Kate joins Prince William in welcoming Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein and glamorous Princess Rajwa in reception at Windsor Castle.
The Princess of Wales looked radiant today as she joined Jordan's glamorous Crown Princess Rajwa at Windsor Castle.
Prince William, 43, received Crown Prince Hussein, 31, at the royal residence ahead of a trip to RAF Benson in Oxfordshire.
Kate, 43, opted for an impeccably-tailored tan suit for the occasion, as she posed for a group picture alongside her husband and the Jordanian royals. She has previously worn the camel-coloured Roland Mouret ensemble for a charity event in September 2023.
The Princess wore the suit over a cream coloured blouse and styled her 'bronde' tresses in loose waves as she stood beside Prince William, who donned a navy blue suit with a magentia tie.
William and Kate have a close relationship with the visiting Crown Prince and Princess and attended their wedding in 2023. Kate is particularly fond of the country having spent some of her childhood growing up in the country.
Before her meeting with Kate, Rajwa - who is undertaking her first official visit to the UK as Jordan's future queen - joined Princess Eugenie for to highlight the work of a mental health charity.
The glamorous mother-of-one married Crown Prince Hussein in a lavish 2023 ceremony that was attended by William and Kate, as well as Eugenie's older sister, Princess Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
Like Kate, Rajwa opted for smart, formal attire and picked a white shirt, strapless black waistcoat and matching trousers for the Windsor Castle reception on Wednesday, October 15.
William then accompanied Prince Hussein for a visit to RAF Benson near Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire, where he revealed flying is 'my happy place'.
The Royal Air Force base provides rapid support for UK military operations around the world, and is home to a number of Squadrons.
These include the No. 22 Squadron that provides operational testing, evaluation, tactics and training for all aviation in Joint Aviation Command and No. 28 (Army Cooperation) Squadron, which is the Chinook operational conversion unit.
During their time at Benson, Their Royal Highnesses were given insight into the work of the air force base through conversations with trainee staff and aircrew from the two Squadrons.
They heard from personnel about their roles on site and experiences being deployed in operations around the world.
Among them will be Lt Col Mohammad Yousef Awad Alzu’bi, a Jordanian pilot from RAF Shawbury and Flt Lt Peter Howard, who was Prince William's flying instructor at the same base.
Both Prince William and Crown Prince Hussein are trained helicopter pilots, with the former training at both RAF Shawbury and then as a search and rescue pilot at RAF Valley with No. 22 Sqn that reformed at RAF Benson in 2020.
The Crown Prince completed his pilot training with the Royal Jordanian Air Force in 2019.
Reminiscing with old air force colleagues about the 'glory days' of serving with the RAF Search and Rescue Force, William said flying is his 'happy place'.
He chatted about flying Sea King helicopters on rescue missions when he visited an RAF base with the Crown Prince of Jordan, and described how their sound still goes 'straight to my heart'.
When he met former colleagues and others in the mess at RAF Benson, he was asked if he still spent any time in the cockpit, and the Prince replied: 'I do still fly, yeah - I keep my hours going.
'When you learn that skill set, you just don’t want it to go. I’ve definitely lost a lot of the skills I had, but I like to keep on top of my flying, keep doing it.
'And it’s my happy place, I love flying.'
The future King served a three-year tour with the Search and Rescue Force and, during his time based at RAF Valley in Anglesey, carried out 156 search and rescue operations resulting in 149 people being rescued, before he left the Armed Forces in 2013.
He later served as a helicopter pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance, flying missions for two years before stepping down in July 2017 to focus on his royal duties.
The Prince told the group: 'I miss the Search and Rescue - glory days.
'I miss the Sea King flying around, because when I hear it, that noise, as it flies past. We had obviously the US state visit the other day seven aircraft flying over.
'Sea King comes in, I was like ‘there she is’ that noise went straight to my heart.'
The future monarchs helped tighten a nut on an oil reserve for a rotorhead - the large assembly a Chinook’s rotor blades are connected to on top of the aircraft - using a torque wrench.
After the wrench made a satisfying click, William joked: 'You will check before it goes back (into service), I don’t want to be responsible.'
The two princes later had a private briefing about undisclosed matters.
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