Princess Charlotte Celebrates Fifth Birthday with Homemade Pasta and Acts of Kindness

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, showed off her culinary skills in a brand new photo released on Saturday to mark Princess Charlotte's fifth birthday.

In the stunning portrait, Charlotte is holding onto a bag of pasta, which mum Kate helped to make alongside Prince William and their three children last week.

Captioning the image on the Kensington Royal Instagram account, the family wrote, “Thank you for all your lovely messages on Princess Charlotte's fifth birthday.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to share a new photograph of Princess Charlotte, taken by the Duchess this April.”

William, Kate, Prince George, Charlotte, and Prince Louis spent an afternoon last week making batches of fresh pasta, filling at least a dozen bags to deliver along with food packages to elderly and vulnerable people living near Sandringham.

The following day the family helped to pack up a van and spent around two and a half hours out doing deliveries.

The little princess, affectionately known as Lottie to her family, is seen helping to load the food parcels and carrying one of the bags of pasta as she knocks at a door before leaving it outside.

A senior Palace source told how the Cambridges wanted to help out and came up with the idea together after hearing about the initiative that made and delivered 1,000 meals in the first week alone.

During the isolation period, both the Duke and Duchess have been finding all sorts of ways to keep the children busy, as well as doing all the homeschooling.

One of the family activities they have all loved doing was cooking and baking, so it was the perfect solution to get involved in the fantastic project.

They made the pasta together, packaged everything, and helped deliver the care packages to locals, all while keeping a safe distance.

The family has been impressed with the outpouring of support shown by the British people, with so many thousands coming forward to volunteer.

They were just delighted to help out in any small way they could.

On Friday night, the family shared a series of photos of Charlotte on Instagram, taken by mum Kate, just like she did for her youngest son Prince Louis' second birthday last week, to mark her special day.

Wearing an adorable Zara check dress, the birthday girl smiles straight into the camera as she sits on a hay bale for a portrait taken last week.