
Princess Charlotte, Princess Diana
Samir Hussain/WireImage ; Antony Jones/UK PressPrincess Charlotte was her late grandmother, Princess Dianais a mini-me in Princess Kate Middletonannual Christmas service “Together on Christmas Day”.
The Princess of Wales, 42, hosted her annual holiday concert at Westminster Abbey on Friday, December 6, where she was joined by her husband, Prince Williamand their three children, Prince George11, Charlotte, 9 and Prince Louis6.
Photo taken of Charlotte at the event draw comparisons with Diana as the young princess glared at a photographer as she walked past. A fan account devoted to the royal family shared a side-by-side comparison of “Spenser Stare” via Instagram of Charlotte next to a photo of her grandmother looking at the camera in a similarly stern manner.
“Oh those eyes are the same on Diana and Charlotte,” one fan wrote via the Instagram comments, while another noted the “striking resemblance”. However, others believe that Charlotte looks like another member of the family. “She looks like her great-grandmother Queen Elizabethone person wrote.
Even without the family resemblance, Kate and William – who welcomed Charlotte in May 2015. – also honored their only daughter with Diana as a middle name in honor of the late Princess of Wales who died tragically in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
“We still have pictures of her around the house and we talk about her a little bit and stuff,” William explained during the 2017 HBO documentary. Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy. “And it’s difficult because obviously Catherine didn’t know her, so she can’t provide that level of detail. That’s what I do regularly, I put George and Charlotte to bed and I talk about her and I just try to remind them that there are two grandmothers – there were two grandmothers in their lives. And it is important that they know who she is and that she existed.
Diana’s influence even extended to how William and Kate chose to raise their children. source exclusively speaking Us Weekly in August 2019 “Diana was such a wonderful mother. William and Kate are doing their best to go after her when it comes to raising George, Charlotte and Louis. They are determined to give their children a normal life, just like Diana did.
At the Christmas service on Friday, Charlotte and Kate were the twins as they both donned red coats, while William and the boys donned navy blue suits with complementary brown ties.
Kate was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer earlier this year, but revealed in September that she had finished chemotherapy. Royal author Phil Dampier said hello on Dec. 2 that Charlotte was a big help to her mother while she was undergoing cancer treatment.
“I’m told that although the Princess of Wales has apparently cared for her children during her cancer treatment and assured them she was getting better,” he told the publication. “Charlotte was a great source of strength for her.”
Dampier added: “Winston Churchill once said of the late Queen Elizabeth when he was a child that he had never seen such maturity in someone so young. And Charlotte seems to have inherited this trait from her great-grandmother, to whom she bears amazing resemblance.”