Three days in a row of “work” from Prince William, I’m shocked! He’s about to go so deep underground whenever his kids have the next school holiday, I’m sure. Not that anyone in the British media will remark on it – we never even got any secondary reporting on that little “family ski holiday” after Christmas, and I still have my doubts as to whether William was even there. Anyway, on Monday, William and Kate attended a Holocaust Remembrance event in London. On Tuesday, the feudal landlord cosplayed Farmer Huevo and asked actual farmers about the cost of living. And today? He played with kids for something to do with Earthshot.
Prince William is paying a visit to one of his Earthshot Prize’s most recent group of finalists. The Prince of Wales, 42, made a trip to Guildford on Wednesday, Jan. 29 to stop by NatureMetrics, a 2024 Earthshot Prize finalist that enables companies to measure and report on their impact on nature and ecosystems.
According to Kensington Palace, NatureMetrics uses its unique technology to revolutionize the scale and accessibility of nature data collection through environmental DNA (eDNA), helping commercial and conservation organizations make more informed choices to better protect and maintain biodiverse ecosystems.
NatureMetrics was a finalist in the Protect and Restore Nature category at the fourth iteration of William’s Earthshot Prize Awards, held in Cape Town, South Africa last November. Since the company became a finalist, NatureMetrics has secured a $25 million investment, raised with support from The Earthshot Prize’s investment platform Launchpad, according to Kensington Palace.
During his visit Jan. 29, Prince William watched a demonstration of NatureMetrics’ eDNA sampling process at its onsite lake, and was joined by local schoolchildren who are learning about The Earthshot Prize as part of their studies. Prince William was also joined by science communicator Big Manny, a 27-year-old science-first content creator and music artist, who is collaborating with The Earthshot Prize to introduce its environmental solutions to young people around the world.
As someone who has written about Earthshot for so many years now, one of my biggest complaints was always that it could and should function as a way for international groups/companies to innovate together, and that Earthshot should do more to serve as a “launchpad” to get those companies more investment and funding, because the actual “Earthshot Prize money” is negligible in the world of environmental investment/startups. And now it seems like someone at Earthshot – someone who was probably not William – actually thought to put that investment “launchpad” within Earthshot. On one side, good – that’s the one thing which will actually make a huge difference. On the other side, it’s basically an admission that even with the platform of Earthshot, these companies and projects still weren’t getting the financial boost they needed. What’s also fascinating is that William has not explained this at any point – this is all coming from Kensington Palace’s press release. They just send that bearded egg out to make an ass out of himself for photo-ops.
The beard trim continues to be so ODD.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- The Prince of Wales with local school children as they filter DNA samples through a syringe after extracting water from a local pond in order to see what species live in it, during a visit to 2024 Earthshot Prize finalist, NatureMetrics, in Guildford, Surrey, a UK based nature company which enables companies to measure and report on their impact on nature and ecosystems. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Guildford, United Kingdom When: 29 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales with local school children as they filter DNA samples through a syringe after extracting water from a local pond in order to see what species live in it, during a visit to 2024 Earthshot Prize finalist, NatureMetrics, in Guildford, Surrey, a UK based nature company which enables companies to measure and report on their impact on nature and ecosystems. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Guildford, United Kingdom When: 29 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales with local school children as they filter DNA samples through a syringe after extracting water from a local pond in order to see what species live in it, during a visit to 2024 Earthshot Prize finalist, NatureMetrics, in Guildford, Surrey, a UK based nature company which enables companies to measure and report on their impact on nature and ecosystems. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Guildford, United Kingdom When: 29 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales makes a mini extraction of DNA, during a visit to 2024 Earthshot Prize finalist, NatureMetrics, in Guildford, Surrey, a UK based nature company which enables companies to measure and report on their impact on nature and ecosystems Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Guildford, United Kingdom When: 29 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales makes a mini extraction of DNA, during a visit to 2024 Earthshot Prize finalist, NatureMetrics, in Guildford, Surrey, a UK based nature company which enables companies to measure and report on their impact on nature and ecosystems Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Guildford, United Kingdom When: 29 Jan 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
He looks creepy when he’s at play. He needs a better stylist also.
