The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are coming to America and we’ve got new details on what they plan to do during their visit! 
 
 Prince William and Kate Middleton will head to New York City to take in the sights including the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum and they’ll take in a Cleveland Cavaliers-Brooklyn Nets basketball game. 
 
 On Monday, Prince William will meet with President Obama at the White House and attend a World Bank conference. Meanwhile, his pregnant wife will tour a child development center in Harlem with the NYC’s first lady, Chirlane McCray. 
 
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 The Royal couple will also hobnob with philanthropists to raise money for the Royal Foundation, which gives grants to good causes such as Tusk, the wildlife protection charity. 
 
 During their visit, the Duke and Duchess will meet with Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Tom Hanks and opera singer Renee Fleming. 
 
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 Sadly the William and Kate’s cute 17-month-old son, Prince George, won’t be making the trip with them. 
 
 PHOTOS: Princesses Of The People! 24 Photos Proving Kate Middleton Is A Modern Version Of Lady Di ||||| Sir Martin Stuart Sorrell (born 14 February 1945) is a British businessman and the founder of WPP plc, the world's largest advertising and PR group, both by revenue and the number of staff. Upon his retirement in April 2018, Sorrell was the longest-serving chief executive of a FTSE 100 company.[3] He is also known for being consistently one of the UK's highest-paid corporate executives.[4] Sorrell has served on boards and advisory bodies of a number of high-profile public, academic and business organisations, including several leading business schools, both in the UK and internationally. 
 
 Early life and education [ edit ] 
 
 Sir Martin Stuart Sorrell was born in London on 14 February 1945 to a Jewish family: his father was an electronics retailer,[5][6] whose ancestors came from Russia, Poland and Romania.[7] He was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, then studied Economics at Christ's College, Cambridge[8], and gained an MBA from Harvard University in 1968.[5][9][10] 
 
 Career [ edit ] 
 
 Early career [ edit ] 
 
 Sorrell joined Glendinning Associates, then James Gulliver and then worked for the sports agent Mark McCormack.[11] He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1975, and was group finance director from 1977 until 1984. Often referred to as "the third brother",[12] he designed and carried out many of Saatchi's agency acquisitions.[citation needed] Sorrell undertook this by refining the practice of the ‘earn-out’.[citation needed] 
 
 WPP [ edit ] 
 
 In 1985, Sorrell privately invested in Wire and Plastic Products, a British wire shopping basket manufacturer, and joined it full-time as Chief Executive in 1986.[3] He began to acquire "below-the-line" advertising-related companies, purchasing 18 in three years, including in 1987 when he stunned the agency world with a $566 million hostile takeover of J. Walter Thompson. Sorrell followed this in 1989 with another dramatic hostile $825 million buy of Ogilvy and Mather. Since 2000, WPP has also acquired two more integrated, global agency networks, Young & Rubicam and Grey.[13] 
 
 In 2014, Sorrell received total compensation from WPP of GBP £40 million, his largest annual total since £53 million in 2004.[1] 
 
 In August 2017, Sorrel said that "digital disruption" was forcing companies to change their business models and reach customers in different ways when shares in WPP fell by more than 10% at the start of trading after the advertising giant reported slowing sales and warned about future growth.[14] 
 
 In September 2017, Sorrell criticised the marketing industry, arguing it is "too competitive" and that agencies value winning contracts, whether they are profitable or not, over content since making the headlines in a trade magazine is more important.[15] 
 
 In 2017, Sorrell became the longest-serving CEO of any company featured in the U.K.'s benchmark FTSE 100 Index - having stewarded WPP since 1985. 
 
 In April 2018, Sorrell left WPP after 33 years, following allegations of personal misconduct and misuse of company assets. Sorrell has denied the allegations. Roberto Quarta, chairman of WPP, become Executive Chairman until the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer.[16] 
 
 S4 Capital [ edit ] 
 
 In May 2018, Sorrell acquired Derriston Capital, a cash shell listed on the London Stock Exchange, with plans to create a marketing company called S4 Capital. Sorrell invested $53 million of his money, and raised $15 more from investors.[17] In July 2018, S4 Capital purchased MediaMonks for $350 million, using a share issue to fund the purchase.[18] His previous employer, WPP, claimed that he was using confidential information by pursuing the deal.[19] In December 2018, S4 Capital purchased MightyHive for $150 million.[20] 
 
 Other interests [ edit ] 
 
 Martin Sorrell in 2008 
 
 In 1997, he was appointed an Ambassador for British Business by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and subsequently appointed to the Office's Panel 2000 aimed at rebranding Britain abroad. In 1999 he was appointed by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to serve on the Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership. 
 
