Why Kate Middleton Will Not Join Prince William in Singapore for This Year's Earthshot Prize Awards
Last year, Prince William and Kate Middleton walked the green carpet together in Boston for the annual Earthshot Prize awards. However, this year Prince William will be arriving solo as Kensington Palace has announced that Kate will not be joining him in Singapore for the event.
This year’s awards take place on Tuesday, November 7, and the Prince of Wales is expected to also attend a small number of other engagements in the country. After speculation mounted earlier this month following a report in the Daily Telegraph, Kensington Palace has confirmed that Kate will stay at home. It is understood that Prince George has exams that week and that she wants to be there to support him.
Kensington Palace did not comment on questions over what kind of exams the future king is taking, but it could be related to his choice of secondary school. Eton College's website says that it requires prospective students to sit a test during the autumn term of year six (the school year Prince George is currently in) for a place from age 13+. George has been seen looking around Eton with his parents, and Princes William and Harry both started there at age 13.
William and Kate have both made it clear that providing a secure family environment and as normal an upbringing as possible for their children is a top priority. They often structure their engagements and commitments so they can do the school run, and they try to spend the holidays as a family. Kate has previously opened up about juggling her public life with being a mum on podcast Happy Mum, Happy Baby, where she said she “absolutely” suffered from “mom guilt.”
Nevertheless, Kate not attending could be a blow to Earthshot Prize organizers as the pull of the royal couple as a duo on the world stage is especially powerful when it comes to highlighting issues. Yesterday, William and Kate discussed the Prize during a meeting at Windsor Castle with Apple CEO Tim Cook alongside talking about mental health and early years. Prince William founded the Earthshot Prize awards in 2020 in order to inspire optimism around the urgent challenges facing our planet. Taking place over a 10-year period, the aim is to find and fund a total of 50 solutions for the devastating effects of climate change. This year’s finalists were announced as he traveled to New York earlier this month for the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit.
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