Prince Harry’s eco-travel organisation underneath growing strain to sack its royal founder after he used personal jet owned by a Texan oil inheritor flew to fly to a Katy Perry live performance

Prince Harry’s eco-travel organisation is coming underneath growing strain to sack its royal founder after he flew to a Katy Perry live performance on a non-public jet owned by a Texan oil inheritor.

The board of Travalyst, which the Duke of Sussex arrange in 2019 when he was nonetheless a working royal, has maintained a wall of silence since information broke of his newest environmentally damaging jaunt.

Final weekend, he and spouse Meghan Markle took a 40-minute flight from an airstrip close to their £14.5 million Californian residence to Las Vegas and again on a Gulfstream jet to observe Ms Perry’s gig.

The journey, which they shared with Hollywood star Cameron Diaz, got here lower than a month after they took a non-public Dassault Falcon 7X airplane from New Jersey to the Caribbean paradise island of Canouan – described as ‘a spot the place billionaires go to flee millionaires’– for a romantic break.

In distinction, Prince William final week took a industrial British Airways flight to Singapore for his environmental Earthshot Prize ceremony.

Critics have referred to as on the non-profit Travalyst organisation to sever ties with their patron and founder over his ‘hypocrisy’. 

One supply who works within the eco-tourism enterprise in Los Angeles stated: ‘It’s a case of ‘do as I say, not as I do’. 

‘Harry makes use of personal jets like taxis whereas telling the remainder of us to journey extra sustainably.’

Royal biographer Angela Levin added: ‘He arrange Travalyst which was all about not utilizing personal planes. He is nonetheless their patron. I feel he ought to get the sack.

‘This kind of behaviour is strictly why we name them eco-hypocrites.’

On social media, TV presenter Kevin O’Sullivan stated sarcastically: ‘Saving the planet, one Katy Perry live performance at a time.’

The Mail on Sunday contacted Travalyst CEO Sally Davey and the corporate’s PR consultant a number of instances.

All 5 board members declined to touch upon the document.

Earlier this 12 months it was instructed that Travalyst is likely to be searching for to distance itself from the jet-setting Prince when he was barely talked about in a press launch saying the appointment of a brand new board. 

However Davey denied these claims, telling Folks journal: ‘Prince Harry is the founding father of Travalyst and stays a useful a part of this organisation.

‘His position has not modified in any manner and he’s repeatedly concerned in strategic discussions and selections alongside our companions and board.’ 

Travalyst’s web site highlights the significance of sustainable journey to guard the planet and boasts of its partnerships with firms together with Expedia, TripAdvisor, Google and Visa bank cards.

Below a piece entitled ‘what you are able to do now’, the web site says: ‘Goal to chop again your carbon footprint whenever you journey by monitoring how a lot you fly and choosing the bottom impression choices the place doable. Take into account alternate options to flying resembling trains, coaches and ferries.’

Harry has beforehand claimed he takes industrial flights ’99 per cent of my life’ and stated he used personal jets to ‘guarantee my household are secure’.

Since 2018, the Sussexes are believed to have flown on personal jets a minimum of 17 instances.

The 2009 Gulfstream Harry used to fly to Las Vegas – owned by oil inheritor Michael Herd – emitted about 1.7 tons of CO2 in its 80-minute spherical journey – as a lot as the typical Brit produces in 4 months.

The flight to Canouan produced about 9.6 tons.

Harry’s representatives had been approached for remark.