Prince William, his wife Kate and their children have been spotted getting off a £73 budget flight to Scotland, amid a row over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's private jet trips.

The Duke of Cambridge and Duchess of Cambridge took the 8.45am flight from Norwich International Airport to Aberdeen Airport with their children this morning.

The royal couple and their family can be spotted being escorted from the budget FlyBe plane and getting into waiting vehicles, where they are expected to be whisked away to visit the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral.

The Cambridges appearance on the cheap flight will inevitably lead to comparisons with William's brother Prince Harry and his wife Meghan.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have come in for criticism from some quarters after they took four private jet flights in 11 days this summer.

They flew from London to Ibiza and back before making a return trip to Nice earlier this month, fuelling claims they were contributing to climate change.

A passenger on the plane who spotted them said: 'The family were sat right at the front. I fly this route all the time and we were none the wiser. No-one knew they were on the flight.

'Later on I realised that Kate's mother was sat a few rows in front of me.'

Looking like your archetypal family man on holiday, Prince William can be seen clutching a number of bags while George, six, and Charlotte, four, run excitably alongside him.

Surprised passengers saw Kate walking just behind her husband and holding Louis, one, alongside the family's nanny Maria Borrallo.

Royal author Robert Jobson, who wrote a best-selling biography on Prince Charles, said it proved the Royal Family could take regular commercial flights.

He said: 'There was a lot of nonsense spoken earlier in the week about how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle needed to fly in private jets because of security concerns.

'But the Royal Family have been using cheap airlines for years, Princess Diana would do it frequently.

'William and Kate flying on a budget airline proves you can do it, there was no trouble on the flight, and if there was they have their protection officers.


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Pictures show William and family boarding the flight in Norwich. Tickets from Norwich to Aberdeen cost from £73.05 (32,000 Naira) per person, according to Flybe's website.

Defending the right of members of the Royal Family to take private planes (and before William's Flybe flight), one person wrote on Twitter: "They can't be expected to travel Flybe..."

In contrast, Harry and Meghan take a more luxurious approach to flying. The price for their flight was around £20,000 (9 mil Naira). There are rumours of a spat between the two brothers and their wives, with Harry and Meghan made a point of saying they were only having two children to save the planet knowing William and Kate had three. Could the budget flight William and Kate's clever and subtly response?

This is the contrast in the two routes, or carbon footprint.

Pic 1: Routes taken by Harry, Megan and son.
Pic 2: Route taken by the William and family.

Meghan made to look bad for being so preachy about 'saving the planet with 2 kids'.

Maybe because the actress is out to enjoy her new found wealth. Wallis comes to mind.