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Kate and Prince William Head To Canada

Visit to Canada, including Rodeo Show and Dinner in Hollywood
Ottawa - A Rodeo Show in Calgary, Alberta, Aboriginal games and a festive dinner in Hollywood: Prince William and his wife Kate will start on Thursday for her first official trip abroad to North America. What sounds like a pleasure trip is for the newly ennobled bride to the first major test. Finally, the couple whose dream wedding on the 29th April worldwide two billion television viewers watched, giving the visiting Canada and the United States of the monarchy a new impetus.

Also on the program are the Canadian capital of Ottawa and Montreal and Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Calgary in Alberta. Then it goes for two days in the U.S. state of California. The media interest is high: 1,300 journalists from around the world have been accredited, significantly more than the 848 during his round of Queen Elizabeth in the past year.

Forty new clothes

Because of the economic situation in the Kingdom of travel, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they are now officially, with relatively small entourage: Seven officials, including the barber skates, are in the process. For the nine-day tour, the 29-year-olds, according to media reports, with forty new clothes be covered in order to make each visit a good character: "Your program will be very balanced, official obligations are interspersed with entertainment and they have many opportunities Canada and learn about Canadians better, "says the couple's private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton.

A first peak of the newlyweds had expected in Ottawa, where they at first July at the Canadian National to participate. Stepping on the Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada, the two in a boat race against each other, before being loaded on Hummermahl. During a training flight helicopter to the Canadian Air Force pilot William take part in a water landing. In Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories will meet with representatives visit the high Aboriginal and play a game of street hockey.

Protests announced

Wild West folklore expects the Royals in Calgary, where William opened a trade with the world's biggest rodeo show, come to hundreds of thousands of Western fans. Glamorous it is on the last leg of the journey, when the pair of eighth to 10 Visited California in July. Los Angeles is a festive dinner will be announced on the program in which young British filmmakers with Hollywood greats.

Not all rejoice in the former colony to the royal visit to Canada: The French-speaking province of Quebec, the safeguards to be tightened after announcing opponents of monarchy protests. "If William and Kate will come as a British citizen on honeymoon in Quebec and pay them yourself, then that's no problem for us," said the spokesman of the opposition group RRQ, Patrick Bourgeois. "But if you come at the invitation of the Canadian federal government, which wants to humiliate the independence movement, we demonstrate!"

Canadians have reason to be "proud"

Overall, the royal visit, the Canadian taxpayers, "under two million Canadian dollars" (1.42 million euros) cost, stressed the Minister of Heritage, James Moore. Canada that the couple first visit, be evidence of a "close relationship with the royal family and an opportunity for all Canadians to be proud of their traditions, history and institutions," Prime Minister Stephen Harper. As a former British colony of Canada is part of the Commonwealth, in which the British monarch is head of state. According to surveys, but now two out of three Canadians are committed to resolve all the institutional ties with the British crown.