Duchess of Cambridge prepares for busy week as she steps up royal duties Obviously if that happens it will entail extra work because there will be more visits to fit in and more people to meet. If the Duke decides not to continue his career in the armed forces, then he and the Duchess will build up their workload over time until they are carrying out full-time royal duties. The Duchess's immediate future also depends, of course, on whether she decides to start a family in the next few months. After an engagement on Monday, the details of which have not yet been made public, the Duke and Duchess will travel to Burton-upon-Trent on Tuesday, where they will meet the England football squad at the opening of the Football Association's National Football Centre. Then on Wednesday they will travel to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where they will carry out two engagements, followed by a visit to a youth project in Gateshead and an Action on Addiction programme in Stockton-on-Tees. The Duchess is patron of Action on Addiction, one of only four charities she has so far forged links with. Although the Duchess's life has been dominated in recent weeks by the row over topless pictures of her printed by foreign magazines, she showed during the couple's tour of the Far East that she has an ability to ignore such distractions when she is working. The only time the Duchess has carried out more engagements in the UK was during the Olympics, when, as an ambassador for Team GB, she attended up to seven events per week, but she did not have to travel outside London.