Prince Louis dresses for the great outdoors as he turns one
WITH a lifetime of royal duty ahead of him, Prince Louis will soon become accustomed to dressing in his best for formal photographs.
But not quite yet, it seems.
A new set of official portraits of the baby prince, released in celebration of his first birthday today, show him happily playing in the woods, having rolled around so much that he is covered in moss and leaves.
Two pictures, taken by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, see him clambering up and sitting on a log, surrounded by greenery in a cosy red jumper. The duchess has recently spoken extensively about the importance of outdoor play, having designed a family garden for Chelsea Flower Show, based on her own woodland at Anmer Hall, Norfolk.
“Spending quality time together is such an important aspect of family life and for me, as a mother, it is the simple family moments like playing outside together that I cherish,” she has said. In March, she said of Prince Louis: “He just wants to pull himself up all the time. He’s got these little walkers and is bombing around on them.”
A third photograph shows the prince in a different location, back at the house in a second outfit which includes a £35 dog-design jumper from childrenswear company Trotters.
The pictures are a rare glimpse of the prince, who bears a striking resemblance to his older siblings and mother at the same age and has only been seen in public a handful of times.
While Prince George was dressed in shorts and knee-high socks for his baby pictures, Prince Louis appears to have been wearing trousers.
♦the Cambridge family will celebrate Louis’s birthday together this morning, before the duke flies to New Zealand to pay his respects to those killed in the Christchurch mosque attack.