The Duchess asked her name and said: "My sister is called Pippa too!" Pippa said: "She was really nice, really pretty."

One mother had an embarrassing moment when her nine-month-old son sneezed all over the Duchess.

Vicky King, 38, said: "I was holding Alton and he sneezed because he has got a bit of a cold at the moment. She got a bit of a fright – she said 'Oh!' "But they laughed, and I was OK about it, because even though she is royalty she is a mum too, and knows what it is like to have a baby. She took it all in her stride.

"I thanked her for coming, and she said that it was lovely to be here and Marlborough is beautiful. It was just wonderful that they came here. It says something about them as people, that they are thinking about the small town provinces."

After the Duke and Duchess laid their wreath at the town's war memorial, the couple chatted to military veterans.

Wilton Sterritt, 90, who served with the New Zealand Navy in the Second World War, showed the Duchess a photograph of himself with the Duke of Edinburgh when Mr Sterritt was working at the 1974 Commomwealth Games.

He said: "She looked at the picture and said 'that's marvellous, I've never seen that one before'."

Hannah Price, 33, was with her 7-month-old daughter Grace who chewed some flowers meant for the Duchess.

Mrs Price said: “We’ve been here since 6.30, I grew up with a mother who was a royalist and I’ve always followed them.

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