How time flies! It feels like yesterday that the world waited in anticipation to get its first glimpse of little Prince George and in a few short weeks the tiny tot turns one!
Like any other family, the Duke and Duchess are expected to celebrate the milestone birthday with a party but the bash is likely to be a low key affair with the Cambridges joined by close family and friends.
While the details of the party haven’t been released, little Prince George is likely to sit on his mother’s knee and blow out his candles with his father singing Happy Birthday in his ear, all of which will be distinctly different from the day William turned one.
The Duke spent his first birthday on June 21, 1983 with his nanny, while Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana were overseas in Canada on official royal business.
Victor Chapman, Prince Charles’ press officer, said at the time: “They felt the trip is too short to take Prince William. They will be spending much of their time on the royal yacht Britannia and the seas can get pretty rough this time of the year.”
Charles and Diana were reportedly very unhappy to miss William’s first birthday and called their son to wish him well but Prince Charles said they could only “hear a few squeaks” out of the little prince.
George’s momentous birthday gives us another opportunity to look back in the royal photo albums and take a peek at the other princes and princesses when they were just one.
Charles and Diana were reportedly very unhappy to miss William’s first birthday due to official business in Canada but when they returned they threw Prince William a huge party to celebrate.
The Cambridges are likely to celebrate Prince George’s first birthday with just close family and friends attending.
A very mobile Prince Harry waddles around the playroom in Kensington Palace not long after turning one.
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II as a one-year-old. Her majesty reportedly celebrated her first birthday with her cousins, Hubert Lascelles and Alexander Ramsay on 21 April 1927.
1950: Prince Charles at age one being wheeled in his pram by his nanny, Mabel Anderson.
Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Princess Margaret hold one-year-old Princess Anne in the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
Princess Eugenie is pictured doing what one-year-old’s do best… eating ice-cream! The little royal is reclining in her pram at the Windsor Horse Show circa 1991.
Just days after celebrating her first birthday Princess Beatrice is pictured with her mother, Sarah Ferguson in Portsmouth at the start of the annual royal holiday in 1989.
