The British Royal Courts: More details about the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge official visit to India and the Kingdom of Bhutan
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All is not yet finalized and some appointments will be communicated later on. However, many details of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's trip to India and Bhutan were release on March 29th by their Kensington Palace offices.
These are the first dates of the official visit, on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and a few days before her much anticipated 90th birthday, which have been announced. from April 10th to 16th. Their tour will begin in Mumbai, the financial capital and largest city of India, and they will then visit New Delhi before gaining the Kaziranga National Park in the state of Assam. After two days in Bhutan -small kingdom confined between Tibet and India, close to the Népal-, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will return to India to complete their journey on the famous Taj Mahal in Agra site.
While in the past the UK and India is intimately connected, this trip is designed to allow William, heir to the British throne, and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge to "begin a personal relationship" with this country. If the tour includes a tribute to some 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost lives fighting in the British Army during the First World War, also and especially puts "emphasis on the understanding of India as is today and will be throughout the twenty-first century - a dynamic nation, entrepreneurial, ambitious confident that faces both challenges and considerable opportunities "said Kensington Palace.
As for the program, it is more varied.The couple will be without their two children 2 and a half years Prince George and 11 months old Princess Charlotte will add to the formal interviews, celebrations and receptions meetings with associations helping children living slums, with young entrepreneurs or with protecting wildlife, one of the fights of the eldest son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana.
It was at the hotel Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai that the Cambridge will drop their suitcases on their arrival in India. A symbolic choice because the property was one of the targets of the ten terrorist attacks from November 26th to 29th 2008, where 188 people lost their lifes and have injured 312.
Other highlights of the trip for the princely couple include Mahatma Gandhi musuem, one of a discovery center built by Elephant Family, protection of the Association of Asian elephants and other endangered animals founded by Mark Shand - one of the brothers of William's stepmother Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, who died accidentally in 2014- or the encounter with the new parents Sovereign couple of Bhutan Druk Gyalypo Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk and his wife Druk Gyalysen Queen Jetsun Pema, who just gave birth the couple first child. Not to mention, the passage to the Taj Mahal remains forever associated with the sadness of Diana, immortalized one before this monument to the glory of love when she married the Prince of Wales seriously was on the rocks and the couple separated a few months later.
"The Duke of Cambridge is of course aware of the high esteem in which India holds her mother, the late Princess of Wales, and it enjoys the status of icons of images that exist of the princess at the Taj. It feels incredibly lucky to visit a place where the memory of his mother is kept alive by many visitors. 24 years after the visit of the latter to the Taj, the Duke and Duchess are eager to see this beautiful place by themselves and create new memories as they thank the people of India at the end of this tour, "the statement concluded.
These are the first dates of the official visit, on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and a few days before her much anticipated 90th birthday, which have been announced. from April 10th to 16th. Their tour will begin in Mumbai, the financial capital and largest city of India, and they will then visit New Delhi before gaining the Kaziranga National Park in the state of Assam. After two days in Bhutan -small kingdom confined between Tibet and India, close to the Népal-, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will return to India to complete their journey on the famous Taj Mahal in Agra site.
While in the past the UK and India is intimately connected, this trip is designed to allow William, heir to the British throne, and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge to "begin a personal relationship" with this country. If the tour includes a tribute to some 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost lives fighting in the British Army during the First World War, also and especially puts "emphasis on the understanding of India as is today and will be throughout the twenty-first century - a dynamic nation, entrepreneurial, ambitious confident that faces both challenges and considerable opportunities "said Kensington Palace.
As for the program, it is more varied.The couple will be without their two children 2 and a half years Prince George and 11 months old Princess Charlotte will add to the formal interviews, celebrations and receptions meetings with associations helping children living slums, with young entrepreneurs or with protecting wildlife, one of the fights of the eldest son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana.
It was at the hotel Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai that the Cambridge will drop their suitcases on their arrival in India. A symbolic choice because the property was one of the targets of the ten terrorist attacks from November 26th to 29th 2008, where 188 people lost their lifes and have injured 312.
Other highlights of the trip for the princely couple include Mahatma Gandhi musuem, one of a discovery center built by Elephant Family, protection of the Association of Asian elephants and other endangered animals founded by Mark Shand - one of the brothers of William's stepmother Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, who died accidentally in 2014- or the encounter with the new parents Sovereign couple of Bhutan Druk Gyalypo Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk and his wife Druk Gyalysen Queen Jetsun Pema, who just gave birth the couple first child. Not to mention, the passage to the Taj Mahal remains forever associated with the sadness of Diana, immortalized one before this monument to the glory of love when she married the Prince of Wales seriously was on the rocks and the couple separated a few months later.
"The Duke of Cambridge is of course aware of the high esteem in which India holds her mother, the late Princess of Wales, and it enjoys the status of icons of images that exist of the princess at the Taj. It feels incredibly lucky to visit a place where the memory of his mother is kept alive by many visitors. 24 years after the visit of the latter to the Taj, the Duke and Duchess are eager to see this beautiful place by themselves and create new memories as they thank the people of India at the end of this tour, "the statement concluded.
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