Hidden detail in Kate and William's cash that shows up Harry and Meghan, and impresario's blast at A-list luvvie that's got everyone talking: 'He should know better': EDEN CONFIDENTIAL

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Hidden detail in Kate and William's cash that shows up Harry and Meghan, and impresario's blast at A-list luvvie that's got everyone talking: 'He should know better': EDEN CONFIDENTIAL
Published: Jan, 16 2025 01:44

Their respective new years could scarcely have begun in more starkly contrasting manner. Here, the Princess of Wales has been welcomed at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital, both by patients and by those staff who successfully treated Catherine for cancer.

 [The Duchess of Edinburgh was served an orange birthday cake at The Company Shop in Lambeth, south London, yesterday]
Image Credit: Mail Online [The Duchess of Edinburgh was served an orange birthday cake at The Company Shop in Lambeth, south London, yesterday]

Over in California, on the other hand, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been bruisingly derided as ‘disaster tourists’ after handing out food to Los Angeles fire victims. Now, I can disclose, the ever-expanding gulf between the two couples has been unsparingly highlighted by the fortunes of their respective foundations.

 [Anne Robinson is to host a live version of The Weakest Link this Saturday to raise money for her village's school]
Image Credit: Mail Online [Anne Robinson is to host a live version of The Weakest Link this Saturday to raise money for her village's school]

The Earthshot Prize – established by Prince William in 2019 to devise solutions to ‘some of the world’s greatest environmental problems’ – has just released its annual report showing that it is going gangbusters. The uninitiated could be forgiven for missing this, given that Earthshot’s total income for the year was up only a relatively modest four per cent, at £23.5million.

 [Robbie Williams is played by a CGI monkey in his biopic, Better Man]
Image Credit: Mail Online [Robbie Williams is played by a CGI monkey in his biopic, Better Man]

But that overlooks the fact that no less than £8.6 million of the £22.5million raised the previous year was a one-off donation from The Royal Foundation, set up by William and Harry in 2009 to further their various charitable ambitions. There was no such donation for this year for the Earthshot, which in 2022 was hived off from The Royal Foundation to be administered as an entirely separate charity. So its underlying income from donations increased by a whopping 68 per cent.

 [Michael Sheen was stopped from adding to his Laurence Olivier collection]
Image Credit: Mail Online [Michael Sheen was stopped from adding to his Laurence Olivier collection]

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