JERUSALEM – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, ended his historic visit to Israel and the West Bank on Thursday with a visit to the holy sites in Jerusalem and a prayer at the tomb of his great grandmother on the Mount of Olives.
Princess Alice of Battenberg was buried in the Orthodox Church of Mary Magdalene at the end of the 1980s and was proclaimed ‘Righteous among the Nations’ for saving a Jewish family in Greece during the Nazi occupation.
Immediately afterwards William, who is the first British royal to visit Israel since the end of the Mandate for Palestine in 1948, visited the Western Wall, where he was greeted by the Chief Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
He then headed to Temple Mount (Haram al Sharif) to visit the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim sanctuary, before making for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, on the site where Jesus is said to have been buried.
The second in line to the British throne was due to return home early afternoon.
