The Prince and Princess of Wales have revealed a personal Christmas card that uses an image taken from a video released when Catherine announced the end of chemotherapy.
The emotional video, with an emphasis on family and supporting each other through difficult times, was filmed in Norfolk in August.
This was the message in Catherine’s personal video at the end of treatment after a cancer diagnosis. “Out of Darkness Can Come Light”.
The image used for this year’s card, by filmmaker Will War, shows Prince William and Catherine and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
The card, with its highly personal touches from a difficult year for the couple, had already been sent in the post, but has now been revealed on social media.
The card includes the message “Wishing you a Happy Christmas and New Year”.
Catherine is making a gradual return to public duties following her cancer treatment.
She went to meet the bereaved families. Southport knife attack in October and some of these families were among Catherine’s guests. Christmas carol servicewhich he hosted at Westminster Abbey this month.
Prince William said it had been a “brutal” time for his family. He called the last year the most difficult year of his life..
Will War’s video, which was used for a Christmas card, was viewed as one. A completely different approach to delivering a royal message.
It was a health update in September that revealed Catherine had completed her chemotherapy, but it had a personal touch and an unashamedly emotional message.
“Life as you know it can change in an instant and we’ve had to find a way to navigate stormy waters and an unknown road,” he said in a voiceover to the video, which shows the family in the Norfolk countryside. Pictures were shown.
It was a tone that continued in a letter to guests for his carol concert, calling for “love, not fear.”
The Prince and Princess of Wales are already in Sandringham, Norfolk for Christmas and will therefore miss the traditional pre-Christmas royal gathering at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.
It was revealed on Wednesday that The Duke and Duchess of York will not be attending the lunch. For the extended royal family, in the wake of controversy over the Duke’s links to an alleged Chinese spy.
Prince William and Catherine’s Christmas card this year is in their style of informal and relaxed family photos, without any traditional royal images.
Last year he was seen in a movie. A rather artsy black and white photoShowing them together as a family, but with a style that owes something to a high-end jeans ad.
This year’s card of King Charles and Queen Camilla shows them in a cheerful outdoor photograph, taken shortly after the king heard that he would be well enough to return to his public duties.
Prince Harry and Meghan’s “Happy Holiday Season” This year’s card included the presence of the couple’s two children.