The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge have a new reason to be proud of their eldest son, Prince
George. It has been revealed that the eight-year-old royal organized a cake
sale during lockdown to raise money for a conservation charity.
Charlie Mayhew, chief
executive of Tusk, told GB News that George, who turns nine next months,
wrote a “very sweet card about it” telling of his concern for
endangered animals in Africa.
“Prince George very
sweetly did a little cake sale to raise money for Tusk during lockdown and
wrote a very sweet card about it, clearly demonstrating his concern for
Africa’s wildlife,” Mr. Mayhew revealed.
It’s clear that George is
following in his father’s footsteps, sharing the same passion for animals.
Prince William, who is the patron of Tusk and a prominent campaigner on
environmental issues, has previously spoken publicly of how he is not willing
to look his children in the eye and tell them it was his generation that let
wildlife such as elephants and tigers go extinct “on our watch”.
“It’s heartbreaking to
think that by the time my children, George, Charlotte and Louis are in their
20s, elephants, rhinos and tigers might well be extinct in the wild,” he
said in 2018.
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Prince William is passionate about the environment
The 40-year-old royal said of
some rhinos he saw on a trip to Africa that they “are so threatened they
have more bodyguards than I do”. Tusk declined to reveal how much Prince
George raised from his cake sale venture.
It’s safe to say Prince
William’s passion for the environment comes from his own father, Prince
Charles. To mark his 70th birthday, the green-fingered Prince guest-edited
Country Life magazine.
In the magazine, William
revealed: “His passion for the environment and the natural world is
something I want to repeat in the way I raise George, Charlotte and Louis.
“My father taught me
about the natural world around us, from the burns to the trees to the
hills,” William added. “My father’s focus on the environment is
something I’ve looked up to all my life. His unwavering commitment to rural
issues and the countryside has been a big inspiration to me and something I am
keen to emulate and teach my children about.”
