Royal tittle-tattle . . . well sort of, thanks to young George’s ‘diary’

He has barely been seen in public, let alone heard, but the thoughts of England’s Prince George are to be shared with the nation through his diaries.

While the musings of the toddler prince come from the pen of Clare Bennett, a writer and contributing editor at Tatler magazine, the events are largely true to his real experiences, including the birth of his sister, Princess Charlotte.

In the book, which covers George’s second year from July 2014, the prince regales readers with stories of GG (the Queen or great-grandmother); G-Pop (the Duke of Edinburgh); Goonie and GaGa (the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall) and Spike (Prince Harry).

George is far from the first public figure to be satirised in an imagined diary, though he is among the youngest. Private Eye, the satirical magazine, has featured such diaries for decades, ranging from Mrs Wilson’s Diary, the fictional writings of prime minister Harold Wilson’s wife Mary, to The Secret Diary of John Major (aged 47 and three quarters).

The Prince George Diaries, to be published by Michael Joseph next month, begin with the prince waking on his first birthday to find himself surrounded by his parents and a team of flunkeys.

‘‘Felicem diem natalem,’’ intones his Latin teacher before George is briefed by his press secretary, stylist, zoologist, mood analyst, hairdresser and head of global strategy.

Bennett, who worked for Richard Curtis when he wrote the screenplay for Bridget Jones’s Diary, the film adaptation of Helen Fielding’s novel, said G-Pop – described by George as ‘‘the oldest human on earth [whose] first pet was a dinosaur’’ – and Goonie, named after his love for The Goon Show, were the easiest to parody.

‘‘Of course Philip is grumpy and there’s one diary entry where he is moaning about a lettuce salad and says, ‘Do you think I was born in a rabbit hutch?’’’

A running theme is the pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge and the birth of Princess Charlotte in May this year. In his entry for September 8 last year, George hears his parents ‘‘talking about an announcement and the global repercussions’’. He writes: ‘‘They want me to be a brother. Mummy is having a baby.’’

The following day, George learns the codename for the unborn child is Ringo because, he is told, it ‘‘apparently goes with George and it is also the name of another famous fourth person, and this baby could be fourth in line to the throne’’. On May 2, George writes: ‘‘RINGO IS HERE. And it’s a she.’’

George also witnesses the weekly audiences involving GG and David Cameron where the prime minister confides his fears about his growing waistline yet cannot resist the sandwiches, biscuits and cakes on offer, greedily consuming them rather than discussing matters of state.

The publishers of The Prince George Diaries hope to tap into a fondness by readers for satirical diaries. The Bridget Jones’s Diary, published in 1996, and its sequel sold $15 million and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 and three quarters, by Sue Townsend, sold $20m.