William And Kate Begin Asia-Pacific Tour

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Prince William have completed an emotional engagement in Singapore today - one which his mother Diana, Princess of Wales had been unable to carry out when her life was suddenly cut short in 1997.

Within an hour of touching down at the beginning of their tour of South East Asia and the Pacific, the Duke, accompanied by Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, attended an Orchid naming ceremony at Singapore's Botanic Gardens.
The Royal couple viewed the "Diana" Orchid which the Princess of Wales had never been able to see in person.
Prince William's Private Secretary Jamie-Lowther Pinkerton explained at a briefing before the trip: "It (the orchid) was named shortly before the Princess of Wales died and the intention was for the Princess to see it at some point."
Fifteen years after his mother's death, it fell to William to complete the journey his mother was never to make.
At the ceremony, the Duke and Duchess also had orchids named after them and these will become two of more than 1,000 species of orchid and 2,000 hybrids in the Gardens' collection.
During their nine-day Diamond Jubilee Tour conducted on behalf of the Queen, the Duke and Duchess will also visit Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, the rainforest in Borneo, the Solomon Islands and the small South Pacific realm of Tuvalu.
It's a tour which will see Kate conduct her first overseas speech, in Kuala Lumpur. Her first-ever took place earlier this year at the opening of East Anglia's Children Hospices' Ipswich hospice, where the Duchess is patron.
While visiting the Solomon Islands, the first destination where the Queen is Head of State, William and Kate will spend a night on a privately-owned Tivanipupu Island resort.
The couple are then expected to get up close and personal with wild orangutans in one of Borneo's last remaining pieces of virgin rainforest.
There, they will also visit the world-leading research centre run by the Royal Society, of which the Duke is a member.
In order to complete the gruelling schedule the couple have resorted to hiring a private jet, the bill for which will be footed by the taxpayer.
It will enable them to visit the remote island of Tuvalu. The last time a member of the Royal Family visited the group of nine Pacific islands was in 1982, when the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were famously carried ashore by locals.
William and Kate can expect similar treatment when they are carried from their jet in a garlanded canoe.