It was one of the most endearing moments in the entire weekend of celebratory events to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee last year.
After two hours of watching a pageant pass by in the street below the stands where he was sitting with his family, young Prince Louis, only just four, had had enough. He wriggled in his seat, he pulled faces and when his mother, the then Duchess of Cambridge, tried to placate him, he gave her a rude gesture and grabbed her face. His older sister Princess Charlotte told him off and his dad Prince William tried to distract him.
And then the unruly prince looked along the row and spotted his grandfather, the then Prince Charles. Moments later, he’d plonked himself on Grandpa’s knee, where he was bounced up and down