Canada calling for Klondike Kate and Wills
THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will go for gold when they visit Canada next month.
William and Kate are heading across the Atlantic for a week-long official trip and are expected to be joined by their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
A highlight of the itinerary, released yesterday by Kensington Palace, is a visit to Whitehorse and Carcross in Yukon, north-west Canada. Yukon became famous for the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s, when an estimated 100,000 people flocked to the territory trying to find gold.
The royal visit will begin in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, on September 24. William and Kate will also travel to Vancouver itself, before heading to the Great Bear Rainforest – a wilderness that stretches for more than 250 miles along the Pacific coast of British Columbia.
William and Kate will also journey to Haida Gwaii, a remote archipelago formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, home of the Haida First Nations.
The tour will end back in Victoria, which was named after William’s great-great-great-greatgrandmother, on October 1.
William and Kate made their first official visit to the country together as newlyweds in 2011.
If, as widely expected, the royal couple travel with their children, it would be Charlotte’s first official royal tour.
George travelled to Australia and New Zealand with his parents in 2014 when he was nine months old.