Prince William has been given a Blue Peter badge for launching a prize that finds environmental options to assist restore the planet.
The Prince of Wales will obtain his inexperienced badge from Blue Peter presenter Joel Mawhinney in the course of the sixty fifth birthday particular episode of the long-running CBBC youngsters’s programme on Friday.
Previous recipients of the badge embrace naturalists Sir David Attenborough and Chris Packham in addition to local weather campaigner Greta Thunberg and The Last Of Us star Bella Ramsey.
Prince William launched his Earthshot Prize in 2021 to find and scale up inexperienced expertise with the winners in 5 classes – often known as Earthshots – receiving £1m every to develop their concepts.
He has additionally written the foreword to a youngsters’s e book, referred to as The Earthshot Prize: A Handbook For Dreamers And Thinkers: Solutions To Repair Our Planet, which was revealed on Thursday.
Co-authored by Jonnie Hughes and Colin Butfield, it goals to encourage younger folks to develop their very own concepts to assist the Earth.
Gold Blue Peter badges – the programme’s highest award – had been introduced to the King and Queen forward of Eurovision this yr, and the present Prince and Princess of Wales had been recipients of the identical honour in 2017.
While receiving his newest badge, William will assist Mawhinney showcase a wall that includes drawings and letters despatched in by viewers themed round nature and the atmosphere.
Mawhinney, who can be a magician, may even present the Prince of Wales a card trick.
During the Blue Peter sixty fifth birthday particular, footballer turned pundit Alex Scott, Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker, former Paralympian Ellie Simmonds and health teacher Joe Wicks may even have a good time the founding of the present.
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A contented birthday Blue Peter message will likely be featured on the BT Tower in London and former presenters Matt Baker, Lindsey Russell and Radzi Chinyanganya will make an look within the Salford studio.
Other celebrations this yr embrace a brand new e book badge designed by Sir Quentin Blake, greatest identified for his prolonged collaboration with Roald Dahl, and a collaboration with science fiction collection Doctor Who that can see 500 followers obtain a winners’ badge subsequent month.
The BBC stated Monday is the date of the sixty fifth anniversary of the primary broadcast of the programme and this yr additionally marks the sixtieth birthday of the Blue Peter badges which had been launched in June 1963.
Other badges embrace e book, blue, sport silver, inexperienced, purple, orange, gold and music.
The episode with William will likely be proven at 5pm on Friday on CBBC and BBC iPlayer.
Source: information.sky.com”