Kate and Prince William ringing the Peace Bell (Image: GETTY)
While in Dublin, they met health workers who were already dealing with the first cases of COVID-19 in Ireland as well as a broad range of people from the creative arts, sport, business and charity sectors.
Their visit came two years after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry carried out a successful three-day tour to Dublin.
She wrote: On the occasion of your National Day, I would like to convey to Your Excellency my congratulations, together with my best wishes to the people of Ireland.
Kate joined the Royal Family in 2011 (Image: EXPRESS)
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At the time, Judi explained that the couple looked “as tight as ever, with shared thinking and a desire to create an impression of an evenly-balanced double-act”.
The couple can regularly be seen mirroring one another when walking, sitting down and when talking.
Judi added: “The Cambridges have always had a trait of mirroring one another and this mimicry or postural echo has suggested like-minded thinking and shared goals and objectives.
“They look as in agreement over their royal status and destiny as they do over their parenting and their relationship as a couple.”
The couple have made several virtual appearances throughout the last year (Image: Getty)
Carole founded her company Party Pieces in 1987 and developed it into a successful and profitable business.
She came across the idea after searching for party stuff for my own children s parties.
Despite the demands placed on her through the business, Carole made sure that she always had time for her three children, Kate, 39, Pippa, 37, and James, 33.
KATE, Duchess of Cambridge, is known to enjoy a very close relationship with her mother (Image: Getty)
“The Middletons have always had a closeness. (Image: Getty)
It is an approach the Duchess has tried to replicate, as she strives to ensure that her family comes first, despite her official Royal role.
The Duke set up a hotline for Kate to the office of his father s communications secretary, Paddy Haverson.
Kate also received a crash course from Mr Haverson and his team on how to deal with press intrusion.
A senior press aide told Royal author Katie Nicholl: We had been introduced to Kate early on, and we were instructed from the outset to give her every support possible.
William decided to take drastic action to protect his lover. (Image: Getty)
Kate at St Andrews (Image: Getty) She was obviously the subject of a lot of press interest and intrusion from the paparazzi.
Kate and William have built a life together after meeting at university (Image: EXPRESS)
She wrote: As heir, William will have felt the pressure to think even harder about the woman he married. Even as a teenager, he realised how essential it was not to make a disastrous match both for himself and the Royal Family, and not to repeat the mistakes of his parents. Instead of going to Cambridge like his father, he took the opportunity to find out for himself what it was like to be an ordinary student. At St Andrews, he decided to live in a hall of residence. It made it easy to chat to a girl called Kate Middleton, who came from a stable middle-class family, had a positive attitude to life and a room close to the prince’s.