I know that neither brother was aware of what the other would be doing today, but that’s what makes the side-by-side comparison ~~perfect~~ to me. Prince Harry, the exiled and scorned spare, arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine earlier today, and he’s already delivered a keynote speech at a major security conference and met with Ukrainian military officials. Meanwhile, Prince William, the heir to the throne, went to see fast race cars go vroom-vroom. Which brother looks courageous, diligent, brave, competent, serious and mature? Which brother looks like a lazy dilettante?
Prince William is speeding into a special day for his son, Prince Louis. Prince William and Kate Middleton’s youngest child turned 8 on April 23, and the Prince of Wales stepped out for a solo royal duty that morning.
William, 43, paid a visit to the headquarters of the British Formula E team, Jaguar TCS Racing, in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, making the trip to highlight the hub’s approach to electrification, innovation and sustainability. Sustainable innovation is a key interest for the Prince of Wales, who is a passionate advocate for the natural world like his father, King Charles, and founded the prestigious Earthshot Prize contest in 2020 to accelerate environmental change through the next decade.
Formula E is the first all-electric international single-seater championship in the world and is considered to be the fastest-growing motorsport series. It is the first sport to be certified with a net-zero carbon footprint since its inception in 2014, and in January, it became the first global sport to achieve a B Corp Certification, a prestigious social and environmental performance standard.
On Thursday, the Prince of Wales got to see its headquarters for himself, touring the state-of-the-art facility and meeting everyone from engineers and graduates to decorated Formula E Jaguar drivers Mitch Evans and António Félix da Costa.
Prince William also got a close look at how the Jaguar team designs, develops and manufactures their I-TYPE 7 and future race cars in-house, and also stepped into the remote operations room from where Jaguar TCS Racing engineers support their colleagues on the track.
Yeah. Timing-wise, I’m sure that William was informed of Harry’s arrival in Ukraine hours before this Jaguar event. Perhaps that explains William’s mostly morose energy – what should have been the highlight of his week, hanging out with fast-car people like a big boy, and it looks like William is preoccupied by his simmering rage. Remember how his staff always claimed that he wanted to visit Ukraine too, but he was told that he couldn’t?? LOL.
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