Royal tours don’t always go as planned.
Earlier this weekend, Prince William and Kate Middleton touched down in Belize, the first stop on their three-country Caribbean tour in honor of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee this year. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been around the world together on royal tours—from Australia to Pakistan to Canada and the U.S.—but, on a seven-day trip to India in 2016, a moment happened that was so frightening it left the couple in “need of a stiff drink,” according to a royal expert.
For their part, royal reporters covering the tour were checking into their hotel when the earthquake hit. Katie Nicholl, a royal expert who was part of the group, told Yahoo’s Royal Box “we were checking into our hotel when the ground was literally shaking, trembling,” she said. “The chandeliers were shaking. We evacuated the hotel very, very quickly.”“The Duke and Duchess were out in a field, in a hut in stilts,” Nicholl said. “It was a terrifying moment for them.
But that wasn’t the only terrifying moment for the couple on a royal tour—on a trip in 2019 to Pakistan, the couple’s airplane got caught up in an electrical storm while in the air from Lahore to Islamabad, bumping and rolling side to side, perAnd, despite the pilot’s best efforts to land the plane at two different airports in Islamabad, the plane had to divert back to Lahore, from where it originated. The 25-minute flight ultimately took two hours.
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