The Prince of Wales will meet President Joe Biden on the last day of his visit to the United States. William will be greeted by Mr Biden at Boston's John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Friday.
In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales will attend the Earthshot Prize ceremony, where five winners will rewarded for their environmental efforts. The three-day trip to Boston has been overshadowed by events back in the UK.
Lady Susan Hussey, the Prince of Wales' godmother, has resigned form her role in the royal household after sparking a controversy which has left the monarchy facing accusations of institutional racism. At a Buckingham Palace reception, she repeatedly questioned Ngozi Fulani, a prominent black British-born domestic abuse charity boss, about where she “really came from”.
The prince’s estranged brother, the Duke of Sussex, and his wife are not expected to attend the environmental awards on Friday. On the second day of the Waleses’ first overseas trip since the death of the Queen, the trailer for Harry and Meghan’s Netflix docu-series was released.
The one-minute film featured never-before-seen private photographs of the couple, who live in California. In one section of the footage, Meghan appears to be wiping away tears while Harry sits and tilts his head right back, seemingly in distress.
A Kensington Palace spokesman reiterated comments made ahead of the trip that the Waleses would not be “distracted” by other things this week and their focus was on meeting communities and local people across Boston. The couple were greeted by cheers from the crowds on Thursday as they arrived at Greentown Labs, a tech hub which has been nurturing a community of climate pioneers for more than a decade.
In a contrast to the drama in the UK, there was a lighter moment during the visit when the couple met eight-year-old Henry Dynov-Teixeira who was dressed as a guardsman in replica scarlet tunic and bearskin. The youngster handed Kate a bunch of red roses and said he was “thrilled” to meet the royals in person.
William and Kate also visited Boston’s windswept waterfront in temperatures that felt well below freezing due to the windchill. The prince and princess heard about the history of the waterfront, much of it built on manmade land and now in danger of being reclaimed by the sea.
