Prince William today said he hopes his children are ‘proud’ of his Earthshot Prize ahead of the glitzy environmental awards ceremony in Cape Town tonight.
The Prince of Wales also said he hoped Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis and his wife the Princess of Wales would be watching back home.
William was speaking to the BBC and Sky News as he prepared to host his fourth annual Earthshot Awards designed to highlight and scale up the best solutions on the planet to the current environmental crisis.
He also said Kate was ‘doing really well, paying tribute to how she had been ‘amazing’ during her tough year of cancer treatment.
‘She’s doing really well thanks. And… hopefully she is watching tonight. So cheering me on. She’s been she’s been amazing this whole this whole year. I know she will be really keen to see tonight be a success,’ he said.
William said that he and his family, like so many, have conversations about trying to ‘do what they can’ at home.
The prince said: ‘Yeah, well, you know, every family tries to do what they can to sort of help with the environment.
‘We go through all the basics of recycling and making sure we minimise water use and turning off lights when we leave the house and stuff like that, and making sure, which is sensible in what we do around the environment.
‘I think every family has these conversations. You just try to do what you can. ‘
‘The Earthshot Prize has got to be a bit more global than that. We are trying to do big scale ambition and big scale business to tackle some of the solutions.
‘But I brought the children along that journey and tonight I hope they are watching and they are proud of kind of what we are try to do here, which is to really galvanise that energy that enthusiasm to make real impact.’
