1. She's a very easy, sweet baby, according to her father

 

But the Duke of Cambridge is also predicting some challenges ahead. While at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff ahead of the RBS 6 Nations Wales v France game in February, William revealed: 'Charlotte is very easy, she is sweet.'

 

2. Her arrival was celebrated¹ in sparkling style

 

The Duchess of Cambridge was given a pair of £3,500 tourmaline, amethyst² and diamond earrings³, which she wore on her royal tour of India, to mark the birth of her daughter in May 2015.

 

3. She is a better sleeper⁴ than George

 

The Prince of Wales chatted about his baby granddaughter when he hosted a Clarence House tea party for pilots and aircrew who fought in the Second World War. One of the guests revealed: 'We were talking about grandchildren, he was saying Princess Charlotte does sleep through the night and it was much easier on mum than Prince George.'

 

4. She has made William more emotional

 

The Duke told Ant and Dec during a Prince's Trust documentary about his experience as a father-of-two: 'Now the smallest little things, you well up a little more, you get affected⁵ by the sort of things that happen around the world or whatever a lot more, I think, as a father.'

 

5. She first experienced playing in the snow when she was 10-months-old

 

William and Kate took their children on their first ski holiday to the French Alps in March. Aides described it as a 'very special and fun' time for the family.

 

6. Her great-grandmother the Queen is smitten⁶

 

Kate told ITV's Our Queen at Ninety programme: 'The Queen was really thrilled that it was a little girl and I think as soon as we came back here to Kensington, she was one of our first visitors here.

 

7. One of her favourite toys is a Fuddlewuddle puppy

 

Photos taken by Kate when Charlotte was six months old showed the princess laughing with delight at a soft Fuddlewuddle puppy, from British company Jellycat.

 

8. She is a fan of The Gruffalo

 

William told actress Imelda Staunton that his children love The Gruffalo audiobooks which she narrated⁷.

 

9. She missed out on meeting the Obamas

 

Charlotte was already tucked up in bed when US president Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited William and Kate at Kensington Palace. George, however, got to stay up late and see them.

 

10. Her fringe is long enough to need a hair clip

 

In a historic family photograph taken by Annie Leibovitz to mark the Queen's 90th, Charlotte is seen - with her blue eyes and dark hair - sitting on her great-grandmother's lap, wearing a pink bow slide on the side of her head.

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