Holiday fun: Prince Charles taught sons to pick up litter
PRINCE Charles taught his children the importance of the environment by taking his teenage sons out to pick up rubbish, Prince Harry has revealed.
‘‘We were in Norfolk on school holidays and went out litterpicking with him . . . Both of us thought, ‘This is perfectly normal, everyone must do it.’ We’re there with our, basically, spikes, stabbing the rubbish into black plastic bags,’’ recalls Harry in a BBC film made to commemorate Charles’ 70th birthday on November 14. Harry said he was ‘‘programmed’’ to pick up rubbish by his father, who in the past was criticised for his environmentalism.
Prince Charles is an organic farmer and an advocate for climate protection and threatened species.
Prince Harry made the comments as he and Prince William watched a recording of their father giving a speech in 1970 in which he mentioned the growing throwaway plastic society.