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- Royal Family
- June 25, 2018
In royal first, Prince William visiting Holy Land
In a diplomatically sensitive trip, Prince William will travel to the Holy Land.
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Monday morning, Prince William visited a new military base Monday morning.
The Duke and The Crown Prince visit a new base for the Quick Reaction Force, which has been formed in Jordan with British Military support. pic.twitter.com/TomAY7TPfk
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) June 25, 2018
And he met a group of Syrian refugee children with UNICEF's Makani program, which offers psychological support for parents and children.
The Duke of Cambridge met Syrian refugee children benefiting from @UNICEFJordan's Makani programme — which offers psychological support for parents and children. pic.twitter.com/QYaTzlaslr
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) June 25, 2018
In the first century Roman city of Jerash, the Duke of Cambridge and Jordan's Crown Prince visited another group of Syrian refugee children in a photography program.
?? Say cheese! The Duke of Cambridge and The Crown Prince were photographed by Syrian refugees taking part in a photography workshop at Jerash, Jordan. pic.twitter.com/CUsjYybQEn
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) June 25, 2018
Also in Jerash, he snapped a photo in the same spot where his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, visited at age 4. Describing the visit to Jerash, Kensington Palace said, \"It is, by the way, the site where the young Catherine Middleton is pictured standing on a pile of stones with her father and young sister when the Middleton family lived in Jordan.\"
In the same speech Sunday night, the prince said: \"My wife Catherine is very sorry she cannot be here with me so soon after the birth of our son Louis, but her family remembers very fondly the almost three years she spent here as a child when her father worked for British Airways in Amman.\"
The Duke of Cambridge visits Jerash, the same site that The Duchess of Cambridge visited, aged 4, with her sister and father when the family lived in Jordan. pic.twitter.com/PMoFrr4Snt
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) June 25, 2018
?? The Duke of Cambridge and The Crown Prince arrive at the spectacular Jerash archaeological site, a first century Roman city, and one of Jordan's greatest tourist attractions. pic.twitter.com/kZzwXrebQk
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) June 25, 2018
The Duke of Cambridge traveled with the Crown Prince, telling him: “The way in which you opened your doors to hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, not to mention your longstanding commitments to Palestinian refugees, is remarkable,\" according to Kensington Palace's twitter account.
And amid official engagements, the two also watched a rerun of England's world cup win Sunday night.
Prince William couldn't watch the @England match live and avoided finding out the score all afternoon. He sat down with the Crown Prince of Jordan to watch a rerun after dinner at the Beit Al Urdun Palace.
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) June 24, 2018
Congratulations @England! pic.twitter.com/aAPxd8NS64
On Tuesday in Jerusalem, Prince William will visit the Yad Vashem, Jerusalem's Holocaust museum and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, as well as Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
He will then attend a soccer game sponsored by a nongovernment organization, including both Israeli and Palestinian children playing in Jaffa, the ancient Arab port city just south of Tel Aviv.
The duke will start the day in Tel Aviv Wednesday morning, \"with a visit that we are really looking forward to, but will not be announcing in advance,\" Kensington Palace said.
He will then visit Ramallah in the West Bank to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and attend events \"that focus on the issues facing refugee communities\" and seek \"opportunities to celebrate Palestinian culture, music and food.\" He'll also have the chance to meet a number of young Palestinians.
On his last day, Prince William will visit Jerusalem's Old City and the grave of Princess Alice of Greece, his great-grandmother and the Duke of Edinburgh's mother, who is buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
Princess Alice of Battenberg, who was married to Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, is buried on the Mount of Olives because she opened up her Athens palace to a Jewish family during World War II. Israel later gave her the title \"Righteous Among Nations,\" which refers to those who sheltered Jews. Prince Philip, her son and William’s grandfather, visited his mother's grave in 1994.
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