With rosy cheeks and big brown eyes, this cheeky chappy has clearly inherited a thing or two from his mother.
And if that smile is anything to go by, a passion for the great outdoors can certainly be counted among these.
Little Prince Louis looks gleeful as he crawls, covered in moss, around the garden in three photographs released by Kensington Palace to mark his first birthday today.
The Duchess of Cambridge, a keen amateur photographer, took the glorious portraits at the family’s Norfolk home, Anmer Hall, earlier this month. And how time has flown!
Little Prince Louis looks gleeful as he crawls, covered in moss, around the garden in three photographs released by Kensington Palace to mark his first birthday today
The Duchess of Cambridge, a keen amateur photographer, took the glorious portraits at the family’s Norfolk home, Anmer Hall, earlier this month. And how time has flown!
The Duchess of Cambridge carrying Prince Louis as they arrive for his christening service at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, London, last year
The last time we saw Louis – who bears a striking resemblance to his mother at his age –was on the Cambridge family’s Christmas card when he was just a babe in arms.
Now Louis is crawling – and very proud of himself, too, by the looks of it.
The fifth in line to the throne is beginning to look more and more like older brother George, with his sweep of blond hair no doubt smoothed with the same styling balm that Kate, 37, uses on her eldest son.
And it’s not just the coiffure he’s adopted – under his red wool jumper, Louis appears to be wearing one of George’s romper suits, identifiable by its distinctive Peter Pan collar with blue piping.
The third in line to the throne has worn several over the years, but this looks most like the £79 romper by Rachel Riley, which he wore as a youngster on a family trip to New Zealand.
In another photo, Louis wears an adorable blue cashmere mix jumper with a puppy motif from upmarket store Trotters, which is currently on sale reduced from £44 to £35.
Although eyebrows were raised when the duchess first started using her own snaps in place of official palace photographs, there’s no doubt these candid portraits come to life with a mother’s touch – showing Louis in a natural light, happy at play.
Spitting image: The prince bears a striking resemblance to mother Kate as a baby, in 1982. The Cambridge family will be spending the little prince’s birthday privately at Kensington Palace
And they capture Kate’s previous description of her youngest son as an active child who enjoys ‘bombing around’ on his baby walker. ‘He just wants to pull himself up all the time. He’s got these little walkers and is bombing around on them,’ she said.
The Cambridge family will be spending the little prince’s birthday privately at Kensington Palace, since George is due back at school and Prince William is flying later in the day to New Zealand to represent the Queen in paying respects to those affected by the Christchurch mosque shootings.
Prince Louis Arthur Charles was born at 11.01am on April 23 last year – St George’s Day –weighing 8lb 7oz.
He made his public debut in his mother’s arms on the steps of the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.
He has been seen in public only once since then at his christening last summer.
Sources say he is a happy boy, doted on by his brother and sister. Princess Charlotte, in particular, is said to be overjoyed at having a ‘real life’ baby to look after.
But with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s first child due this week or next – how would the little prince feel about sharing his big day with a cousin, as well as England’s patron saint?
Prince Louis poses in a sweet puppy jumper from high street chain Trotters in new photos released to mark his 1st birthday (and it’s now on sale for just £35)
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As the youngest of the Cambridges’ three children, one-year-old Louis has a lot of sweetness to live up too.
And the Prince has proven he’s as adorable as his siblings in a set of cute pictures, taken at home in Norfolk by his mother Kate Middleton, to celebrate his first birthday.
In one of the photographs, the rosy-cheeked youngster looks inquisitively at the camera while wearing a blue jumper from high street brand Trotters.
The sweater, which was originally priced at £44 but is now on sale for £35, is worn over a white collared top to create a stylish and smart outfit for the little Prince.
The jumper, pictured, was originally £44 but is now on sale online for a discounted price of £35
The Trotters website describes the garment as being a ‘soft, warm cashmere mix’ and a ‘must have for layering this spring’.
The navy jumper is also available in pale pink ‘to create the perfect matching outfits for little brothers and sisters’.
In the other two pictures, Prince Louis beams and gives his best cheeky expression for the camera, even reaching out towards it in one.
For these adorable snaps, Louis was dressed in a red jumper with tortoiseshell buttons across the left shoulder and a pair of black trousers.
The playful youngster is covered in bits of moss, having clearly had a wonderful time playing in the garden during the photoshoot with his mother.
His broad smiles show off his two bottom teeth – and it looks like two more may be on their way soon.
This is not the first time that the young royals have been dressed in pieces from the high street store.
In June last year, both George and Charlotte wore matching £26 canvas plimsolls from Trotters to watch their dad compete in the Maserati Royal Charity Polo Trophy.
Prince Louis, pictured leaving the Lindo Wing, was born at 11.01am on April 23 2018
Sophie Mirman and Richard Ross opened the doors to the first Trotters store on the King’s Road in Chelsea in 1990, and have since gone on to open six more, with the brand winning awards and numerous high-profile fans.
In March, Kate revealed during a visit to a children’s centre that Louis, then about 11 months old, was an active child who enjoyed ‘bombing around’ on a walker.
‘He just wants to pull himself up all the time. He’s got these little walkers and is bombing around on them,’ she told a fellow parent.
Prince Louis Arthur Charles, who was born at 11.01am on April 23 2018 – St George’s Day – weighing 8lb 7oz, bears a clear resemblance to both his older brother George and his father, William, when they were a similar age.
Louis, pictured in Kate’s arms, is the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s third child, after Prince George and Princess Charlotte, who will turn six and four this year
Prince Louis, pictured being held by his mother, sweetly slept through his christening service at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, in July last year
Louis is fifth in line to the throne, a great-grandchild of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, and the younger sibling of Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
Louis made his debut in Kate’s arms as his proud parents showed him off to the world on the steps of the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London, just hours after he was born.
The name Louis was already one of George’s middle names and pays tribute to the Prince of Wales’s great-uncle, Earl Mountbatten, who was murdered by the IRA.
William and Kate released photos of their son soon after he was born – including one of him being cuddled by his big sister Charlotte on her third birthday when Louis was only about a week old.
For Charlotte’s third birthday, Kensington Palace released this sweet picture of the doting big sister holding her week-old baby brother Louis
In March, Kate revealed that Louis, then about 11 months old, was an active child who enjoyed ‘bombing around’ on a walker. Pictured are the Duke and Duchess with their three children
Louis was sleeping soundly, as Charlotte put a protective arm around her baby brother and planted a kiss on his forehead.
The prince was next seen fast asleep at his christening in July, and alert and smiling in family photographs released to mark the occasion.
Louis, who appears to have inherited the brown Middleton eyes from Kate’s side of the family, was pictured with his wider family, including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall in photos released to mark Charles’s 70th birthday in November.