{"id":3805,"date":"2015-02-19T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2015-02-19T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:47:13","slug":"playing-kate-at-school-gets-girl-royal-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/playing-kate-at-school-gets-girl-royal-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Kate at school gets girl royal surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3806\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kate.jpg\" alt=\"Kate\" width=\"376\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kate.jpg 376w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kate-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a>Playing princess by dressing up as the Duchess of Cambridge during her school play, five-year-old Scarlett Gillis enjoyed a royal surprise by receiving a letter from the future queen herself.<br \/>\nThe young schoolgirl was chosen to re-enact royal occasions as Kate alongside her leading man, Joshua Rogers, also five, who played Prince William.<br \/>\nScarlett, a pupil at St. Bede\u2019s College Prep School in Whalley Range, Machester, loved playing the Duchess so much she decided to pen a letter to the royal.<br \/>\nShe told Kate about starring in the school\u2019s \u2018A Tale of Two Birthdays\u2019 play and how she loved dressing just like her.<br \/>\nKate, who is currently pregnant with her second child, was also treated to a photo of the young princess, so she could see exactly what Scarlett looked like.<br \/>\nPolite Scarlett, who addressed the letter to \u201cYour Royal Highness\u201d was even thinking about the future of the monarchy writing: \u201cI can\u2019t wait for you to be queen. I think you are lovely, yours sincerely, Scarlett xxxx.\u201d<br \/>\nScarlett never expected a reply from the Duchess, so her family were astounded when a letter \u2014 sealed with a red royal crest \u2014 dropped through their letterbox.<br \/>\nThe royal surprise read:\u201cIt was most kind of you to enclose the photographs of yourself wearing your wonderful red dress for her to see.<br \/>\n\u201cShe was interested to learn that you played the part of her in your school play.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Duchess of Cambridge hopes that you had a most enjoyable time.\u201d<br \/>\nThe youngster said: \u201cI was amazed, I didn\u2019t really think she would have time to reply to all those letters, but I was really happy and glad when I saw the letter and photograph of her she\u2019d attached.<br \/>\n\u201cI thought she was beautiful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/playing-kate-at-school-gets-girl-royal-surprise\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing princess by dressing up as the Duchess of Cambridge during her school play, five-year-old Scarlett Gillis enjoyed a royal surprise by receiving a letter from the future queen herself. The young schoolgirl was chosen to re-enact royal occasions as Kate alongside her leading man, Joshua Rogers, also five, who played Prince William. 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