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He can expect to carry out more than 20,000 public engagements over the course of his life, but there can only be one first engagement, and for Prince George, it all started on a wet and windy April afternoon here in New Zealand.

From the moment he was carried off a Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757, immaculate in white, the future king has been the undisputed star of the ongoing royal tour.

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Even the Duchess of Cambridge, one of the most famous and followed women on the planet, could not compete with her cherubic, mischievous son when it came to winning the hearts of this Commonwealth realm.

And back in London, the Queen will doubtless have been monitoring events with a smile of satisfaction. She knows just how important is Prince George’s appearance on the front pages of newspapers and magazines the world over to the future of the monarchy.

If people fall in love with Prince George, they will stay in love with him, or so the thinking goes. At a time of life when the Queen is thinking increasingly about her legacy, the sight of a cute baby prince, charming for Britain, is the most welcome sight of all.