Here It Is: the Royal Holiday Card

William and Kate wish you a very merry Christmas
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 18, 2015 10:15 AM CST
Here It Is: the Royal Holiday Card
This photo released by Kensington Palace on Friday shows William and Kate with their two children, taken in late October at Kensington Palace in London.   (Chris Jelf via AP)

It's a lot easier to get your holiday cards out on time if you just tweet them out to the world at large: "Merry Christmas from The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and Princess Charlotte," Kensington Palace tweeted Friday, along with a new family photo of the four. It was taken at Kensington Palace in October, E! reports, and in an accompanying statement, the palace says Prince William and wife Kate "are hugely appreciative of all the warm messages they have received about their family this year and are very much looking forward to their first Christmas as a family of four."

A source tells E! Wills and Kate are planning to "host the day's festivities in their own home," rather than attending Christmas Day lunch with the queen and the rest of the royal family at her Sandringham estate. They'll be looking forward to another big day in January: Prince George's first day of nursery school. The 2-year-old will be attending Westacre Montessori School Nursery in Norfolk starting sometime next month, though he'll only attend when his family is staying at their Norfolk home, not while they're in London at Kensington Palace. Click for more, including William's predictions of how his little boy will handle Christmas. (More Prince William stories.)

Get the news faster.
Tap to install our app.
X
Install the Newser News app
in two easy steps:
1. Tap in your navigation bar.
2. Tap to Add to Home Screen.

X