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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Zoe Williams

Monarchy in monochrome: what are William and Kate saying in their family Christmas card?

The festive five: the Prince and Princess of Wales with Louis, Charlotte and George, photographed in black and white, wearing open-necked white shirts.
The festive five: the Prince and Princess of Wales with Louis, Charlotte and George. White shirts with jeans are on-trend, says our fashion ed. Photograph: Josh Shinner/Kensington Palace/PA

On the Prince and Princess of Wales’s Christmas card, the family is shot in black and white against a mottled grey background of a material that looks almost furry, like the belly of a mole.

They are dressed casually, each in an open-necked white shirt with jeans. And it can’t help but seem like a nod to the kind of card Harry and Meghan would send – indeed, they did matching denim two years ago, though both the setting and the body language were much more relaxed.

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