With their matching chestnut hair and elegant poise, they could be sisters.
Instead, they share a bond as future Queens.
The Duchess of Cambridge strolled with Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark in Copenhagen yesterday as they visited an aid centre to raise awareness of the famine in east Africa.
With their husbands, the Duke of Cambridge and Crown Prince Frederik, they spent 15 minutes packing boxes with emergency supplies.
The marriage between Frederik, 42, and his glamorous Australian-born wife Mary, 39, was portrayed in Denmark as the culmination of a modern fairytale romance between a prince and a commoner - much like with William and Kate.
Yesterday the duchess, 29, was voted the best-dressed woman in Britain - ahead of her namesake, Kate Moss. She was praised for an “effortless” mixture of high end and high street style and the “fashion moment of the century”, her wedding dress, by Harper’s Bazaar magazine. The decision was made by fashion industry expert Harper’s editor Lucy Yeomans, who said: “Catherine’s incredible style evolution has gripped us all.”
Florence and the Machine singer Florence Welch was second, actress Andrea Riseborough third and Miss Moss was fourth.
In the Danish capital yesterday Kate let slip that she and her husband are planning to follow in Princess Diana’s footsteps by going on a humanitarian mission to Africa.
She revealed their plans to Kenyan-born Isaac Maina, with whom she worked packing boxes on the production line.
He said afterwards: “She said to me they are going to Kenya soon.”
The Daily Mail understands that the trip is likely to take place next June. This will coincide with William’s plan to run the Lewa Marathon across the African plains. The couple became engaged in Kenya last year. Palace officials last night confirmed that a visit was on the cards.
Food sources have been devastated in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti following the region’s worst drought in 50 years. At least 13million require assistance, of which half are children. Kate said: “We really need to put the spotlight back on this terrible crisis.”
Diana regularly travelled to Africa as part of her role campaigning against landmines.
Yesterday William and Kate put on blue hard hats to tour the warehouse operations at the centre - in another echo of Diana, from during a visit to a metalworks in Australia in 1985. - Daily Mail