The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will wrap their Caribbean tour on Saturday.

 

Kate Middleton and Prince William Arrive in the Bahamas After an Intense Visit to Jamaica.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will wrap their Caribbean tour on Saturday.

Kate Middleton and Prince William are kicking off the last leg of their Caribbean tour with a visit to the Bahamas.

Upon their arrival, they received a ceremonial welcome and were then whisked away for a assembly with Bahamas' Prime Minister Philip Davis.

Just as she has executed at some stage in preceding stops on the tour, Kate paid tribute to the shades of her host country's flag in an aquamarine costume via Emilia Wickstead (her second of the day!).

The couple have been welcomed through a younger local: 8-year-old Aniah Moss introduced the couple with a bouquet of vegetation at the foot of the Royal Air Force Voyager jet.

"Kate stated I had a exceptional dress and I used to be beautiful and thank you for the flowers". Asked what she notion of the royals, she adds, "I think they're very tall!"

Aniah's mother, Kendenique Campbell-Moss, says her daughter was once requested to function the flower woman obligation except a chaperone: "She was once all on her own like a huge girl!".

Noting that Aniah is the equal age as William and Kate's eldest son Prince George, Campbell-Moss says, "He'd like it here for the sand and sea." The proud mom adds that the costume was once offered for Easter ultimate year. "When we have been referred to as ultimate night to be the flower girl, I thinking I better pull it out and make sure she's prepared for the day!"

During their visit, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will take phase in The Bahamas Platinum Jubilee Sailing Regatta in Nassau, meet with one of William's Earthshot Prize winners, Coral Vita, on Grand Bahama Island, and see their ground-breaking thoughts for restoring and preserving reefs and see firsthand how human beings in Abaco coped in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in 2019.

For the first time, the royal couple are facing big backlash on an authentic tour. Although they have received heat welcomes from many locals during their visits to Belize and Jamaica, they are also encountering mounting tensions in the Caribbean nations the place William's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, stays head of state.

Ahead of their arrival in Belize, anti-colonial protests forced them to cancel one of their first outings. And in Jamaica, they confronted calls for reparations and for the Queen to be dropped as head of country from Jamaica.

At a dinner at King's House, the reliable residence of the Governor-General of Jamaica, William made a landmark speech in which he acknowledged Britain's position in the trafficking of human beings to the Caribbean and the United States.

"I prefer to express my profound sorrow. Slavery was once abhorrent. And it ought to by no means have happened," he said.

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