William and Harry bow their heads as their mother's coffin is taken out of Westminster Abbey following the funeral service

September 1997: William  and Harry bow their heads as their mother's coffin is taken out of Westminster Abbey following the funeral service

Not the most contemporary of relationships it must be said but then, for all their bluster about modernisation, in many aspects the Royal Family remain fairly Victorian in their ways. And Kate sees herself very much as a ‘military wife’ first and foremost.

The couple will continue to conduct on average just one engagement a week (and many are clustered together with long periods of purdah in between), and have no other foreign trips planned outside of their September tour.

Aside of that and the Olympics, during which he and Kate will enjoy roles as official ambassadors for Team GB, the couple are desperately hoping to keep their heads down.

Boring, you might ask?

Well, it certainly wouldn’t be far wrong to suggest that William and Kate aren’t in line to win an award for party animals of the year.

Box sets feature prominently in their Anglesey life (Danish murder series The Killing and American thriller 24 have been recent favourites), and their last big night out in London was to watch The Avengers film at their local cinema in Kensington.