Prince Mateen Shares New Photos With His Daughter – What Did Fans Notice?

Prince Abdul Mateen of Brunei has just shared  new family photos – and the internet reacted right away.

In the pictures, he and Princess  Anisha pose with their newborn daughter, Princess Zahra, inside a luxurious palace room  with golden molding and antique furniture.

This is the first professional photo  shoot of the young family all together.

Little Zahra is peacefully sleeping in  her parents’ arms in a snow-white dress with a delicate headband, while Anisha is  absolutely glowing beside her husband.

The photos were published to mark the beginning of  the holy month of Ramadan.

For Mateen and Anisha, this is a very special Ramadan – their first  one as parents.

Last year, when they were still newlyweds, the couple traveled to Saudi Arabia  to perform Umrah – the smaller pilgrimage to Mecca.

At that time, Mateen shared photos from  Mecca and Medina, where they prayed together and took part in iftar.

Now they are welcoming  Ramadan as a family of three – and decided to mark this moment with a family photo shoot  that instantly spread across social media.

But it was not only the photo shoot itself  that caught people’s attention.

The real   sensation was Princess Anisha’s outfit.

She is wearing a floor-length silver gown covered with thousands of sequins by British  designer Jenny Packham.

The price is around   seven thousand dollars.

And this is where it  gets even more interesting: Jenny Packham is one of the favorite brands of Catherine, Princess  of Wales, the future Queen of Great Britain.

Catherine has been wearing Jenny Packham for  years.

It was in dresses by this designer that she appeared on the steps of St.

Mary’s Hospital after  the birth of each of her three children – Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.

In  a gold Jenny Packham gown, Catherine attended the premiere of the James Bond film No Time to  Die in two thousand twenty-one – after that, the world press called her a “Bond girl.

”  At official receptions, gala dinners, and state visits – Catherine chooses this brand  again and again.

Jenny Packham and the Princess of Wales have become almost inseparable.

And now Anisha – a princess from a completely different world, from a tiny sultanate  in Southeast Asia – keeps appearing in outfits by the very same designer.

And not just  outfits by the same designer, but very similar silhouettes too.

Back in January two thousand  twenty-four, at the wedding of Thai billionaire Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, Anisha appeared in  a dark blue Jenny Packham gown with sparkling cascading embroidery and a cape.

Fashion writers  at Hello Magazine quickly noticed the similarity to Catherine’s looks – the same high neckline,  the same floor length, the same signature sleeves.

The dress was identified as the Atlantis model  from the Resort collection, and its retail price was around four thousand pounds.

But it is not only about Jenny Packham.

At another event, Anisha appeared in a cream dress  by Self-Portrait with a Lady Dior bag and J’Adior shoes – almost an exact copy of the look Catherine  wore to the opening of the National Portrait Gallery in two thousand twenty-three.

After  that, the press firmly gave Mateen’s wife the nickname “the Southeast Asian Kate Middleton.

”  Whether this is a coincidence or a deliberate strategy remains an open question, but one thing  is clear: Anisha understands very well how fashion works in the world of royal families.

At the same time, Anisha’s style is not blind copying.

She takes the code of Western  royal glamour and adapts it to her own culture.

Just look at the new photos: Anisha is wearing  a full hijab and a fully covered floor-length silhouette.

But in everyday life, she does  not wear a hijab.

Even at her own wedding, she changed the traditional head covering – she  covered only her hair and left her neck open, creating a more modern look that sparked a lot of  discussion.

And at Mateen’s birthday in August, she was even sitting on his lap in white jeans and  a black T-shirt – as informal as possible for a royal family.

It is exactly this contrast that  makes her so interesting to the public.

Still, Anisha felt completely at home in the  world of luxury even before the wedding.

In two thousand twenty-three, she attended the Elie  Saab Haute Couture show during Paris Fashion Week together with KC Del Rosario – Mateen’s cousin and  the daughter of Prince Jefri Bolkiah.

That same week, they also went to an exclusive dinner hosted  by the jewelry house Boucheron.

Paris, couture, Boucheron – and yet the official engagement  would only be announced nine months later.

But there was also a darker side to that  public attention.

When Anisha’s relationship   with Mateen became public, she was hit by a  wave of cyberbullying.

The harassment became so intense that Anisha completely deleted her  personal Instagram.

For a young woman who ran a fashion business and shared recipes on social  media through her secret food account, this was a radical step.

Now she appears online only on  her husband’s page – and, judging by everything, she seems more comfortable that way.

Their daughter, Zahra Mariam Bolkiah, was born on the eighth of February, two thousand  twenty-six, at Jerudong Park Medical Centre.

Her birth was marked by seventeen ceremonial  gun salutes from the grounds of Istana Nurul Iman Palace.

The name Zahra means “radiance”  and “flower” in Arabic.

Her middle name, Mariam, is a touching tribute to both grandmothers:  Mateen’s mother is named Mariam Abdul Aziz, and Anisha’s mother is Siti Mariam.

With one  name, the family connected two generations.

Under Brunei’s constitution, little Zahra did  not enter the line of succession – the decree of nineteen fifty-nine allows only men to take  the throne.

And Mateen himself is fifth in line, so the crown will most likely  never come to him either.

It seems that Abdul Mateen and Anisha chose a  special rhythm of life for themselves from the very beginning.

They move easily from one world  to another and still look natural everywhere.

In the summer of two thousand twenty-five, they  were seen at Wimbledon – among the British crowd, without extra theatrics, looking like one of the  most stylish young couples there.

And in winter, they were already walking through the Cotswolds  in waxed jackets and rubber boots – calm, simple, and almost traditionally English.

But alongside this simple, almost private life, there is always another side – the royal  one.

Palaces, official appearances, luxurious receptions, jewels, and looks that  the press keeps discussing for a long time   afterward.

And that is exactly why the  new photos with little Zahra attracted so much attention.

In these pictures, it  becomes especially clear how two worlds came together in one family – London  everyday life and Brunei luxury.

There is also one more detail that makes this  image feel more alive.

On Anisha’s birthday, Mateen posted a tender photo and simply  wrote: “Happy Birthday, Nishiboo.

” This short, affectionate nickname did not sound royal at all –  and that is exactly why so many people remembered it.

Behind the image of the perfect prince, people  suddenly saw not just a member of one of the richest dynasties in the world, but also a young  husband for whom all of this is truly personal.

And now, when little Zahra is sleeping between  them in the new photos, these images no longer feel like just a beautiful royal photo shoot.

They show a family that knows how to live in two realities at once.

In one – palace gold, a Jenny  Packham dress worth seven thousand dollars, and the ceremonial shine of the royal world.

In the  other – quiet tenderness, private nicknames, and the feeling that in front of us  are not just symbols of status, but two   people who are genuinely close to each other.

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