Hannah Betts: A birthday note to Prince George

Prince William holds Prince George during this year’s tour of Australia and New Zealand
Prince William holds Prince George during this year’s tour of Australia and New Zealand
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Dear Prince George Alexander Louis Cambridge-Middleton,

I write to you, on the occasion of tomorrow’s first birthday, from your fairy godsubjects, We, the People. Well, Your Tiny Highness, what a year it’s been: 365 days of pouting, stropping, drooling and, if reports are to be believed, several months of screaming until you were put on solids (quite right too — one has to show these people who’s boss).

And may I be the first to congratulate you on a terrific job? Sterling work on the chubby-cheek front, you already have more hair than your father and have been utterly consistent in offering great dungaree. Uncle Hazzer is right: you do look like Churchill — the statesman and the insurance-selling dog. Australia loves you, New Zealand