Prince William and Kate are not the only royal family members who have been suspiciously busy in the past month. Prince Edward and Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, have also been out and about a lot. Not that many people are paying attention! Speaking of, Edward and Sophie have been in Nepal this week. They’re on a real royal tour together, after mostly doing events and traveling separately in recent years. I’m including photos from “Day 3” of their tour in this post. Sophie and Edward are apparently spending six days in Nepal, and before this tour, Edward was in India solo for four days? I did not see anything about that.

I know my point is usually “no one pays attention to poor Sophie and Ed,” but this Nepalese tour is getting some attention in the UK. It’s because Edward and Sophie briefly held hands as they were walking down some steps at the Godawari National Botanic Garden. Sophie wore a maxi dress and Edward chivalrously helped his wife down the steps, from the look of it. This has given us many headlines about Sophie and Ed’s “rare PDA” and “strong marriage after 25 years.” For what it’s worth, their marriage seems stable-ish, although I often see people speculating that they live very separate lives. Which is actually considered “successful” by royal standards.

Incidentally, in some of the coverage of the Edinburghs’ tour, they’re claiming that this is the first royal tour of Nepal since King Charles was there in 1998. That is false. Prince Harry was in Nepal for a week in the spring of 2016. They’re really trying to write Harry out of the Windsors’ history completely.

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