Bus tour shows off Kate Middleton's hometown haunts

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   >> to troil wedding has hit 66 days. now there is a new way for you to get the kate middleton experience. keith miller is at buckingham palace to explain. good morning.

   >> reporter: good morning,le will willie. along with everybody else , kate middleton is counting down the days before she joins the royal family , but some are looking to her past to determine her future as a princess. but it's a long way from here at buckingham palace to her homele village of buckleberry.

   >> my name is ms. griffiths.

   >> reporter: she's been a guide for 30 years but this is her first attempt at explaining how a country girl turns into a princess. bucklebury is described as a quiet burg by the locals. there is just one lane winding around the countryside.

   >> this is st. andrews prep school where kate middleton spent most of her education.

   >> reporter: the tour is not allowed to stop despite the $16 ticket to see the secrets behind becoming a princess. kate middleton 's home is somewhere on this lane.

   >> on our left e -- this one. no. oh, yes -- uh, no. it's got a hedge down the middle.

   >> reporter: there is a stop at the church where kate middleton was kristen chri christened. her parents, self-made millionaires sent their children to the best school money could buy. locals remember kate as a bright child, competitive and now very lucky. this is the land of open glory. so far the americans and japanese are the nationalities showing the most interest in taking the kate middleton tour, but the english treasure their privacy, so the bus company conducts most of the tour at 30 miles per hour.

   >> a little further along . it's this next club just beyond this cottage. there, you can just see it through the trees.

   >> reporter: the middleton family home. no clue here about how the future princess will keep house but she's from a modern british middle class family. her parents made millions operating a mail order company run from a converted barn somewhere beyond the trees. no one, not even the guide, will sayle exactly where.

   >> so this is a tease tour?

   >> it could be.

   >> reporter: the union of royalty and commoner would have been unthinkable not that long ago, but the british monarchy has changed. and so will bucklebury, one sleepy lane after another. the village is coming out of its shell. in fact, several locals say they have received invitation to the wedding and we are told the entire village will turn out on wedding day to celebrate -- where else, but at the old boot? willie?

   >> keith miller , thanks. still working out the kinks on the tour.

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