NEWLYWED Prince William starts back at work today as his dad Charles struggles to recover from the partying.
The prince, 28, and new wife Kate, 29, returned to their cottage in Anglesey, north Wales, after a post-wedding weekend understood to have been spent at Windsor Castle.
Meanwhile, Charles, 62, was back at work - but having trouble because he had lost his voice.
During a visit to the revamped Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, where a crowd of 350 were waiting, he revealed the battering his health had taken.
When well-wisher Andrew Mosley, 23, from Solihull, asked him how he was, the father of the groom laughed and croaked: "Actually, I lost my voice after the party."
At his son's Buckingham Palace wedding reception for 650 friends, family and foreign royals on Friday afternoon, Charles made a speech which included several jokes about William's bald spot.
He chatted away to Kate's family and the newlyweds' friends until after midnight on Friday night, when he and Camilla were driven off by Princess Anne. But, despite his tender vocal cords, the prince told crowds he enjoyed the wedding day.
Royal fan Karen Reid said: "We said we had enjoyed it very much and he said he had enjoyed it as well."
William and Kate were staying firmly out of the spotlight yesterday.
The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are hoping for a low-key start to married life on Anglesey, where William is based as an RAF search and rescue pilot.
Courtiers plan to ease Kate into royal life with just a few public appearances in her early years.
Mowing So far, the only trip that has been announced is a week-long visit to Canada at the beginning of July.
The bride's family also settled back into normal life over the weekend after their days in the limelight.
Kate's dad Michael, 61, changed his designer suit for gardening gloves and jeans as he set about mowing the lawn of the family's Bucklebury home.
Meanwhile, Prince William's aides yesterday denied reports he would be leaving his new wife for a 10-week work stint in September.
A Clarence House spokeswoman said: "There are no plans for the Duke of Cambridge to deploy to the Falklands in September."
