Artistic, or dull and boring?

I think they are fed up with everything they are wearing in photos being disected and discussed; where it is from, what it cost etc. Also a photo in their home would create discussion about their taste, spending etc. I would hate it, and so might they. White shirts and jeans against a plain backdrop. Good for them.

Lovely!

It's fine . I won't be receiving one.

The only Christmas card I've ever liked by anyone in 'power' was Jeremy Corbyn's. A bicycle in the snow by an old fashioned telephone box. All the others by Royals and politicians have been awful.

Like any other family who were posed in a studio. The royals don't seem to send Christmas pictures Charles and Camillas shows them in their Coronation robes.

Gundy

I saw that and thought they look like an American family. For top-of-the-line royals, nothing special.

They don’t have to do anything special they are the future kings and Queen of this country and the commonwealth.

I had to come back and have a closer look. Jeremy Vine this morning commented that it had been over airbrushed. Louis seemed to have lost a finger and Kate only has one leg. It's true!!!

Looks like any bog standard studio family photograph from the 60s/70s to me. It’s ok, nothing remarkable.

It reminds me of one of those pictures which amateur sellers put on Ebay. They took the shot on their phone and didnt bother to even crop it let alone edit it in any way. A tiny little item on a dark uninspiring background. Then they wonder why no one buys it.

I don’t think it looks like Kate either ?

It's smug.

ExaltedWombat

It's not a 'Christmas picture'. Just a standard family portrait. I'd have cropped it a bit tighter.

I would have cropped it tighter too. No need for all that background.

It's not a 'Christmas picture'. Just a standard family portrait. I'd have cropped it a bit tighter.

I don’t think that’s Kate. Looks like one of the original Charlie’s Angels. Does Will, like Trump, have a Lookie-Likee stand in for his wife ?

Gundy

I saw that and thought they look like an American family. For top-of-the-line royals, nothing special.

How do you picture top of the line royals should look?

Callistemon21

Sarah and Charlotte

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Callistemon21

Sarah and Charlotte

👏👏👏

Louis favours his Middleton grandfather.

I saw that and thought they look like an American family. For top-of-the-line royals, nothing special.

I like the photo, I think they are a good looking family, and they look relaxed. I'm not sure of all the negative space around them; I would have cropped in a bit closer. But is is Christmas card material? No, I don't think so. If it were in colour and in a home setting it would have been more on target.

I think Prince Louis looks an awful lot like his great uncle, who shall not be named.

I've seen much better pictures of them all.

For my studies in costume history I have a huge collection of antique and vintage photos going back to the early 19th century. Sitters were "staged" (as some posters have commented) to look as though they were in a palm house, palace, garden and so on. It reminds me of those Victorian and Edwardian family groups of which my grandmother had some examples.

Far too much dead space around the group with nothing of particular interest in it. Even their clothes are not very interesting. It leaves me with a feeling of "so what?".

Sarah and Charlotte

I’ve always thought that Charlotte resembles the Queen (Elizabeth, not Camilla!).

Anniebach

Sarah Chatto looks like her father

Yes, but there must be something of the Windsors in both of them!

Sarah Chatto looks like her father