--- title: Prince George Robe Sold Out after Barack Obama Meeting description: The 2-year-old is on the way to being a style icon. canonical: https://time.com/4306398/prince-george-robe-sold-out/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-25T14:48:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:50:39.630Z og:title: Prince George's Fluffy White Robe Has Sold Out Already og:description: The 2-year-old is on the way to being a style icon og:url: https://time.com/4306398/prince-george-robe-sold-out/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295fd2cfd946e3a8/6988907d0b72e338126e9103/prince-george-robe-sold-out.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: prince george robe sold out og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince George's Fluffy White Robe Has Sold Out Already twitter:description: The 2-year-old is on the way to being a style icon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295fd2cfd946e3a8/6988907d0b72e338126e9103/prince-george-robe-sold-out.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Prince George's Fluffy White Robe Has Sold Out Already > Sponsored content. 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President Obama and the First Lady ended their busy day in the UK with dinner at Kensington Palace hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry._  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Apr 25, 2016 2:48 PM UTC  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Apr 25, 2016 2:48 PM UTC It seems plenty of parents want to dress their children like royalty: The little bathrobe [Prince George wore](http://time.com/4305480/robe-prince-george-barack-michelle-obama/) to meet President Obama [has sold out](http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/25/news/prince-george-bathrobe-obama?sr=nl%5F5things%5Fprincegeorgebathrobeobama&ct=t%28CNN%5Fs%5F5%5FThings%5Ffor%5FMonday%5FApril%5F25%5F20164%5F24%5F2016%29). George, the 2-year-old son of Prince William and Kate Middleton, wore the fluffy white, monogrammed bathrobe trimmed in baby blue to meet the leader of the free world last week. The company that sells the robe, [My 1st Years](http://www.my1styears.com/), has begun taking pre-orders for the “Prince’s” and “Princess’s Personalised Gingham” robes. The website advertises the robes as “ideal for popping on over pyjamas \[sic\] on chilly mornings or for drying off with after bath time.” They cost 27 pounds each, but the personalization is complimentary. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4306398/prince-george-robe-sold-out/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4306398/prince-george-robe-sold-out/"},"headline":"Prince George's Fluffy White Robe Has Sold Out Already","datePublished":"2016-04-25T14:48:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-05T08:50:39.630Z","description":"The 2-year-old is on the way to being a style icon","url":"https://time.com/4306398/prince-george-robe-sold-out/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","celebrities","Business topic","royals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295fd2cfd946e3a8/6988907d0b72e338126e9103/prince-george-robe-sold-out.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295fd2cfd946e3a8/6988907d0b72e338126e9103/prince-george-robe-sold-out.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"prince george robe sold out","caption":"prince george robe sold out","creditText":"The White House—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4306398/prince-george-robe-sold-out/","name":"Prince George's Fluffy White Robe Has Sold Out Already"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Obamas Dine at Kensington Palace","description":"President Obama and the First Lady ended their busy day in the UK with dinner at Kensington Palace hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/0lJSoIvv/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-04-22T20:24:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0lJSoIvv.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4306398/prince-george-robe-sold-out/","duration":"PT41S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4306398/prince-george-robe-sold-out/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```