Prince William kept his cool during a fireside chat with CNN when asked about the Royal Family’s current dramas with Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
It’s been a rough few months for the Royals, with King Charles having officially stripped Andrew of his princeship and all other titles.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Prince William about his recent comments about wanting ‘change for good’ when he’s crowned.
Instead of delving into the Andrew drama and ongoing alleged rift with his brother Harry and wife Meghan, he pivoted his focus back onto his organisation, Earthshot.
He pointed out people in the room who are making change, adding: ‘Change will come from backing them, not by what I do.
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‘I want to surround myself with people who want to make change and do good in the world’.
William and Amanpour went on to chat about being a leader for his three children and young people ‘around the world’.
‘For my children, particularly, knowing that the planet’s going to be in a better, healthier state because of the people in this room is something I love to tell them when they go to bed – it’s going to be great, your future is going to be as bright as futures gone by and that’s a really important message for all us to hear,’ he said.
‘A world without hope and a world without positivity is a pretty depressing place.’
The Prince of Wales is currently on his first trip to Brazil, and will end it by meeting Indigenous peoples to hear about the role they play in protecting critical ecosystems.
William travelled to the South American country to stage his Earthshot Prize in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.
He told delegates, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer: ‘Where Indigenous people and local communities have secured land rights, deforestation is lower, biodiversity is richer, and carbon is better stored.
‘Let us build a future where Indigenous people and local communities are recognised as global climate leaders – where their rights are protected, their voices heard, and their knowledge respected as vital to the health of our planet.’
The royal family’s Andrew drama explained
The ex-Duke of York has been stripped of his titles and given an eviction notice for his beloved Royal Lodge.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has put pressure on the royal family for years, and they finally did something about it.
He is no longer known as ‘Prince Andrew’ or the ‘Duke of York’, making him a commoner, but he is still eighth in line for the throne.
Prince William and his brother’s rift
Prince Harry began his journey away from royal life shortly after his marriage to actress Meghan Markle in 2018 – a move they documented in their controversial Netflix series ‘Harry & Meghan’, released in two parts in December 2022.
From the outside looking in, the relationship between the two brothers, who once walked side by side as boys behind their mother’s coffin after her untimely death in Paris in 1997, has suffered terribly over the last few years.
Things seemingly came to a head between them during a confrontation, detailed in Harry’s autobiography ‘Spare’, where the Duke of Sussex accused the Prince of Wales of physically attacking him.
Buckingham Palace has consistently refused to comment on any of the details and accusations that Prince Harry has made.
In one of Spare’s most astonishing allegations, Harry states that William ‘grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor’ during an altercation where Harry says William called Meghan ‘difficult, ‘rude’, and ‘abrasive’.
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