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Princess Charlotte melts hearts in first day of school photos
Princess Charlotte started school on Monday, and parents Kate Middleton and Prince William couldn’t resist sharing adorable photos snapped by mum.
In the two pics, Instagrammed and tweeted by Kensington Palace Monday, the two-year-old is wearing a $206 red, Amaia Kids coat with matching Mary Jane shoes, a baby-pink scarf, and brown tights. She’s also carrying a pink backpack.
“The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to share two photographs of Princess Charlotte at Kensington Palace this morning," the palace captioned the photos.
"The images were taken by The Duchess shortly before Princess Charlotte left for her first day of nursery at the Willcocks Nursery School.”
Royal watchers were quick to comment on how cute Princess Charlotte looked.
She looks so proud 🤗
— fruijui ⚡ (@fruijui) January 8, 2018
What amazingly natural young lady! So calm, happy and confident. Thank you for releasing these photographs, I’m temporarily ill & they are a great tonic.
— LorraineBaxterMcPhie (@LBaxterMcPhie) January 8, 2018
That outfit is a dream to be honest.
— Rosie ✨ (@rosiebsteele) January 8, 2018
What a little darling!!
— Audra Atoche -Auggie (@Odrah) January 8, 2018
In December, the palace announced that Charlotte would attend the Willcocks Nursey School, a female-led academy at the Holy Trinity Church.
The school, where tuition for its five-day program is about $15,000 (plus a $2,500 initial deposit), “strives to maintain its ethos for high standards, excellence and good manners,” according to its website.
The school offers lots of “free play” for its 32 students, between the ages of 2 3/4 and 5 years old, who learn to read, write, and perform simple math with “the minimum of pressure.” And parents can sign up for the “Lunch Club,” an additional learning experience with French lessons and activities like painting and drama.
“We are delighted that The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have chosen the Willcocks Nursery School for Princess Charlotte,” the school said in a December statement. “We look forward to welcoming Charlotte to our nursery in January.”
Many assumed Charlotte would attend Westacre Montessori School in Norfolk just like four-year-old brother Prince George, who also enrolled at age two.
On George’s first day in 2016, Kate shared a few snaps of her son heading off to school wearing a blue puffy coat with plaid lining and carrying a light-blue backpack.
The future king currently attends Thomas’s Battersea in London, for children ages 4 to 13, where on his first day in September, he was photographed nervously holding his father’s hand and meeting the head teacher.
It’s unclear how Charlotte will be addressed by the school staff, but it might be “Charlotte Cambridge”, similarly to her brother George, as he’s called at school.
It’s a time of new beginnings for the young royals, between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s highly publicised engagement, the impending birth of the Duke and Duchess’s third child in April, and Kate’s 36th birthday today.
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