New photograph of Prince George released ahead of his 8th birthday

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George: Third in line

George and his younger siblings, Charlotte and Louis, play with their father in June 2020.

Prince George: Third in line

George arrives with his sister, Charlotte, for her first day of school in September 2019.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George watches the Trooping the Colour parade from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in June 2019.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George and other children in the royal family arrive for the wedding of Princess Eugenie in October 2018. George’s sister, Charlotte, is at far left.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George leaves the chapel after the wedding of his uncle, Prince Harry, in May 2018.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George looks out of the window of a seaplane while leaving Victoria, British Columbia, in October 2016.

Prince George: Third in line

George and the family’s pet dog, Lupo, are seen in this photo marking George’s third birthday in July 2016.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George shakes hands with US President Barack Obama while Obama visited Kensington Palace in April 2016.

Prince George: Third in line

The prince poses for a picture taken by his mother on his first day of nursery school in January 2016.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George is held by his father a day before his second birthday in July 2015.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George peers into the stroller of his sister, Charlotte, following her christening in July 2015.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George is held by his nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, during the Trooping the Colour ceremony in June 2015.

Prince George: Third in line

Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, took this photo of Prince George and Princess Charlotte shortly after Charlotte’s birth in 2015.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince William and Prince George arrive at a London hospital on the day Princess Charlotte was born in May 2015.

Prince George: Third in line

George poses in a Kensington Palace courtyard in December 2014.

Prince George: Third in line

Prince George and his parents visit a butterfly exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum in July 2014.

Prince George: Third in line

George takes his first steps in public as his mother holds his hand in June 2014.

Prince George: Third in line

The royal family leaves an airbase in Australia to head back to the United Kingdom in April 2014. They took a three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand. It was their first official trip overseas after George’s birth.

Prince George: Third in line

Catherine holds George as he meets a bilby — Australia’s version of the Easter bunny — at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. One of the zoo’s bilbies was renamed George in honor of the young prince.

Prince George: Third in line

George plays with toys during a visit to the Government House in Wellington, New Zealand, in April 2014.

Prince George: Third in line

William and Catherine speak to Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby after George’s christening in London in October 2013.

Prince George: Third in line

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge depart a London hospital with newborn George in July 2013. He was born the previous day weighing 8 pounds and 6 ounces.