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 to British throne.

She has an older brother Prince George of Wales (b.2013) and younger brother Prince Louis of Wales (b.2018)

## Early Life

Charlotte was born on May 2, 2015 in Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, London. On May 4, her name was announced as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, honoring her great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, her great-great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and grandmother Diana, Princess of Wales. She has been affectionately called "Lottie" and "Mignonette" by her parents.

On July 5, 2015, Princess Charlotte was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, the same church where her paternal grandmother 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, Charlotte started her education at the Willcocks Nursery School, near her family's home in Kensington Palace.

In September 2019, She joined her brother Prince George at Thomas's School in Battersea, where she is Known as Charlotte Cambridge.

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

## Official Appearances

On 11 June 2016, she made her first public appearance, which was on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during Trooping the Colour. She accompanied her parents and elder brother, George, on their royal tour of Canada in September 2016 and on their diplomatic visit to Poland and Germany in July 2017. In December 2019, Charlotte and George both attended their first Sandringham Christmas Day Service at St Mary Magdalene.

In March 2020, she joined her siblings, George and Louis, in an online video to applaud key workers during the coronavirus pandemic. In September 2020, they met David Attenborough; Kensington Palace subsequently released a video of them asking Attenborough questions regarding environmental conservation. On 11 December 2020, the children made their first red carpet appearance accompanying their parents to the London Palladium for a performance of a pantomime held to thank key workers for their efforts during the pandemic. On 20 June 2021, Charlotte and George accompanied their father to start a Father's Day half-marathon race for the Run Sandringham event on the Sandringham Estate.

On 29 March 2022, Charlotte accompanied her parents and elder brother to a service of thanksgiving for the life of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On 2 June 2022, during her great-grandmother's Platinum Jubilee celebration weekend, Charlotte and her siblings made their debut in the Trooping the Colour carriage procession. The procession was followed by a flypast, during which all three Cambridge children joined their parents, The Queen, and other working royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony. A couple of days later, on 4 June, 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.

The next day, on 5 June, 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 19 September 2022, Charlotte and her brother Prince George, accompanied by their parents, attended the state funeral of their paternal great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.

## Titles and Succession

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