Ok, I know I’ve been out of the loop with posting, so over the next couple of days [edit: hours, apparently] I’m going to back fill much of the spring. In the meantime, I wanted to share the three new photos of Princess Charlotte that Kensington Palace released yesterday in honor of her fourth birthday today.

As always, the images were captured by Charlotte’s mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. These particular snaps were taken last month when the family was at Anmer Hall, their house in Norfolk.

Personally, I think Kate did a great job of selecting photos that convey Charlotte’s personality, which we’ve certainly seen glimpses of over the past couple years at public engagements.

My favorite is going to have to be the more princess-y portrait of her in the blue floral dress, but with trainers. A modern princess if ever there was one.

If memory serves, last year I called out that my favorite Charlotte anecdote from the past 12 months was her meltdown on the tarmac in Germany. This year I’m going to pay homage to her last summer at Prince Louis’s christening when she told waiting photographers they weren’t invited to the family reception back at Clarence House. She was right, after all(!)

With that, apologies for the gap in coverage. I know we have a lot to catch up, and I promise I’ve been keeping up in the background, so we’ll definitely cover the household split, the latest Sussex/Cambridge back and forth, the William rumors, Louis’s birthday, and, of course, recent engagements. It will be a busy weekend!