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    Duchess Kate in Valentine's Day visit to Liverpool

    The Duchess of Cambridge arrives at The Brink in Liverpool, England, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. The Duchess is visiting as Patron of Action on Addiction. The Brink is an alcohol-free bar in Liverpool, linked to Action on Addiction's SHARP recovery service in the city. The bar is a social enterprise run primarily to help people recovering from drink and drug addiction. (AP Photo/Mark Large, Pool)

    LONDON (AP) — The former Kate Middleton is spending her first Valentine's Day as a married woman nearly 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) away from her husband.

    The Duchess of Cambridge is carrying out a solo visit to the English port city of Liverpool to visit a charity devoted to helping recovering addicts. Her husband Prince William is currently deployed as a helicopter search-and-rescue pilot in the remote Falkland Islands.

    But just because Kate was short a prince doesn't mean she was short a valentine.

    Kate got a card and a bouquet of red roses from 8-year-old Jaqson Johnston-Lynch, whose mother works at the charity.

    Jaqson told reporters he would tell Kate: "Happy Valentine's Day, your Royal Highness. I'm sorry Prince William can't be here."

    The Duchess of Cambridge talks with 8-year-old Jaqson Johnston-Lynch after she visited The Brink in Liverpool, England, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. The Duchess was visiting as Patron of Action on Addiction. The Brink is an alcohol-free bar in Liverpool, linked to Action on Addiction's SHARP recovery service in the city. The bar is a social enterprise run primarily to help people recovering from drink and drug addiction. (AP Photo/Tim Hales)
     

    26 comments

    • Daniel M  •  3 months ago
      I don't understand the comments thus far. I don't see where Kate is complaining about being separated from her husband for Valentine's Day. This is a fluff piece, people.
    • toxic  •  3 months ago
      well my first val as a married woman am spending it alone while my husband is off fighting a war in Afghanistan, it would have been nice to have him here with me! but he got me the cutest puppy and it was a surprise!!! happy val babe love you to pieces always and forever, stay safe!!!!
    • Mich16  •  San Antonio, Texas  •  3 months ago
      As the wife of a military man who just retired after 25 years, I have spent plenty of valentines days, birthdays, christmases and other holidays away from my husband. Just par for the course. You make up for it another time :-)
    • A Yahoo! User  •  3 months ago
      I don't hear Kate complaining, she is a trooper, learning the job and carrying on, good for her.
      • sandra 3 months ago
        You won't hear Kate saying anything at all, it's not as though the press get to interview them.
    • mouse trap  •  Paris, France  •  3 months ago
      SMOKE'IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
    • rose  •  Dover, Delaware  •  3 months ago
      She seems to have taken the role of miltary wife to heart. Good for her!
    • Orly  •  3 months ago
      Why should she complain or be anything but happy. SHE MARRIED A PRINC, SHE'S GOT EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD GOING FOR HER, so she's not with him on V Day, big deal, what she gets from him all yr round, most of us don't see it in a lifetime. I feel nothing for her other that happy and proud of her. I'd like to see us here have such a gracious princess, Love you Kate !!
    • Jurius  •  Spokane, Washington  •  3 months ago
      Let's report everything Kate does hey kate walking down the street oops she blew her nose Get A Life!!!!!!!
    • sam  •  San Antonio, Texas  •  3 months ago
      why is this so important????
    • B1GB1UE  •  3 months ago
      Who gives a #$%$
    • kathy  •  3 months ago
      take advantage of older residents and tell everyone their "blind"..ex.walk in their apartment without asking if you can come over,or without an invite.
    • merci  •  3 months ago
      This is a joke!
    • KM  •  3 months ago
      Kate, get a real job & then you'll know what the world's really like for us 'pheasants'
      • Tea_n_The_Sahara 3 months ago
        It's peasant....a pheasant is a bird/poultry.
      • sandra 3 months ago
        True, she sat around for years doing nothing but waiting for a wedding ring.
    • anonymous  •  3 months ago
      Why is this a top story? Let's hear a real story, like possible breakthroughs in medical science, for example. How can royalty benefit mankind? - resign!
    • kathy  •  3 months ago
      2/14/2012 worthless advice,of course......think the worst of others and don't comment on yourself,think the best of others and then critisize yourself and your family.tell people older and smarter than you'll ever be...to "shut up"
    • ninja  •  3 months ago
      aww she is gonna hug that black kid.
      • toxic 3 months ago
        really? wow!!! OMFG!!!!!
    • Wj  •  3 months ago
      Pffft, he'll make it up to her and buy her a Bentley.
    • Obama's Blue Lips  •  New Orleans, Louisiana  •  3 months ago
      Later she will retire to her her and take on the Royal Vibrator!
      • Lynette 3 months ago
        you disgusting piece of #$%$
      • Angela 3 months ago
        douche bag
      • sandra 3 months ago
        Well you never know, just because she's part of the royal family now doesn't mean she isn't still human.
    • kathy  •  3 months ago
      2/14/2012 addicts,oh...well,try to see the best in everyone,and think the best of others....kathy ps think as highly of others,as you do yourself.
    • Mod  •  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  •  3 months ago
      If she is unsure how to deal with being alone. She could speak to military families, who have less than her and their family members have been away for month, years, etc... Little pity here for Katie.
      • wtmommy 3 months ago
        The Duchess did not ask for pity, you idiot, and she commiserates with many military families. It's hardly her fault her stupid government sided with our even more stupid government to perpetrate wars for profit.
      • Mod 3 months ago
        No one forced them to tag along.