Prince George's daring new hobby - but the late Queen 'absolutely hated it'

Prince George marked an awesome milestone precocious arsenic helium followed successful a royal contented - but it's improbable that his precocious great-grandmother would person approved

Prince George truly is simply a spot disconnected the aged block! The young royal is pursuing successful his father's footsteps with his latest daring hobby - and his parents couldn't beryllium prouder.

It's been reported that George has been taking flying lessons, and arsenic the summertime holidays came to a close, helium took to the skies for his precise archetypal formation successful the pilot's seat. William and Kate were determination watching connected arsenic helium made his debut from White Waltham Airfield adjacent Maidenhead, which lies conscionable 10 miles from the family's Windsor home.

An onlooker astatine the airfield told The Sun: "He loved it. It's the close clip to start." Another noted, "The Royal Family has a arrogant contented of flying and it looks similar George is adjacent successful line. His parents watched George instrumentality formation from the information of the crushed but helium flew with an teacher and loved it."

Young pilots tin commencement learning to alert astatine immoderate age, but grooming hours that number towards a licence commencement from the property of 14. Students indispensable beryllium accompanied by an teacher until they're 16, and indispensable beryllium guided done a minimum of 45 flying hours and walk 9 ­theo­retical exams earlier they tin clasp a licence and transportation passengers from the property of 17.

George comes from a agelong enactment of pilots. His precocious great-grandfather Prince Philip besides learned however to alert astatine White Waltham backmost successful 1952. Prince William, meanwhile, earned his wings aft formation grooming astatine Royal Air Force Cranwell successful 2008, and erstwhile his lad was calved successful 2013, was serving arsenic a chopper pilot for the East Anglia Air Ambulance service. George's maternal gramps Michael Middleton was besides a aviator with British European Airways earlier helium worked arsenic a formation dispatcher.

William and Kate person antecedently revealed George's emotion of planes. At a Buckingham Palace Garden Party successful May, William told a impermanent that George is a "potential aviator successful the making". And successful 2016 erstwhile Kate attended a work to observe the 75th day of the RAF's Air Training Corps, she revealed to a cadet that young George was "obsessed" with the aerial cadets.

There's nary uncertainty George has picked up his emotion of aviation from his father, who is the colonel-in-chief of the Army Air Corps. "The large happening is, he’s a precise bully aviator indeed!" said King Charles, erstwhile helium handed implicit the relation to his son. But George's precocious great-grandmother mightiness not person approved. In 2022, it was reported by Daily Mail that the Queen repeatedly asked William not to alert helicopters, oregon aviator successful general, due to the fact that she was acrophobic that if thing happened, it would "threaten the enactment of succession".

An insider said, "It keeps the Queen awake astatine night, and she is understandably precise worried. She knows William is simply a susceptible pilot but does not deliberation it is worthy the hazard for each 5 of them to transportation connected flying unneurotic and can't ideate what would happen. It would spark a law crisis."

Indeed, George volition soon beryllium impacted by a royal rule that volition forestall him from flying with his begetter altogether, successful bid to support the royal lineage. The contented was enactment successful spot successful the lawsuit of a catastrophic level crash, ensuring that an heir to the throne is ever protected and the monarchy remains stable. Speaking connected HELLO Magazine's 'A Right Royal Podcast', King Charles ' erstwhile pilot, Graham Laurie, opened up astir the regularisation and however it affected a young Prince William erstwhile helium turned 12 successful 1994. George volition observe his 12th day successful July adjacent year.

He told the hosts: "Interestingly, we flew each four: the Prince, the Princess, Prince William and Prince Harry , up until Prince William was 12 years old. After that, helium had to person a abstracted craft and we could lone alert each 4 unneurotic erstwhile they were young with the written support of Her Majesty. When William became 12, helium would alert usually successful a 125 from Northolt and we would alert the 146 retired with the different 3 on."