It looks like simply yesterday Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge stood on the steps outdoors of St. Mary’s Hospital in London holding their firstborn son Prince George. Through the years we watched the little prince develop up earlier than our eyes. Now as he marks one other birthday, listed below are a few issues it’s possible you’ll not have identified concerning the future king. Plus, discover out what different members of the British royal household have been additionally born within the summertime.
Prince George’s start was a extremely anticipated occasion
The arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s firstborn son was a extremely anticipated occasion within the U.Okay. as reporters and paparazzi had camped outdoors the hospital ready to see the couple and their new child child.
Prince George arrived on July 22, 2013, at 4:24 p.m. native time. His official start announcement got here by way of a press release posted on an easel outdoors of Buckingham Palace, which is according to royal custom. His full title is His Royal Highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge.
Earlier than leaving the hospital with the toddler, Prince William and Kate stood on the steps of the Lindo Wing and posed for photographs as they launched the third within the line of succession to the world. George’s start marked the primary time in additional than 100 years that three generations of direct heirs have all been alive on the identical time.
Why George’s seventh birthday in 2020 was so vital
Due to the household he was born into and his distinctive circumstances, William and Kate knew there could be a time once they must speak to their oldest youngster about his future function. Previous to George’s eighth birthday in 2021, it was reported that his mother and father had that all-important dialog about his future.
In line with biographer and historian for Netflix’s The Crown Robert Lacey, Prince William and his spouse determined to inform George he could be king sooner or later round his seventh birthday.
“William has not revealed to the world how and when he broke the big news to his son. Maybe one day George will tell us the story himself,” Lacey wrote in his guide Battle of Brothers (per the Daily Mail). “But sometime around the boy’s 7th birthday in the summer of 2020 it is thought that his parents went into more detail about what the little prince’s life of future royal ‘service and duty’ would particularly involve. William’s aim as a father, the prince stressed, was to give his son ‘a normal family upbringing,’ enabling the monarchy ‘to stay relevant and keep up with modern times.’”
Other British royals who have been born in the summertime
Prince George isn’t the one royal who was born in the summertime months, quite a few his relations have been as nicely. His father was born in the summertime too and on the identical hospital on June 21, 1982. Hello! famous that Prince Charles and Princess Diana welcome their eldest son 16 hours after Diana had been admitted to the hospital. William Arthur Philip Louis arrived at 9:03 p.m. native time and weighed in at simply over 7 kilos.
George’s aunt Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was born in America at a hospital in Los Angeles at 4:46 a.m. on Aug. 4, 1981, to Doria Ragland and Thomas Markle. The West Park Hospital the place her mom gave start has since closed.
Prince George’s nice aunt Princess Anne was additionally born within the summertime. Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II welcomed their solely daughter on Aug. 15, 1950, at 11:50 a.m. The Princess Royal weighed in at 6 kilos and her father celebrated her start over a glass of champagne together with his staffers.
Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York‘s eldest daughter was born in the summertime as nicely. Sarah gave start to Princess Beatrice on Aug. 8, 1988, at 8:18 p.m. Her 8/8/88 birthdate is a palindrome, which is a sequence of numbers that reads the identical backward and ahead.
