- "The Duke and Duchess ... are very much looking forward to their first Christmas as a family of four," Kensington Palace says
- The palace says Prince George, 2, will attend Westacre Montessori School Nursery in Norfolk
(CNN)A
new Christmas photo of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their
children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, has been released.
Taken
by photographer Chris Jelf in the gardens of Kensington Palace in late
October, the young family appears surrounded by autumnal foliage with
the little prince dressed in a pair of shorts and his sister casually
missing a shoe.
"I thoroughly enjoyed
photographing a very lovely family -- although you have to be sharp as
you don't have long when there are two young children involved," said
Jelf.
"The Duke and Duchess 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," the palace said in a statement.
The
photo comes as the palace announced that 2-year-old George will start
attending Westacre Montessori School Nursery in Norfolk in the east of
the country before the end of January.
The
school is near the family's home on the Sandringham Estate and close to
where Prince William works as an air ambulance pilot, signaling that
the Duke and Duchess now view this as their primary residence, rather
than Kensington Palace in London.
By royal standards, Westacre -- housed in a converted chapel -- is a modest, rural school costing $8.20 per hour, or $49 per day.
Montessori
refers to an educational style developed by Italian teacher Maria
Montessori that emphasizes independent learning and respect for the
child's psychological development.
Williams'
own nursery, while also Montessori, was at the private Mrs. Mynors'
Nursery School in Inner London, near Kensington Palace, and in 1986 cost a reported $850 a year to attend.
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