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Diamond Jubilee: Charles and Camilla to visit village Diamond Jubilee: Charles and Camilla tour Papua village
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The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are to get a glimpse of village life in Papua New Guinea later. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have been given a glimpse of village life in Papua New Guinea.
The couple arrived on Saturday for the tour, which has been organised as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year celebrations. A choir of women in floral shirts and grass skirts welcomed the couple, who are on a tour to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year, to Boera.
Hundreds of people are expected to welcome Prince Charles and Camilla to the community of Boera. The pair were shown crafts, canoe building and an aid project before a state dinner in capital Port Moresby.
The royal couple are expected to witness a war dance and learn about conservation work. Prince Charles, colonel-in-chief of the local Royal Pacific Islands Regiment, earlier inspected a military parade.
Charles and Camilla will attend a Sunday church service, being held in a sports stadium in the capital Port Morseby. Dressed in the forest green uniform of the regiment, he presented infantrymen with new colours at the Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby.
The prince is colonel-in-chief of the Royal Pacific Islands Regiment and will present them with new colours in the arena. In a speech, he introduced himself in the local Tok Pisin language as the "first child of Mrs Queen", which brought cheers and applause from the crowd of about 5,000 people.
Guests of honour His words translated as: "I bring you greetings from Her Majesty the Queen of Papua New Guinea and from all my family members during this celebration of the Diamond Jubilee."
The couple will be the guests of honour at a state dinner, hosted by the governor general and his wife. The event also included an open-air church service, in which prayers were said for the Queen, while the local culture was showcased in dance and music.
Their day will include training about the preservation of coastal mangrove forests and plant saplings. Tribes from across Papua New Guinea were present, including Huli men with their yellow painted faces and Asaro mudmen, with large false heads and bodies covered in grey clay.
Papua New Guinea is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean and, linguistically, it is the world's most diverse country, with more than 700 native tongues. The royal couple arrived on the island on Saturday on the first leg of a two-week tour of Commonwealth countries, which will also see them visit Australia and New Zealand.
Many of its inhabitants live in rural areas with few or no facilities of modern life. It is the fourth time Prince Charles has visited Papua New Guinea but the first time for Camilla.
Tribes in the isolated mountainous environment have little contact with one another, let alone with the outside world. During a visit to the National Bird of Paradise and Orchid Garden, the Duchess of Cornwall was presented with a rare hybrid orchid named in her honour, the Dendrobium Camilla.
Communication is conducted through English and Tok Pisin, a form of Melanesian Pidgin English. In Pidgin, the prince is known as "pikinini", while the Queen is known as "Missis Kwin". At Boera village, hundreds of residents turned out to greet Prince Charles and the duchess.
Papua New Guinea is the first leg of the tour, and will be followed by Australia and New Zealand. Jenny Lohia, 24, topless and dressed traditionally in a leaf skirt and body paintings, gave Camilla a peck on the cheek as she placed a necklace of shells around her neck as a welcoming present.
On their arrival the prince and his wife met Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, his wife Lynda Babao and other senior dignitaries when they stepped on to the red carpet at Jacksons International Airport. They royal couple were shown local painting, weaving and pottery and toured the aid project concerned with the replanting of coastal mangroves.
They were also greeted by local schoolchildren in tribal dress who performed a hiri dance, usually employed to welcome traders to a village. The couple were guests of honour at the state dinner later, which was hosted by governor general Sir Michael Ogio and his wife.