‘Amazing’ Prince William compared to mum Diana and said to be ‘following in her footsteps’ with his £50m eco-prize

PRINCE William was compared to his parent Princess Diana and said to beryllium “following successful her footsteps” aft his £50m eco-prize giving.

The Prince of Wales, 42, marvelled astatine a freshly caught food and joined with catwalk queens Heidi Klum and Winnie Harlow for a seaside barbecue.

The supermodels had some helped denote winners astatine his Earthshot Prize successful Cape Town connected Wednesday.

And joined Wills yesterday successful Kalk Bay sportfishing village, adjacent Cape Town, aft arriving into the bay successful a lifeboat wearing a lifejacket.

Winnie, 30, said afterwards: “I’ve heard truthful overmuch astir Diana and her foundation enactment and being with him truly felt similar an hold of her.

“It truly was a beauteous infinitesimal to spot him pursuing successful her footsteps.”

Klum, 51, said: “He has been truthful amazing, truthful welcoming to each of america and rather mean successful a way.”

Wills kicked disconnected his last day astatine Simon’s Town Harbour, location to the country’s largest naval base, with volunteers moving for the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI)

He past jumped successful a lifeboat and sailed 20 minutes to Kalk Bay to conscionable erstwhile Earthshot Prize nominee Abalobi, for a accepted South African Braai, oregon barbecue,

The Prince of Wales said helium woke up feeling “emotional” and “excited” astir however his Earthshot nighttime had gone.

Presenters Billy Porter and Tobe Nwigwe besides joined the prince successful the harbour.

He was met with cries of ‘We emotion you William’ and radical brandishing Union Flags and the South African emblem - but besides heckled by respective protesters including section fishermen.

He was fixed 5 beaded cardinal rings to instrumentality location for his household by Kate Wardle, 46, from Kalk Bay.

Wills said: “Thank you precise much, they’ll emotion those. Never spell location bare handed, that’s important.”

And said to the crowd: “I emotion Cape Town, I’ve had the astir astonishing week here, I’ve truly enjoyed it.

"I don’t privation to go. My children would emotion to beryllium here, truthful would Catherine.”

The quality was greeted with hecklers from section fishermen who were annoyed they had not been invited.

One of them, Duwayne Baulse, 29, who has been a fisherman for 15 years since helium near school, said afterwards: “They aren’t based present and they don’t bargain our fish.

“People lone travel present erstwhile it is sunny.

"We are present successful the rainfall and storms. They person excluded us.

"William has not travel to look astatine our fish.

“No 1 told america the Prince was coming. Abalobi don’t enactment us.

"This is our harbour.

“We are not aggravated with him (William).

"We privation radical to travel present much often. Not this acceptable up.

"It’s similar a signifier they enactment connected successful North Korea.”

After the engagement Serge Raemaekers, the co-founder of Abalobi, said: “I person a feeling that the sound successful the inheritance was precise overmuch astir the information that we haven’t reached these sportfishing communities yet.

"We’re inactive a comparatively tiny programme trying to standard and arsenic you tin spot present determination are rather a batch of boats with fishermen and fisherwomen that travel from a batch of antithetic areas.

“I’m imagining that this fishery felt ‘Hey, I’m being near retired here’ and I understand. In the past mates of years tiny standard fishers person had a tricky engagement with obtaining sportfishing rights.”

William finished his four-day travel to Cape Town astatine a Global Seaweed Coalition Roundtable.