He's such a serious little boy.
...in an unexpected turn of events, the adult HRHs were joined, for the first time in such a setting, by the 11-year-old, with his parents Prince William and Kate, The Prince and Princess of Wales having clearly decided to affix George’s regal training wheels...
...things deviated from the predictable with George peeling off his younger siblings, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis to join his parents at a tea party for veterans, his debut outing at such a Palace event.
Immediately, royal journalists’ pens went into furious overdrive - what’s this then?
The meaning was clear: George was levelling up and the real starting whistle was being blown on his decades-long slog towards the throne.
Not only was the prince seen but, highly significantly, heard with the media reporting on his conversations as he shadowed his parents as they made their way around the tea party.
“What was it like when you were coming in?”, the year six student asked Alfred Littlefield, who was part of the Normandy landings, according to the Telegraph.
“Pretty awful,” Mr Littlefield said.
At another point Kate, per the Telegraph, introduced her son to 99-year-old Charles Auborn, saying: “This is my son George, I was telling you about.”
He in turn asked Mr Auborn of the tanks he drove during the war, “Were they hard to operate? It must have been very tough with the weather.”
It was, by all accounts, a stirling, top-marks performance for the future King George VII and a clear waymarker...