Prince George, 9, makes history as official page boy during coronation
Prince George, son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, charmed as an official page boy during King Charles’ coronation.
All three children of
Kate Middleton and Prince William were present at the crowning ceremony of King Charles and Queen Camilla on Saturday.
While the royal couple’s younger two children, 7-year-old princess Charlotte — sporting a headdress to match her mother’s — and 5-year-old Prince Louis appeared at the Westminster Abbey with their parents, George had more official duties to handle.
The 9-year-old prince, second in the line of succession, served as an official page boy alongside seven others.
“Eight Pages of Honour have been chosen to attend Their Majesties during the Coronation Service,” the Royal Instagram announced. “The Pages will form part of the procession through the Nave of Westminster Abbey.
The King’s Pages of Honour will be His Royal Highness Prince George of Wales, Lord Oliver Cholmondeley, Master Nicholas Barclay and Master Ralph Tollemache.”
The king and the queen both had four pages each. The queen’s were Arthur Elliot, Camilla’s greatnephew, and her grandsons, Freddy Parker Bowles, as well as Gus and Louis Lopes.
George’s participation made him the youngest future monarch to be officially involved in a coronation service, according to the The Telegraph.
Four-year-old Prince Charles watched his mother Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953 while 11year-old Princess Elizabeth witnessed the crowning ceremony of her father King George VI in 1937. Neither participated in the actual service, though.