PHOTOS: Prince George arrives at Thomas's Battersea for his first day at primary school this a.m

Prince George arrived at Thomas's Battersea for his first day at primary school this morning - just over 30 years since his father's first day at Wetherby.

The third-in-line to the throne was dropped off at the gates of the £3,000-a-term co-ed school in south-west London by his father the Duke of Cambridge in a heartwarming echo of Harry and William's first day at 'big school'.

And as George made his big entrance, Kensington Palace posted a series of archive images on Twitter showing his uncle and father at the gates of Wetherby Pre-Preparatory School in Notting Hill with the Princess of Wales in 1989.

The images, which have been shared and liked thousands of times, prompted a flurry of tweets from royal fans who branded the little prince 'precious' with one writing: 'Harry's face he was so excited to be at school with William I remember it well, bless their hearts.'

Nearly two decades ago, Princess Diana brought her son Prince William to his first day of school where he shook hands with the school's headmistress. Today, Prince William stood by as his son Prince George did the same thing.