Happy Birthday Prince George: Royal baby turns one (A year’s journey in pictures)
The third in line to the British throne, Prince George is celebrating his very first birthday on Tuesday.
To celebrate his birth which occurred on July 22 2013 one year ago, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released two new photographs taken at a butterfly exhibit at London’s Natural History Museum.
In the photographs, his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, cuddles her young son proudly – keeping a firm grip around his waist, just in case the inquisitive youngster should make a grab for it.
The Duke and Duchess also issued a statement thanking members of the public for the hundreds of presents, cards and letters of good wishes they have received since their son’s birth last July.
‘We would like to take this opportunity on George’s first birthday to thank everyone over the last year, wherever we have met them, both at home and overseas, for their warm and generous good wishes to George and our family,’ they said.
Although keen to ensure that their son is allowed to grow up away from the spotlight, William and Kate acknowledged that they needed to mark the future king’s special day with a public gesture.
The Duchess was, however, determined to ensure that one of their patronages would benefit from the occasion, and chose to visit the Natural History Museum’ s pop-up tropical house, full of live, free-flying butterflies and moths. She became patron of the museum in April last year.
As it was early morning, the butterflies, which normally swarm around visitors, needed time to warm up, and it was ‘touch and go’ as to whether the shoot would work.
According to his parents, George is already ‘racing around and opening doors’ at their Kensington Palace apartment, in advance of many of his peers.
He has a fine set of lungs on him, makes bath-time ‘quite painful’ but adores his ‘best buddy’, Lupo the spaniel.
The couple plan to celebrate George’s birthday on Tuesday with a low-key tea party for family and friends at Kensington Palace.
A Look Back In Pictures
FUTURE HEIR TO THE BRITISH THRONE BORN
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, depart The Lindo Wing with their newborn son Prince George last July
HAPPY FAMILY
Photograph taken by Michael Middleton, the Duchess’s father in early August last year which shows the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge sitting with their son Prince George in the garden of the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire
CHRISTENING
The official portrait for the christening of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, photographed in The Morning Room at Clarence House in London. PICTURED: (back row, left-right) HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, HRH The Prince of Wales, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, HRH Prince Harry of Wales, Pippa Middleton, James Middleton, Carole Middleton and Michael Middleton. (front row, left-right) HM Queen Elizabeth II, HRH Duchess of Cambridge carrying HRH Prince George and HRH Duke of Cambridge
Proud parents: Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge hold Prince George after he was christened at St James’s Palace in October last year
AT HOME
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge with their son Prince George and Lupo the dog photographed at Kensington Palace, in London
FIRST OFFICIAL TOUR
Prince George plays with toys during his visit to a nursery in New Zealand during the family’s State visit in April this year
IN AUSTRALIA
The Duchess of Cambridge holds Prince George alongside Prince William while meeting a Bilby called George at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, in April
Sources: MailOnline/ USA Today
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