William and Kate release Prince George's birthday portrait - Page Six

In the photo, George is sporting a striped collared shirt and smiling broadly, sitting on a Land Rover Defender.

“There are rumors that we might not see the photograph [of Prince George] when he’s eight, because they’ve been so upset by the rudeness of people mocking a little boy aged seven, and I hope they can overcome that,” royal biographer Angela Levin said on the UK’s True Royal TV.

Royal expert Robert Lacey recently revealed that George has been told that he will one day be king

“Sometime around the boy’s seventh birthday in the summer of 2020, it is thought that his parents went into more detail about what the little prince’s life of future royal ‘service and duty’ would particularly involve,” royal author Robert Lacey wrote in his new, updated version of “Battle of Brothers” (via Daily Mail)

Lacey added that his parents wanted to tell George about his daunting destiny at a “controlled moment of their choice” at the age of 7, partly because William was unhappy that he was aware of it his entire life