Exclusive: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are set to visit bushfire-ravaged areas of Australia. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected to issue the formal invitation this week | bevanshields
William's visit to Queensland in 2011 took place about two months after the peak of the disaster, while a lightning trip to New Zealand last year occurred six weeks after Australian man Brenton Tarrant shot dead 51 people in a mosque and Islamic centre in Christchurch.
The 37-year-old who is second-in-line to the throne and his 38-year-old wife are the most popular members of the British royal family after the Queen. A YouGov poll of more than 6000 people taken between January 2019 and January 2020 showed 65 per cent of the British public had a positive opinion of Prince William, while 64 per cent had a positive view of Catherine. Less than 10 per cent held a negative opinion of the pair.
It is not clear whether their three children - Prince George, 6, Princess Charlotte, 4, and Prince Louis, who is nearly 2 - will also make the trip.protests outside Australia House in central LondonWilliam and Catherine, the Queen and Prince Philip, and Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, issued separate statements in early January expressing shock at the death and destruction in Australia.
Prince William and Catherine, introduce Prince George to a Bilby named after him at Taronga Zoo during the 2014 tour.
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