August Brooksbank.Photo: Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty
August Brooksbankknows it’s never too early to start practicing your royal wave — and as a great-grandson ofQueen Elizabeth, he naturally nails it!
In a video shared onPrincess Eugenie’s personal Instagram page, August showed off his royal wave while watching Ed Sheeran perform in front of Buckingham Palace. Standing on dad Jack’s lap, August looks intently at the singer-songwriter as he sweetly waves and points — then decides it’s time for a turn on mom’s lap as the clip ends.
AlthoughPrincess Eugenie, 32, has shared a number of photos of August on Instagram, she has not shown his face until this weekend.
To end the Platinum Jubilee celebrations,Princess Eugenieshared a “final roundup of some epic moments of the most special weekend that I was so honoured to be a part of” on Instagram Monday.
She also revealed her cute nickname for her son: Augie!
“From The Birthday Parade, to celebrating with @edencommunities in Paddington for their #bigjubileelunch to showing Augie the colourful pageant and ending cheering loudly for this remarkable woman,” Eugenie wrote.
Ahead of this year’s event,Queen Elizabethannounced thatonly working members of the royal familywould appear on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the flypast. Previously, extended family members, including Princess Eugenie, would gather on the balcony to watch the spectacle.
This year, many members of the royal family viewed the Horse Guards Parade from the Major General’s Office. Many of the Queen’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren — includingMeghan MarkleandPrince Harry, who traveled to the U.K. from their California home, as well as Eugenie’s older sister,Princess Beatrice— were spottedwatching the paradefrom the windows ahead of the flypast.
Eugenie, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson,honored her “grannie"Queen Elizabethahead of thePlatinum Jubileecelebrations with an article forThe Spectatormagazine. She reflected on what the monarch has meant to the U.K. and the world during her 70-year-old reign, as well as how her own life has changed since the Queen’s last Jubilee in 2012.
Queen Elizabeth and Princess Eugenie in 2019.Samir Hussein/WireImage
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She continued, “I think about my son August and what I’d like for him, what kind of world I’d like him to grow up in. And I think of my grannie and what she has stood for, for so many people and for our family during these 70 years. I’d love Augie to have her patience, her calmness and her kindness, while always being able to laugh at himself and keep a twinkle in his eye.”
source: people.com
