{"id":768753,"date":"2026-05-02T18:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768753\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:45:22","slug":"princess-charlotte-plays-cricket-and-cuddles-family-dogs-in-rare-new-birthday-video-shared-by-kate-middleton-and-prince-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768753\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Charlotte Plays Cricket and Cuddles Family Dogs in Rare New Birthday Video Shared by Kate Middleton and Prince William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kate Middleton and Prince William shared a video of their daughter, Princess Charlotte, to celebrate her 11th birthday\u00a0on May 2<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In it, Charlotte can be seen playing on a beach and petting the family&#8217;s two cocker spaniels<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Charlotte is the middle child of the Prince and Princess of Wales&#8217; three children<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/princess-charlotte\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Princess Charlotte;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Princess Charlotte<\/a> is heading into a new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Saturday, May 2, <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/kate-middleton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Kate Middleton;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kate Middleton<\/a> and <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/prince-william\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Prince William;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Prince William<\/a>&#8216;s only daughter celebrated her 11th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To mark the occasion, Kate, 44, and William, 43, shared a new video of Princess Charlotte on <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DX1eNDLOF1O\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Instagram;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>, thanking well-wishers for their messages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThank you for the lovely birthday messages for Princess Charlotte,\u201d they wrote alongside a video featuring clips of their daughter. \u201c11 today!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Set to calming background music, the video showed Charlotte petting the family&#8217;s two cocker spaniels, Orla and Otto, as they affectionately looked up at her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Princess Charlotte could then be seen cuddling one of the dogs on a boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Can&#8217;t get enough of PEOPLE&#8217;s Royals coverage? Sign up for <\/strong><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-royals-newsletter-sign-up-8692768\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:our free Royals newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>our free Royals newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Prince and Princess of Wales&#8217; daughter was also seen writing a message with seashells at the beach, as well as running barefoot and playing cricket in the sand, in the footage shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Charlotte is the middle child of the royal couple&#8217;s three children. Prince William and Princess Kate are also parents to sons <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/prince-george\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Prince George;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Prince George<\/a>, 12, and <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/prince-louis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Prince Louis;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Prince Louis<\/a>, 8.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Princess Charlotte of Wales smiles in a new portrait shared to mark her 11th birthdayCredit: princeandprincessofwales\/Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cbfa0aef30c57af2958dd73f8c66f161.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Princess Charlotte of Wales smiles in a new portrait shared to mark her 11th birthday<br \/>Credit: princeandprincessofwales\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a prior post celebrating Charlotte&#8217;s birthday, William and Kate <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/princess-charlotte-shines-new-portrait-celebrating-11th-birthday-11963746\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:shared a new portrait of their daughter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shared a new portrait of their daughter<\/a>, taken by photographer Matt Porteous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In it, Charlotte can be seen surrounded by flowers while standing in a field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Wishing Charlotte a very happy 11th birthday! \ud83c\udf82,&#8221; Prince William and Princess Kate captioned the <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DX1Jn9_jSgN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Instagram;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/princess-charlotte-rare-11th-birthday-video-from-kate-middleton-prince-william-11964713\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Kate Middleton and Prince William shared a video of their daughter, Princess Charlotte, to celebrate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":768754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[315156,315295,315296,171,186,4170,4173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-768753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-11th-birthday","9":"tag-birthday-messages","10":"tag-cocker-spaniels","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-charlotte","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116506469586595029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}