{"id":539296,"date":"2026-07-22T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539296\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:00:08","slug":"new-photo-of-prince-george-shared-as-future-king-becomes-a-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539296\/","title":{"rendered":"New photo of Prince George shared as future king becomes a teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince George is now a teenager, with new photos and videos of him shared on social media to celebrate his 13th birthday.  <\/p>\n<p>The photo, posted to the Prince and Princess of Wales&#8217; Instagram account, shows the now-teenage prince posing for the camera in a dapper suit.   <\/p>\n<p>The caption read: &#8220;Happy 13th Birthday, George!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>George is the eldest son of William and Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and is second in line to the throne. <\/p>\n<p>The image was taken at Kensington Palace after the Trooping of the Colour ceremony by photographer Matt Porteous, who frequently photographs the family.<\/p>\n<p>A separate video posted a few hours later featured footage of George at a Cornwall beach, playing cricket and exploring rocks with his younger brother Louis.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for all the birthday wishes for George today,&#8221; the caption said. <\/p>\n<p>Now entering his teens, the future king will be getting ready to attend secondary school.  <\/p>\n<p>He will be following in his father&#8217;s footsteps by attending the highly prestigious and expensive private boarding school Eton College, north of Windsor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including Stuart Nash quits amid sexism storm, and Prince George turns 13. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince George is now a teenager, with new photos and videos of him shared on social media to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,4289,11612,6747],"class_list":["post-539296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-kate","tag-royalty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}