The King said: “It was here, in sight of Mount Kenya, that my son, the Prince of Wales, proposed to his wife, now my beloved daughter-in-law.”
The proposal was very special to William, he confessed during their joint engagement interview in 2010.
He said: “As every guy out there will know, it takes a certain amount of motivation to get yourself going. So I was planning it, and then it just felt really right out in Africa. It was beautiful.”
Kate added: “It was a total shock when it came,” she said during the engagement interview. “There’s a true romantic in there.”
In 2020, the Prine of Wales got into more detail as to why he chose Kenya as a place to propose.
He explained: “The African continent holds a very special place in my heart.
“It is the place my father took my brother and me shortly after our mother died. And when deciding where best to propose to Catherine, I could think of no more fitting place than Kenya to get down on one knee.”
The couple were married in April 2011 and have welcomed three children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, eight, and Prince Louis, five, since then.
On Tuesday, the King also recalled the time when his mother, Queen Elizabeth was relaxing in Kenya in 1962 when she found out the news of her father’s death and ascended to the throne.
Charles said: “It is well known, I think, that my dear mother, the late Queen, had a particular affection for Kenya and the Kenyan people.
“She arrived here in 1952 as a princess but left as Queen. It is extremely moving to read her diary from that visit, in which she wrote that she did not want to miss a moment of Kenya’s extraordinary landscapes.
I really cannot thank you enough for the support Kenya gave her through that difficult time.”
