The Queen and Prince George Meet Winnie the Pooh and Friends in These Delightful Illustrations

A new Winnie the Pooh book is released for the Queen’s 90th birthday.
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Have you always wondered what it might look like if Prince George were, uh, animated, and the Queen was, too, and the both of them were hanging out with Winnie the Pooh and Piglet? (That question is rhetorical. If there is anyone out there for whom the answer to that question was a resounding “yes!,” we would love to interview you for

Anyway, we have been gifted with such a rendering, as both the Queen and Prince George are featured in the new Bear of Very Little Brain, which is being released in celebration of the Queen’s 90th birthday. The tale, per the Telegraph, tracks the journey of the Pooh bear himself, as he ventures from the Hundred Acre Wood for London, along with, yes, Christopher Robin, Piglet, and Eeyore (you are not the only one who just had a vivid flashback to your childhood bookshelf). The group is en route to the Queen, as they are aiming to deliver her a poem. Eventually (SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!) they reach their destination, and the Queen is given her poem, and Piglet hands Prince George (in a surprise cameo!) a balloon.

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Queen Elizabeth was reportedly a fan of the A.A. Milne books when she was younger, and one of the first-ever books to feature Pooh was actually dedicated to the young princess, according to The Telegraph. The book will be released electronically, and as an audio book (read by Jim Broadbent), but there are no plans to release a physical copy. (If you had told the Queen when she was a child that one day there would be Winnie the Pooh books released that only existed on computers and not as physical books, she probably would have . . . well, actually, she probably would have just politely nodded and dismissed you, and that would have been that.)