EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: This is how you should do it! Prince William gives Prince Harry a lesson in fundraising as his Earthshot Prize charity raises a whopping £22.5million in just NINE months

He is suddenly confronted with a future that is much less certain than seemed imaginable a few weeks ago.

But the Prince of Wales, beset by concerns about the well-being of both his wife, Catherine, and, more acutely, King Charles, has just received a timely boost to his morale.

This award is thanks to the Earthshot Prize, initiated by William in 2019 and first awarded two years later, when five winners, in separate categories, received £1 million each for devising solutions to what William described as 'some of the world's biggest environmental problems'.

At the time, Earthshot was managed by the Royal Foundation, set up by Princes William and Harry in 2009 to further their various charitable ambitions.

But in 2022 the prize was divested and run as a completely separate charity.

If there were any doubts that it could flourish, they have now been banished for good.

I can reveal that the new charity – now called the Earthshot Prize – has raised a whopping £22.4 million in revenue in its first nine months alone.

While the Royal Foundation transferred £8.6 million, the rest came from various sources, as just published by the Charity Commission shows.

Donations totaled £7 million, while 'gifts in kind' amounted to just over £3 million, and a grant from the American Friends of the Royal Foundation amounted to a further £2.7 million.

The remaining five percent – ​​​​£1.1 million – came from sponsorship and licensing income.

It's quite a contrast to the achievements of the Archewell Foundation, set up by Harry and Meghan after they resigned from the Royal Foundation.

Figures published by the Internal Revenue Service just before Christmas show that the couple saw donations plummet by £8.7 million, from £10.3 million to just under £1.6 million in one year.

Livia and mom are having some clothing problems

Colin Firth's estranged wife Livia Giuggioli clearly shares her taste in clothes with her mother Paola.

“When I meet my mom for dinner and we're both wearing the same old leopard print coat,” says the film producer turned eco-activist, who shared this photo online from her native Italy.

Livia, 54, has two sons with Bridget Jones star Firth, 63, who she divorced in 2019.

She was reportedly stalked by her childhood friend Marco Brancaccia after they ended their year-long affair in 2016.

She is now dating Scottish climate crusader Callum Grieve, 46, who she calls her 'Master Chef'.

Mixed messages from Marylebone Cricket Club, once a bastion of British taste but better known in recent years for its attempts to appear woke and 'accessible'.

The club has sent members details of a special edition MCC wristwatch made by chic Swiss company Oris.

There has long been speculation about how both MCC and Oris are “aligned with the United Nations' seventeen Sustainable Development Goals.”

And the price of this little timepiece? A not exactly accessible £2,700.

Trump's net loss

He regularly finds himself 'loving Scotland', just like his late mother, who grew up in a Gaelic-speaking household in the Outer Hebrides.

But could Donald Trump, who plans to build a new golf course on his 1,400-acre estate in Aberdeenshire, soon choose that over the US?

I ask because Trump, 77, just lost a bid to gain control of “maralago.com” — a domain name for his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, which doubles as a luxury private members club.

A panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization ruled there was “insufficient evidence” to rule in Trump's favor. Enough to send The Donald shooting straight into a bunker.

Miriam Cates is struggling to win over some fellow Tory MPs to her campaign on the dangers of young people being exposed to extreme porn on the internet.

“They don't really believe it's happening,” she explains.

The MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge describes attempts to talk to colleagues in the House of Commons tea rooms: 'Hi, I hope you're enjoying your eggs on toast, I want to talk to you about porn.'

Cates adds, “It's not very social, is it?”

Why Kevin's Grand Design is top secret

Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud has helped hundreds of homeowners create their dream homes, but he won't invite the cameras into Casa McCloud.

“My own house is close to the Welsh border,” he says. “It's a nice, safe place to be so far away that no one wants to try to get here.

If you put it on television, it would mean there's nothing left.

If there was ever any mystery or intrigue about my home life, it would be blown out of the water and everyone would say, 'Oh, I didn't know it would be so boring.'

McCloud makes one caveat: “I could be convinced otherwise if [the producers] bought my house first. And then I would put it on television.'

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