{"id":100081,"date":"2025-05-14T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100081\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:28:12","slug":"kate-middletons-father-michael-had-the-perfect-solution-to-protect-her-after-birth-of-prince-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100081\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton’s father Michael had the ‘perfect solution’ to protect her after birth of Prince George"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcoming your first child into the world is a life-changing experience for anyone, but for Prince William and Kate Middleton, they had the added pressure of the world watching them when they welcomed Prince George in 2013.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for the Princess of Wales, she still had her dad protecting her, with Michael Middleton coming up with the perfect gesture to protect his daughter and grandson.<\/p>\n

The proud new parents gave fans a glimpse of their son outside St Mary\u2019s Hospital amid mass excitement and speculation over his name. After leaving the hospital with their newborn son the Prince and Princess of Wales are understood to have spent several weeks at the home of Michael and Carole Middleton.<\/p>\n

Whilst at Bucklebury Manor, it\u2019s been suggested that Kate was protected by her dad whose special gesture was so heart-warming.<\/p>\n

Although the pictures taken on the steps of the hospital were the first ones of Prince George, the first official photos of him released by Kate and Prince William were taken by Michael. It\u2019s said that he put forward the idea of taking them himself and ensured things weren\u2019t too stressful or overwhelming for his daughter.<\/p>\n

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Fans were eager to see pictures of Prince George and a family friend previously claimed to the Daily Mail<\/a> that \u201cMichael had the perfect solution\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe proposed that he would take the photo himself: organize a stress-free photoshoot in the garden and save them the bother of getting in a photographer who would take ages. It meant the nervous new parents could stop any time they wanted,\u201d they alleged.<\/p>\n

The sweet family snaps showed Prince George in Kate\u2019s arms, with Prince William next to her in Michael and Carole Middleton\u2019s garden. In the picture taken of them sitting down on the grass, the Wales\u2019s late dog, Lupo, was also seen, as was the Middleton family\u2019s retriever Tilly. Kensington Palace released the photos four weeks after Prince George\u2019s birth and it was such a protective gesture from Michael to offer to take them himself.<\/p>\n

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This meant that the Prince and Princess of Wales had more privacy with their newborn and didn\u2019t have to worry about organizational matters or inviting someone else into their space. They looked happy and relaxed in the pictures and taking them at Kate\u2019s family home with their pets around them gave the snaps a personal feel.<\/p>\n

This is something the Princess of Wales has emulated when it comes to taking pictures of Prince George, Charlotte and Louis for their birthdays – as she recently did for Princess Charlotte’s 10th birthday<\/a>. She\u2019s often behind the camera, making the process more natural and comfortable. As they grow up, Prince George, Charlotte and Louis are understood to be very close to Michael and Carole Middleton and Kate has been inspired by their parenting approach too.<\/p>\n

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Royal expert Duncan Larcombe previously stated to OK!<\/a> that the future King and Queen want to have a similar relationship with their kids as Kate has with Carole and Michael.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam has based his children’s upbringing on the Middleton model – three children, affluent, but hardworking parents and lots of love in the house,\u201d Duncan alleged. “By the time Kate was in her early twenties, she counted her mother and father on the list of her best friends. That\u2019s what William and Kate are aspiring to with their children, but they also have to drip-feed George, and to some extent Charlotte and Louis, into the public domain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,19340,7714,7713,395,533,24725,24078,11323,1761,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712,13856],"class_list":{"0":"post-100081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-carole-middleton","10":"tag-catherine","11":"tag-catherine-middleton","12":"tag-getty-images","13":"tag-kate-middleton","14":"tag-katie-nicholl","15":"tag-michael-middleton","16":"tag-middleton-family","17":"tag-prince-george","18":"tag-prince-of-wales","19":"tag-prince-william","20":"tag-princess-of-wales","21":"tag-royal-families","22":"tag-royal-family","23":"tag-uk-royal-family","24":"tag-william","25":"tag-william-and-kate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114504774960060508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}