Still wearing the garland, she visited Ladlees, a family sari shop, where she admired the embroidery of the fabric and asked whether the skills had been passed down through the family.
Catherine said that it was nice to return to the city under “happier circumstances”.
Her last visit took place with Prince William in 2018, when they paid tribute to the victims of a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of five people, including Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the Leicester City football club chairman.
Crowds lined the street as she crossed the road to Bobby’s restaurant, a family business named after a 1973 Bollywood film of the same name.
It was opened in 1976 by Dharmesh Lakhani’s parents after they moved to the UK from Uganda when he was a child.
Mr Lakhani, 57, who now runs the restaurant with his wife Enna, 56, invited the Princess in to sit down for chai and traditional Indian sweets.
She said: “What’s lovely about a family business is that the values still stay. That’s the heart of it. That’s really what matters to the customers, those relationships.”
Meeting the couple’s sons Arjun, 28, and Karran, 25, the Princess said that family businesses “made changes along the way”.
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