Princess Charlotte turns 10!
Prince William and Kate Middleton’s middle child ― and only daughter ― finally reached double digits on Friday.
The Prince and Princess of Wales marked the occasion as they usually do, by releasing a photo of their daughter to the public on their social media accounts.
“Happy 10th Birthday Princess Charlotte! ❤” the parents captioned the image, which was taken by Kate. The photo was taken on an iPhone earlier this year, according to SkyNews.
The sweet image, which shows Charlotte grinning at the camera, had all the commenters sharing similar sentiments.
“Happy Birthday Princess Charlotte! Who is clearly her father’s mini-me!!” one commenter wrote, while someone else wrote she “Looks just like her father!”
Another added, “Omigoodness her father’s daughter!”
While Charlotte does look a lot like her father, she also bears a striking resemblance to her late great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth.
Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana was born in London on May 2, 2015, at 8:34 a.m. She weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces.
Jason Knauf, a former aide for Prince William, recently revealed one of the wildest moments from Charlotte’s day of birth ― and how he almost accidentally leaked the news early to the media.
“You have hundreds and hundreds of journalists and photographers from all over the world that arrive in London, camping outside, trying to get their spot,” Knauf told “60 Minutes Australia” in an interview in February.
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Amid the chaos, Knauf said, he had a “piece of paper to go write this press release” as the family wasn’t going to announce the news for a little while.
“I’m still out there with hundreds of journalists trying to have a game face, and then I couldn’t find the piece of paper, and I think I had dropped it somewhere on the street,” he said. “Somewhere on that street the entire time was a piece of paper that said there had been a little princess born, what time and how much she weighed.”
Despite his panic, the piece of paper was never found, and Charlotte’s birth was announced as planned.