The header photo for this post is literally one of the worst pictures I’ve ever seen of him.
That scraggly-ass beard needs to go.
Doesn’t he travel with official photographers? None of these pics are particularly flattering but at least the one with the kids shows he has a pulse. The side view comb-up shows how in need of a professional barber he is.
Wow he was really out there this week that Harry was supposed to still be in London if the trial had gone on as planned lol. So many photo ops. Invictus starts in early February so he will be out there hustling photo ops again lol. Then he will need a very long vacation.
And not one genuine journalist at any of these events willing to ask him about H’s win against The Sun/Murdoch. Why did he secretly settle with Murdoch instead of pursuing his claim publicly? Why has he supported and worked with The Sun to rehabilitate its public image despite what the paper did to him and his family? Why has he chosen to whitewash (through his support of the paper) The Sun’s unlawful actions to the public?
The UK economy had zero growth from July to September 😳 but William makes 30 million a year for playing with water 😮😮😮do they have any vacancies???
He looks very awkward
Lol, he’s like a Barbie doll – Diplomat Huevo, Farmer Huevo, Scientist Huevo, and the beard is extra.
But this is good, that the finalists are getting recognition and funding. On the other hand, the PR is stupid. Who thought it was a good idea to promote Earthshot by playing with Super Soakers? It’s like yesterday’s “he loves worms” – infantile and not serious about the organization he’s supposed to be supporting.
He’s just Will. But is he will-enough? The potential to inform corps and orgs about environment impact is kind of like travalyst, minus the travel, but still similar yeah?
Worms and super soakers. It’s the Will-quivalent of going down a slide, wheeee!, for a photo-op. Someone’s gotta fill in for Kate’s slide photo-ops. But he’s just Will.
No, earthspit is not like Travalyst. earthspit awards financial prizes to for-profit companies that have developed products and business processes that address environmental harms. earthspit also awards financial prizes to countries with a specific conservation or ecological solution that needs funding. Financial prizes are determined by a council comprised of “global influencers” including that Attenborough dude who thought there were too many people being born in Africa, and governed by Willy, Jason Knauf and others.
Travalyst, as CEO Sally Davey explains, operates in a pre-competitive environment by getting competitive for-profit companies to agree to frameworks that are easily comparable to help consumers make sense of information that helps them choose less-harm environmental solutions to travel they’re planning. For example, consider Google support of TIM, Travel Impact Model (https://travelimpactmodel.org/about-tim – includes link to GitHub code.)
I don’t think earthshot is like travalyst but just that this particular finalist was similar in giving corps and orgs a reading on their environmental impact. But the comparison might not work?
This particular finalist, for-profit NatureMetrics, is being given a leg up by earthspit prize, and given more access to venture funding. Willy has always said that for-profit model was important to him. So, if you think it’s important for a BRFCo member to give preference to a for-profit company over any others with competing processes or technology, then imho you clearly support monarchy. The earthspit model is not unlike royal warrants since it’s run by Willy. If you’d like to know more about environmental DNA (eDNA) check WWF projects, gov agencies USGS, NOAA, Dept of Interior, US F&W, NIH, as well as educational institutions.
@Eurydice you made me love. Love it. Diplomat Huevo, Farmer Huevo, Scientist Huevo… rofl
And him in that labcoat is the worst. Are we really supposed to take that seriously?
I still don’t know who won Earthshot. William’s doing all this work because they thought Harry was going to be in the UK for the NGN case. It was probably too late to cancel these engagements.
What a freakin’ lightweight he is.
Better than wasting water playing with kiddos maybe talk about using sustainable energy like solar or wind on the property he owns. And since homelessness is an environmental issue. It being connected to water quality, public health, and climate change. He could also fix up those properties and house the unhoused.
