'Keep going, darling': Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh hold hands during trip to Nepal The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were pictured holding hands and lovingly poking at each other during their trip to Nepal.
The couple also met the seven finalists of the UK-funded Hindu Kush Himalaya Innovation Challenge for Entrepreneurs, before flying to the lakeside city of Pokhara, where they visited the Gurkha Welfare Trust's welfare centre and met elderly veterans and widows supported by the charity.
Sophie expressed concern at the amount of waste left behind by climbers of Nepal's most famous landmark, Mount Everest, as she asked whether any of the money paid by them to visit the site could be "earmarked for dealing with some of the issues".
Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh return to Queen Elizabeth II's Malta villa, where she lived 70 years ago.
Prince Edward and his wife Sophie toured the Godawari National Botanic Garden on the outskirts of Kathmandu on the second day of their official royal tour of the Himalayan nation.
