At the memorial, Princess Charlotte clearly knew that the camera was still on her as she made her sweet, relatable reaction, but she seemed determined not to look at it again. The princess has made headlines before with her reactions to cameras. When she was four years old at a regatta, Kate Middleton urged her daughter to wave at onlookers and photographers, per Travel + Leisure, but instead Charlotte stuck out her tongue. And at three years old, according to Harper’s Bazaar, as she and the family were headed to Prince Louis’s baptism reception, she told paparazzi waiting outside the chapel, “You’re not coming.”
As far as non-paparazzi shots, Charlotte’s image has largely been protected by her mother. Middleton has released a number of her own photographs of her children and family because, as reported by US Weekly, it lets people into their lives, but she gets to control the images. The royal children will inevitably continue to be in the spotlight, and Prince William and Middleton, according to People, are working to raise their kids with a combination of tradition and modernity.
