Three Lions mark George’s sixth birthday
The Duchess shows off her camera skills to capture her boy brimming with birthday joy and vitality
In celebration of Prince George’s sixth birthday, Kensington Palace has released a series of photographs taken by the Duchess of Cambridge. In the images, the young prince is seen smiling and laughing on the grass while sporting an England football shirt
HE IS A future king but never as we’ve seen one before. Yesterday, Kensington Palace released photographs of Prince George to coincide with his sixth birthday today, showing him wearing
– and with some pride – an England football shirt.
Laughing and smiling for the camera, the prince looks like any other six-year-old boy, larking about in his favourite football strip. Gone are some of the fustier outfits in which he has been pictured to mark other landmark occasions.
In one of the new images – which were all taken by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge – George is laughing, his eyes screwed up in joy.
A gap in his bottom row of teeth, where he has lost a milk tooth, emphasises the sense that at heart this is just a normal little lad having a jolly fun time in front of the camera.
The two photographs in the England kit were taken at Kensington Palace, which the Cambridge clan have made their London home. The second of the photographs again reveals his gappy grin.
A third picture shows the young prince, third in line to the throne, on a family holiday thought to be on the Caribbean island of Mustique, a regular holiday destination for the Duchess of Cambridge’s parents Michael and Carole Middleton. In the photo, Prince George has swapped his England shirt for a green polo shirt – a sport traditionally preferred by princes.
Prince George’s seeming love for the England football team may only be a reflection of his father’s fondness for Britain’s most popular sport. The Duke of Cambridge is also president of the Football Association, a keen player of five-a-side football and a staunch England and Aston Villa fan. Penny Junor, a royal biographer whose latest offering All The Queen’s Corgis is a history of all royal matters canine, said the photos were further evidence of the Cambridges’ determination to raise their three children as normally as possible. Matthew Fearn, The Telegraph’s picture editor, said the Duchess of Cambridge was in a unique position to capture her children at their most joyous.
Mr Fearn said: “The Duchess has once more used her photographic talents to ensure we see a relaxed Prince George enjoying a playful time with his family. It is a joy to see such pictures of the young royals.” Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge was born in the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, at 4.24pm on July 22 2013, weighing 8lb 6oz. He made his debut in front of the world’s media on the hospital steps one day later, wrapped in a white merino wool shawl. A great-grandchild of the Queen, he will be the 43rd monarch since William the Conqueror if, as expected, he follows the reigns of his grandfather, the Prince of Wales, and his father.
Besides a love of football, Prince George has also shown an interest in tennis. It was revealed recently that Roger Federer visited the prince and said “cute” George had a “good” technique after giving him a lesson or two.
Prince George has now completed Year 1 at Thomas’s Battersea school and this September will begin Year 2.