New picture of late Queen with her great/grandchildren by Princess of Wales

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New picture of late Queen with her great/grandchildren by Princess of Wales

Yes, but I wouldn't "release" my casual and not very good family snapshots with a fanfare to national news agencies.

Well as you are not the monarch or the Princess of Wales no one would be interested, as this is a picture of the late Queen taken by Kate on what would have been the Queen’s 97th birthday there will be people who will be very interested and pleased to see it.

Very true. The absence of Harry's children will be very conspicuous in that respect. I think that they will suddenly appear together after a decade when Charles is older and frailer and everyone will pin their hopes on a great reconciliation but it will not grow legs.

Won't know until you say 😃

I find it very very wrong to talk of the Queen having bone cancer on this thread when it's not been officially confirmed that is so. That has come from a 'royal biographer'
She was shaking hands and smiling the day before she died (I hasten to add who knows what pain she was in) but having nursed my DM through a terrible terrible cancer when she was bed ridden for months beforehand, I find it crass.

Can't say 'cos it will open the floodgates!

Ooops... you've spoken of my 'it'

Sigh

@nether I heard bone cancer but myeloma does cause areas of bone to be eaten away. I've seen a skull X-ray that looks like a colander with giant holes in it. If it's myeloma she could have been living with it for some time as there are treatments. It'll come out one day.

Why are people criticising the photo its fine? A relaxed informal grouping of children and granny

I love those 'through the years' photos even when they are complete strangers - I always get sucked into those stories online when some siblings have recreated the same photos for x number of years.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/magazine/01-brown-sisters-forty-years.html

I think that's one of the appeal for me of the royal photos - you can track time and trends with them.

My father's cancer had spread to his bones and there is no way he could have been out of bed, upright, dressed and photographed for well over a month before his death.
So I agree with @Roussette that bone cancer seems unlikely but we just don't know.

Even if there was a photo withAugust and Sienna in it I’m not sure it would have been published - Beatrice seems to have decided on not having her in any released photos.

it’ll be a difficult one to keep up because of the press, but if that’s what she’s chosen hopefully she succeeds for as long as possible

Thanks @TheCrystalPalace and @wordler. So, in other words all of Anne's grandchildren.

I think if parents decide it, news organisations have to pixellate or blur faces, don't they?
Or else get fined?

He's now Earl of Wessex, not duke.

Has this photo just been released?

Don't think it would have been too much to ask the Queen crack a smile would it?

This photo would likely have been taken a few weeks before she died. Perhaps she was in pain?

Yes. In honour of the late Queen’s birthday pictured with great-grandchildren as royals mark her 97th birthday www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65350728 See here

Oh I didn’t realise it was bone cancer.. how do you know this x

No one does know this for sure. Speculation

Is that what the late Queen died of?

How sad. She’s someone I miss very much.

pictured with great-grandchildren as royals mark her 97th birthday www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65350728 Try again

don’t think the link worked first time

That is not official. A royal biographer said so and we know how they like to act that they know everything.
When they don't.

I think the speculation of this is very crass.

Ahhh ok, it's to mark her birthday, that makes more sense.

I thought it was a build up to the Coronation

I loved the earlier picture where Mia Tindall (I think it was) was holding the Queens handbag.