Tickets to dine with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a fundraising dinner for the university where the royal couple met as students are selling for up to £64,000. Prince William and Kate are due to take a mini tour of America next month, ending with the fundraiser at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The event is being held to raise money for St Andrews University in Scotland and is being held to mark the 600th anniversary of the historic establishment. Scroll down for video . The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend a fundraising gala dinner for St Andrews University at the Museum of Metropolitan Art in Manhattan, New York, next month where tickets for a table cost £64,000 . American press have already been given etiquette guides for the visit from the Royal couple, who will tour New York City and Washington DC during a three-day visit from December 7. Guests will need to buy a table for 10 at a cost of £64,000 to get two VIP tickets to the event and be in with a chance to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Sunday Times reported. The Manhattan gala dinner will raise money for St Andrews as well as raise the profile of the Scottish university. The couple met there in 2002 after they enrolled on the same History of Art course. Other guests at the event are likely to include Olivier Sarkozy, half brother of the former French president, and his fiancee Mary-Kate Olsen. It has been organised by Stanislas de Quercize, chief executive of Cartier. Guests must pay £64,000 to be in with a chance to meet the Duchess, pictured at a private dinner in 2011 . The event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is almost sold out and tables for 10 cost more than £60,000 . There are expected to be around 450 guests at the gala dinner where a number of items will be auctioned to raise funds. These include a literary tour of Edinburgh with Ian Rankin and an overnight stay at Highclere Castle, where Downton Abbey is set. The Duke and Duchess will attend a private dinner on behalf of the American Friends of the Royal Foundation on the first night of their visit. The visit to the New York will be the couple's first American trip since they visited Canada in 2011 . Prince William will spend the next day in Washington DC while Kate remains in New York. During his visit, the Prince will attend an anti-corruption conference at the World Bank, focusing on the transportation of illegal wildlife parts across borders. The Duchess will visit a school for disadvantaged children. Prince William will also attend a reception in New York for the Tusk Trust on the same day, before rejoining the Duchess of Cambridge to watch Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Brooklyn Nets. The following day, both the Duke and Duchess will visit an inner city youth organisation, focused on social support and learning for poorer children. The visit will be the first overseas trip by the Duchess of Cambridge since she announced she was expecting the couple's second child, due in April. Kate, 32, had to cancel her first solo engagement to Malta last month after she suffered severe morning sickness. Prince George, who turned one in July, will not accompany the Royal couple to America. He went with them on a three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand earlier this year.
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit America for 3 days in December .
Fundraiser for St Andrews University will be held in New York on final day .
Tickets to event at Metropolitan Museum of Art will cost £64,000 for a table .
Couple first met at the Scottish university in 2002 doing History of Art .
Tickets to dine with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a fundraising dinner for the university where the royal couple met as students are selling for up to £64,000. Prince William and Kate are due to take a mini tour of America next month, ending with the fundraiser at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The event is being held to raise money for St Andrews University in Scotland and is being held to mark the 600th anniversary of the historic establishment. Scroll down for video . The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend a fundraising gala dinner for St Andrews University at the Museum of Metropolitan Art in Manhattan, New York, next month where tickets for a table cost £64,000 . American press have already been given etiquette guides for the visit from the Royal couple, who will tour New York City and Washington DC during a three-day visit from December 7. Guests will need to buy a table for 10 at a cost of £64,000 to get two VIP tickets to the event and be in with a chance to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Sunday Times reported. The Manhattan gala dinner will raise money for St Andrews as well as raise the profile of the Scottish university. The couple met there in 2002 after they enrolled on the same History of Art course. Other guests at the event are likely to include Olivier Sarkozy, half brother of the former French president, and his fiancee Mary-Kate Olsen. It has been organised by Stanislas de Quercize, chief executive of Cartier. Guests must pay £64,000 to be in with a chance to meet the Duchess, pictured at a private dinner in 2011 . The event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is almost sold out and tables for 10 cost more than £60,000 . There are expected to be around 450 guests at the gala dinner where a number of items will be auctioned to raise funds. These include a literary tour of Edinburgh with Ian Rankin and an overnight stay at Highclere Castle, where Downton Abbey is set. The Duke and Duchess will attend a private dinner on behalf of the American Friends of the Royal Foundation on the first night of their visit. The visit to the New York will be the couple's first American trip since they visited Canada in 2011 . Prince William will spend the next day in Washington DC while Kate remains in New York. During his visit, the Prince will attend an anti-corruption conference at the World Bank, focusing on the transportation of illegal wildlife parts across borders. The Duchess will visit a school for disadvantaged children. Prince William will also attend a reception in New York for the Tusk Trust on the same day, before rejoining the Duchess of Cambridge to watch Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Brooklyn Nets. The following day, both the Duke and Duchess will visit an inner city youth organisation, focused on social support and learning for poorer children. The visit will be the first overseas trip by the Duchess of Cambridge since she announced she was expecting the couple's second child, due in April. Kate, 32, had to cancel her first solo engagement to Malta last month after she suffered severe morning sickness. Prince George, who turned one in July, will not accompany the Royal couple to America. He went with them on a three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand earlier this year.
Tickets to dine with the Duke and Duchess of Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The and Duchess of Cambridge will attend a fundraising gala dinner for St Andrews University of the Scottish university. The couple met there in 2002 after they enrolled on the same History dinner in 2011 . The event at the Metropolitan New York will be the couple's first American trip