--- title: Princess Charlotte Gets New Photos for First Birthday description: Kensington Palace shared new photos of Princess Charlotte before her first birthday on May 2. canonical: https://time.com/4313571/princess-charlotte-first-birthday-new-photos/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-01T13:34:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:38.321Z og:title: Check Out These Adorable New Photos of Princess Charlotte og:description: Just in time for her first birthday og:url: https://time.com/4313571/princess-charlotte-first-birthday-new-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83016d83ab698d6e/69889160cd1bba4b6d700816/princess-charlotte-004.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: epa05285467 An April 2016 handout picture released by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and made available by Kensington Palace on 01 May 2016 shows Princess Charlotte taken by the Duchess at the garden of Anmer Hall in Norfolk. 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Princess Charlotte at the garden of Anmer Hall in Norfolk, U.K., in a photo made available by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on May 1, 2016.Kensington Palace—EPA  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 1, 2016 1:34 PM UTC Kensington Palace shared new photos of Princess Charlotte before her first birthday on May 2. These photos of the daughter of Prince William and Kate Middleton were taken in April at Anmer Hall, the Norfolk home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the palace said in a statement on Sunday. Earlier this month, the youngster and her two-year-old brother Prince George appeared in an Annie Leibovitz [portrait](http://time.com/4302660/princess-charlotte-queen-elizabeth-annie-liebovitz-portrait/), sitting on the lap of her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch, who posed with her seven youngest grandchildren and great-grandchildren as part of her 90th birthday celebration.  Princess Charlotte at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, U.K., in a photo made available by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on May 1, 2016. Kensington Palace—EPA  Princess Charlotte at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, U.K., in a photo made available by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on May 1, 2016. Kensington Palace—EPA  Princess Charlotte at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, U.K., in a photo made available by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on May 1, 2016. Kensington Palace—EPA [Photos](http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20395222%5F20992031,00.html) from a March ski vacation in the French Alps also showed her bundled up with her parents and two-year-old brother Prince George. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4313571/princess-charlotte-first-birthday-new-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4313571/princess-charlotte-first-birthday-new-photos/"},"headline":"Check Out These Adorable New Photos of Princess Charlotte","datePublished":"2016-05-01T13:34:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:38.321Z","description":"Just in time for her first birthday","url":"https://time.com/4313571/princess-charlotte-first-birthday-new-photos/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","royals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83016d83ab698d6e/69889160cd1bba4b6d700816/princess-charlotte-004.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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