With the resting Queen absent for much of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations, it was left to another royal at the opposing end of his regal career to steal the show.
Little Prince Louis wowed royal watchers with a flurry of hilarious mannerisms from the Buckingham Palace balcony - including covering his ears to a roaring RAF flypast.
The four-year-old - youngest of Prince William and Kate Middleton's three children - even covered his mother's mouth as she attempted to speak to him, shook his finger at her and blew her a raspberry.
