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The two-year-old looked confident and raring to go as she left Kensington Palace before her first day at nearby Willcocks Nursery School. How fast they grow. Prince William and Duchess Kate released a pair of new photos of Princess Charlotte, 2, on her way to her first day at Willcocks Nursery School in London. Someone's really starting to rival Prince George in the cute photo department. Princess Charlotte is all smiles before her first day of preschool on Jan. 18, 2018. Her brother, 4, had his first day of school in September at Thomas's Battersea, the well-regarded private day school across the River Thames a few miles from his family's home in Kensington Palace in London. Princess Charlotte smiles as she prepares for her first day of the nursery at the Willcocks Nursery School, on Jan. 8, 2018. The two are expecting a sibling, due in April. Royal baby pictures: See Princess Charlotte grow 1. Everyone wants to see Princess Charlotte, especially Prince George, at her christening. But it may be months more before we see the youngest royal again, so these remarkably skillful 'mum snaps' by Duchess Kate will have to do for now. 2. Charlotte was mostly awake and happy as she was pushed in her pram from Sandringham House to the church for her christening, as well-wishers lined the path and photographers snapped away. 3. Some photographers got close enough to snap Charlotte in her pram as she left the Church of St Mary Magdalene on the royal Sandringham estate. 4. The next sighting of Charlotte was at her christening at the Sandringham church, on July 5, wearing the royal christening gown as George and scores of royal babies have done since the mid-19th century. Charlotte was mostly hidden in her fancy baby carriage but Kate took her out to carry her to the church for the ceremony. 5. George looks delighted to show off his little sister in these pictures. 6. The next time we got to see Charlotte was especially touching, in a double portrait with Prince George snapped by Kate at Anmer Hall in mid-May a few weeks after her birth, and released on June 6, June 2015. 7. Prince William is an old hand now at toting babies, having learned the ropes with Prince George two years before. Charlotte's name was announced two days after her birth, on May 4. She's the fourth-in-line to the British throne. 8. The newborn baby princess was snoozing in a car seat when she was carried out of the hospital by her father on the day of her birth. 9. Pictures of Charlotte are few and far between, so even her newborn pictures are prized, even though newborns mostly look alike, especially if they're covered in blankets and baby caps. These, by the way, were hand-made in Spain and were a gift from the Cambridge nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo. Charlotte was born on May 2, 2015, at St Mary's Hospital in London, and went home with her parents only hours later. 10. Charlotte's obvious delight with her stuffed Fuddlewuddle puppy delighted the world. Like brother Prince George, she's already a style setter in her baby pink cashmere cardigan, pink tights and floral dress with a white frilly collar. 11. Prepare for a cuteness overload: Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge strikes a pose at her home, Anmer Hall at Sandringham, in a picture taken by her mum, Duchess Kate of Cambridge, and released on Nov. 29, 2015, a little over six months after her birth. Gone is the anonymity of infancy; she looks like a real person now, and sweet to boot. 12. What happened to your shoe, Charlotte? For the Cambridge Christmas 2015 card, Kensington Palace released this picture Dec. 18, showing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte (with shoe fallen off) in late October at Kensington Palace in London. 13. Duchess Kate, Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince William pose for pictures as they enjoy a short private break skiing in the French Alps in March of 2016. 14. Princess Charlotte is already full of personality. 15. Princess Charlotte of Cambridge looks up on a chair. 16. Princess Charlotte pushes her toy blocks across the lawn as her mother takes her photo ahead of her first birthday on May 2, 2016 at Anmer Hall in Norfolk. 17. Happy birthday, Charlotte. Duchess Kate took pictures of her daughter to mark her 1st birthday, May 2, 2016. The pictures were taken at the Cambridge country home Anmer Hall in Norfolk. 18. Duchess Kate leans in to listen to Prince George while holding Princess Charlotte on the palace balcony. 19. Charlotte, at just over 1-year-old, already has the royal wave down right. 20. Princess Charlotte made her first appearance on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the special Trooping the Colour of 2016, honoring her great-grandmother's 90th birthday, on June 11, 2016. 