{"id":1691,"date":"2014-04-20T11:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T11:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2014-04-20T11:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T11:18:43","slug":"wills-kate-meet-aussie-military-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wills-kate-meet-aussie-military-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Wills, Kate meet Aussie military families"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kate\"<\/a>Britain\u2019s Prince William and his wife Kate met with the families of Australian soldiers killed in recent conflicts Saturday and took a front-row fighter jet seat as their tour headed north.
\nThe royal couple were presented with a boomerang for their infant son, George, and delighted Olympians and ordinary folk alike during a whistlestop tour of Brisbane, Australia\u2019s third-largest city.
\nHuge crowds turned out to greet the imperial pair, who began their day at the Amberley Air Force base with military formalities including a guard of honor and flyover by two F\/A-18 Super Hornets.
\nWilliam, who trained with Britain\u2019s Royal Air Force and whose grandmother Queen Elizabeth II is Australia\u2019s head of state, was first to inspect the next-generation Boeing fighter jet, offering his wife a tongue-in-cheek invitation as he climbed aboard.
\n\u201cDo you fancy jumping in the back?\u201d he joked.
\nDressed in a blue and white poppy print dress from L.K. Bennett, the Duchess took straight to the cockpit, keenly inspecting the jet\u2019s dials and controls.
\nPoppies are a symbol of remembrance in the military community.
\nAir Force chief Air Marshall Geoff Brown said the couple were impressed by the Australian weather compared with neighboring New Zealand, where they were last week.
\nDuring their tour of the base twins Elijah and Tobee Dyer, aged three-and-a-half, presented Kate with a tiny boomerang \u2014 an Aboriginal tool \u2014 for her infant son George who remained in Sydney on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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