The Duke and Duchess also visited Kaziranga Discovery Centre where The Mark Shand Asian Elephant Learning Centre is situated and were briefed about the activities of the Captive Elephant Clinic which completed 4,883 cases.
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Images from the couple’s visit to the National Park, featuring the Prince and Duchess interacting with local animals, have been posted on the palace’s official Twitter page.
The couple caught sight of a rare one-horned rhino just 50 yards away as they were driven down the forest track.
Standing up in the back of the partly open-topped jeep the royal couple remained transfixed before a ranger called out loudly to scare it off the road. While the Duchess feeding the animals was lovely, nothing would be quite as cute as her offspring mock riding them.
Kate and William saw firsthand that the charity assists with the children’s physical and medical care and offers programs to foster educational, creative and social action. Duchess Kate’s rosy dress retails for only $140, though after her royal highness sported the cute confection on April 13 it instantly sold out.
The couple visited the Kaziranga National Park, a world heritage site, in the eastern Indian state of Assam.
They joked with village elders during a visit to a community in the park that two-year-old Prince George was “too naughty” to bring to India and would be running around.
The prince and his wife have witnessed the work being done at Kaziranga National Park to protect them.
The royal couple was joined by a park official acting as a guide on a tour across dirt tracks, tall grasslands and thick evergreen forest. George is 2 years old and Charlotte is 11 months old. William and Kate were there to understand how the centre reach out to them and provide them with education, healthcare and shelter.
Menon added, “The duke said if he could he would have spent the whole day there”.
Kate said: “That is so special”.
In his speech, Prince William also offered his condolences to the families of the 105 victims of the tragic fire in Kollam and his well wishes to the 350 people now being treated for injuries in hospital.
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“When they’re not here, they’re at the railway station”, he said.