Maybe even get a farmer or two to help with using some of the land for gardening. Maybe?
He is useless, lazy and dumb as a bag of hair.
Why would Willy trouble himself to fix up substandard Duchy rental properties that leak internal heating and cooling to the outside when he can just as easily exempt himself from repairs?
Will reminds me of the children ‘s 1970s cartoon character, For US Cbers Mr Benn enters a magical costume shop where he travels to places dictated by his costume, and solves problems within a 25 minute episode. Obviously our Will just does the cos play part and doesn’t actually solve problems although he does stay 25 minutes!
Link to Mr Benn so you can see who Will is copying!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065322/episodes/?season=1
What a cute concept!
Where are his safety glasses and haircap in the laboratory pic?
He’s sitting at a fairly well closed-in work station, behind a partition, rather than an open chem bench. Look at the actual lab employee behind him–no glasses or cap. Completely depends on the work you’re doing.
UGH. This Angry Egg with his stuck-on beard who calls breathing “work”.
He looks completely blotto in the first photo whilst having the time of his life. When Chuck was 42 in 1990 he didn’t undertake such juvenile antics as “work” did he? Okay maybe they can’t overtax Will in any sense of the word but this is all so lame, where is the sense of purpose or gravitas. It seems like one serious event on Monday must be balanced by a fun activity so Will can enjoy himself playing?
I think Elizabeth would have slapped him up side the head if he’d behaved like William. She sent him pretty much everywhere on her behalf and he obeyed.
@Eurydice ah yes, Will and the Power of No, I won’t do it and you can’t make me! No wonder they just let him play splash about with the other kids!
Chuckie never played, even as a child. He was always dressed in a suit & tie, even in his pram.
@Beanie, you beat me to it, I was just about to say I don’t think Charles ever played like this, even at the age of two, let alone 42. The man was born in a three-piece suit.
Sorry, have to disagree with you both about Charles! He wasn’t always a stick in the mud in boring three piece suits; as a younger man he was known for his sharp style. Check these out (I will admit the header photo of him at Cambridge in the Tatler article is unfortunate) :
https://www.esquire.com/uk/style/fashion/a16566/prince-charles-style/
https://www.tatler.com/gallery/king-charles-iii-best-style-moments#:~:text=He%20mastered%20perfect%20rural%2Dchic,for%20the%20future%20of%20fashion.
Interesting neither of his sons took after him with respect to personal style (we now know Harry wouldn’t have had the money). And somewhere along the way, whatever sense of fun Charles expressed in his attire definitely seemed to have shriveled up and died, long before his recent health concerns. He’s looked older than 75 for a while, you’d almost never know he’s the same person as pictured in the above links. But then, his chosen partner is a woman whose clothing is primarily variations of your basic housedress; perhaps they’re just growing more alike over time.
That first picture in the Tatler article shows what a good choice Josh O’Connor was to play young Charles in The Crown.
Also, Charles looked surprisingly good with a beard in one picture!
@Bedazzled – never saw The Crown so have no opinion on Josh O’Connor! But agree that Charles looked surprisingly good with a beard. He looked good, Harry looks good – wonder what happened to Will!
Also interesting about the Tatler article is it’s chronological, so you can see the point where the stuffy three piece suit really became the norm for Charles (with the occasional kilt thrown in). It was around 2005 – his hair was grayer, he was putting on weight, and looking much less spry. He was only 55 at that point but visibly aging.
I guess KP doesn’t care how obvious all of this is, just because Harry was expected to be in the UK this week. Pegginton didn’t work this much the whole of last year!
How hollow Peg’s life is that it’s all merely a reaction to his little brother’s successes. I would’ve thought his ego would be too big to be reduced to just useless competition. 🤷🏾♀️
Let’s get this straight: This person will shortly be King of England? Gotcha…
5 news just stated that Will enjoyed spraying press with pond water at this event?! He looks like he has found his happy place here, doesn’t he?
What is going on with the beard??? Yikes.
Infantile. Ugly.