Princess Charlotte turns ten today and it’s a milestone birthday for a young royal who was world famous before she’d even made her first public appearance.
Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana was born on 2 May 2025 at 8:34 AM at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. She joined older brother George as the second child to the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Her family held her christening on 5 July at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Norfolk with big crowds turning out to see the young princess and the Royal Family. Charlotte’s mum, Catherine, famously wheeled her little girl to and from her christening in a vintage pram while Prince George, then 2, was kept entertained by his great grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
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Charlotte’s birth made history. In 2011, it was agreed that the succession should be changed from male primogeniture to absolute primogeniture. The centuries old tradition of male children automatically going ahead of older sisters in the line of succession ended. Princess Charlotte was the most senior girl born since that change.
And it meant that Charlotte maintained her place in the line of succession in 2018 when Prince Louis joined the family.
The young princess first attended Thomas’s School in Battersea; in 2022, both she and Prince George enrolled at Lambrook, a preparatory school in Berkshire.
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Princess Charlotte joins the Royal Family for big appearances including Trooping the Colour. Little snippets of her life, shared by her proud parents, indicate that the royal who made history has a love of ballet (echoing a childhood passion of Diana, Princess of Wales) as well as Taylor Swift.
Charlotte, now third in line to the throne, will be joining the Royal Family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace on 8 May to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
