Official Royal Engagement Photos – William and Kate, by Mario Testino

The Official Royal Engagement (Photos: © Mario Testino)

I'm a Royal Goon.  I've admitted it once, and I'll continue to prove that fact over the next few months...then I'll continue the gooniness with Royal Honeymoon-talk and Royal BABY-talk.  So prepare yourselves.  (Oh, and I'm doing this at the risk of someone **coughANNETTEcough** verbally flogging me for my Diana Worship.)  Annette is English, so the flogging actually holds a bit of weight-- but  I'll defend my tears for Diana and her boys with my head held high!

So...

via HelloMagazine.com:

"The pictures were chosen by the couple following a photoshoot last month - a week after they had announced their happy news. They were taken in the council chamber of the state apartment of St James's palace.

Peruvian-born Mario, who created some of the most iconic images of William's mother Princess Diana, also photographed the Prince on his 21st birthday in 2003. And a year later, for Harry's 20th birthday, he snapped the royal brothers joking with their father."

Mario and Diana

I am hoping that Mario Testino will be chosen as the Royal Wedding Photographer, because Lord knows I can't do the job...I stopped shooting weddings bloody YEARS ago.  I'm too tightly wound, and weddings need only one nutty woman: The Bride.  (Please do remember that I live in a dreamworld most of the time...)  Yeah.  I'm rambling.

I found some of Mario's stunning photos of The People's Queen of Hearts, Diana.

One of my favorite photographs of Diana...

Luminous.

Prepare yourselves.  The Royal Watch has only just begun on Dipped in Cream.