A campaign to persuade the newly-wed royal couple to visit Perthshire has swung into action.
Hopes are high that William and Kate will schedule a visit as a priority after the Queen bestowed the couple with a title linking them to the area.
Among the first to extend an invitation to the new Earl and Countess of Strathearn is Provost John Hulbert in an official letter sent to Buckingham Palace.
“On behalf of the council, I wish to invite you and the countess to visit Strathearn, its main town of Crieff, and also Perth itself,” Dr Hulbert wrote.
“The people of your earldom, and of Perth, would be delighted to meet both of you in the future, at a time which would be appropriate and convenient.”
Stephen Leckie, chief executive of Crieff Hydro and president of Perthshire Chamber of Commerce, has thrown his weight behind a bid to lure the couple north.
“It is our intention to persuade them up here there are so many Strathearn links,” he said. “It is really quite exciting if we can persuade them.”
He is among those to have already made approaches through the appropriate channels in the hope that the couple would visit “sooner rather than later.”
Also looking forward to any visit is Brigadier Mel Jameson, Lord Lieutenant for Perth and Kinross, who was lucky enough to be among the wedding guests at Westminster Abbey.
While not discounting a royal visit to Strathearn, a spokeswoman for Clarence House said nothing had been arranged as yet.
She pointed out that the duke had his military career to pursue and visits had been arranged to Canada and California.