Prince William brightens rainy day!

Somehow it seems quite normal to have the second in line to the throne walking through the rain with no tie and no umbrella in a pretend West Coast town from the goldrush days.

And because this is Prince William visiting, it also seems normal to have a media contingent parked here at Shantytown, a Greymouth tourist attraction which closed early so the Prince could come in relative privacy to sit with the families of the 29 men killed in the Pike River mine tragedy and offer his heartfelt sympathy.

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