At 11.30am they arrived at Satree Phuket School to hand out grants to five students affected by the tsunami. They were also taken around the school's tsunami exhibition.

Anchalee Vanich-Thepbabutr, president of the Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation, presented a gift of a shell painting and a pearl necklace to the king and queen to mark their 30th wedding anniversary.

In the afternoon the royal couple were taken to the Tsunami Gallery on the second floor of Bangkok Phuket Hospital. They were also treated to a performance of Rong Ngeng, a traditional sea gypsy dance, by students from the Child Care Development Centre at Kamala.

Another royal visitor, Crown Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan, left the island on Sunday evening after a three-day stay. The prince, a watersports enthusiast, spent his first day in Phuket sailing from the Royal Phuket Marina and then spent two days diving at Koh Maithon.

Ten deaf students from Phuket Special School turned out to see the prince off at Phuket International Airport.