I’m not a parent, so I can only imagine how frustrating it is to take a family photo — especially when you have more than one kid posing in it. Kids get distracted super easily (by each other, by what they’re wearing, by the family dog, etc.) and just don’t really want to sit still for so long. Maybe that’s okay if you’re a normal family, but if you’re the royal family, then not so much. The family wedding photo is important (like, making history important), so everything about it has to be perfect.
But kids are kids, no matter if they’re British royalty or not. And we all know Prince George is notorious for his stupid-cute scowls and pouts. Any other day, we’re sure Kate Middleton and Prince William would have been chill with his antics, but the royal wedding (which was last weekend) was not that day.
Luckily, royal photographer Alexi Lubomirski has a trick or two up his sleeve to get the royal children to sit still, behave, and smile. How, exactly?
He bribed them with candy, duh. The photographer asked the group of children, “Who likes Smarties?”
In an interview with Reuters, Lubomirski shared, “They were being bribed with one Smartie here, one Smartie there, so as soon as the kids came onto the set, I immediately just shouted out ‘Who likes Smarties?’ and then everybody, hands up, smiles, even some adults put their hands up.” He added, “Some parents were trying to wrangle their children, other uncles and aunts were talking to their nephews and nieces. It was a family, that was essentially what it is.”
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If you’re thinking, “Ugh, what child would fall in line after being given a Smartie?” Just know that Smarties are actually more like M&Ms in the U.K. They have a bright candy shell with chocolate in the center.
Well done, sir. Need your kids to pose and smile in a family photo? Just know that bribing them with candy is the old trick in the book. And it works.
