REBECCA ENGLISH: Portrait of cricket-loving Prince (with a 甘い tooth) that nearly didn't happen

His cheeky public antics over the years have led his legion of fans to christen him ‘Boss Baby’ after the Hollywood 風刺漫画 movie about a toddler who 支配するs the roost.

But my, how quickly little Prince Louis is growing up.

While he still has the same warm 注目する，もくろむs, 感染性の smile and general zest for life that has seen him 繰り返して steal the show at 王室の events, the youngest child of the Prince and Princess of むちの跡s is big enough to wear Prince George’s grown-up 手渡す-me-負かす／撃墜するs. In this 事例／患者 it is a £39 Pepa & Co checked shirt in a delightful new birthday portrait taken by Kate.

Prince Louis pictured by the Princess of むちの跡s for his sixth birthday. The image shows the 王室の lying on a picnic 一面に覆う／毛布 in the grounds of the Windsor 広い地所

The snap was 地位，任命するd on the Prince and Princess of むちの跡s's social マスコミ accounts thanking 王室の fans for all the 肉親，親類d wishes they had sent to the young prince?

And just like AA Milne’s famous poem, Now We Are Six ? ‘I’m as clever as clever/So I think I’ll be six for ever and ever’ ? he is said to be 飛行機で行くing at his new school, Lambrook in Berkshire, and 証明するing to be not just good in class but sporty and fun (cricket is his big love at the moment, 明らかに).

Born on April 2 3, 2018, on the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, 重さを計るing a very healthy 8lb 7oz, Louis has like so many younger siblings always been the 星／主役にする of the show.

Prince Louis has been compared to the 風刺漫画 character Boss Baby

Whether it is 劇的な 持つ／拘留するing his 手渡すs over his ears at his 広大な／多数の／重要な-granny’s Platinum Jubilee 祝賀s, naughtily thumbing his nose at mummy or pinching his nose at last year’s 軍隊／機動隊ing the Colour, it’s impossible not to be entertained by his theatrics. When his father, Prince William, proudly speaks about his offspring, Louis’ 指名する is often …を伴ってd by an affectionate rolling of the 注目する，もくろむs, 示すing how much of a live-wire he is in 私的な, too.

But when I was covering a visit by the むちの跡s family as they helped renovate a Scout hut over the 載冠（式）／即位（式） 週末 last year, I was genuinely blown away (both as a mother and as a 新聞記者／雑誌記者) at how 井戸／弁護士席 Louis behaved. Indeed, all three of the children had impeccable manners.

The young prince's cheeky antics went viral as 王室の fans were left in hysterics at his funny behaviour

Louis got stuck in with a マリファナ of emulsion paint (something I never would have let my five-year-old do, let alone in 前線 of the world’s マスコミ) 絵 a planter, frowning with 集中 in 承認 of the importance of his 仕事.

And he couldn’t wait to help out with a shovel, 転換ing spadefuls of sand into a wheelbarrow before 主張するing on 押し進めるing it by himself around the corner to a group of fellow volunteers who were laying a new path.

A? wonderful one - the picture chosen to 示す Prince Louis' first birthday

What was amazing, in the circumstances, was the freedom that William and Kate gave ‘Lou-bugs’ who, at one point, careered past me with his barrow, 決定するd to keep up his work ? without a parent, carer or even police officer in sight.

Louis was having colourful fun in the 発射 解放（する）d for his second birthday

He was deterred from his 仕事 only by the sight of his big brother sitting with their papa at the 支配（する）／統制するs of a digger, whereby he 敏速に 需要・要求するd he get a turn too ? understandably, one might think! And an adorable little ビデオ I took of Louis 熱望して grabbing fistfuls of marshmallows to toast before pretending to mock faint when he tried a ‘s’more’ ? a nice gooey marshmallow 挟むd with chocolate betwe en two digestive 薄焼きパン／素焼陶器s ? even went viral.

Yesterday’s new photograph of the scene-stealing birthday boy was taken by his mother ‘in the last few days in Windsor’, where the family live in cosy Adelaide Cottage. It shows Louis in shorts and George’s checked shirt, his feet 明らかにする, smiling into the camera without a care in the world.

His dark brown hair has been neatly 徹底的に捜すd to one 味方する and his tongue わずかに peeks through the gap in his 底（に届く） teeth.

普通は the couple 問題／発行する a photograph of each of their children to 示す their birthdays in 前進する for use by マスコミ on the day itself.

This year they had 最初 decided not to 問題／発行する one at all given their 最近の 控訴，上告s for privacy at such an ‘前例のない’ time for their family.

The princess, 42, is continuing her 回復 from major 復部の 外科 in January and を受けるing preventative chemotherapy for the 癌 that doctors subsequently discovered.

However it is understood that she and William changed their minds about the picture 夜通し as they were keen to thank the public, and 表明する their 感謝 for all the messages they have received on Louis’ に代わって.

老年の three, the prince in training was pictured on his balance bike

The picture is understood to have been unedited, deliberately, に引き続いて the 熱狂的興奮状態 that resulted over the princess’s Photoshopped Mother’s Day picture, which saw it 孤立した by international picture 機関s. She later apologised for the 混乱.

For his fourth birthday, he enjoyed the beach boy lifestyle

Prince Louis with his mother Kate and siblings George and Charlotte in the 議論の的になる doctored Mother's Day photo which was later 孤立した by picture 機関s