While Kate becomes used to life as a member of the royal family, joining the Queen for special events, Prince William has been kept busy by his RAF commitments.

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The Queen will take a royal salute at Portsmouth as she bids farewell to the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

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There, the foundling, raised by the King and Queen of Corinth, grows up as a spoiled royal whose courage is bravado and whose strength is ignorance.

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