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Prince William has described the “tense” standoff he’s having with son George over whether the lad can get his own mobile phone. The 12-year-old is increasingly wanting access to a cool pocket gadget and Wills said it is causing an “issue” in the family . He is now considering giving the heir a mobile when he attends secondary school, but it’ll be an old-fashioned 90s ‘brick’ style device with no internet access to protect George from the worst bits of the web. William spoke to broadcaster Luciano Huck about the issue that many parents are facing while in Brazil, where he travelled to stage his Earthshot Prize in Rio de Janeiro. And the Prince of Wales spoke candidly about he and his wife’s decision not to let Prince George, Princess Charlotte or Prince Louis have mobile phones yet. He said: “It’s really hard. Our children don’t have phones. I think when George moves on to secondary school, then maybe he might have a phone that has no internet access. “And to be honest, it’s getting to the point where it’s becoming a little bit of a like tense issue.” Wills added: “But I think he understands why, we communicate why we don’t think it’s right. And again, I think it’s the internet access I have a problem with. I think children can access too much stuff they don’t need to see online. “And so having a phone and text message, the old sort of brick phone as they call them, I think that’s fine.” He also revealed that he and Catherine share the school run and he attends sports days, matches and plays in the garden with his children when he can. “I’m the taxi driver, Luciano,” he joked in a video shared to Instagram. “Taxi driver, sports days, matches, playing in the garden, where I can. "School run, most days. I mean, Catherine and I share it. She probably does the bulk of it.” Mr Huck, who hosted William’s Earthshot Prize on Wednesday, and the Prince of Wales spoke from a cable car with Brazil’s Sugarloaf mountains visible in the background. It comes as Rio’s city council president, Carlo Caiado, announced on Monday that William will be made an honorary citizen of Rio De Janeiro, known as a carioca. Asked by Mr Huck what kind of world he would like to leave for Prince George when he becomes king, William said: “I care a lot about the environment and the world that the next generation are going to inherit, because all the social issues we want to deal with will start from actually our natural world. “And so if we don’t get that right, there’s no chance of us being able to feed the world, be able to look after the world, be able to build houses for the world, have space to grow crops, all this sort of stuff. “It’s all intertwined. And so the world I want to pass on to my children is one that I would love to inherit when I was a child. “And I think we all want to do that is give, give the world in a better place than when we inherited it.” For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters .
