A smiling and casual official portrait to celebrate the seventh birthday of Princess Charlotte, the female figure of the Windsor house less distant from the British throne still occupied by great-grandmother Elizabeth, the 96-year-old queen who in this 2022 celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of her 70 years of reign.
In the photo the second child of the Dukes of Cambridge - fourth in the line of succession after grandfather Charles, father William and elder brother George, but in front of the third son Louis thanks to the reform that only from the generation of his parents he eliminated in the monarchy of the island the priority of male heirs over women with the same degree of descent - appears in the greenery of the country residence of Sandringham, in English Norfolk.
She hugs the family dog Orla, a black cocker spaniel, and shows a window between her front teeth for an apparently recently lost baby tooth.
The reference image - published in a mini gallery of three shots on the court's social media on the occasion of today's anniversary and highlighted as a celebratory homage on the front page by many overseas newspapers - was by his mother Kate ( or Catherine, as she now prefers to be called), a passionate amateur photographer already author of several official family portraits of her children.
Charlotte, notes the Pa agency, wears a blue knitted pullover that recalls the color of the flowers - bluebells - visible in the background behind the girl and the dog.