Prince George’s most lavish birthday gifts from Prince Harry, Barack Obama and Pope Francis

Jul 20 , 2021

Prince George gets hundreds of presents each year, many of them expensive or unusual – but the lapis lazuli orb from Pope Francis has to be one of the strangest. Photos: @_PeterHunt; @loveforcambridg; @British_Heir/Twitter

Prince William and Kate Middleton’s son was showered with over 1,000 presents for his first birthday – more than Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles

Hangar8 repainted a Bombardier Challenger jet to say happy birthday to George while British jeweller Theo Fennell made an 18k white gold bracelet

Prince George, eldest child of Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, lives a fabulous life. When your great grandmother is the queen of England, your dad is a prince, and you’re third in line to inherit the throne and rule one day, gifts go to a whole other level.

Ahead of Prince George’s first birthday in 2014, the often down-to-earth Prince William reportedly asked the public, including close friends and family, not to send him anything, according to The Telegraph.

Britain’s Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, with their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte, leave St Mary Magdalene’s church after the Royal Family’s Christmas Day service on the Sandringham estate in eastern England, on December 25, 2019. Photo: Reuters

Despite his father’s insistence, little George still received plenty of presents. He got a whopping 706 from overseas trips in 2014 alone, according to Buckingham Palace. That’s more than his parents combined, more than his grandfather Prince Charles and more even than Queen Elizabeth received! Include presents sent within Britain, and George is said to have got more than 1,000 gifts in that one year alone.

As Prince George turns eight on July 22, STYLE takes a look back at the most lavish and rarest gifts he has received over the years.

A toy SUV from Prince Harry

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, sat in front of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge with Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Photo: @isaguor/Twitter

Finding Freedom, a biography of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle written by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, revealed that when Harry was still living in a Kensington Palace flat nearby Prince William and Kate Middleton, he gifted Prince George an electronic SUV toy car, which can cost up to US$2,000, for his fourth birthday in 2017. He also bought a tricycle for Charlotte in the same year.

A lapis lazuli orb from Pope Francis