Kate Middleton and Prince William’s Kids Take Over Their Instagram Account

The shared Instagram account for Kate Middleton and Prince William welcomed a trio of guest posters Sunday, when children Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis took the platform over. The occasion: Father’s Day, with a post in tribute to their dad, the Prince of Wales.

In the social media post, the children posted a photo of themselves with their dad from photographer Josh Shinner. “Happy Father’s Day, Papa (before and after!)” the caption began, a likely reference to the second photo in the post depicting the kids tackling their pop.

“We love you!” it concluded, with the signature “G, C & L.”

Prince George of Cambridge, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, Prince Louis of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge stand on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Platinum Pageant on June 5, 2022 in London, England.

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Prince George of Wales, Prince William, Prince of Wales, Prince Louis of Wales and Mia Tindall attend Christmas Morning Service at Sandringham Church on December 25, 2023 in Sandringham, Norfolk.

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In this screengrab, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge and Prince Louis of Cambridge clap for NHS carers as part of the BBC Children In Need and Comic Relief ‘Big Night In at London on April 23, 2020 in London, England.

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The Walses have been working with Skinner since 2023, when he shot their holiday portraits for their annual Christmas card. “Without doubt one of the most relaxed and enjoyable sittings I’ve ever had,” Skinner said at the time. “And I now have a whole new set of jokes that are right on my level thanks to the children…”

In recent years, Skinner has rotated photography duties with Kate Middleton, also an accomplished photographer. In fact, it was Middleton who snapped last year’s Father’s Day pic, which was also shared with the public in a kid-signed Insta post.

A young Prince Charles arrives for his first term at Gordonstoun school in Moray, Scotland, accompanied by his father Prince Philip (left) and Captain Iain Tennant of the school’s board of Governors.

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British Royals Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021), Prince Charles of Edinburgh. Princess Anne of Edinburgh, and Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022), who sits in a wicker garden chair with her corgi Sugar asleep at her feet, in the gardens below the East Terrace on the South Front of Windsor Castle in Windsor, Berkshire, England, June 1959.

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Prince Charles joins his father the Duke of Edinburgh to celebrate his 80th birthday June 10, 2001 at Windsor Castle in London.

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George, Charlotte, and Louis weren’t the only royals posting to social on Sunday, as the account shared by King Charles III and Queen Camilla also honored their dads. In an Instagram post that began with an image of the late Prince Phillip pushing a very young Charles and sister Princess Anne on a swing, Charles and Camilla wrote “To all Dads everywhere, we wish you a happy Father’s Day today.”

A second photo showed Camilla and her late father Bruce Shand, father and daughter arm-in-arm at her 2005 wedding to Charles. (Yes, it has been 20 years since the couple wed, can you believe it?)

Camilla Parker Bowles and her father Bruce Shand leave Westminster Abbey in London 02 June 2003 after attending the service to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation.

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Via their Instagram stories (which expire after 24 hours, Charles and Camilla shared two more throwback clips. In one, an infant Chrles is lifted from a baby carriage by his father; a second story stitched together a number of clips of from Charles’s boyhood days with his dad.