The Prince and Princess of Wales tweeted a photo on Wednesday after arriving in Boston that has drawn comparisons to a viral, rain-soaked picture of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex two years ago.
“Boston, what a welcome!” Read the tweet from the royals’ official Twitter account, along with photos of a welcoming ceremony at City Hall hosted by Mayor Michelle Wu and Massachusetts Gov.-elect Maura Healy.
Attached were two photos of the ceremony, one a traditional image showing the royals posing with US officials and the other from an unusual angle towards the back of the stage showing the couple’s backs as the rain fell.
It drew online comparisons to an iconic photo of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle taken in March 2020, just before they gave up royal duties and moved to California, which many described as something “straight out of a movie scene.”
The Prince and Princess of Wales tweeted an unusual photo after arriving in Boston, showing their backs to each other as torrential rain fell
One Twitter user noted that the photo of William and Catherine “isn’t as good as the iconic photo” of Harry and Meghan in the rain, saying the older snap “belongs in the National Gallery.”
The trip to Boston was the Prince and Princess of Wales’ first trip abroad since the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September.
The visit will focus on Prince William’s Earthshot Prize, an initiative to find a new generation of environmental entrepreneurs.
William said he chose to hold the second Earthshot Prize in Boston in part because it is the home of former President John F. Kennedy, whose 1962 speech set the audacious goal of putting people on the moon within a decade.
“It was that Moonshot speech that inspired me to create the Earthshot Prize, with the goal of doing what President Kennedy did for the race to space for climate change. And where better to hold this year’s awards ceremony than in President Kennedy’s hometown,” said William.
The royal visit got off to a rainy, blustery start, but hundreds of people nonetheless waited in a steady downpour for the couple’s first public event at Boston City Hall after arriving on a commercial British Airways flight.
