The Prince of Wales has been given a Blue Peter badge for launching a prize that finds environmental options to restore the planet.
William will obtain his inexperienced badge from Blue Peter presenter Joel Mawhinney through the sixty fifth birthday particular episode of the long-running CBBC youngsters’s programme on Friday.
Earlier recipients of the badge embody naturalists Sir David Attenborough and Chris Packham in addition to local weather campaigner Greta Thunberg and The Final Of Us star Bella Ramsey.
William launched his Earthshot Prize in 2021 to find and scale up inexperienced know-how with the winners in 5 classes – also called Earthshots – receiving £1 million every to develop their concepts.
He has additionally executed the foreword to a youngsters’s e book, referred to as The Earthshot Prize: A Handbook For Dreamers And Thinkers: Options To Restore Our Planet, which was revealed on Thursday.
Co-authored by Jonnie Hughes and Colin Butfield, it goals to encourage younger individuals to develop their very own concepts to assist the Earth.
Gold Blue Peter badges – the programme’s highest award – have been introduced to the King and Queen forward of Eurovision this yr, and the present Prince and Princess of Wales have been recipients of the identical honour in 2017.
Whereas receiving his newest badge, William will assist Mawhinney showcase a wall that includes drawings and letters despatched in by viewers themed round nature and the atmosphere.
Mawhinney, who can also be a magician, can even present the Prince of Wales a card trick.
Throughout the Blue Peter sixty fifth birthday particular, footballer turned pundit Alex Scott, Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker, former Paralympian Ellie Simmonds and health teacher Joe Wicks can even have a good time the founding of the present.
A contented birthday Blue Peter message will probably be featured on the BT Tower in London and former presenters Matt BakerLindsey Russell and Radzi Chinyanganya will make an look within the Salford studio.
Different celebrations this yr embody a brand new e book badge designed by Sir Quentin Blake, greatest recognized for his prolonged collaboration with Roald Dahl, and a collaboration with science fiction collection Physician Who that may see 500 followers obtain a winners’ badge subsequent month.
The BBC mentioned Monday is the date of the sixty fifth anniversary of the primary broadcast of the programme and this yr additionally marks the sixtieth birthday of the Blue Peter badges which have been launched in June 1963.
Different badges embody e book, blue, sport silver, inexperienced, purple, orange, gold and music.
The episode with William will probably be proven at 5pm on Friday on CBBC and BBC iPlayer.