PRINCE GEORGE SPECIAL: The Future King Turns 13 (And Heads to Eton) | The Royalist

Please remember to like and subscribe! Check out my Substack: https://theroyalist.substack.com/ This week, the most famous child on the planet turns thirteen. Prince George of Wales — second in line to the throne, future King of the United Kingdom, and a boy about whom, remarkably, we know almost nothing — becomes a teenager on Tuesday. And in September, he goes to Eton. In this special episode of The Royalist, I tell the full story of the boy who will be king: the Great Kensington Wait and the Lindo Wing debut, the tiny 22-guest christening at the Chapel Royal, the toddler tours where he flattened Kiwi babies (earning the nickname "the republican slayer"), lunged at an endangered bilby, and delivered the single most devastating snub in the history of Canadian diplomacy. The Obama bathrobe. "Uncle Harry, why are you so quiet?" The socks. The meltdown at Pippa's wedding. All of it. But this is also the story of something more serious: how William and Kate pulled off the most successfully protected royal childhood in modern history. I reveal the extraordinary lengths paparazzi went to in pursuit of a two-year-old (including a photographer discovered hiding in the boot of a car outside a playground) and explain the brilliantly counterintuitive strategy the Waleses used to defeat them: flooding the market with managed images until a paparazzi shot of George was worth nothing. Compare that with Harry and Meghan, whose obsessive concealment of Archie and Lilibet's faces has made them the most valuable paparazzi targets on earth. One family showed its children and kept them private. The other hid its children and made them famous. Plus: the schools, the secrecy, the moment William finally told a seven-year-old George he would be king, Kate's early-years mission, why Eton may be the last place on earth where a future monarch can be normal — and my prediction about what the Eton fixtures book will (and won't) call him in September. Happy birthday, Prince George. The next five years start now. Check out my new book - The Dukes / Dukes of Hazard - here!: United States: https://a.co/d/0gmvpeQz Australia: https://amzn.asia/d/01Y4mpkj UK: https://amzn.eu/d/01mSqQKa #PrinceGeorge #RoyalFamily #Eton #PrinceWilliam #KateMiddleton #PrincessOfWales #BritishRoyalFamily #FutureKing #RoyalNews #TheRoyalist #PrinceGeorgeBirthday #WalesFamily #PrincessCharlotte #PrinceLouis #Monarchy #KingCharles #PrinceHarry #MeghanMarkle #RoyalChildren #EtonCollege