Prince William has reminisced on the time he spent with his wife, Kate Middleton, when they lived together in Wales
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Prince William was in a nostalgic mood on a solo engagement in Wales on Monday, reminiscing about the first home he built with his wife, Catherine, in Anglesey. The Prince and Princess of Wales, then the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, lived on the island between 2011 and 2013, when William was serving as a search and rescue pilot for the Royal Air Force. It was, the future king told an Investment Summit in Newport, a time of great comfort for the royals, where they were welcomed by the ‘warmth and belonging’ of the locals.
‘Wales was the first place Catherine and I made our home together, on the island of Anglesey,’ the Prince said, addressing a crowd that included the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves. ‘When you make a home in Wales, you join a family of three million people, and the sense of warmth and belonging is what makes Wales unlike anywhere else,’ William continued, before discussing his passion for economic development in the country.