San Francisco, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/27/2014 -- In the time-honored tradition of the Samburu community, a tribe in Kenya has given Prince George a bull, four heifers and a goat in honor of his recent christening. The newly christened prince is the first-born child of Prince William and Kate Middleton -- the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. In Kenya, the gift is a deeply significant honor and a symbolic blessing to the child from the Samburu community.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge enjoyed a safari in Lewa, Kenya where the animals will be raised. This was in 2010 and it was on this trip that Prince William proposed to his wife. The royal couple sent a letter of thanks to the Samburu community for their very meaningful and thoughtful gift.
The Duke wrote, "Thank you all so very much for the extraordinary honour. I remember my time with you with immense happiness and I could not be more grateful to you all for this kindness. It brings me great joy to know George's 'pension' will be herded on a land we care deeply for. We hope one day he will be able to see them for himself."
Prince William first experienced the continent through his late mother, Princess Diana. He has spoken of taking his son to Africa someday and has been active in several causes related to the country, the closest to his heart being wildlife conservation.
"Like any new parents, our thoughts inevitably turn to the world that our child will inherit," he is quoted as saying. "It is unfathomable to imagine a world in which children who have been born in the past couple of months may grow up in a world in which rhinoceros have ceased to live in the wild."
He continued, "The possibility of extinction is bad enough for one of our children growing up here in the West, who never experience the magic of seeing a rhino or even for my own little George, who Catherine and I very much hope to introduce to east Africa -- a place we know and love -- in the fullness of time."
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