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Prince George looked adorable in his uniform as he turned up hand in hand with his father for his first day of primary school.
The Prince arrived dressed in a smart new outfit, comprising a navy v-neck pullover, matching Bermuda-style shorts, long red socks and black shoes.
The four-year-old starts at Thomas’s Battersea this morning – a £17k-a-year independent school in south-west London.
George and his father were greeted by Helen Haslem, head of lower school, when they arrived at the school before being escorted to his reception classroom.
His mother the Duchess of Cambridge missed the major childhood milestone as her crippling morning sickness has forced her to pull out of accompanying him.
Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea and is met by Helen Haslem head of the lower school
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea and is met by Helen Haslem head of the lower school
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea and is met by Helen Haslem head of the lower school.
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea and is met by Helen Haslem head of the lower school.
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea and is met by Helen Haslem head of the lower school.
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea
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Prince William accompanies his son Prince George on his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea, London
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea and is met by Helen Haslem head of the lower school
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Prince George arrives for his first day of school at Thomas’s school in Battersea
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Kate, who is 12 weeks pregnant, was due to accompany her son and the Duke to the school gates.
On Thursday morning Kensington Palace confirmed the Prince would only be accompanied by his father, William.
Prince George – In pictures
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Father and son the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George on Father’s Day
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leaving the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in London, with their newborn son Prince George of Cambridge on July 23rd, 2013
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Prince William and Kate depart The Lindo Wing with their newborn son on July 23rd, 2013
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The happy family in the garden of the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire with Tilly the retriever (a Middleton family pet), and Lupo the cocker spaniel, the couple’s only dog in their first five years of marriage
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George at Chapel Royal in St James’s Palace ahead of the christening of the then three-month-old Prince by the Archbishop of Canterbury on the October 23rd, 2013
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George plays during a Plunket nurse and parents group visit at Government House in Wellington, New Zealand, on April 9th, 2014
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George reaches out at his mother during a Plunket nurse and parents group visit at Government House in Wellington, New Zealand on April 9th, 2014
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George bites a small present that was given to him at the enclosure of an Australian animal called a Bilby, which has been named after the young Prince, during a visit to Sydney’s Taronga Zoo on April 20th, 2014
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Birthday boy: This photo was taken to mark his first birthday. It shows the Prince during a visit to the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum on July 2nd, 2014
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Prince George sits for his official Christmas picture in a courtyard at Kensington Palace in late November of 2014
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Here he is enraptured at the exhibition
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George arives with Dad at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in London to see his new sister Princess Charlotte on May 2nd, 2015, for the first time
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George looking at Charlotte as she was pushed to church by Kate in a vintage 1950s Millson pram for her christening at St Mary Magdalene in Sandringham, Norfolk on July 5th, 2015. The pram was once used by The Queen for her children
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George leaves the church after the christening
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George and Charlotte in their first official photograph together in mid-May 2015 at home in Anmer Hall in Norfolk
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Prince George looks through a window in Buckingham Palace prior to the Trooping The Colour ceremony on June 13, 2015
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Kate and George at the Gigaset Charity Polo Match on June 14th, 2015
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The whole family in late October, 2015
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Prince George on his first day at nursery school near Sandringham in Norfolk
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It was off to the snow in March 2016 in the French Alps
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George meets US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at Kensington Palace on April 22nd, 2016
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Prince George plays with bubbles at a children’s party for Military families at Government House in Victoria during the Royal Tour of Canada in 2016
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The Duchess of Cambridge with her children Prince George and Princess Charlotte at a children’s party for Military families at Government House in Victoria during the Royal Tour of Canada in 2016
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Prince George wearing ear defender on a flight in 2016
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George was again front and centre for the celebration of The Queen’s official 90th birthday on June 11, 2016 as the Royal Family watch a flypast from the balcony of Buckingham Palace
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Kate holds daughter Charlotte and pats son George.
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George with Kate during a visit to the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on July 8th, 2016
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The heir to the throne was allowed to sit in a Squirrel helicopter at the tattoo
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But it was a bit noisy during a fly past by the Red Arrows
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However he was then given the special treat of sitting in the cockpit of an RAF Arrow aircraft
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Prince George has got the cute look down pat at RAF Fairford
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Prince George with his mother, father and sister on the balcony of Buckingham Palace
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Prince George on Christmas Day in 2016
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The young royal family arrive to attend the service at St Mark’s Church on Christmas Day in 2016
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Prince George stands with other page boys and flower girls following the wedding of Pippa Middleton to James Matthews, as they leave St Mark’s church, Englefield, Berkshire in 2017
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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge with their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte during a welcome ceremony at the airport in Berlin, Germany
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A tired Prince George at Berlin Tegel Airport
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Prince George and Princess Charlotte on the royal tour in Germany
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Prince George and Princess Charlotte look through the airplane window as they arrive with their parents at the airport in Warsaw, Poland
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Prince George gets a look inside helicopter models H145 and H135 before departing from Hamburg airport on the last day of their official visit to Poland and Germany
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Prince George sits in a rescue helicopter as he visits Airbus in Hamburg, Germany with his parents and sister
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Prince George smiles for the camera in his official 4th Birthday portrait
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The Palace tweeted: “Prince George will this morning attend his first day of school at Thomas’s Battersea, accompanied by his father The Duke of Cambridge.”
The Prince, thought to be one of the youngest in his year, is expected to have a gentle introduction to what is likely to be a tiring first term at school.
Kate has already said she is not sure her son “has any idea what’s going to hit him” when he starts school.
Along with his classmates, he will spend his first day getting to know teachers, adults and other children as well as completing the important task of finding his classroom peg.
On Tuesday, a day after it was announced they are expecting their third child, William said Kate was well but admitted: “There’s not much sleep going on at the moment.”
He said: “We need Catherine to get over this first bit and then we can start celebrating. It’s always a bit anxious to start with, but she’s well.”
Kate was forced to miss engagements on Monday and Tuesday after the palace revealed she was suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum – as with her two other pregnancies.
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