(Chris Jackson, Pool Photo via AP)
(Chris Jackson, Pool Photo via AP)

It may have been nine-week-old Princess Charlotte’s royal christening Sunday but Prince George was the one we were all cooing over.

 

Because he’s a toddler, even though he’s a prince, it looked like Prince George had some tears and was refusing to go into the church until daddy bent down and had a word.

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The almost-two-year-old Prince George was dressed in an almost identical outfit to the one his father wore when Prince William met his newborn brother Prince Harry at St. Mary’s Hospital in 1984.

In another claim to tradition and history, Princess Charlotte was pushed to her christening in a vintage pram the Queen used for two of her own children, including Prince Charles, and Charlotte wore the Royal Christening Robe, made by the Queen’s dressmaker of Honiton lace and lined with white satin. It is a replica of a robe made  on the orders of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert for the christening of their first daughter Princess Victoria in 1841.

Princess Charlotte was also christened in the font that was commissioned for the baptism of Princess Victoria in 1841 and has been used for every royal christening since, except one. The Lily Font is so valuable it’s usually kept alongside the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.

Princess Diana’s niece Laura Fellowes, the daughter of Diana’s older sister Baroness Jane Fellowes, was chosen to be Princess Charlotte’s godparent, along with Kate’s cousin Adam Middleton, and close friends of the The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Sophie Carter, James Meade and Thomas van Straubenzee, who was William’s best man long with Prince Harry.

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.Kate Middleton looked amazing, as always. I love her fabulous fashion sense. She was wearing an Alexander McQueen coat and a Jane Taylor Hat.

“Pippa Middleton is the epitome of elegance and style,” Taylor told Us Weekly.

“And I could not be more honoured to see her wearing one of my designs so beautifully today at such a significant royal occasion.”

At least a thousand people gathered to get a look at the royal family. Any flowers brought as gifts were donated to East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices where Kate is a patron.