely see any photos of the Royal family that aren’t staged . The reactions and comments vary depending on which Royals are being photographed. H&M are always fair game for heavy criticism. We’ve seen staged photos of William and Kate with the children. Think woodland and log piles. If it was W&K rather than H&M in this staged photo I suspect some would be gushing over it.

I agree about the use of Happy Holidays. It’s Christmas season. My Muslim friend gives me a Christmas gift and card and sends me a text on Christmas morning saying Happy Christmas. I do the same for her during Eid. I don’t understand the reluctance to say Christmas 🤷‍♀️

Is that a Christmas card or just a family photo? I don’t get it.

Oh, we've not had an H&M bashing thread for a wee while...

Agreed. Because of course the cards with family photos of other members of the RF, are not posed at all? and not at all about 'how wonderful we are'.

RF Christmas cards are about tradition, not promotion.
Pantglas’s Round Robin connection is spot on.

Nice dogs! 🐕 🐕 🐶

Natural is surely not H & M

Holidays, why can’t we just say Christmas?
The Jews have Chanukah, Muslims Eid etc, they don’t refer to their religious festivals as a holiday.

As an aside, regarding the mealy mouthed the favoured Happy Holidays greetings, favoured by North Americans, I was really amused to hear when Jill Biden was addressing some meeting or other recently she trotted out the suitably vanilla Happy Holidays to those gathered and some child in the audience shouted out "happy CHRISTMAS!" Well done him or her.

We have our opinions and freedom to express them without being called nasty for Heaven’s sake.

Ilovecheese

Nice picture, nasty thread.

Agreed. Because of course the cards with family photos of other members of the RF, are not posed at all? and not at all about 'how wonderful we are'.

Very natural and lovely.

Nice picture, nasty thread.

The one with the children also looked so posed and false.

All I thought was, look how wonderful we are and aren’t we doing good things.
I hope they send a more personal one to their friends and family.
Oh hang on …..

It was lovely to see the little ones but the other pics? Not so much…bit like the round robin theme mentioned elsewhere IMO!

Here it is.