The Power 1000: George is King of the capital - baby prince takes top spot on our most influential Londoners list

 
20 September 2013

Prince George was today crowned the most influential person in London, in the Evening Standard’s annual Power 1000 list.

The eight-week-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was chosen because he has become the capital’s biggest global ambassador.

The baby prince eclipsed Mayor Boris Johnson, who topped the list of London’s most influential people a year ago.

New Bank of England Governor Mark Carney was ranked third because of his power over the economic recovery, above Prime Minister David Cameron in fourth and Chancellor George Osborne in fifth.

A panel of Evening Standard critics and specialist reporters picked the Power 1000: London’s Most Influential in association with Battersea Power Station. Editor Sarah Sands said: “London is a magnet for the rest of the world and our newest power resident, Prince George, is a timely symbol.

“He is our greatest tourist attraction, along with his great-grandmother, which is why he has been chosen this year as the first among Londoners.”

Five members of the royal family made the top 20, including the Duchess of Cambridge, Princes William and Harry, and The Queen.

Many other new names have shot to prominence in the list, which covers every walk of London life — from high finance to food, politics to theatre, music to sport.

Model Cara Delevingne has been named in the top 20 because of her domination of the catwalks at London Fashion Week and her huge social media following. Tennis star Andy Murray has also been recognised after his triumph at Wimbledon and new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was picked after his comments about the need to reform the City. Harry Styles, the 19-year-old heart-throb from One Direction, the world’s best-selling boy band, was the youngest person after Prince George to make the top 20.

The Evening Standard will reveal the full Power 1000 at a glittering party tonight at Battersea Power Station. Boris Johnson will be the guest speaker and there will be music from soul singer Andreya Triana, jazz band Tomorrow’s Warriors and campaigning rapper Sister Fa.

The event will be the last major party to be held at Battersea Power Station before the site is transformed into an £8 billion, 39-acre state-of-the-art residential and office complex, one of the most ambitious redevelopments seen in the capital. The Power 1000 will be available online and on our iPad app from 9pm tonight, with reports and photographs from the launch party available on the Standard’s website, and on Twitter with the hashtag #power1000.

A special print edition of the Power 1000 will be available with tomorrow’s Standard at selected locations.

In recognition of the excitement surrounding the birth of Prince George, this year’s edition has a new section called Ambassadors featuring Londoners who are standard-bearers for the capital around the world.

Movers & Shapers is focused on the developers, architects and engineers who are transforming the capital above ground and below — from Battersea in the west to Tech City in the east, with Crossrail underneath it all.

Ms Sands said: “The 1000 is a power list of coruscating imagination and innovation. London has never felt more vivid or open to possibilities.”

The top power players

1 Prince George
2 Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
3 Mark Carney, Bank of England Governor
4 David Cameron, Prime Minister
5 George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
6 Theresa May, Home Secretary
7 Duchess of Cambridge
8 Andy Murray, tennis player
9 Ed Miliband, Labour leader
10 Sir Peter Hendy, Transport Commissioner
11= Princes William & Harry
12 Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister
13 Natalie Massenet, Net-a-porter founder and British Fashion Council chair
14 Bernard Hogan-Howe, Metropolitan Police Commissioner
15 Sir Nicholas Hytner, National Theatre artistic director
16 The Queen
17 Harry Styles, One Direction singer
18 Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
19 Sir Paul Nurse, Royal Society president and Nobel Prize-winning geneticist
20 Cara Delevingne, model

The full Power 1000 list will be available from 9pm tonight on standard.co.uk and on our iPad app

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