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The Prince and Princess of Wales will fly to the US on Wednesday hoping to shine a light on the climate crisis against a media backdrop obsessed with sibling rivalry and turf war with the Sussexes.
In their first US trip in eight years, Prince William and Princess Catherine are visiting Boston to promote the prince’s environmental Earthshot prize.
Days later the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will also head to the east coast for a prestigious New York awards ceremony where they are being feted for speaking out on the alleged racism they experienced as part of the royal family.
No plans for the brothers to meet during the Waleses’ three-day trip have been made public.
William’s star-studded Earthshot ceremony and Harry and Meghan’s human rights Ripple of Hope awards will also draw focus to America’s own “royal” family – the Kennedys.
Boston was chosen for the second Earthshot annual prize ceremony, to be held on Friday, as the birthplace of President John F Kennedy, whose 1962 “moonshot” speech inspired William to set a similar challenge to find solutions to the world’s environmental problems by 2030. The Waleses will meet the Boston mayor, Michelle Wu, and visit the John F Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum with the late president’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy.
On the following Tuesday, 6 December, Harry and Meghan will attend the Robert F Kennedy Ripple of Hope awards to be honoured for their commitment to social change and human rights work. In widely reported comments Kerry Kennedy, one of Robert Kennedy’s children and president of the foundation, told the Spanish news site El Confidencial: “They went to the oldest institution in UK history and told them what they were doing wrong, that they couldn’t have structural racism within the institution, that they could not maintain a misunderstanding about mental health.
