Prince William: Litter makes George cross

PRINCE George has been litterpicking at school but gets ‘confused and annoyed’ that the rubbish keeps reappearing, his father has revealed.

The eight-year-old couldn’t understand why people keep throwing their mess away, Prince William said. He warned that it would be an ‘absolute disaster’ if George, now in Year 4 at Thomas’s Battersea prep school, London, also had to campaign about environmental issues as an adult.

In an interview with BBC Newscast ahead of his Earthshot environmental awards on Sunday, the Duke of Cambridge said: ‘George at school recently has been doing litter-picking, and I didn’t realise but talking to him the other day he was already showing that he was getting a bit confused and a bit sort of annoyed by the fact they went out litter-picking one day, and then the very next day they did the same route, same time and pretty much all the same litter they picked back up again.’