Lilibet, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, is expected to spend her first birthday meeting her namesake, the Queen, on the platinum jubilee weekend.
The Duke and Duchess’s second son was born in the United States and will turn one year old on Saturday, when celebrations of the monarch’s 70th reign will be in full swing across the country.
Lilibet has not yet met her royal relatives, including her great-grandmother, but she will travel from California to the United Kingdom for the first time with her parents and older brother Archie, now three years old.
Royal sources told The Telegraph on Sunday that the 96-year-old queen is not scheduled to attend the Epsom Derby on Saturday, and that the royal princess will travel to her place.
It is understood that the decision has been made amid concerns about the Queen’s mobility.