![William Session "And one day you will marry a beautiful Princess called Kate." Prince William looks to the future, in 1983.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/prince_william1.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
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![Queen Victoria sits with her grandson the baby Prince Edward (later King Edward VIII) on her knee on his christening while Alexandra and Mary stand behind them. (possibly 1894) Queen Victoria sits with her grandson the baby Prince Edward (later King Edward VIII) on her knee on his christening while Alexandra and Mary stand behind them. (possibly 1894)](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/78967996-copy.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Volume 1: Page 24. Picture 8. British Royalty. 1896. Duchess of York (originally Mary of Teck) who later became Queen Mary (regined 1910-1936) by marriage to King George V. Pictured with her second son Prince Albert (later King George VI). This tot, pictured in 1896, didn't expect to be king but when his elder brother Edward VIII abdicated, George VI took over.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/king_georgevi3.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![The Queen Mother As A Little Girl 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/136437368-copy.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![British Royalty, 1926, H,R,H,Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) daughter of The Duke and Duchess of York, pictured as a very young baby 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/queen_elizabeth2.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![MARGARET 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/princess_margaret6.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Princess Elizabeth and Son 1949 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/prince_charles9.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Royal Christening 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/princess_anne1-license.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/prince_andrew10.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Prince Edward 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/prince_edward7.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![QAn1 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/peter_phillips1.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Princess Anne & Zara Phillips Christening 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gettyimages_78824970-copy.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![William Session "And one day you will marry a beautiful Princess called Kate." Prince William looks to the future, in 1983.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/prince_william1.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Prince William makes a royal salute as he watches the scene of Trooping the Colour from the balcony of Buckingham Palace Prince Harry, aged 9 months, watches a military parade with his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, and brother William, in 1985.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/prince_harry12.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Beatrice At Her Christening Beatrice At Her Christening](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/princess_beatrice1.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Duchess of York Another addition to the house of York: Princess Eugenie, with her mother Sarah, at her christening in 1990.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/princess_eugenie4-copy.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![BRITAIN-ROYALS-BABY 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.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/arp3621517.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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