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William and Kate in first joint Cambridge visit | |
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Crowds lined the streets to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to the university city that is the home of their dukedom. | |
Hundreds of well-wishers lined the area around the Guildhall after the couple arrived at the city's railway station. | |
The pair will officially open a new 24-hour centre for rough sleepers run by charity Jimmy's and attend a reception at the university's Senate House. | |
It is the first time they have visited the city together since their marriage. | |
A drama, music and dance presentation at The Manor School in Cambridge will be performed for the royal couple before they travel to Peterborough in the north of the county later. | |
They will officially open the new multimillion-pound 612-bed Peterborough City Hospital, which admitted its first patients in November 2010. | They will officially open the new multimillion-pound 612-bed Peterborough City Hospital, which admitted its first patients in November 2010. |
Cambridge has been awaiting the royal visit since the Queen bestowed the dukedom on her grandson just a few hours before he married Catherine Middleton on 29 April last year. | |
The last Duchess of Cambridge was the German-born Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse-Cassel, who was married to Prince Adolphus Frederick, the 1st Duke of Cambridge, and a son of George III. | |
Kate was sporting her new hairstyle, layered long dark locks with a parted fringe, first seen in London on Tuesday night when she opened a new exhibition at the Natural History Museum. | |
Bus driver Simon Newman, 43, from Sutton, near Ely, had travelled into Cambridge with his wife Claire, 48, an easyJet cabin crew member, to see the couple. | |
They were waiting outside the university's Senate House and said they were pleased the royal couple had taken the titles of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. | |
"I have the week off and so has my wife so we thought it would be great to come and see them. | |
"They are a really attractive couple," Mr Newman said. |