In a funny incident, a baby snatched the handbag of British Princess Kate, on Friday, briefly as she greeted the recipients during a visit to Wales.

Daniel Williams, the one-year-old, took the small black bag of Princess Kate, William's wife, heir to the British throne, and kept play with her as the princess spoke with his mother Lucy.

Lucy asked her child, whom she was carrying on her arm, to return the bag to the princess, and tried to take it from him before the princess indicated that he could keep her, while greeting the rest of the recipients.

When Kate turned her back on them, Lucy told her son "don't put it in your mouth right now."

It happened during a visit by William and Kate, Prince and Princess of Wales, to the village of Aberfan, to commemorate a landslide that destroyed a primary school and killed 144 people in 1944.