Long a champion of environment causes, the heir to the throne, 64, told ITV’s This Morning show on Monday: “I’ve gone on for years about the importance of thinking about the long term in relation to environmental damage, climate change and everything else. We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren, to leave them with the real problem.”
Saying “I don’t want to be confronted by my future grandchild and have them say, ‘Why didn’t you do something?’ ” Charles went on to state, “So clearly now that we will have a grandchild, it makes it even more obvious to try and make sure we leave them something that isn’t a total poisoned chalice.”
Charles – recently named among the U.K.’s best-dressed gents – also spoke of his concern for son Prince Harry, 27, currently serving in Afghanistan.
“If you are a parent or relation to a loved one and that person is away in incredibly dangerous and challenging circumstances, I know you worry all the time,” he said. “Certainly every night I worry. But he loves what he is doing and he’s brilliant at it.”
