Royal Encounter! Kate and William's Boston Trip Behind the Scenes
06-12-2022
By Jawad Hussain
The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Boston, and PEOPLE covered every event, including backstage at the Earthshot Prize Awards.
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I've followed Kate Middleton, Prince William, and the royal family professionally for nearly five years and personally for even longer.
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(Teen Prince William was definitely a crush of mine, and my college roommates and I tried to stay up all night to see him marry Kate in 2011 from our dorm room in New Jersey...we fell asleep but caught the replay.)
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When the Prince and Princess of Wales were traveling to the US, I joined PEOPLE's team and packed my bags for Boston—Alexa, play Dropkick Murphys.
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Royal reporters in the U.S. face an ocean and a five-hour time difference (at least). I was within feet of Prince William and Princess Kate for three days in Boston.
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And while any royal encounter would be amazing, their journey to Boston was big: not only was this their first trip to the U.S. since 2014 (I still have a blurry phone shot of the Empire State Building lit red, white and blue in their honor!),
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This was their first international journey as Prince and Princess of Wales. It was Prince William's second Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony and the first hosted outside the U.K.
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The stakes were high, and Boston was humming from the time I arrived—even the hotel valet eagerly told me, "The Prince and Princess are in town!"