Prince William and Kate Middleton showed the world they have range today as they celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary.
The Prince and Princess of Wales shared a photograph of themselves holding each other in Tobermory, the capital of the Isle of Mull in Scotland.
‘Wonderful to be back on the Isle of Mull. Thank you to everyone for such a warm welcome, W & C,’ the couple’s Kensington Royal account said.
The couple married on April 29, 2011, at Westminster Abbey in a day of high pomp and emotion – and with about 3billion people watching from afar on their TV and mobile phone screens.
Mull, home to fewer than 3,000 people, is off the western coast of Scotland.
And the royals know it well. They visited Tobermory, where the BBC children’s TV series Balamory was filmed, decades ago as students.
The then 22-year-old William and Kate, 23, rented a cottage following their final exams at St Andrew’s University, where they first met.
‘It was 2003 when we were here,’ William said today, later joking he had ‘one or two ciders’ during his long weekend.
‘We had a lovely time here – it’s wonderful.’
Former Mull GP Jennifer Jack, a committee member at Aros Hall, met the couple and described how William and Kate’s time on the island in 2003.
‘The boys were at one end of the street and the girls the other,’ she recalled, adding that she ‘stood behind William in the Co-op’ at one point.
The couple is back on the island for two days, where they have been meeting local farmers and getting their DIY on by renovating a local community centre.
William and Kate, also officially known as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay when in Scotland, later stopped by Tobermory Producers Market.
And, as they’re in Scotland, after all, they were photographed necking whiskey at a stand, nibbling on cheese and spirits made by Isle of Mull Cheese.
William added that while in Scotland, they are ‘trying to find out what challenges there are, what we can do to help’.
They will return to reunite with their children – Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 7 – at home in Windsor tomorrow.
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