Royals: William, Kate celebrate 10th wedding anniversary

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary with the release of a video montage of the family toasting marshmallows and playing in sand dunes.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary with the release of a video montage of the family toasting marshmallows and playing in sand dunes.

The 40-second clip shows Prince William, 38, and Kate, 39, as well as Prince George, seven, his five year old sister Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, three, relaxing in their country estate at Anmer Hall, Norfolk and in nearby beaches, thought to be near the delightful village of Thornham.

The footage is believed to have been shot before Christmas last year as the family is wearing the same outfit that they posed wearing in their 2020 Christmas card photo.

In the rare glimpse of their family life, the children are running around and horse playing with their parents, wearing casual clothes and enjoying nature: a far cry from the ceremonial duties Prince William and Kate face as the future King and Queen.

The video was released to thank the public for sending ‘kind messages’ on their tenth wedding anniversary. The message, posted on the Kensington Palace Instagram page said: “Thank you to everyone for the kind messages on our wedding anniversary. We are enormously grateful for the 10 years of support we have received in our lives as a family. W & C’’

The couple married in 2011 to a worldwide audience of billions, after an eight-year relationship which began at university in Scotland.

The family video was clearly heavily edited, but it presented a more wholesome, down to earth image of the family in contrast to the highly stylised black and white magazine photos so loved by Prince Harry, 36, and his wife Meghan Markle, 39.

Palace insiders say the relationship between the two brothers is still distant, despite Harry’s attendance at the funeral of their grandfather Prince Philip earlier this month.

The brothers are due to meet up again to commemorate what would have been their mother’s 60th birthday.

A statue of princess Diana is due to be unveiled in July in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace.