Joe Biden shakes hands with Prince William in Boston
The Prince and Princess of Wales have arrived at the 2022 Earthshot Prize awards ceremony in Boston amid their three-day trip to the United States.
Prince William awarded the £1m prize to five innovators tackling climate change. Earlier in the day, William met with US president Joe Biden before touring the JFK Library with Caroline Kennedy, as the Princess of Wales made a solo visit to Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child in Cambridge on Friday.
Meanwhile, sources close to Prince William and Princess Kate have apparently nicknamed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex “the Kardashians” in a sharp response to the trailer for their new Netflix documentary series.
The Times report that “royal insiders” believe that Harry and Meghan “deliberately torpedoed” William and Kate’s visit to the US by allowing the streaming giant to release the first look of the documentary during the US visit.
William and Kate’s trip was “derailed for the second day running by external events,” the outlet said.
On Wednesday, the big royal news story was the resignation of royal household member Lady Susan Hussey following her “unacceptable and deeply regrettable comments” to a Black charity boss.
A source told The Times that Harry and Meghan had been nicknamed “the Kardashians” because “they want all the attention they can possibly get”.
The Princess of Wales wore Princess Diana’s emerald and choker necklace to the Earthshot Prize awards in a moment people are calling the “revenge choker”.
The choker, which is believed to be worth more than $15m, was given to Diana by the Queen who inherited it herself from her grandmother, Queen Mary.
The diamond and emerald choker was last worn by Diana on her 36th birthday.
Royal fans on social media have dubbed Kate’s jewelry choice her “revenge choker,” considering Prince Harry and Meghan Markle released the trailer for their Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan, just one day prior.
Meredith Clark3 December 2022 01:30
Graham Norton skewers Prince William’s godmother over racism scandal
Graham Norton took aim at the royal family during the opening of his show on Friday when he showed the audience a photo of the Prince and Princess of Wales attending a Boston Celtics basketball game.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled and fascinated if I were Prince William looking at a basketball,” Norton said in front of the photo, which showed William looking perplexed at the ball.
“Has he never seen one before? It’s like his godmother talking to a Black person,” Norton joked, in reference to the palace’s recent racism scandal involving Lady Susan Hussey, who repeatedly challenged charity founder Ngozi Fulani about where she came from after she told her she was British.
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Ahead of the Earthshot Prize ceremony, Prince William’s meeting in Boston with US president Joe Biden was met with around 100 protesters hurling abuse at the two men.
The protesters could be heard shouting abusive slogans such as “F*** the royal family” and “Joe Biden is a scab” as the men met at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library in the city.
The protest came after a vote in the US Senate that overrided rail union complaints and rejected giving workers seven days of sick leave.
Meredith Clark3 December 2022 00:30
William and Kate pictured at rehearsals for Earthshot Prize awards ceremony
The Prince and Princess of Wales have been pictured behind the scenes during rehearsals for the Earthshot Prize being staged in the US city of Boston.
William’s environmental awards will see singer Billie Eilish lead a stellar entertainment line-up during a ceremony – dubbed the prince’s “world cup” moment – that aims to celebrate and scale up environmental solutions to repair the planet.
Former England and Manchester United footballer David Beckham will present one of the five awards, with each category winner receiving £1 million to develop their project.
Ahead of the event being staged on Friday evening at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway, the prince is due to meet US President Joe Biden.
But the couple’s three-day trip to Boston, which ends on Friday, has been overshadowed by the race row that saw William’s godmother Lady Susan Hussey resign as a royal aide after she repeatedly questioned a prominent black British-born domestic abuse charity boss about where she “really came from”.
Toby Jones3 December 2022 00:00
Earthshot Prize announces winners of $1m fund to tackle climate change.
Awards were decided across five categories – Protect and Restore Nature; Clean our Air; Revive our Oceans; Build a Waste-free World; and Fix our Climate.
Among the winners was Notpla, a London-based startup which created a green alternative to plastic packaging from seaweed.
Other winners included a Kenyan startup, Mukuru Clean Stoves, which provides cleaner-burning stoves to women to reduce indoor pollution; a women-led, Indigenous program in Australia which uses traditional knowledge and digital technology to protect the Great Barrier Reef; and an Oman-based company which turns planet-heating carbon into rock and permanently store it underground.
Read more about the winners of the $1m Earthshot Prize here.
Meredith Clark2 December 2022 23:49
WATCH: William and Kate join David Beckham and other celebrities on Earthshot Prize ‘green carpet’
William and Kate join David Beckham and other celebrities on Earthshot Prize ‘green carpet’
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The Princess of Wales wore a rented mint green gown to the climate event.
The royal rented the off-the-shoulder dress from Solace London using rental platform HURR – which charges between $91 (£74) and $238 (£194) to loan the gown.
Princess Kate also donned an emerald and diamond choker necklace that once belonged to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana.
Meredith Clark2 December 2022 23:14
Meghan Markle seen boarding private jet after William and Kate flew commercial to climate change event
Meghan Markle has been seen boarding a private jet in Indianapolis after appearing at a female empowerment event in the city.
Fox News Digital obtained video footage of the Duchess of Sussex arriving outside a hanger before boarding the aircraft.
Both the duchess and her husband Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, are vocal environmental activists and have proclaimed through Archewell, the organisation they founded, that they will achieve net-zero emissions by the end of the decade.
The duke’s brother and sister-in-law, Prince William and his wife Kate, are currently in Boston for the Earthshot Prize awards which encourage innovation in sustainability and tackling climate change.
The Prince and Princess of Wales made headlines of their own when they flew to the US from London and were pictured flying on a commercial British Airways flight.
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David Beckham attends the 2022 Earthshot Prize awards ceremony.
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Meredith Clark2 December 2022 22:48
Prince and Princess of Wales walk the Earthshot Prize green carpet during culmination of their three-day trip to the US
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