The last day of Will and Kate's royal tour in the South Pacific saw them dancing with joy with thousands of islanders, clad in colorful native dress, draped and crowned with flowers, carried on thrones to an exuberant welcoming ceremony.

And who wouldn't dance, after they scored a legal victory back in France today against the paparazzi photos of her topless published last week. The French magazine Closer was ordered by a judge to hand over all digital copies of the photos within 24 hours and was blocked from further publication, although the photos have already appeared elsewhere.

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But in the tiny Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu, halfway between Hawaii and Australia and the last stop of their 10-day Diamond Jubilee tour, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were treated like the future king and queen they are.

They were carried off their plane by 25 men in traditional Polynesian dress bearing a platform with double thrones, just as his grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, were carried 30 years ago when they visited this smallest, most remote corner of her realms.

British reporters traveling with them reported they were greeted by about half the population of about 10,000, and everyone, especially the royal couple, looked delighted.

The Cambridges had a full day of activities but they stopped to visit the coconut tree the queen planted in 1982. William tried his hand at breaking open a husked fruit and drinking from it with a straw, his head crowned with flowers.

They watched a canoe race and a ball game, sampled traditional crafts and cooking and toured a reproduction of a traditional Tuvalu village. At a dinner feast this evening, they donned traditional grass skirts and danced a traditional island dance with their hosts.

Underneath Kate had on an Alice Temperly beige crepe gown with embroidered trim in red and a keyhole neckline. On arrival in Tuvalu, she was wearing a primrose lace dress dotted with flowers, according to the HRHDuchessKate blog, which follows her fashion.

The couple are returning Wednesday to London, where they will deal with further legal wrangling over the topless photos mess, which isn't over yet. But their second international tour was clearly another royal smash hit, likely to be declared as such by the hometown headlines, despite all those other headlines about the paparazzi photos.