21. In her mother's arms, Charlotte looked a little nonplussed at all the fuss when she arrived with her family in Victoria to start the Cambridge royal tour of western Canada on Sept. 24, 2016. 22. Charlotte delighted in the balloons at the children's party she and Prince George and her parents attended in Victoria on Sept. 29, 2016, during the family's royal tour of western Canada. 23. Charlotte looks ready to party on Sept. 29, 2016, at a children's party for military families in Victoria during the Cambridge royal tour of western Canada. 24. Princess Charlotte smiles as she and her family prepare to leave Victoria Harbour in to board a sea-plane on the final day of their royal tour of western Canada, on Oct.1, 2016 in Victoria, Canada. 25. Princess Charlotte, clutching a candy cane, pauses at the door of St. Mary's Church in Englefield, where she accompanied her parents and brother Prince George to Christmas Day services, nearby to the Middleton family estate in Bucklebury, England. 26. Princess Charlotte of Cambridge in a new picture taken by her mother, Duchess Kate, at their Norfolk country retreat to mark her 2nd birthday on May 2, 2017. 27. Pippa Middleton and her new husband, James Matthew, her sister, Duchess Kate of Cambridge, and their retinue of pageboys and bridesmaids, including Prince George and Princess Charlotte, pose at St Mark's Church in Englefield, on May 20, 2017. 28. Princess Charlotte with her brother Prince George, a pageboy at Aunt Pippa Middleton's wedding, pose with their mother after the ceremony at St. Mark's Church in Englefield, England. Their bridesmaid and pageboy outfits were made by Spanish brand Pepa & Co. 29. Princess Charlotte poses with her mother in the door to St Mark's Church in Englefield, England. 30. Princess Charlotte wore flowers in her hair and an ivory silk dress with a frilly collar and a huge pink-nude bow in the back for her aunt Pippa Middleton's wedding. She carried a basket as she stopped with her mother in front of St Mark's Church in Englefield, England. 31. Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, who just turned 2, made her debut as a royal bridesmaid at her aunt Pippa Middleton's wedding on May 20, 2017, in Englefield, England. Her mother, Duchess Kate of Cambridge, spoke to her after the service, where Charlotte was one of the bridesmaids. 32. Princess Charlotte and Prince George peek out a window of Buckingham Palace before joining their royal relations on the balcony to watch the Trooping the Colour parade celebrating great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II's official birthday, in London on June 17, 2017. 33. Princess Charlotte and Prince George admire the jet flyover at the end of the Trooping the Colour parade in London on June 17, 2017. 34. Duchess Kate and daughter Princess Charlotte look amazed on the Buckingham Palace balcony watching the annual Trooping The Colour parade on June 17, 2017, in London. 35. Princess Charlotte might be thinking: So THIS is the Trooping the Colour parade I've heard so much about. The 2-year-old princess was on the Buckingham Palace balcony with her mother, Duchess Kate, and the rest of the royal family for the annual parade celebrating her great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II's official birthday, June 17, 2017, in London. 36. Duchess Kate held daughter Princess Charlotte when they arrived in Warsaw, Poland, on July 17, 2017, for the first day of the Cambridge royal tour of Poland and German. 37. Charlotte peered from her plane window as the Cambridge royal tour arrived for Day 3 of the royal tour, in Berlin. 38. Charlotte clutched a bouquet like a princess when she arrived with her family on Day 3 of the royal tour in Berlin, July 19, 2017. 39. Charlotte hops beside her mother Duchess Kate as they explore helicopters at the Hamburg airport in German, on the last day of the royal tour, July 21, 2017. 40. Princess Charlotte takes a tumble while preparing to explore a helicopter at the Hamburg airport, July 21, 2017, the last day of the royal tour of Poland and Germany. 41. Duchess Kate and Princess Charlotte explore a helicopter before departing from Hamburg airport on the last day of the royal tour of Poland and Germany on July 21, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany. 42. Merry Christmas from the Cambridge. Prince William, Duchess Kate, Prince George and Princess Charlotte pose for the family 2017 Christmas card at Kensington Palace. 43. Princess Charlotte strikes a pose on the steps of Kensington Palace on her first day of school at the Willcocks Nursery School, in London, in a picture taken by her mother, Duchess Kate of Cambridge. 44. Princess Charlotte smiles as she prepares for her first day of school at the Willcocks Nursery School in London, Jan. 8, 2018. She poses on the steps at Kensington Palace in a picture taken by her mother, Duchess Kate of Cambridge. Credits: usatoday.com