Prince William birthday - new photo

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Kensington Palace have released a new photo of William and the children to mark his 42nd birthday. The photo was taken by Catherine.

Honestly I think this is one of my favourite photos of the family!

NoideawhatIam, They aren’t as high as they look. I’ve taken a similar style photo of my niece on a swing. It looks like she’s really very high but really it was because I was crouched down looking up, when I took the shot.

They all look very happy. A really nice photo.

It's a fantastic photo and looks like a similar beach to the Fathers Day photo was taken - lovely golden sand and marram grass. The PoW is clearly a very competent photographer and has a great eye for composition. It shows a lovely family having a great day. I wouldn't say it was photoshopped at all, I imagine Catherine would be lying on her tum on the beach - the look on Louis' face suggests there might have been a bit of a drop!

There's no way they would release a photoshopped picture after what happened before. It's 100% real.

Taken in Norfolk, I know what those plants are like, and they cut like knives!

That grass is common on East of England sand dunes, and we do get pretty skies occasionally too

Actually I wondered if Kate’s photo was a deliberate callback to images of young Princess Charles and Princess Anne jumping similarly from sand dune in Norfolk that were released by the Queen. This picture of William and his children is very similar - just taken from a different angle!

It certainly made me smile. Nice one Kate.

Similar dunes in N Devon and can confirm about the grasses.

Doesn't it just!

What a lovely picture. If the Queen gig doesn't work out Catherine could definitely make a good portrait photographer 😂

Lovely pic, but I don't understand the physics. Do posh people jump high?

Where is the grass?

Am confused.

I think it's just clever use of perspective

They are jumping down a sand dune. If Catherine is low down beneath them, she can easily get this angle. Hopefully the dune grass is behind then as its really sharp.

Rubbish. We have taken many similar shots over the years. That's what parts of the British coast look like.

The RF social media is all go today! The RF account have posted on stories on insta and on Twitter, "Changing of the Guard, Taylor's version" with the guard playing "Shake it Off" before the Era's tour hits Wembley tonight!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8edJ_iMuLV/?igsh=MTk3ZHpsY2txd205Yg==

If you look at the photos I posted taken of Prince Charles as a young boy jumping off the sand dunes, you’ll understand the physics. They are jumping off the top of a dune down a vertical drop (probably just a couple of meters high) onto the sand at the base of the dune. The grass is on top of the dune they have just jumped off.

Charles has been shot from the side, William and family from below as they jump.

Great photo of William and the children. I thought we were going to have a quiet one this weekend as things seemed to have died down this week, but the Sussex lot will go in to a frenzy now. Brace yourselves for all sorts of bonkers threads 😂

I love it when the the Guards jazz the music up 💃🏼

You can see the physics by the fact you can see the sole of Williams foot, that is only possible if you are underneath the object. I have similar photos of my children jumping in the pool, the fact I was lying down exaggerated the height that my children achieved.

Love it 😻

What a wonderful photo. I think hope Kate is doing a leetle bit of trolling.....

It's a great photo.

Are we sure that Kate took it? There seems to be no photographer credit.

Pretty sure that’s Wells or Brancaster , lots of sand dunes hummocks to jump down from , we have similar pictures off our dc jumping . They have beach hut in the dunes.

The telegraph report on it says she did. Also the BBC seem to credit herall love you so much' - Kate's birthday tribute to William https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clwwe80dwpeo See here

Don’t know why the BBC links are behaving weirdly 🤷‍♀️. It works if you click on the www bbc bit

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