DHAKA: Britain’s Prince George celebrates his first birthday on Tuesday, capping a year in which the globetrotting infant became the trend-setting face of the modern royal family.

The young prince will mark the occasion with a low-key party at the family home at Kensington Palace, in keeping with the wishes of his parents William and Kate to keep their first-born out of the media glare.

The royals released a new photograph of George on Saturday showing how much he has grown.

Taken a few weeks ago during a visit to London’s Natural History Museum, the picture shows the prince walking confidently with his arms outstretched.

The photographer, John Stillwell, said the future king was ‘very lively and very sure of himself and confident — a very determined young boy’.

The cherubic royal has charmed onlookers during his few appearances in the public eye, particularly during a recent visit to Australia and New Zealand.

And the arrival of the third in line to the British throne has provided a feel-good factor that has given the royal family a major boost.

Influential magazine Vanity Fair celebrated George’s birthday by putting him on its front cover, calling him a ‘media star, style icon and PR triumph’, and the world’s ‘most eligible infant’.

BDST: 1308 HRS, JUL 20, 2014