Five Years of Kate Middleton and Prince William Looking Like Beautifully Regal Statues, In Honor of Their Wood Anniversary

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Prince William and Kate Middleton, professional married couple, are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary today. Hooray! But unlike most newlyweds, who get to experience the joy of annoying everyone with unabashed PDA, Will and Kate are burdened by the fact that not only are they royals, but they're British royals, and are therefore legally required to act as though they are merely close business acquaintances.

As tradition goes, the fifth wedding anniversary typically means a gift involving wood (if it sounds lame, for context, you can't expect diamonds until your 60th). In honor of their five years as married folk, here are 15 times Will and Kate looked like the beautiful wooden statues the British monarchy demands they be.

Here they are looking like wooden statues on their recent royal visit to India:

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Here they are as wooden statues (with perfectly identical facial expressions, no less) in Australia in 2014:

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Just three wooden statues, chillin' on a beach in Australia:

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Here they are, being particularly wooden in September of 2012:

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And again in Scotland that year:

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It doesn't matter whether they're attending a polo match:

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Or at your average royal reception:

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Or whether they're in Japan:

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(Kidding! Those are actual wax figures. But hard to tell, right?) Or whether they're in Copenhagen:

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Or at the London Olympics:

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Or at a military event:

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Or at Canada Day:

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Or on St. Patrick's Day:

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Or in Ottawa:

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They will always, always serve their country by being the most beautiful, most fashionably dressed wooden statues in the world. 

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Will and Kate, we're sorry you can't act like a normal married couple, but in honor of your sacrifice, here's the one time you broke character in the excitement of British cyclist Chris Hoy winning gold in the London Olympics:

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Just don't let it happen again.