How William channeled Diana to refocus the monarchy after Andrew scandal ...Middle East

Beneath the majestic statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooking Rio de Janeiro, Prince William recalled his mother but also gave us a glimpse of the future of Britain’s monarchy.

It was a carefully designed picture opportunity set up by Kensington Palace officials to pay tribute to the host city of his environmental prize this year but also the memory of Princess Diana.

In recreating an iconic photograph of her 1991 trip with the then Prince Charles to the Brazilian city, the heir to the throne stressed his role in perpetuating Diana’s legacy, evoking memories of her groundbreaking humanitarian and campaigning work.

It’s a sign of what to expect from the senior royal, especially when he becomes King – and after a tough period for the Royal Family, it was also likely to be a tactic to switch public attention away from his disgraced uncle Andrew.

William, 43, is taking forward his mother’s work. “All she wanted to do was what healed the world,” Diana’s friend and confidante, Simone Simmons, an energy healer, said, noting the similarities between mother and son. “William knows what he wants and gets it done. He wants to help the world.”

On a five-day trip to Brazil, he was mobbed by people with stories of meeting his mother. “He’s been incredibly struck by the number of people who fondly remember his mother’s visit to this beautiful city,” a Kensington Palace spokesman said in Rio.

The royal author Phil Dampier was on that 1991 trip and remembered the way Charles and Diana received a tumultuous reception from the Brazilian people, just as William has this week, although it was one of their last joint trips before their marriage collapsed.

He sees William, and Harry’s, informality with people and ability to get on with anyone whatever their background as Diana’s biggest legacy. “He is totally at ease with people. That comes from Diana. Before Diana the royals weren’t really like that,” Dampier said.

Ingrid Seward, another friend of the late Princess and a royal biographer, recalled Diana saying it was William’s temper more than anything where he most resembled her but she sees them both as mould-breakers. “She always used to say that he was just like her,” the author said. Asked if William would change the monarchy, she replied: “I think he is going to have to. She broke the mould and I think he will.”

Last year in a speech marking the 25th anniversary of the Diana Award, the charity created in her memory, William explained it like this: “She taught me that everyone has the potential to give something back; that everyone in need deserves a supporting hand in life.”

In Brazil this week the Prince has shown signs of how he intends to put that into practice. He has sought to switch public attention away from Andrew to his efforts to help save the planet from environmental catastrophe.

In Rio on a trip to stage his Earthshot Prize, a £50m, decade-long global competition to encourage environmental innovation to repair the planet and also to attend the COP30 UN climate change conference in the Amazonian city of Belem, the heir to the throne has been showcasing his more campaigning style of monarchy.

He has paid tribute to his father too, of course. In speaking out on the environment he is following in the footsteps of the King, who has spent more than half a century warning about the dangers of environmental Armageddon.

“I grew up with my father – the King – talking about the power of nature and the importance of harmony in the natural world, a subject he has championed for over five decades,” he told the UN conference in Belem.

Calling for urgent, coordinated action from world leaders, he urged them to cut carbon emissions more quickly. “All of us here today understand that we are edging dangerously close to the Earth’s tipping points, thresholds beyond which the natural systems depend on may begin to unravel,” he said.

Pointing to increasingly frequent extreme weather events, he said climate change was not a distant threat. “It is affecting lives across the UK and across the world, from small towns to major cities, from coastal communities to inland regions. No corner of the globe will be unaffected.”

William’s trip and this week’s remembrance activities, 80 years on from the end of the Second World War, have been used by the Royal Household to try to move on from the immediate crisis over Andrew and smooth over some of the tensions inside the family that surfaced while the King was coming under pressure to take harsher action against his recalcitrant brother during the past few weeks.

Kensington Palace officials have insisted that William supported his father’s leadership but they have not denied that the heir was angry at the King’s initial decision on 17 October to allow Andrew to remain a prince while no longer using his royal titles and honours.

Some courtiers close to the King were frustrated by reports that William was the driving force behind the decision to strip Andrew of everything royal. Charles, they said, consulted with William and the wider family but had always wanted to go further.

He had tried to persuade his brother to see the need himself and then when that failed to happen, had to wait for advice from legal and constitutional experts. “He is one of the world’s great convenors of people,” one source said. “He hoped that Andrew would come to his own decision. Pressure was applied but it never happened.”

William has made little secret of his antipathy towards his uncle, whose controversies over his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Esptein show little sign of ebbing away after he was summoned to give evidence by members of the US congress this week.

The Prince of Wales has also made it clear he intends to continue speaking out about the need for urgent action to tackle climate change despite the collapse in cross-party political consensus in Britain on policies such as net zero. Nigel Farage condemned the King as an “eco-loony” when he was Prince of Wales and William’s approach may lead to similar criticism from the populist right.

“In many ways, it makes it even more important that he speaks out,” one source said, while insisting that the Prince would not get embroiled in detailed policy discussions.

William’s speech at COP30 was billed by the palace, however, as a clarion call to speed up the move to net zero carbon emissions. The Prince has warned of the need to pursue United Nations targets to make significant inroads into cleaning up the planet by 2030. Those goals include the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which requires a 43 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by then to limit irreversible global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

His Earthshot Prize, inspired by US President John F Kennedy’s challenge to get Americans to the moon in the 1960s, encourages innovation in five categories by 2030: protect and restore nature; clean our air; revive our oceans; build a waste-free world; and fix our climate.

A spokesman for William said: “The Earthshot Prize is committed to showcasing the ingenuity and impact of its finalists in a way that inspires optimism. As Prince William has said, their solututions prove that the road to 2030 is not only possible, it’s already being paved.”

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