Harry first appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony when he was only nine months old.
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The new Duchess of Sussex joins other members of the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Trooping the Colour ceremony (Yui Mok/PA)
As the newlywed Duke and Duchess of Sussex made their first appearance on the Buckingham Palace balcony together, here’s a look at some of the historic royal balcony moments over the years.
Harry made his own debut on the famous frontage of the Queen’s London residence at a Trooping the Colour celebration in 1985.
The Prince of Wales, holding baby Prince Harry, with the Princess of Wales and Prince William, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and other royals in 1985 (Ron Bell/PA)
Diana holding baby Harry on the balcony in 1985 (Ron Bell/PA)
Prince Harry, in the arms of his mother the Princess of Wales, gives a salute on the Palace balcony while watching the Queen’s Guards march past (Ron Bell/PA)
In 2000, for the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday, he was a fresh-faced 15-year-old when he joined the family for his great-grandmother’s celebrations.
Prince William, the Prince of Wales and Prince Harry on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, during the Queen Mother 100th birthday celebrations (William Conran/PA)
Pippa Middleton and Prince Harry after William and Kate’s wedding (John Stillwell/PA)
Harry chatting to the Duke of Edinburgh, alongside the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2014 (John Stillwell/PA)
William and Kate kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace (Chris Ison/PA)
He was dressed in the same blue romper suit with a white frill and buttons that his father William wore on the balcony as a toddler in 1984.
Prince George on the Palace balcony for the first time in 2015 (Jonathan Brady/PA)
Princess Charlotte and the royal family in 2016 (Steve Parsons/PA)
As the aircraft thundered overhead, the young princess screwed up her eyes and looked up, with her hand covering one of her ears, and spent much of her royal appearance with her fingers or thumb in her mouth.
George has not always been enamoured with his time on the well-known vantage point.
Prince George during Trooping the Colour in 2017 (Yui Mok/PA)
Harry and William’s parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, shared a kiss on the balcony on their wedding day in 1981.
The Prince and Princess of Wales kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their wedding in 1981 (PA)
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh following their wedding (PA)
The Queen, as Princess Elizabeth, was seen on the palace balcony as a curly-haired toddler in June 1927.
She was only 14 months old and joined her parents, then known as the Duke and Duchess of York, and her grandparents, George V and Queen Mary, who shielded her with a large umbrella.
Princess Elizabeth with her parents and grandparents in 1927 (PA)
Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), Princess Elizabeth (the present Queen Elizabeth II), Princess Margaret and King George VI after his coronation, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace (PA)
The Queen on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with baby son Prince Edward after the Trooping the Colour ceremony (PA)
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