Unlike the programme for their visit to Canada in the summer of 2011, when the newly married William and Catherine were prepared to attend functions from morning until night, this time the programme stops on most days in the late afternoon so that the couple can get back to George, presumably to read him a story and put him to bed.
Consequently evening engagements for the couple are being kept to a minimum.
Does any of it have any significance? Well, yes I suggest it does, for the monarchy that is.
Visits by the royals to New Zealand and Australia are important for the simple reason that these countries - for all their 21st Century vigour and independence - still come within the ambit of the monarchy which is headquartered at Buckingham Palace in London.
The reception that William, his wife and son receive over the next three weeks will say something about the vitality of the British crown and its relevance in 2017.
Clearly not everyone who turns out to cheer William, Catherine and George will necessarily subscribe to the view that, 50 years or so from now, when George might be expected to succeed to the throne of the United Kingdom, that he should also become king of Australia and king of New Zealand.
But as ambassadors for the system of hereditary, constitutional monarchy, this trio exert a powerful force.
A great-grandmother in London can be expected to be watching events carefully and - one might assume - to be pleased at what she sees.
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