Earl and Countess of Wessex receive guard of honour in St Lucia
The Earl and Countess of Wessex exchanged gifts with the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia after they received a red carpet guard of honour on their arrival in the country. Sophie and Edward on Friday began their seven-day tour of the Caribbean where they are also scheduled to visit two other nations, Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, after the 11th hour postponement of the Grenada leg of their trip. The Platinum Jubilee tour was organised to mark the Queen's 70-year reign, and it comes shortly after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were criticised for some elements of their recent Caribbean tour, deemed to hark back to colonial days. Sophie and Edward presented Prime Minister Philip Pierre with a photograph of themselves and a Jubilee box as a "token of appreciation" when they met him at his residence on Friday evening. In return, Saint Lucia's PM gave the pair a painting of one of the island's turtles rolled up in a long black tube, and bef...