Prince HarryandPrince William‘s“litter picking” tripswith their dad just got easier.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, headed to Caxton Hall in East London on Wednesday for an event with Cleanup UK, an environment protection organization of which she is president. During her visit, she was presented with special gifts to pass ontoPrince Charles‘ two sons – personalized trash grabbers!
Royals reporterRebecca Englishshared a photo of the engraved grabbers on Twitter.
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“He took us litter picking when we were younger, on holiday. We were in Norfolk on school holidays and we went out litter picking with him,” said William, 36. “We thought this is perfectly normal, everyone must do it. We were there with our spikes stabbing the rubbish into black plastic bags.”
“He’s done an amazing job,” added Harry, 34, of his father. “Without telling us what we should be doing or the direction we should go in, he’s just let us learn from the nature of the job, learn from him, learn from mummy.”
Harry continued, “To the point where I used to get taken the mickey out of at school for picking up rubbish. I didn’t go out consciously looking for it but when you go for walks anywhere and you see something and it stands out, you pick it up. And before you know it someone is like, ‘What are you doing? Where are you going to put that?’ It’s like, wow, I’ve literally done this because I’m programmed to do it because my father did it. We should all be doing it.”
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“My father and others have been speaking about the environment for decades – not basing it on fallacy or new-age hypothesis, but rooted in science and facts, and the sobering awareness of our environmental vulnerability,” said Harry. “And while those speeches would sometimes fall on deaf ears, he and others were unrelenting in their commitment to preserve the most valuable resource we have – our planet.”
source: people.com