 He is a Governor of London Business School, and a member of the Advisory Boards of both the Judge Business School in Cambridge, UK and IESE in Spain. He is also Chairman of the Global Advisory Board of the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), at the University of Cambridge, UK.[21] In 1998, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Associates of Harvard Business School and to the Board of the Indian School of Business.[13] 
 
 On behalf of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he chaired Media.NYC.2020,[22] which reviewed the future of the global media industry, the implications for NYC, and suggested actionable next steps for the NYC government. 
 
 Sorrell was a "Remainer" in the run up to the Brexit referendum,[23] and has expressed support for a second referendum on EU membership once the Brexit terms have been finalized, stating that when "we finally see what the terms are of Brexit, then the electorate can be asked to reconfirm in whichever way possible, referendum or general election platform, that they still want to go ahead.”[24] He also justified new investments in France, Germany, Italy and Spain as a means to protect WPP against immigration caps following Brexit, emphasising the importance of freedom of movement of WPP's work force, 17 percent are from EU countries other than the UK.[25] 
 
 Criticism [ edit ] 
 
 In 2005 Sorrell sold £9m of shares in WPP at the end of a restricted stock holding period. He also agreed to change a contract with the company which had been much criticised by institutional shareholders in WPP as being unfairly written in Sorrell's favour. Under the previous agreement if Sorrell had been terminated, it would have led to a very large payout; the new agreement provided him instead with no termination payment. 
 
 In 2005 his pay was £2.42 million including cash and bonuses.[26] Further he exercised £52 million in share options, was entitled to a further £5.8million in stock, and deferred further options on another 2.65 million shares valued at £15 million until 2008.[27] In 2011 Sorrell's pay package increased by 70% to £4.5 million after WPP's pre-tax profits rose 28%.[28] In October 2011 Sorrell went on the BBC to defend large increases in his and other CEO pay packages[29] at a time when real average wages in the Western world were declining.[30][31] 
 
 Shareholders have criticised aspects of corporate governance at WPP. This came to the fore again in 2006 with the advent of two court cases revolving around alleged corruption in an Italian subsidiary and contract disputes with the US launch of the OK! magazine. 
 
 In June 2008 WPP drew strong criticism for the involvement of an agency, 'Imago', in which WPP's Y&R subsidiary held a minority interest, with the ZANU-PF presidential campaign in Zimbabwe. A report by the Financial Times[32] found out that Imago was employed by Robert Mugabe's campaign for reelection to the presidency of Zimbabwe. WPP subsequently divested Y&R's minority interests in Zimbabwe.[33] 
 
 Following criticism about his pay from investors, Sorrell agreed to a pay cut that would have reduced his salary from £46 million in 2016 to £13 million by 2021.[34] 
 
 Recognition [ edit ] 
 
 He was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours.[35] On 27 September 2007, Sorrell was awarded the Harvard Business School’s highest honour, the Alumni Achievement Award, by Dean Jay O. Light. The award was also given to: Ayala Corp. chair Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, A. Malachi Mixon of Invacare, Donna Dubinsky and Hansjörg Wyss of Synthes.[36] In 2015 he was a Trustee of the British Museum.[37] 
 
 Personal life [ edit ] 
 
 Sorrell is married to Cristiana Falcone, director of media and entertainment industries at the World Economic Forum.[38][39] 
 
 Sorrell was previously married to the American-born[38] Sandra Finestone, with whom he has three sons, but the marriage broke down in 2003, as a result of Sorrell's "obsession with work".[38] In October 2005, he cashed in £12 million of WPP shares to fund the divorce,[40] in which Ms. Finestone, represented by Nicholas Mostyn QC, was awarded a £30 million settlement including: a £3.25m four-storey Georgian townhouse; two Harrods underground car parking spaces worth around £90,000 each; £23.5m in cash; £2m in bank deposits; and other assets including stocks and shares.[38][40][41] Despite the divorce settlement, Sorrell still had 13 million shares, an estimated £80m stake in WPP, at the time of the divorce, which represented around 1% of the company, plus his 2005 pay settlement award.[40] 
 
 The divorce settlement was, at the time, the largest divorce settlement in British legal history,[38] and was unusual in being a 60/40 split in favour of Sorrell — a break from the previously established policy of a 50/50 split even in big-money divorces since an influential ruling by Appeal Court Justice Mathew Thorpe in the 2002 divorce between Harry and Shan Lambert established that the contribution to the household of non-working wives should be considered equal to their husbands'.[41] In the Lambert judgement, Lord Justice Thorpe stated that "special contribution remains a legitimate possibility but only in exceptional circumstances"; Sorrell was the first husband deemed to have met that criterion in a subsequent divorce settlement, with Mr Justice Bennett citing Sorrell's "special contribution" to the family's wealth in justification.[41] 
 
 Sorrell's three sons, Mark, Jonathan and Robert all went to Cambridge University and then Goldman Sachs, although two have since left.[42] Jonathan Sorrell is president of the hedge fund Man Group.[43] ||||| Ker-Ching! 
 
