Today is the third official day of Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal tour, after they touched down in Belize on 19 March – and it's a super exciting one for royal fans, as the couple haven't gone on an overseas tour together since visiting Ireland in March 2020 (prior to that, the Duke and Duchess visited Pakistan in October 2019).
While over in Belize, William and Kate have been getting stuck in to meeting the locals, learning about different local traditions and yesterday, even rolled up their sleeves and had a go at making chocolate with the Maya community (for whom cacao is a key export).
Documenting the day, royal correspondent Chris Ship tweeted a series of clips showing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge taking a tour of a traditional cacao farm and shop in southern Belize (a ten acre site run by the Saqui family).
At one point, a guide showed the couple how to crack open a cacao fruit using a club - to which Kate joked "You make it look so easy!" and William added "If I did that I'd lose a finger!" - before they were offered a go at crushing chocolate nibs.
All in all, it sounds like a jolly fun day out – and something that Prince William admitted that his and Kate's three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, would be "very jealous" about having missed out on.
Currently, it's believed that the Cambridge kids being taken care of by their long-term nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, whilst back at home. Spanish born Borrallo has been the Cambridge's live-in nanny since 2014, joining the clan when Prince George was just eight-months-old.
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In the past, Prince George and Princess Charlotte have joined their parents on some of their overseas trips – having been in attendance when the Cambridges visited Canada in 2016, and Germany and Poland in 2017 – however little Louis has yet to make an appearance.
Fingers crossed that this year, with travel restrictions having ease, we might get to see all five Cambridges out and about together?
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