One week from today, Prince George hits double digits, turning 10 years old and stepping more and more each year into his destiny as a future king. Though George’s parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are focused on giving him and his younger siblings Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis as normal a childhood as possible—at least as normal as can be expected when living in the royal fishbowl—George is aware he will one day be king, People reports, a fact he learned back in 2020, biographer Robert Lacey previously reported. (Depending on the time of year, George would have either been six or seven years old.) The conversation was a “controlled moment of their choice,” Lacey wrote, “reflecting William’s unhappiness at the haphazard fashion in which the whole business of his royal destiny had buzzed around his head from the start.”
Per The Mirror, “William has not revealed to the world how and when he broke the big news to his son,” Lacey writes. “Maybe one day George will tell us the story himself. But sometime around the boy’s seventh 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.”
