Prince George loves nothing better than to play with his parents' iPad, his father revealed during a chat with a tech executive on the young family's high-profile tour of the U.S.

Despite luxury gifts from all over the world being sent to the young heir, Prince William says it's his Apple tablet that the one-year-old enjoys most of all.

He made the revelation at a technology event at New York's Empire State Building.

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21st Century boy: Despite luxury gifts from all over the world being sent to the young heir, Prince Harry says it's his Apple tablet that the one-year-old enjoys most of all

Inquisitive mind: The Duchess of Cambridge holds Prince George as he and Prince William look on while visiting the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum in July

Ayah Bdeir, the chief executive of a firm that builds snap-together electronics for children, told The Times: 'He had so much fun.

'He told me that his son George has been playing iPad games and loves them and that this was a good way to teach him the inner workings of electronics.'

During their visit the Royals have visited the White House, watched basketball with Jay-Z and Beyonce, and rubbed shoulders with creme-de-la-creme of New York high society.

The Royal couple also paid a solemn visit to the 9/11 memorial a short distance away, laying a wreath of white flowers.

After touring the adjoining museum, Kate said she had been left 'in awe' at the scale of the tragedy, adding that she had not anticipated how emotional the visit would be.

After visiting the youth center in Lower Manhattan the Royal couple spent the evening at a black tie event to help raise money for St Andrews University where they met and fell in love

The dinner, which cost up to $10,000-a-head, was to help raise money to pay for scholarships and bursaries at the University to help underprivileged people earn a place

After a dinner and speeches in the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the couple went straight to the airport where they flew back to the UK

On Tuesday evening the couple swapped Lower Manhattan for an elegant black tie event to help raise money for their Alma Mater: St Andrews University, where they met and fell in love.

The pair were the guests of honour at the lavish $10,000-a-head 600th anniversary event at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the couple's final engagement of their three-day visit.

After a reception on the museum's Velez Blanco patio the couple were taken for dinner in the Temple of Dendur, a vast room decorated with statues of Egyptian gods that was built specifically to house an Egyptian temple built just before the birth of Christ.

The sandstone temple was given to the U.S. in its entirety in 1965.

After a speech given by comedian Seth Myers, drafted in last-minute after Tom Hanks pulled out for personal reasons, the Duke and Duchess were whisked straight to the airport for a flight home.

Earlier in the day, before the youth center in Lower Manhattan, the couple paid a solemn visit to the 9/11 memorial and museum a short distance away

William and Kate laid a bunch of white flowers in front of the memorial, with Kate later saying that she had been 'in awe' of the site