Prince William and wife Kate will be the first Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to visit New Zealand's Cambridge, over 150 years since it was named.
The Waikato town isn't named after the British university city - instead, it's named after the 2nd Duke of Cambridge, George William Frederick Charles.
The earlier Duke of Cambridge was Queen Victoria's first cousin and the commander in chief of the British army.
And, like Prince William, he married a commoner - actress Sarah Fairbrother, who was the daughter of a Westminster servant, and who Queen Victoria ignored throughout their marriage.
Once Maori lived where Cambridge now is, 24km out of Hamilton and on the banks of the Waikato River.
But during the land wars of the 1860s, British forces drove the Maori population out and set up camp in the area, Cambridge museum assistant Chelsea Tairi told NZ Newswire.
They named it "Camp Cambridge" after their commander, the Duke of Cambridge at the time, she said.
In 1865, the British forces confiscated the area of Cambridge from Maori.
They surveyed it and divided it up into one acre allotments for the 3rd Waikato Militia soldiers who'd been fighting in the area, Ms Tairi said.
Maori were forced to retreat behind the confiscation line, which is not too far out of Cambridge.
The 2nd Duke of Cambridge never visited New Zealand and his title fell into extinction for 107 years until William was awarded it on his wedding day, April 29, 2011.
But it's not the first time Cambridge - which has a population of over 18,000 - has had a royal visit.
During her 1953-54 tour, the Queen lunched at Cambridge and the museum has a small exhibition of her time in the town.
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