Only Jane Austen would have guessed that the perfect person for the role would turn out to be a Miss Catherine Middleton of Bucklebury, Berkshire.

This image was very much the exception for Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, who was born into a middle-class family in Bucklebury, Berkshire, on Jan. 9, 1982.

Despite the tradition that royal newborns spend their first days inside palace walls, Prince George spent his at the duchess family home in the village of Bucklebury.