The Schoolgirl Who Asked Prince William For a Kiss

The girl whose cheeky request for a kiss from Prince William prompted a mention in his farewell speech in Australia can be revealed as 15-year-old schoolgirl Victoria Downie.

Her photograph appeared around the world after she asked for a kiss from Prince William during his visit to Australia.

Now the girl can de identified as 15-year-old schoolgirl and part-time model Victoria Downie, from Melbourne.

When she asked the second-in-line to the throne for a kiss, he said: "Go for it!"

Victoria, the daughter of a sales rep and an only child, was on her way back from a model casting with her mother Doris, when she went to the city centre hoping to see the Prince, whom she has admired since she was eight years old.

After waiting an hour, William did a walkabout and reached her place in the crowd. "I wanted to see him on his last day and I happened to be in the right place at the right time," she said.

Victoria recounted the moment she confronted the Prince, 27, on the final day of his first foreign tour representing the Queen.

The year 11 pupil Warrandyte High School, said: "I managed to get his attention. I said to him: 'Welcome to Victoria, Prince William. Sorry, but may I please have a kiss.'

"He said: 'Certainly. Go for it!' I kissed him on the cheek.

"He just said 'Thank you very much.' I said: 'Thank you' and that was it.' I didn't expect to get a kiss at all but when I woke up I saw there were pictures of me on different newspaper websites all around the world."

Victoria, who spent yesterday at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, said she was "thrilled" by the experience and intends to have the photograph of them together framed.