Kate Middleton and Prince William Will Rewatch the Biggest Earthshot Prize Yet with Kids When They Return Home

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• Kate Middleton and Prince William are jetting to Mumbai, India, for the biggest Earthshot Prize yet, aides say

• The Prince and Princess of Wales are set to walk the green carpet at the glittering awards evening on Nov. 17

• Keeping up with the news back home will be the couple’s children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis

When they begin their first overseas tour together for four years on Nov. 16, Kate Middleton and Prince William will kick off an action-packed few days of Bollywood, sport and highlighting the royal heir’s key project: the Earthshot Prize.

Mumbai is to be the biggest version of Prince William’s environmental awards evening yet. The country was chosen because India has produced more winners and finalists than any other country in the previous five years of the project.

“No other country has contributed more success stories to the Prize,” says a spokesman for their office at Kensington Palace.

This is the first time Princess Kate has joined her husband on an overseas tour for four years. The couple was last able to be together at an overseas event for the Earthshot Prize ceremonies in Boston in 2022. Since then, family reasons meant Princess Kate missed the following year in Singapore, and 2024 and 2025 came in the wake of her cancer treatment and the subsequent gradual, measured return.

In Mumbai over three days, the couple will also spend time with communities and will see them visiting a range of sectors and initiatives, from sustainable urban transport and responsible manufacturing to youth-led environmental action and India’s influential creative industries. The couple will also promote and cement the close and enduring relationship between the two countries by highlighting sporting links and the importance of culture, like the Bollywood film and thriving entertainment industry.

Prince William will spend much of the three days highlighting some of the success stories around his Earthshot Prize, which seeks to find solutions to the planet’s pressing environmental problems, and the centerpiece will be the glittering awards ceremony. Actors Rami Malek and Simone Ashley will join the awards night host, Karan Johar, and Earthshot ambassadors Robert Irwin and Nomzamo Mbatha in showcasing the best of the ideas in the running for the prizes.

The awards night will open with the Earthshot Orchestra, led by Mumbai composer and pianist Merlin D’Souza, performing The Chemical Brothers’ “Galvanize.” They will be joined on stage by Wild Wild Women, India’s first all-female hip hop collective, for a high-energy rap performance.

Award-winning Indian singer Shreya Ghoshal, one of the country’s most celebrated playback singers, and British chart toppers Take That will also perform. They will be joined by a host of Indian and global stars across music, film, and sport.

For the first time, the Awards Night will reach an unprecedented global audience across more than 240 countries and territories in over 40 languages on Prime Video, meaning William and Kate’s children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — can follow it back home.

“All of the Wales family look forward to watching the Earthshot Prize ceremony when it’s available,” a royal source says. Once the couple is back from India, “they can all watch it together at home in Windsor.”

CEO of the Earthshot Prize Jason Knauff calls this year the “biggest Awards yet in the world’s most populous country.”

Speaking at a pre-tour briefing, he said, “At Earthshot, we look for solutions that can change the world and inspire people to believe what’s possible. And the biggest story in the world right now is not just the very real challenges our planet faces. We believe that the biggest story is also the movement of people rising to meet them.”

“It is our most diverse cohort yet – from global big businesses and coalitions to cities and entire countries. Together, they show how we can achieve rapid and remarkable progress for our planet.”

“And Mumbai is the ideal place to come together to celebrate their achievements. India represents both the scale of the environmental challenge and the opportunity to solve it.”

This year, there is the added element of the children’s prize, the biggest “youth outreach” in the competition’s history. The I CAN Earthshot Challenge has involved one million school children across 15,000 schools in 24 states in India, and William has been talking to his children about it, a royal source confirms.

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The royal heir is also set to attend The Earthshot Prize Impact Assembly and meet the 2026 Earthshot Prize Finalists in an iconic Mumbai location, much like he did in Rio de Janeiro last year, when they gathered at the statue of Christ the Redeemer.

The Prince and Princess of Wales’ spokesman at Kensington Palace added, “This year’s Prize will celebrate India’s innovation, entrepreneurship, culture, young people and environmental leadership. It will bring some of the most exciting environmental solutions on the planet together in one of the most dynamic cities on the planet.”

“But above all, it will be about what comes next. About finding the people building a better future, backing them, and helping their ideas go further.”

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