Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Arrived in Canada
by The royal couples attended the national holiday in Canada that mark the country’s 144th birthday.
Huge crowd welcome Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Ottawa. The royal couples attended the national holiday in Canada that mark the country’s 144th birthday.
The event includes anthems, a flypast by military aircraft display team the Snowbirds, and a link-up with Canadian forces in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
Prince William made a short speech. He said that Kate had learned about Canada from her late grandfather, “who held this country dear to his heart for he trained in Alberta as a young pilot during the Second World War.”
The queen (Queen Elizabeth II), he said, “has asked me to convey her warmest good wishes to the people of Canada, and her happy and abiding memories of being on Parliament Hill with Thee Duke of Edinburgh one year ago.”
A 21-gun salute to Canada’s and military plane flyovers were part of the pageantry.
Canada also made a new royal flag for the visit that features the three maple leaves from Canada’s national tree.
On July 8 the Duke and Duchess will visiting California to attend a black-tie Bafta reception as Prince William the Bafta president and dinner in Los Angeles on July 9.
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