Sky's royal correspondent Rhiannon Mills believes William and Kate's Caribbean trip shows it may be time to rethink royal overseas tours
Those are questions I think needed to be asked more this week as people around the world piled in on social media.
But at times it felt like outrage from the likes of London and New York was getting more traction than the feelings of the people they were actually meeting in Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas.there were protestsThe"disastrous tour" headlines became the narrative, when actually it was seen as a success for the host countries desperate for the spotlight the couple can bring.
In Jamaica, one of those moments was having the couple riding on the back of the same Land Rover as the Queen. The pictures of William and Kate shaking hands through the fence were jumped on by those wanting to portray the entire trip as a failure. They don't look good - but in isolation they do not tell the whole story, as you might have seen from the endless scrapping about it on social media.
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