--- title: Prince George Birthday: Royal Infants Kate Middleton Prince William description: They may be born to greatness, but here's photographic proof that even royals start small. canonical: https://time.com/3005690/prince-george-england-royal-babies-photos/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-22T14:03:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:54.456Z og:title: Prince George Birthday: Royal Infants Kate Middleton Prince William og:description: They may be born to greatness, but here's photographic proof that even royals start small. og:url: https://time.com/3005690/prince-george-england-royal-babies-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteef90404d7e6fe71/69869c5655a85935cca81dac/prince_william1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "And one day you will marry a beautiful Princess called Kate." Prince William looks to the future, in 1983. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince George Birthday: Royal Infants Kate Middleton Prince William twitter:description: They may be born to greatness, but here's photographic proof that even royals start small. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteef90404d7e6fe71/69869c5655a85935cca81dac/prince_william1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 120 Years Of Royal Infants On Camera by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jul 22, 2014 2:03 PM UTC  "And one day you will marry a beautiful Princess called Kate." Prince William looks to the future, in 1983. "And one day you will marry a beautiful Princess called Kate." Prince William looks to the future, in 1983.Tim Graham—Getty Images by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jul 22, 2014 2:03 PM UTC  This was the last time a Queen met her greatgrandchild. In 1894, Queen Victoria holds the newly christened Prince Edward, later Edward VIII. Popperfoto/Getty Images  This tot, pictured in 1896, didn't expect to be king but when his elder brother Edward VIII abdicated, George VI took over. Popperfoto/Getty Images  Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, born to the Scottish aristocracy in 1900, would become royal through marriage to the future George VI. Their eldest daughter is the current Queen. Popperfoto/Getty Images  In 1926, as a tiny baby, Princess Elizabeth already displays the solemn face that she has deployed so often in her public duties since becoming Queen. Bob Thomas—Popperfoto/Getty Images  The naughty sister: the baby Princess Margaret, flanked by Princess Elizabeth and their mother, led a colorful life. Prevented from marrying her first love, a divorced commoner, she later married, and divorced, fashionable photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. Marcus Adams—Royal Collection/AP  Before Princes Charles was born in 1948, his grandfather King George VI did away with a long-held custom that demanded the Home Secretary be present at royal births. Here Charles is pictured with his mother, at that stage still Princess Elizabeth. AP  Princess Anne, second child of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, pictured at her 1950 christening, must have been born with horse sense. She won a gold and two silver medals at European equestrian competitions and rode for the U.K. in the 1976 Olympics. Getty Images  She already had an heir. Here's Queen Elizabeth with the spare: a chubby, 6-month-old Prince Andrew, in the grounds of Balmoral Castle, Scotland in 1960. AP  This 1964 snap of Prince Edward in his cot, with brother Andrew and his mother, the Queen, already suggests an interest in what's going on behind the camera. He went on to found a TV production company in 1993. AP  The Queen admires her first grandchild, Peter Phillips, at Balmoral Castle in November 1977\. Peter's mother, Princess Anne, declined royal titles for both of her children. Photo. Anwar Hussein Anwar Hussein  Zara Tindall, née Phillips has become a top flight equestrian, like mom Princess Anne. Pictured here in 1981, mother and daughter were much photographed at the 2012 Olympics when Anne presented Zara with a silver medal. Lichfield—Getty Images  "And one day you will marry a beautiful Princess called Kate." Prince William looks to the future, in 1983. Tim Graham—Getty Images  Prince Harry, aged 9 months, watches a military parade with his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, and brother William, in 1985. Roy Letkey—Reuters  The spitting image of her dad Prince Andrew, but for the red hair inherited from mother Sarah, Duchess of York, Princess Beatrice looks pensive at her 1988 christening. Tim Graham—Getty Images  Another addition to the house of York: Princess Eugenie, with her mother Sarah, at her christening in 1990. Bill Allen—AP  Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, with their newborn baby boy, Prince George of Cambridge, Tilly the retriever, left, a Middleton family pet and Lupo, the couple's cocker spaniel, right, at the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire, in early August, 2013\. A handout picture released on August 19, 2013 by Kensington Palace shows Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, with their newborn baby boy, Prince George of Cambridge, Tilly the retriever (L), a Middleton family pet and Lupo, the couple's cocker spaniel (R) at the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire, in early August, 2013\. The couple released two family photographs with their son, Prince George, taken by Michael Middleton, Catherine's father, in early August in the garden of the Middleton family home. 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