By Roisin Kelly

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their son Prince George are reported have joined Kate’s family on the Caribbean island of Mustique to celebrate Carole Middleton’s 60th birthday.

Kate and William are believed to be staying close to the duchess’s parents Carole and Michael, and her siblings James and Pippa, in one of the private island’s 74 luxury villas. The Caribbean weather will no doubt come as a relief to Kate, who is now six months pregnant and who during the chilly British January has been busy with charity engagements and appearances.

Mustique is something of an annual destination for the Middletons, who celebrated Carole’s 59th birthday there last year with Kate and George. The journey to the island marked Prince George’s first trip abroad, at only six months old—good preparation for his three-week tour of New Zealand and Australia last April.

Mustique is also where controversial photographs of the duchess—then pregnant with George and wearing a bikini for a beach walk with William—were taken by a paparazzo, and subsequently published by French magazine Chi just five months after the same magazine printed pictures of Kate sunbathing topless in France.

This week, controversy again surrounds photographs of Kate, this time due to a photoshopped image of the duchess featured on the cover of Australian magazine Woman’s Day. The heavily-retouched photograph exaggerates Kate’s skin tone and eyes to the extent that she is almost unrecognizable.

But it seems unlikely that Kate herself will be too concerned with the issue; she’s busy spending some Caribbean downtime with her husband and son as her due date comes nearer. “It’s moving all the time,” she recently said of her unborn baby. “I can feel it kicking now.”

IMAGE: Kate-Middleton-1-19-2015 (James Whatling/Splash News/Newscom)

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