It's been 19 months since Prince William and Princess Kate did their royal tour together - what are they waiting for?

The last time the Crown Prince and Princess made a royal tour was as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, when they toured three locations in the Caribbean to commemorate the platinum jubilee of His late Majesty in March 2022. William and Kate's visits to Belize, Jamaica, and the Bahamas were universally unpopular, and some even described the tour as a disaster. Since then, the couple has not been on a royal tour, one of the longest periods (except during the COVID-19 pandemic) that the couple has not been on the road together.

Incidentally, William and Kate visited Canada and the United States less than three months after their wedding in 2011, and Singapore in 2012 to support the Diamond Jubilee Tour of His late Majesty the King, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu; visited New Zealand and Australia with their newborn son Prince George in 2014, and New York later that year; visited India and Bhutan in 2016, returning to Canada with George and Princess Charlotte later that year, Poland and Germany in 2017; Sweden and Norway in 2018; Pakistan in 2019; Ireland in March 2020, just before the pandemic began; a Caribbean tour in 2022; and then the crickets. (William and Kate visited the United States - specifically Boston - last December, not for the royal tour, but to support William's Earthshot Prize win, royal reporter Kathryn Meyer-Funnell told the Daily Express, It has been 19 months since William and Kate went on tour, she wrote, probably because the couple's three children, George, Charlotte, and Prince Louis, have all started school and feel more need to stay home.

"It is also true that the last major royal tour to the Caribbean did not go as planned, with many criticizing it as a symbol of past colonialist sentiment," Meyer-Funnell wrote.

"But now is the time for the Welsh couple to dispel these concerns and once again look to the world, nurture their vital ties to the Commonwealth, and show that they are the future of the Farm for all to see."

George and Charlotte have been on tour with their parents - George at only 9 months old and Charlotte at 16 months old on her first tour - but Louis has never been on tour with his parents at 5 1/2 years old (what a sight that would be if that ever happened)!

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King Charles and Queen Camilla, in their first year on the throne, have begun traveling, visiting France last month and Kenya later this month.

"In the past, Kate and William have always gotten along well with the public, both at home and abroad, as their travels over the past decade have shown," Meyer-Funnell wrote. "The happy newlyweds in Canada and the U.S., just months after their wedding, were contagious, partly because the world had not yet descended from the elation of their glorious wedding day, televised around the world... Princess Diana took young William to Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s. to Australia and New Zealand, just as she broke new ground for the royal family. Charlotte accompanied her a few years later, cementing Kate and William's status as hardworking parents trying to juggle work and family life, made more relatable by the fact that Charlotte was photographed having a tantrum in Germany"

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Meyer-Funnell writes that "diplomacy and the maintenance of international friendships are, needless to say, the main reasons for these visits,"

but she adds that "the Prince and Princess of Wales are seen as ordinary, approachable future monarchs, and they It cannot be over-emphasized how much it helps the Farm to improve its standing in all the countries they visit," she added.

Yes, it is important.

They still seem to be harping on the bitter taste of their Caribbean tour: "They were charming as always, but the unfortunate sight of them greeting Jamaican locals behind a chained fence, flaunting their position as colonial masters while the locals stand up for their independence! was condemned," Meyer-Funnell continued. One of our planned trips to Belize was cancelled for fear of protests and calls for reparations for slavery everywhere we went." Royalty in this part of the world seemed to have come to be seen as, at best, obsolete and, at worst, a symbol of the tragic and painful history of racism and colonization that Caribbean nations wish to put behind them."

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In a speech in Jamaica, William expressed his "deep sorrow" over the "terrible atrocity of slavery," and the tour was perhaps the wake-up call the couple would need in the future.

Now that they are the Prince and Princess of Wales, it is time to return to the royal tour. Meyer-Funnell writes, "It is very important that they start touring the world again and promote the Welsh brand as international once more. If the royal family wants to remain as such, they need to put themselves among all the people and get to know the people and all the countries they represent." With Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis in tow, the Welsh family will be a royal force to be reckoned with."

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We eagerly await when the next royal tour will be announced.

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