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Thursday, October 24, 2013

So THAT'S where he gets those chubby cheeks from: Picture of Kate as a baby reveal that Prince George is the spitting image of his mum

 

  • George has inherited the Middleton button nose and chubby cheeks
  • Also has William's eyes and ears
  • George's christening was an intimate family affair, much like Kate's
  • Wore ivory gown made of delicate Honiton lace and white satin, worn before him by every baby born to the British Royal family since 1841
By Bianca London
When William first introduced Prince George to the world, he quipped that luckily their newborn had inherited his mother's looks, to which Kate replied 'I'm not sure about that'.
But judging by yesterday's snaps of His Royal Highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, who put on a perfect display of royal etiquette on one the biggest day of his life so far, he really is the spitting image of his mother as baby.
As the former Kate Middleton carried her son out of the service, dressed in a handmade replica of Queen Victoria’s daughter’s christening robe, it was impossible to miss the resemblance between the pair. 
Spot the difference: As the Duchess of Cambridge left her son's christening, it was impossible not to notice the similarities between the pair
Spot the difference: As the Duchess of Cambridge left her son's christening, it was impossible not to notice the similarities between the pair                                       

Little George has inherited his mother's head shape, chubby little cheeks and the iconic Middleton button nose.
And it isn't just his mother's looks that the youngster has acquired.

According to aides, there wasn’t ‘even a peep’ out of the three-month-old future king as he was baptised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, at the Chapel Royal in St James’s Palace.
‘He went in smiling, came out smiling and, as far as we are aware, smiled throughout,’ said one.
His good behaviour seemingly resonates that of his mother.

George Brown, a 68-year-old former neighbour of the Middleton family told the Mail on Sunday: 'Catherine was a good baby. She was always very well turned-out and there weren’t any problems. 
'She was very content. Carole and I would often take the girls for walks together and have a coffee, and there was never much crying.’ 
Uncanny: Prince George has inherited his mother's button nose and chubby cheeks and it is hard to tell the difference between his and his mother's 1982 (r) christening snap
Uncanny: Prince George has inherited his mother's button nose and chubby cheeks and it is hard to tell the difference between his and his mother's (r) christening snaps
Uncanny: Prince George has inherited his mother's button nose and chubby cheeks and it is hard to tell the difference between his and his mother's 1982 (r) christening snap

So where did it all begin for Kate?
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, on January 9, 1982, the eldest of three children to British Airways stewardess Carole and her trainee pilot husband Michael Middleton, who had been married for two years.

The christening of Catherine took place on June 20, 1982 — the day before her future husband was born — at her local church, St Andrew’s, in Bradfield on the banks of the River Pang, Berkshire.
Her father Michael sported a traditional dark suit with striped tie for the occasion and posed proudly with Kate and Carole, who wore a Laura Ashley floral dress for the down-to-earth family event.
William's baptism was very different to Kate's small village gathering.
He was baptised in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace on August 4 (the 82nd birthday of the Queen Mother) by the then Archbishop of Canterbury,  Robert Runcie.
Little lookalike: Kate pictured on June 20 1982 at her local church, St Andrew's, with grandmother Dorothy Goldsmith (mother of Carole Middleton) and Prince William (r) at his baptism on August 8, 1982
Little lookalike: Kate pictured on June 20 1982 at her local church, St Andrew's, with grandmother Dorothy Goldsmith (mother of Carole Middleton)
Little lookalike: Kate pictured on June 20 1982 at her local church, St Andrew's, with grandmother Dorothy Goldsmith (mother of Carole Middleton) and Prince William (r) at his baptism on August 8, 1982

Princess Diana, just 21 and wearing a fuchsia pink, blue and white floral dress with a pink hat set at a rakish angle, looked radiant. But she later confided to friends that it had been a trial.
‘No one consulted me as to whether 11am would fit in with William’s schedule,’ she said. ‘I was totally excluded, totally exhausted and the photos went on and on. I blubbed my eyes out.’
Whilst George's intimate christening, which saw just 23 guests in attendance, was a far cry from Williams, the father and son look just like one another.
Prince George has inherited his father's eyes and ears, and his late grandmother Diana's face shape.
'Prince George is a very bonny baby, just like his father,' said Clarissa Campbell Orr, a historian of the monarchy at Anglia Ruskin University. 
Like father, like son: Prince George has inherited his father's eyes and ears, and his late grandmother Diana's face shape (r) shows William in 1982 at his own christening with Diana
Like father, like son: Prince George has inherited his father's eyes and ears, and his late grandmother Diana's face shape 
Like father, like son: Prince George has inherited his father's eyes and ears, and his late grandmother Diana's face shape (r) shows William in 1982 at his own christening with Diana

'The resemblance to his father during the christening was particularly striking because he wore an identical christening robe.
'The robe is a replica of one first used by Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter and then subsequent royal christenings, including the Duke of Cambridge’s.
'The original is now too fragile so the replica was commissioned by the Queen and used for the christening of Prince Edward’s son James, Viscount Severn, and Prince George.'

In an historic ceremony which brought together four generations of the Royal Family, the three-month-old future king was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace.
Runs in the family: The tot even has a similar profile to Queen Victoria (pictured left, in the late 1800s)
Runs in the family: The tot even has a similar profile to Queen Victoria
Runs in the family: The tot even has a similar profile to Queen Victoria (pictured left, in the late 1800s)
Big day: George wore an ivory gown made of delicate Honiton lace and white satin, worn before him by every baby born to the British Royal family since 1841
Big day: George wore an ivory gown made of delicate Honiton lace and white satin, worn before him by every baby born to the British Royal family since 1841    
When he was welcomed into the faith, George wore an ivory gown made of delicate Honiton lace and white satin, worn before him by every baby born to the British Royal family since 1841.
Royal babies were traditionally, until 2004, christened wearing the intricate lace and satin gown made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal in 1841 and used for generation after generation of royal infants including the Queen’s father King George
 
VI, the Queen, Charles, William, Prince Harry, with Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor the last royal baby to wear it in 2004.
Crafted from layers of delicate, hand-made Honiton lace and ivory satin, it was used for all royal christenings until 2004 when Queen Elizabeth decided the gown was past its prime and ordered an exact replica to be crafted by her personal dressmaker.

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