Charlotte Mountbatten-Windsor

**Princess Charlotte of Wales** (Charlotte "Lottie" Elizabeth Diana, born May 2, 2015) is a member of british royal family. She is the second and only daughter of William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales. She is 3rd in Line of succession to british throne.

She has a older brother Prince George (b.2013) and a younger brother Prince Louis (b.2019).

## Early life

Princess Charlotte was born on May 2, 2015 at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London. On May 4, 2015, Her name, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, was announced by Prince William and Catherine, then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Her name honors her great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and her grandmother Diana, Princess of Wales.

She was christened on July 5, 2015 at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, where her grandmother, Diana, was christened in 1961. Her godparents are her parents' cousins Laura Fellowes and Adam Middleton, and family friends Thomas van Straubenzee, James Meade, and Sophie Carter.

## Education

In January 2018, Princess Charlotte started her education at Willcocks Nursery School near her family's home in Kensington Palace.

In September 2019, She joined her brother, George, at Thomas's School in Battersea where she was known as *Charlotte Cambridge*

In September 2022, Charlotte and her siblings, George and Louis, began attending Lambrook, an independent preparatory school in Berkshire.

## Public appearance

On June 11, 2016, Princess Charlotte made her first appearance at Buckingham Palace's balcony, during her great-grandmother's Trooping Colour. In September 2016, She joined her parents and older brother on her first royal tour in Canada.

In July 2017, Charlotte and George, joined their parents on their diplomatic visit to Poland and Germany.

In December 2019, Prince George and Princess Charlotte attended their first Sandringham Christmas Day Service at St. Mary Magdalene Church.

In March 2020, She joined her sibling, George and Louis, in an online video to applaud key workers during the coronavirus pandemic. In September 2020, the, then Cambridge, children met David Attenborough, the Kensington Palace released a video of them asking questions regarding environmental conservation. On December 11, 2020, Charlotte and her brothers made their first red carpet accompanying their parents to the London Palladium for performance a pantomime geld to thank key workers for their efforts during the pandemic.

On June 20, 2021, Charlotte and George accompanied their father to start a Father's Day half-marathon race for the Run Sandringham event.

On March 29, 2022, Prince Charlotte accompanied her parents and older brother to a service of thanksgiving for the life of her late great-grandfather Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

On June 2, 2022, Charlotte and her sibling, during attende her great-grandmother's platinum Jubilee celebration week, made their debut in the Trooping Colour carriage procession. The procession was followed by a flypast, during which all three children joined their parents, The Queen, and other working royals on the Buckingham Palace's balcony. On June 4, 2022, Charlotte and George, made their first official visit to Wales with their parents, where they attended concert rehearsals in Cardiff Castle, part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Later that same day, Charlotte and George accompanied their parents to the Platinum Party at the Palace. On June 5, 2022, Charlotte attended the Platinum Jubilee Pageant with her parents and brothers. Following the pageant she joined her parents, brothers, the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and the Duchess of Cornwall on the Buckingham Palace balcony.

On September 19, 2022, Princess Charlotte and her older brother Prince George, accompanied their parents to the state funeral of their great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.

On May 6, 2023, she attended the coronation of her grandfather at Westminster Abbey alongside her parents and two siblings.

## Titles and succession

* May 2, 2015 - September 8, 2022: *Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge*
* September 8, 2022 - September 9, 2022: *Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cornwall and Cambridge*
* September 9, 2022 - present: *Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Wales*

Charlotte is, by birth, a princess of the United Kingdom entitled to the style of Royal Highness under letters patent issued by Queen Elizabeth II on December 31, 2012, which gave the title and style to all children of the Prince of Wales's elder son.

Charlotte is third in the line of succession to the British throne, after her grandfather, father, and elder brother. Due to the implementation of the Perth Agreement, which replaced male-preference primogeniture with absolute primogeniture, she did not move down the line of succession when her younger brother, Prince Louis of Cambridge, was born in 2018, this makes her the first British princess to rank above a brother in the line of succession.