'It was greatly appreciated': Fans receive thank you cards after Charlo...

Fans receive thank you cards after Charlotte's birthday



Royal fans have delighted upon receiving a thank you card from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - and the couple have finally changed their go-to greeting.

Those who wrote to Princess Charlotte on her second birthday on May 2 have received a card from Kate and Wills expressing their gratitude.

The message, which was the same for each recipient, read: 'The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge thank you for the message you so kindly sent to Princess Charlotte on the occasion of her second birthday.



'It was really most thoughtful of you and was greatly appreciated.'

The note was printed on the reverse of a glossy photograph of the Princess which was released in celebration of her second birthday.



The photo, taken by her mother Kate, sees Charlotte wearing a sweet yellow cardigan sitting in the grounds of Anmer Hall, their family home in Norfolk.

While the message may be the same for everyone who received a card, it differs from the one that William and Kate normally send by way of thank you.



While nobody expects a personalised response, the royal couple have previously repeated the same message no matter what the occasion.

Not only have they send the same 'warmest thanks and best wishes' time after time, but the message on their cards is identical to that used by Prince Charles and Camilla.

However, this appears to have been taken on board by William and Kate who altered their message for their daughter's second year.

Their previous faux pas was revealed by an Instagram account Royal Letters, which shows that Kate and William have sent out the same response on no fewer than four separate occasions.

William Hanson told Femail: 'There is a standard wording they will use for the thousands of letters they receive each week. They don't have the luxury of time to write a totally new response to everyone.

'However, it certainly used to be the practice with the Queen that if you wrote to Her Majesty a second time, you would receive a different reply.

'It would not be the same as the first one, because there would be a record kept.

'Her Majesty's ladies in waiting and correspondence team are very good at that.'

William suggests that varying their responses would be a way for the Cambridges to make their fans feel more special.

'I think to make people feel more valued that's why they should have a range of responses,' he said.

He agrees that it may be a good idea to use a different response to that sent by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, but says that royal fans may not have noticed.

'I imagine it's a very different demographic writing to them, so it may be that it usually does not get picked up on. But maybe now is the time to change it.'