This July 2021 photo issued by Kensington Palace on July 21, 2021, shows Prince George, whose eighth birthday is on July 22, in Norfolk, England. (THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE / KENSINGTON PALACE VIA AP)

LONDON - Prince William and his wife Kate released a new photograph of their son Prince George with a beaming smile to mark his eighth birthday on Thursday.

The photograph taken by his mother, shows the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child perched on a Land Rover.

George, who is third-in-line to the throne, is wearing a blue and orange striped polo shirt with blue shorts and is grinning into the camera.

The photograph was taken earlier this month in Norfolk, eastern England, Kensington Palace said.

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