FOLLOWING HIS GRANDMOTHER'S LEAD THE DUKE OF SUSSEX IS ALL SMILES AS HE ENJOYS A SPORTY DATE NIGHT WITH MEGHAN

When the Duke of Sussex was tasked with match dropping the first puck in an ice hockey as Canada's Vancouver Canucks took on the San Jose Sharks from California - he was following in some very familiar footsteps.

- LAURA BENJAMIN

Twenty-one years earlier, his grandmother Elizabeth II performed the same ceremony for the same teams at the same site- the Rogers Arena in Vancouver - during her 2002 tour of Canada. The monarch took to the ice at the start of the game, dressed in burgundy and carrying her signature handbag.

Prince Harry was at the arena with his wife Meghan, with the pair taking in the game from a private box alongside the Duchess's good friend Markus Anderson.