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Kate Middleton Shares New Photos of Princess Charlotte Delivering Food During COVID-19

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May 01, 2020 at 10:42PM They doubled as her birthday portraits. BY ALYSSA BAILEY INSTAGRAM Princess Charlotte turns five years old tomorrow, and Kate Middleton and Prince William continued their annual traditional with their children, releasing four new photos of Charlotte on their Instagram and Twitter. But there was a philanthropic twist to the photos they shared of Charlotte this evening. Their daughter posed while volunteering to help others during the coronavirus pandemic. Kate shot her packaging food and delivering meals to Norfolk residents in need. The couple’s Kensington Palace team captioned the photos, “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to share four new photographs of Princess Charlotte ahead of her fifth birthday tomorrow. The images were taken by The Duchess as the family helped to pack up and deliver food packages for isolated pensioners in the local area.” https://www.instagram.com/p/B_qQ7lDF-88 ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW Charlotte has been in quarantine with her parents and two brothers, Prince George and Prince Louis, at Anmer Hall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s country home. Her mother Kate spoke about her experience home schooling and entertaining her children during a BBC interview last month. “Children have got such stamina,” the Duchess said. “I don’t know how, honestly. You get to the end of the day and you write a list of all the things you’ve done in that day. You’ve pitched a tent, take the tent down again, cook, bake, you get to the end of the day. They’ve had a lovely time.

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Netflix’s Unorthodox Tells the True Story of One Woman’s Escape from a Strict Hasidic Community

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May 01, 2020 at 10:40PM In the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, audiences witness a transformation. The four-episode series follows the character Esther “Esty” Shapiro (played by Shira Haas), a young woman growing up in the Hasidic Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. An ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism, the Satmar group was founded after World War II by Holocaust survivors who believed the Holocaust was punishment for assimilation. As a result, Satmar rules are strict, and those in the community are kept from all secular education and culture. On Unorthodox, Esty decides to leave the only life she’s ever known after a year in an arranged marriage. She travels to the root of her family’s suffering: Berlin, Germany. Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots Simon & Schuster amazon.com $15.30 SHOP NOW Esty’s story is based on a real one, recounted in Deborah Feldman’s 2012 memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. However, the Netflix series only follows Feldman’s book to a point. Everything that takes place in Williamsburg is inspired by her life, whereas Esty’s journey to Germany is entirely fictionalized. In Making Unorthodox, the short documentary episode that shows how the series was created, Anna Winger, co-creator and executive producer, said, “It was very important to us to make changes in the present-day story from Deborah Feldman’s real life, because she is a young woman, she’s a public figure, she’s a public intellectual, and we wanted Esther’s Berlin life to be very different from real Deborah’s Berlin life.”

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