Great Britain: quite the dad: Royals celebrate Prince George’s 12th birthday

Prince George smiles casually on a wooden fence in the camera like thousands of other boys on her 12th birthday. In a new photo published on the festive occasion, one thing is particularly noticeable: George is Papa William (43), the heir to the throne of the British monarchy, as if cut out of his face. “Happy birthday,” says the X platform above the post.

George is the oldest child of William and his wife Kate (43) and thus number two of the succession to the throne. His siblings, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, are 10 and 7 years old. According to the PA news agency, the photo of George was taken in Norfolk this year. “The Future King,” wrote the agency, the future king.

In the last year before the teenager period, George has to prepare for one or the other new regulation. Because from this age, the royal etiquette says, George should no longer travel with his father in the same aircraft. The danger would be too great that two throne to the throne would be killed in the event of a crash. Prince George is in second place in the British sequence of throne after his father.

However, this regulation is not carved into stone, as the constitutional expert Craig Prescott from Royal Holloway University of London explains in an interview with the German Press Agency. “As far as I know, it is common for the monarch to suspend this rule for a specific flight, that was also the case in the past,” says the expert.

The question is also in which form the royal family is kept in practice. According to Prescott, it could be, for example, that father and son are on board on board, especially on short flights – for environmental reasons and to save. Because originally the rule was introduced at a time when air travel was even more uncertain, explains the expert.

Speculation about changing school

In the new year of the prince, however, it should not only be about traveling, but above all about his school career. Again and again it is speculated violently which secondary school George will soon attend. Will it be the famous elite boarding school Eton on which his father was already? At least Kate should be very impressed. According to reports – as William’s late mother Princess Diana – is worthwhile to ensure that her children have a childhood as normal as possible.

Like his two siblings, George is currently visiting the Lambrook School near Windsor, west of London. There he can stay there for about a year until his 13th birthday.