 After raising a cool $2m last night, Will met the President today in DC while Kate visited a Harlem youth project. Later: a possible meeting with Beyonce... 
 
 It was the fundraiser to end all fundraisers, and no one was even asked to do anything so vulgar as to contribute any cash. 
 
 
 
 Prince William and Kate Middleton are believed to have raised more than $2 million for their charity on their first night in New York—without even having to go to the trouble of asking anyone to open their checkbooks. 
 
 
 
 Today, Kate has been touring a developmental centre in Harlem while William has been meeting Obama in Washington DC, but last night, less than an hour after the couple checked in to the storied Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side, they were whizzing downtown to the Gramercy Park apartment of British advertising legend Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP. There, they were the guests of honor at an ultra-exclusive fundraising dinner in aid of their umbrella charity, the American Friends of the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. 
 
 En route to the dinner, William and Kate would have driven past the Empire State Building, which was lit up in red, white, and blue in honor of their visit. 
 
 Kate had changed out of the Seraphine maternity coat dress she wore on arrival at the Carlyle into a black lace Beulah cocktail dress for the party. She smiled for the cameras and posed briefly as she arrived at Sir Martin’s home. 
 
 The dinner began with a short address by Sir Martin’s wife, Cristiana. 
 
 The dinner was strictly private, with just 30 invites issued to New York’s richest philanthropists and their partners. 
 
 Among the attendees were thought to be several senior members of the board of the American Friends. Board members include Blackstone boss John Studzinski; Lucian Grainge, the CEO of Universal Music Group; and former Scots Guards captain and financier Charles Andrews. 
 
 While there was nothing so gauche as a recommended donation for the privilege of dining with the royals, the rumor is that no couple walked out of the gigantic apartment any less than $100,000 lighter, and that many of the guests are likely to have pledged larger sums, meaning the dinner is likely to have raised as much as $2 million in all. 
 
 The dinner was the first stop on a whirlwind three-day tour that saw William travel today to Washington, D.C., where he met President Obama at the White House and succesfully recruited the president into his war on wildlife crime. The President praised Wiliam's efforts to combat illegal wildlife trade, saying: "I think it's very important work." William joked to President Obama that he had forgot to ask whether Prince George was a boy or a girl in the moments after the royal birth. "I didn't work out whether it was a boy or a girl," the Duke told the President. "The excitement of the event and everything else was just chaos, so you're suddenly like: 'Actually it's a boy in the end.'" "You forgot to ask?" Mr Obama said, through laughter, according to an eyewitness report of the meeting in The Telegraph. 
 
 
 
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 With her husband in DC, Kate is undertaking a string of public engagements in New York today, including a visit to a development center in Harlem. Kate waved to onlookers as she arrived in Harlem at 11:15 before going inside the Northside Centre with Chirlane McCray, the First Lady of New York - wearing a coat by British brand Goat, named the Washington. 
 
 The palace has emphasized that Kate’s schedule has been planned to allow plenty of breaks. 
 
 Tonight, Kate and William are due to attend a basketball game in Brooklyn where, rumour has it, Kate might meet Beyonce, an event which threatens to break the internet. The fundraising will continue Tuesday night with a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to support a 600th-anniversary appeal by St Andrew’s University, where the couple first met.
– Prince William and wife Kate arrived in New York last night for their much-anticipated whirlwind visit—and in just their first few hours in the Big Apple, they're thought to have raised $2 million for their charity. The royals were whisked from their hotel less than an hour after checking in and taken to an "ultra-exclusive fundraising dinner" at the apartment of Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and CEO of advertising agency WPP, the Daily Beast reports. Though none of the 30 invitees—all bigwig philanthropists—were actually given a "recommended donation" amount, rumor has it every couple pledged at least $100,000, many of them more. As Kate remained in NYC today, William continued on to Washington, DC, where he met with President Obama in the Oval Office after being given a tour of the White House by VP Joe Biden, the Mirror reports. Click for the rest of the royal couple's itinerary.