Trooping of the Colour

William and Catherine being sensible agreed to some family
occasions to be photographed and shared to keep the press from trying to snap the children, remember Diana exposing
her sons to the cameras

👍 Calendargirl.

I don’t think that the Royal Family (but I could be wrong) posted pictures to mark Mothering Sunday and Fathers Day until social media became a thing, and the world and his wife showed photos to mark this and that.

Also for families like the Wales’, a good way to keep in the public eye, but able to choose and limit what to show.

Maybe it's the composition of the photo with the father's arms outstretched around them all. Also the fact that we can't see their faces and expressions. Almost a less is more type work of art, which leaves us to put our own spin on it.

Was the one with William and Charles actually shot as a Father's Day photo at the time, 1986 ish? When did the trend for putting out photos for important days like birthdays begin?

Yes Calendargirl both Fathers Day celebration photographs

The photo of William and the children was taken by Catherine, she could hardly be in it herself. It was just a lovely picture for Father’s Day.

And William chose to show one of him with his father, Charles, as a tribute to FD.

Nothing sinister about either of them. Crikey!

What on earth do you mean Anniebach ?

The photograph of Charles and William, is this seen as a warning for the future ?

I think she took it, but I could be wrong. As it was for Fathers day, it was appropriate for Catherine not to be in it. Just the three children, George,Charlotte and Louis with their arms round their Papa telling him how much they love him.

Yes Maybee70 - I too felt sad when I saw that picture. The three of them without Catherine. It was very poignant, under the circumstances…..

I hadn't thought of the Father's Day photo in that way, Maybee70, but you're right.

I git a bit upset seeing the photo they put out on Father’s Day of William and the children. Lovely as the picture was seeing him with the children but without Kate made me feel afraid of them losing her. What I did find, seeing them on Saturday, was that there was no sadness in their eyes. People can smile as much as they like but if something is really worrying them there is a sadness in the eyes that they can’t hide. I realised that when I had my photo taken at my daughter’s graduation at a time when my marriage was falling apart. I was smiling but my eyes weren’t.

Cute little Louie. 🥰. Poor little chap. Not his bag at all 😊

We know someone who was in the RAF, when he joined up he wanted to be in the musical corps. On joining up at around 17, and not long after he joined up, he went to the Gulf War and served over there, he would never tell his mother what he had witnessed.....he has travelled the world and played at some amazing events, including Trooping the Colour, Remembrance Day, and he loved every minute of it.
He retired from the RAF at around 48 years old, (hopefully with a good pension!) and has since earned his living playing Sax (mainly jazz) in different bands, he also teaches if the opportunity comes up.

I’m on that same limb.

So do I, but then I care about saying 'sat, instead of 'sitting', stood' instead of standing', the list is endless!! Granddaughter, a Physiotherapist, appears mystified by the difference! Think it must be me that's out on a limb!

I care, for one.

Urmstongran

It’s Trooping the Colour.
No ‘of’.

But nobody seems to care any more.

I have read all of the messages posted and was, frankly, reduced to tears by some of them which were so unkind. If you don't have something nice to say, type nothing.

Because I don't have a television, I was hoping to be uplifted by verbal eulogies of The Trooping. Some were lovely but others were horrid.

Sorry - just my viewpoint. Disagree if you wish - that is what debate is all about (despite it being cancelled and unfashionable)!

Oreo

Calling the Princess Of Wales a ‘poor little soul’ is a bit weird.
She has always been, or for a very long time, stick thin presumably from choice to look stylish.
She neither looked any thinner nor frail to me, but as usual like a model and very regal.Her slightly military/ Naval outfit looked amazing.
None of us know how her treatment is going, but she will get the best care there is, and on looks alone, is doing well.

I think she comes from a family of slim (thin) women.

I thought exactly the same knspol about the 'blown away' remark.

Primrose53 I thought the 'blown away' remark seemed totally at odds with the rest of the message, it really stood out to me as if it had been added in to make it seem more colloquial. Can't imagine Kate saying that.

She has always been very athletic

Katherine has always been slim and several months of haemotherapy has not helped one bit, that’s understandable. Maybe the cancer had been grumbling along for sometime before it was diagnosed and the reason for her slim build, we all wish her a speedy recovery but it will take time.

Grandyma

Love these occasions!! So much history and tradition. I’m curious about the style of hat worn by some of the royal ladies. Very large sweeping brims, covering one side of their face. I’m sure Queen Elizabeth insisted on hats which allowed her to be seen by the crowds on both sides of the carriage.

She did, yes, and so did the Queen Mother, but other royal ladies, notably Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, opted for the large brimmed hats that were fashionable in the 1970's and wore them with style while they were fashionable.

They came back into the forefront of fashion when the present King got engaged and on the occasion of his visit to Parliament with his new fiancée her hat blew off, causing the Crown Prince, as he was then, later to remark to the Press,
"Mother has a trick with hat-pins, that she had omitted to mention to Mary! She has rectified her mistake."