Britain`s Princess Charlotte christened in private ceremony

  06 July 2015    Read: 900
Britain`s Princess Charlotte christened in private ceremony
Britain`s Princess Charlotte, the daughter of Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, was christened on Sunday as crowds gathered to witness the family`s first public outing together since her birth in May.
The nine-week-old was welcomed into the Christian faith, watched by her proud parents and older brother Prince George.

Her great-grandparents the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, grandparents the Prince of Wales and Carole and Michael Middleton, step-grandmother the Duchess of Cornwall and Kate Middleton`s siblings Pippa and James joined her five godparents for the celebratory occasion at Church of St Mary Magdalene in Norfolk.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, performed the baptism using the ornate silver gilt Lily Font which is part of the Crown Jewels.

The princess was christened using holy water from the River Jordan.

Charlotte was pushed to her christening in a vintage pram - which the Queen used for two of her own children - in what was only her second appearance in public.

Kate Middleton strolled from Sandringham House to the Church of St Mary Magdalene pushing the large traditional silver wheeled Millson pram - once used for the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex - while Prince William held son George`s hand as the prince, who is nearly two, waved at the crowds.

The princess`s full name, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, is a nod to her late grandmother, Diana, Princess of Wales, and her great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

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