{"id":488790,"date":"2026-06-21T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488790\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:54:12","slug":"princess-charlotte-11-poses-with-dad-william-in-never-before-seen-photo-for-his-birthday-and-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488790\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Charlotte, 11, Poses with Dad William in Never-Before-Seen Photo for His Birthday and Father\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-32900f\" class=\"body-graf\">How oh so royally sweet! <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-3d47fb\" class=\"body-graf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZ13UAQNnST\/c\/18068457236427053\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Instagram account<\/a> shared by Prince William and the former Kate Middleton posted a touching photo on Sunday of the dad of three with his daughter Princess Charlotte, 11. The photo was shared in celebration of the prince\u2019s 44th birthday, which also happens to fall on Father\u2019s Day. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-c90eca\" class=\"body-graf\">In the photo, William \u2014 dressed in the uniform of the Welsh Guards of which he serves as the colonel \u2014 has his arm around Princess Charlotte, who\u2019s sporting a white dress. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e983a7\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cHappy birthday and Father\u2019s Day to the best Papa in the World! We love you very much. C, G, C &amp; L \ud83d\udc95,\u201d the post said, with the initials referring to Middleton, whose formal title is Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-eca6f1\" class=\"body-graf\">The photo drew a lot of love from fans in addition to comments that pointed out the strong resemblance between Prince William and his daughter, the middle child of his three children. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-594560\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cWilliam really said copy paste,\u201d one Instagram user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZ13UAQNnST\/c\/17874053163616721\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f58f19\" class=\"body-graf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZ13UAQNnST\/c\/18068457236427053\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Another fan<\/a> wrote that \u201cCharlotte really is her Daddy\u2019s twin \ud83e\ude77\ud83e\udef6.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-7a00e3\" class=\"body-graf\">The royal family\u2019s official social media account also celebrated the prince\u2019s big day with a photo of William and his own father King Charles. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e3339d\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cHappy Birthday to The Prince of Wales!\u201d the post said. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How oh so royally sweet! The Instagram account shared by Prince William and the former Kate Middleton posted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-488790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}