Kate drinks Guinness at St Patrick's Day event

The Princess of Wales sipped fractional a pint of Guinness arsenic she celebrated St Patrick's Day with the Irish Guards.

Catherine, dressed successful a bottle-green and percher hat, presented the accepted sprigs of shamrock to officers, guardsmen and mascot Seamus, the Irish wolfhound, astatine the regiment's yearly parade astatine Wellington Barracks.

She past joined soldiers for a portion and is reported to person enactment wealth down the bar.

The princess, who has been colonel of the regiment since 2023, missed the celebrations past twelvemonth aft being diagnosed with cancer.

Prior to the parade, Catherine awarded medals for agelong work and bully behaviour to soldiers who precocious returned from deployment successful Iraq.

She past took the salute arsenic colonel during a accepted march-past.

After the ceremony, she spent clip successful the inferior ranks' eating hall, wherever elder guardsman projected a toast successful her honour.

Drinking fractional a pint of Guinness, she chatted with soldiers astir their experiences connected deployment.

Guardsman Barry Loughlin, who led the toast, said afterwards: "She wanted to cognize however things were going with the blokes successful general.

"She was truly bully and truly warm. I was benignant of flustered.

"You could archer she had a genuine involvement successful us."

Catherine past went to the sergeants' messiness wherever she met with relatives of soldiers serving overseas, including those progressive successful grooming Ukrainian troops.

The lawsuit dates backmost to the archetypal regimental St Patrick's Day successful 1901.