Inside the Bollywood reception held in their honour in Mumbai last night, William and Kate spent an hour mingling and talking to guests including actress Madhuri Dixit, to whom Kate confessed she was longing to see her children, who are at home in England with their nanny.
“She said she loves being here and the people are very welcoming … but she was worried she may miss her children.”
This is the first time the family of four have been apart.
At supper, the couple were treated to a banquet fit for a King – or at least the second in line to the throne!
Kate was sat next to Bollywood’s biggest superstar Shah Rukh Khan, 50, and Will next to Bollywood’s darling Aishwarya Rai, 42.
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Kate and William at the gala.
The dinner menu offered a Maharaja’s thali (traditional Indian meal) with both vegetarian and meat options.
The vegetarian dishes were again the choice for Kate and William and included mushroom and pea curry, vegetable kebabs, spinach and corn curry, paneer (homemade cottage cheese), cauliflower rice, red lentil dahl and traditional Indian sweets (gulab jamun, kesari rasmalai and paan kulfi).
Richard Hawkes, Chief Executive of the British Asian Trust which organised the charity dinner, said: “We were in discussion with the High Comission about the best programme to put on and we felt that a dinner like his that could raise money for the organisations were working with and promote the causes as well would be great.”
He added about the visit so far: “They are loving it.”
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