Kate Middleton is still recovering from her cancer battle. Therefore, her husband made an international trip solo this month.
Prince William, the heir to the throne, traveled to South Africa and hosted a star-studded event for a good cause.
The father of three attended the annual ceremony for the Earthshot Prize. The future King made all the right moves and delivered a stellar speech at the soirée.
His speech focused heavily on the environment and finding solutions to make this planet slightly cleaner. After the eco-friendly event, Prince William did an interview that controversies have now marred.
Some of his words lead to a wild insinuation about him needing Prince Harry for a disturbing reason.
The Prince of Wales spoke to the BBC, opening up about his decision to redefine the Royal Family and its role in the world.
The prince revealed: “I can only describe what I’m trying to do, and that’s I’m trying to do it differently, and I’m trying to do it for my generation. And to give you more of an understanding around it, I’m doing it with maybe a smaller R in the royal if you like; that’s maybe a better way of saying it.”
Prince William said that while he might be royalty, own castles, and mansions, and will inherit more than a billion-dollar fortune, he is not wild about the pomp and ceremony that come with royalty.
The BBC reporter, who traveled and spoke to Prince William, was quick to notice the hypocrisy in his statement, writing: “His two big projects, the Earthshot Prize and Homewards, his homelessness project, are not free of politics. They both also leave him open to accusations of hypocrisy – the wealthy prince, with the comfort of privilege, from his palaces and castles telling us how to make the world a better place.”
Tina Brown of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker reacted to Prince William by saying it was a terrible choice of words in the wake of the official report confirming the Royal Family’s massive net worth.
Brown shared: “He added, an unfortunate choice of words after the Sunday Times revealed days before that William’s and Charles’ ancient Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster are worth an eye-watering £1.8 billion ($2.27 billion) and hold 5,000 properties on 180,000 acres (seized in the centuries after the effing Norman Conquest).”
The journalist went on to insult Prince William’s intelligence by suggesting Prince Harry return to bring him down to reality when he conducts interviews.
She shared that Prince William has become a pinhead who needs his younger brother to help connect with everyday people.
She stated: “In light of all this, William’s comment that his plans for a caring, sharing monarchy also include “throw(ing) some empathy in there” made him sound like a performative pinhead. In happier years, the irreverent Harry (or Harold, as William lugubriously used to call him) could tease the Prince of Wales and take him down a peg. There are too many people around William now who, in Kara Swisher‘s inimitable phrase about those who live in a gilded bubble, “lick him up and down all day.”
Has this interview realigned the map for Prince Harry? Royal insiders say not one bit.
