ALL the way to New Zealand with an eight-month-old baby and the Duchess of Cambridge emerges super smart, bandbox fresh and with the baby dressed in immaculate white, raring to go.

Something tells me that air travel for the royals is not that same as for the rest of us.

I don’t suppose Kate and William had to keep George permanently on their laps, even while trying to eat their airline meal. Don’t suppose they had to change nappies in the small and smelly loo with an angry queue outside, or get the look of death from other passengers when George wailed when his ears popped or he refused to sleep.

And every time George squawked, I suppose they could just hand him over to the nanny, so the duchess was never even tempted to give him surreptitious swigs of Calpol to get him back to sleep.

THE little dungaree shorts that Prince George wore on his royal crawlabout in a New Zealand nursery sold out immediately – at £75 a go.

And yes, the little sail boat design and hand-smocking is all very beautiful. But once it’s covered in dribbled banana and spat-out baby rice it looks just the same as something that cost a fiver.

Babies look gorgeous whatever they wear so save the money and spend it on yourself instead. At least you’re not likely to grow out of everything by next month either.