{"id":2478496,"date":"2026-06-27T17:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2478496"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:48:52","slug":"prince-george-12-nearly-towers-over-mom-kate-middleton-as-they-step-out-for-rare-joint-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-george-12-nearly-towers-over-mom-kate-middleton-as-they-step-out-for-rare-joint-outing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince George, 12, nearly towers over mom Kate Middleton as they step out for rare joint outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Prince George is growing up right in front of our eyes!<\/p>\n<p>The pre-teen royal nearly towered over his mom, Princess Kate Middleton, as they were filmed on a rare mother-son outing.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaFgYpguK1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince and Princess of Wales\u2019 joint Instagram post<\/a> on Saturday, the royals shared a video of George and Kate honoring Britain\u2019s Armed Forces Day with a visit to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at the Royal Air Force Coningsby base.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Prince George, 12, nearly towered over his mom, Princess Kate Middleton, in a video from their recent joint outing, as seen above. <span class=\"credit\">The Prince and Princess of Wales\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The mother-son duo were filmed honoring Britain\u2019s Armed Forces Day by visiting the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at the Royal Air Force Coningsby base.  <span class=\"credit\">The Prince and Princess of Wales\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The clip showed separate recordings of George, 12, and Kate, 44, as they took turns sitting in the cockpit of different planes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonouring Service and Sacrifice,\u201d the parents\u2019 post was captioned, in part. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearning about the extraordinary history of these aircraft and meeting the pilots and engineers who keep their legacy alive. A powerful reminder of the courage, skill and dedication of those who serve, past and present. Thank you to all those who have served and continue to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The video showed Middleton and George both taking turns inside the cockpit of the planes.  <span class=\"credit\">The Prince and Princess of Wales\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cLearning about the extraordinary history of these aircraft and meeting the pilots and engineers who keep their legacy alive,\u201d Middleton captioned her joint Instagram post with the Prince of Wales on Saturday.  <span class=\"credit\">The Prince and Princess of Wales\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>in the most recent update on the royal, it was reported that he will soon be following in his dad\u2019s footsteps by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/16\/royal-family\/prince-george-follows-in-dad-williams-footsteps-as-new-school-revealed\/\">attending the same prestigious school<\/a> as his dad. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKensington Palace can confirm that Prince George will attend Eton College from this September,\u201d a spokesperson told Page Six earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>William attended the prestigious school from 1995 to 2000, while Prince Harry enrolled in 1998 and graduated in 2003.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>George, who will be turning 13 next month, will soon be leaving for school in September.  <span class=\"credit\">The Prince and Princess of Wales\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>As Page Six previously reported, the royal will follow in his dad\u2019s footsteps by attending Eton College, an all-boys boarding school.  <span class=\"credit\">The Prince and Princess of Wales\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>George \u2014 who will turn 13 next month \u2014 previously attended Lambrook School in Ascot with his two younger siblings, Princess Charlotte, 12, and Prince Louis, 8.<\/p>\n<p>Eton College, an all-boys boarding school in Berkshire, England, was founded in 1440. It\u2019s the largest boarding school in England.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable alumni include 20 British Prime Ministers, such as David Cameron and Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince George is growing up right in front of our eyes! The pre-teen royal nearly towered over his mom, Princess Kate Middleton, as they were filmed on a rare mother-son outing. In the Prince and Princess of Wales\u2019 joint Instagram post on Saturday, the royals shared a video of George and Kate honoring Britain\u2019s Armed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2478497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[30058,70626,24003,23651,22507,23394,23068,22769],"class_list":["post-2478496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-kate-middleton","tag-parents","tag-prince-george","tag-prince-william","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Prince-George-12-nearly-towers-over-mom-Kate-Middleton-as.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478498,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478496\/revisions\/2478498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}