“I hope we’ll be able to have a happy family ourselves,” Kate Middleton confessed during her post-engagement interview with Prince William in 2011. Now, just three years later, the Duchess of Cambridge, 32, is a married royal and mom to His Royal Highness, Prince George, the presumed future king of England.

Ahead of Prince George’s first birthday on Tuesday, relive Middleton’s first year as a mother in photos starting with her famous exit from St. Mary’s Hospital in London last July, to her first postpartum appearance in October, and ending with her royal tour with Prince George this spring.