Prince George uses his loaf to raise funds for wildlife charity

PRINCE GEORGE has followed in the footsteps of Prince William, Charles and Philip as he makes his first foray into saving the planet, holding a bake sale to raise money for a conservation charity.

The eight-year-old Prince held the sale in aid of Tusk, one of the Duke of Cambridge’s patronages, during lockdown, it has emerged.

Charlie Mayhew, chief executive of Tusk, said the Prince wrote a “very sweet card” to accompany the proceeds, telling of his concern for endangered animals in Africa.

He is already known to care about environmental issues. Last year, the Duke disclosed that his eldest son was concerned about the planet, and was “a bit confused and a bit sort of annoyed”

‘George very sweetly did a little cake sale to raise money for Tusk during lockdown’

by littering.

The young Prince is also a fan of Sir David Attenborough’s natural history programmes, although he asked to turn one episode about extinction off after finding it “so sad”.

Mr Mayhew, a long-standing friend of the Duke of Cambridge who was a guest at the royal wedding, told GB News: “Prince George very sweetly did a little cake sale to raise money for Tusk during lockdown and wrote a very sweet card about it, clearly demonstrating his concern for Africa’s wildlife.”

Tusk declined to reveal how much Prince George raised from his cake sale venture. Kensington Palace declined to comment.

The Duke has previously spoken publicly of how he is not willing to look his children in the eye and tell them his was the generation that let wildlife such as elephants and tigers go extinct “on our watch”.

“It’s heartbreaking to think that by the time my children, George, Charlotte and Louis are in their 20s, elephants, rhinos and tigers might well be extinct in the wild,” he said in 2018.