Kate Middleton & Prince William Ride in London Carriage Procession with King Charles and Queen Cam
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00:00 Kate Middleton and Prince William are back in a royal carriage.The Prince and Princess
00:04 of Wales joined King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a dazzling horse-drawn carriage
00:09 procession through London to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday as part of the first state visit
00:14 of the new monarch's reign.
00:22 The royal pageantry carried the visiting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the palace,
00:27 as the British royal family carried out a full ceremonial welcome.
00:38 The President rode with King Charles and Queen Camilla as the couple sat side by side in
00:43 the Irish state coach, which is the traditional coach the monarch uses to travel from Buckingham
00:47 Palace to the Palace of Westminster to formally open the new legislative session of the U.K.
00:57 Parliament.
01:01 It was also the carriage that the future Queen Elizabeth rode in with her father, King George
01:06 VI, to Westminster Abbey on her 1947 wedding day to Prince Philip.Meanwhile, Kate and Prince
01:19 William were in the Australian state coach with South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi
01:23 Pander, with Prince William riding beside their guest.
01:34 The carriage was a gift to Queen Elizabeth from Australia in May 1988 to mark the Australian
01:39 Bicentennial.
01:47 The ride up the famous Mall, which was decorated with the flags of the two countries, took
01:51 place after a parade of hundreds of soldiers and music on Horse Guards Parade earlier.
02:03 King Charles was joined President Ramaphosa as they inspected the troops.
02:07 Despite the President's wife, First Lady Dr. Tshepo Matsepe, being listed by the Palace
02:18 when the visit was announced in October, she did not join him.
02:29 The Royal Family's social media accounts also shared a sped-up video of the procession as
02:33 it arrived at Buckingham Palace.
02:43 More than 1,000 British Army soldiers and 230 horses participated in the parade, the
02:48 U.K.'s Ministry of Defence said.
02:58 In Green Park, across the road from Buckingham Palace, there was a Royal Gun Salute from
03:02 the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery at 12 to 10 p.m.
03:13 Local time, earlier in the day, Prince William and Kate took the lead in officially welcoming
03:18 President Ramaphosa to the U.K.
03:27 After he arrived privately on Monday, the Royal couple hosted their visitor at the Cornelia
03:32 Hotel in Kensington, not far from their London base.
03:43 Kate and Prince William, 40, had their last carriage ride in June as they arrived for
03:47 Royal Ascot.
03:56 Members of the Royal Family are a fixture at the iconic horse race each year.Earlier
04:00 the same month, Kate was joined by her three children in their first public carriage ride
04:05 as part of Trooping the Colour.
04:13 The annual parade for Queen Elizabeth's birthday was even more special this year, as it was
04:17 part of the late monarch's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, marking her historic 70 years
04:22 on the throne.
04:30 While Kate rode through London with Camilla, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince
04:34 Louis, Prince William took part in the parade on horseback along with King Charles.
04:46 President Ramaphosa's trip marks the first state visit of the new reign, though much
04:50 of the organisation is believed to have taken place before the late Queen Elizabeth died.
05:02 As Covid curtailed visits and international travel, this is the first state visit hosted
05:07 by the British Royal Family since 2019.
05:17 Later on Tuesday, a centrepiece of the two-day state visit will take place when a glittering
05:21 state banquet will be hosted at Buckingham Palace, complete with tiaras and ballgowns.
05:33 The palace gave a sneak peek at the preparations for the banquet on social media, sharing a
05:37 video from the kitchens, where staff were busy preparing the food.
05:48 As a special touch, they're also creating decorations in the shape of the national flower
05:52 of South Africa, the protea.
06:01 The Prince and Princess of Wales took part in their first state visit and state banquet
06:05 in 2015 when Chinese President Xi Jinping was the guest of the late Queen
06:10 Elizabeth II.