The Prince of Wales has spoken of his deep non-public connections with Africa – forward of his environmental Earthshot Prize awards rite in Cape The town in South Africa nearest date.

“Africa has all the time held a distinct park in my middle – as someplace I discovered sympathy as a teen, the place I proposed to my spouse,” said Prince William ahead of his visit.

Prince William’s mother, Diana, had many associations with the continent, including supporting a mine-clearing charity, and his return there as a young man seemed to have left an emotional impact.

It was in Kenya that the prince proposed to Catherine during a romantic trip in 2010.

Despite the fact that Africa generates the fewest emissions for world warming, lots of its international locations are some of the maximum susceptible to situation alternate.

The emphasis of the awards is on tangible effects, scaling up excellent concepts to assemble a larger affect. As an example, certainly one of closing age’s finalists was once a challenge to leave wind air pollution from automotive tyres and that’s now being advanced in a partnership with Uber in the United Kingdom and US.

“Through the top of the date, I need the Earthshot Prize to have equipped a platform to all the ones innovators bringing about alternate for his or her communities, inspired doable buyers to hurry African answers to scale and impressed younger folk throughout Africa who’re occupied in situation problems,” says Prince William.

In keeping with the green theme, guests will arrive on a green carpet rather than red and South African landmarks will be illuminated in green light.

The prince will attend the awards rite on 6 November, which is able to component a efficiency of a track from the Lion King on lead of Desk Mountain, with the development to be had on BBC iPlayer.