- Queen steals the show with quick change from vintage fur coat to vibrant red outfit between Christmas Day services
- Gorgeous in green: Kate dazzles in festive coat and hat as she leaves George and Charlotte at home to attend royals' traditional Christmas Day church service at Sandringham
The state of a royal marriage is, all too often, rather precisely mirrored by the choice of Christmas card the couple send (pictured main). we should perhaps look more carefully at the image chosen by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for their Christmas card this year. On the surface, it's a picture of perfect family harmony. All glossy hair, glowing skin and pearly white teeth, Kate (pictured on Christmas Day at Sandringham, inset) beams at the camera with a direct and friendly gaze. Prince George is adorable, clowning around in a blue Fair Isle jumper.Not to put too fine a point on it, the second in line to the throne looks like a spare part; a gatecrasher in this lovely shot.No wonder, then, that two national newspapers gave in to the understandable, if slightly tactless, urge to crop him out of the picture completely and made it a holy trinity of mother and children happily posing together.