The Prince of Wales admitted he needed to brush up on his Welsh as he made his first trip to the nation since taking up his new title.
The couple’s visit to Holyhead came as a royal source said William had “no plans” for an investiture like his father’s in Caernarfon in 1969.
William and the Princess of Wales received a warm welcome as they visited a lifeboat station where a small boy who had been waiting for four hours to see the couple was plucked from the crowd to give them flowers.
The couple were greeted at the RNLI station with a bouquet of flowers from a four-year-old boy
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Rebecca Crompton, Theo’s mother, said they had been on their way to school when they changed their minds at the last minute to see the pair in Holyhead.