Right here’s What It’s Prefer to Take the Royal Household’s Christmas Pictures

You may’t swing a sprig of mistletoe this time of yr with out hitting a greeting card providing finest needs for the vacation season and an enthralling picture of the household bearing these needs. The world caught their first glimpse of this yr’s iteration of the Wales household’s vacation correspondence over the weekend, that includes a smiling Kate Middleton, Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis in black and white on a clean background.

The picture, a departure from the standard candid colour photographs the household has used of their vacation greetings previously, was shot by photographer Josh Shinner, a brand new collaborator for the household.

The strain is on when attempting to get the right shot of a household, not to mention when that household has three younger youngsters who’re additionally very well-known and may all be smiling on the similar time—and that strain can solely enhance when the themes of your portrait embody the primary via fourth entries within the line of succession to the throne.

In an Instagram caption, Shinner opened up about what it was prefer to {photograph} the royal household.

“It was such a pleasure to {photograph} The Prince and Princess of Wales and their household for the Christmas portrait this yr,” he wrote alongside the profitable shot. “No doubt one of the crucial relaxed and pleasurable sittings I’ve ever had, and I now have a complete new set of jokes which can be proper on my degree due to the youngsters…”

Shinner is protecting tight-lipped, nonetheless, about what these jokes have been. You may’t simply give away a punchline and break the ingredient of shock, you realize?

“Holding these to myself I am afraid! ;)” he wrote in response to an inquiring commenter.

The photographer additionally shared a tough sketch he’d made from the household of 5 whereas toying with how he’d pose them.