They are famously competitive, so the Prince and Princess of Wales quickly got into the spirit of a cocktail-making race on a surprise one-day visit to Northern Ireland.
Prince William and Kate went head to head behind the bar at the Trademarket in Belfast – with the Prince apparently jumping the gun ahead of his wife.
Poised to begin mixing, Kate exclaimed: “He’s started!” to laughter from her husband.
She quickly got to work adding measures of different drinks into a shaker to create an Up the Lagan in a Bubble cocktail.
But William managed to pour his over ice and add a