Prince William applaudes, as Kate Middleton holds up a champagne bottle after naming a new lifeboat at the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station on the island of Anglesey, Wales on Thursday, Feb. 24. The visit had been highly anticipated because the couple have kept such a low profile since announcing their engagement in November, making only one other prior appearance at a charity event.

Prince William and Kate Middleton greet well wishers after after naming a new lifeboat at the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station on the island of Anglesey, Wales on Thursday. The visit had been highly anticipated because the couple have kept such a low profile since announcing their engagement in November, making only one other prior appearance at a charity event. They plan to marry April 29 at Westminster Abbey with just under 2,000 guests attending.

Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton wave to wellwishers following a naming ceremony for the new Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) Atlantic 85 lifeboat 'Hereford Endeavour' at the RNLI Lifeboat Station in Anglesey, near Bangor in Wales on Thursday.

Left: Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton pose for photographers during a photocall to mark their engagement, in the State Rooms of St James Palace, central London, Nov. 16. Right: Kate Middleton and Prince William lookalikes aka Kate Bevan and Andy Walker pose for photographers with hand knitted figures depicting Prince William and Kate Middleton on their wedding day during the UK toy annual trade show in central London, Jan. 25.

An employee packages replicas of the British royal engagement ring at a jewelry factory in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, January 12. Chinese manufacturers are cashing in on the British royal wedding craze as they churn out tens of thousands of replica royal engagement rings for the world.

Chinese workers inspect royal wedding chinaware plates featuring images of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton, at the Tri-Ring Group Corporation workshop in Yulin, southwest China's Guangxi region, January 10, where a total of 16,008 pieces of porcelain are due for delivery on January 15 to Britain. The second-in-line to the throne Prince William will marry his university sweetheart Kate Middleton on April 29 in what is likely to be the biggest British royal wedding since his late mother Diana married Prince Charles in 1981.

A combination picture shows a Chinese made replica of the British royal engagement ring, left, displayed at a jewelry factory in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, January 12, and the original engagement ring given by Britain's Prince William to his fiance Kate Middleton in London on November 16, 2010.