Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate visited a picturesque Scottish island on Tuesday to celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary and carry out their highest-profile joint trip this year.<\/p>\n
William, the heir to the throne, married Kate Middleton, as she was then called, on Apr 29, 2011, in Westminster Abbey in a ceremony watched by millions around the world.<\/p>\n
They had met a decade earlier when they were both students at the University of St Andrews on Scotland’s east coast.<\/p>\n
Rather than marking the occasion at home, the Prince and Princess of Wales, one of the world’s most glamorous couples, returned to Scotland for a two-day visit to the Isles of Mull and Iona, part of the Hebrides archipelago off the west coast.<\/p>\n
They began the trip in the town of Tobermory, famed for its brightly coloured houses which overlook the harbour, looking relaxed as they beamed and waved to a crowd of well-wishers to the strains of a bagpiper in the background.<\/p>\n
They visited a community hub before strolling through an artisan market where they chatted to stallholders and posed for pictures with locals.<\/p>\n
On X, the couple shared pictures greeting the community, including producers at the local market, and thanked them for the “warm welcome and a brilliant afternoon spent in Tobermory”.<\/p>\n
They also said they were proud to support the renovation of Aros Hall, a venue hosting community events.<\/p>\n
British media reported that following their official duties, they would spend their anniversary at a small, isolated self-catered cottage on Mull, famed for its dramatic and beautiful scenery.<\/p>\n
The trip is a rare joint public outing for the couple, who have three children – George, 11, Charlotte, 9, and Louis, 7 – since Kate underwent preventative chemotherapy for cancer, for which she is now in remission.<\/p>\n
“Scotland is incredibly important to me and will always have a special place in my heart,” William, who as heir to the British throne holds the title Lord of the Isles, said back in 2021.<\/p>\n
“George, Charlotte and Louis already know how dear Scotland is to both of us… We have no doubt they will grow up sharing our love and connection to Scotland.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate visited a picturesque Scottish island on Tuesday to celebrate their 14th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-525395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115430719751635159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}