William and Kate's tour of Canada enters tricky phase: Quebec

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's Canadian tour enters its second, and potentially trickiest, phase today as the couple visit French-speaking territory.

They arrive in Montreal this afternoon and will spend the night aboard a Canadian navy frigate sailing up the St Lawrence river to Quebec City, traditionally the centre of the separatist movement, for Sunday.

Royal visitors have had an uncertain welcome in Quebec province – where more than 80% of the population speak French – in recent decades. The Queen has not returned to Quebec city since protesters turned their backs on her and booed in 1964, and two years ago Prince Charles and Camilla were held up by scuffles between demonstrators and police as they visited Montreal.

Radical young protesters from the Quebec Resistance Network have called for a demonstration outside the city hall on Sunday, though they have promised it will be peaceful.

full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/02/william-kate-canada-tour-quebec