Prince George turns 12

[My2cents1975]

It seems like Prince George was born yesterday...time has flown and he is almost a teenager!

Prince George photo released for his 12th birthday

I imagine with three kids plus several security personnel they are usually in two car convoys for personal trips. And for official stuff when they are all in a vehicle together they have a driver and a police escort so road travel is probably much safer than the average stats.

Car travel on average may be safer, but it's unusual, even in severe accidents for all people in a car to be killed, but if a plane comes down then survivors are much rarer.

So it would be reasonable for them to travel by car together, but not by plane.

In the same way in 1890s my ancestors didn't like the way things looked on the continent and sent all his sons to different European countries to try and maximise the chance of one branch surviving.
We're the English branch and, as far as we know the only survivors from WW2.
Was he right to do that or not? If he hadn't probably none of us would have survived.

God yes!

His eyes are very James Middleton.

Wonder if a decision has been made as to what school he will go to next.

“My batshit MIL had a thing about dh and the children all travelling together-she said she was worried the plane would crash and it made her anxious. I went along with it because she was elderly and the matriarch in the family. But she’s dead now-AIBU to say I want us all to travel together now. It won’t be long before they won’t want to come on holiday with us, and I want to enjoy every minute.”

I think he’s off to Marlborough, a friend of mines child is goes there and over the last year they have installed significant extra security measures.

Elton Johns son is also reportedly going there.

I will be amazed if he doesn’t go to Eton, poor brat.

Is he a brat? Or just a child.

Why do you think he is a brat ?

Appologies. Poor child. No offence intended.

I'd be ok with it, it's worth the million and millions of dollars 🙄😆

That's actually very sweet of your BIL

Why are you calling him a "brat"? That's uncalled for.

Just seen this apology. Fair enough.

Disingenuous 'apologies'?

Nope. Poor brat is something I would say about any child being sent to Eton. Just a turn of phrase. He is, from what one sees of him, probably the most unbrat like child in the public eye. In fact, I’ve actually been told off in the past for saying he looks shy and sensitive!

@CurlewKate

Since when has poor brat been a turn of phrase? Poor mite, poor love, poor kid, poor soul, yes but I have never heard poor brat.

Brat is a horrible word with very negative connotations.

This same poster attacked the child's mother with SS talking points claiming a "complicated cancer narrative". It is hardly surprising that a person of such low character is now attacking Catherine's 12-year-old child.

When a person shows you who they are...believe them.

Indeed . Have also seen some unpleasant comments about Charlotte on X . ( Not saying it is the same poster but it’s along the same lines)

That poster was awful during the photo saga and before Catherine’s cancer diagnosis so not surprised by the use of the word brat

What a very strange definition of “attack.” To want a child not to go to Eton. Or to have to travel separately to his family because of a whim of his grandmother.

It's not a "whim". I think the reasoning has been explained.

It's not a "whim". I think the reasoning has been explained.

As well as Prince Philip's sister and her family, the Queen's uncle (the previous Duke of Kent) and cousin (Prince William of Gloucester) both died in plane crashes.

And he won't be travelling 'separately from his family'. If the story is true, he will just not fly with his father. He can travel with other members of his family, or take other forms of transport with his father.

Absolutely. I'm wearing a bright red top today "on a whim". Exercising caution about members of the RF travelling when and with whom is judicious planning. Hardly "a whim".