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Prince William and Kate's Summer Tour 2011 comes to a Southern California end with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge getting royally gritty during a downtown spin through Skid Row and a nearby school, according to the Associated Press.
Prince William and his wife Catherine were welcomed to the Inner City Arts academy by six elementary-aged children holding a welcome banner while a crowd of about 150 people cheered and looked on, some waving British and American flags. The duke and duchess were then escorted to a visual arts studio where they donned art smocks and sat at easels. Fifth-graders helped them create mandalas, a type of Buddhist painting.
The final public stops on the royals' "What I Did On My Los Angeles Summer Vacation Honeymoon" brought the couple to Sony Pictures in Culver City where they attended a job fair for military veterans. Before departing LA, the newlyweds will be helping to put together care packages for the children of deployed service members.
The couple is scheduled to leave LAX Sunday afternoon at 3:15 p.m., notes NBC LA.
