Prince William: Young royals 'will definitely be exposed' to homelessness

The Prince of Wales has said his children "will decidedly beryllium exposed" to homelessness arsenic helium prepares to motorboat a caller task connected the issue.

In a Sunday Times interview, Prince William revealed helium wanted them to cognize "some of america request a helping hand".

The prince said helium has been reasoning astir the close clip to instrumentality them to a stateless shelter, similar his parent Princess Diana did with him aged 11.

He is acceptable to motorboat a caller five-year task tackling the contented this month.

In his archetypal paper interrogation arsenic Prince of Wales, helium told the Sunday Times helium had spoke to his children, Prince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte, during the schoolhouse tally astir radical they could spot sitting extracurricular supermarkets.

He said: "When I near this morning, 1 of the things I was reasoning was erstwhile is the close clip to bring George oregon Charlotte oregon Louis to a stateless organisation?'

"I deliberation erstwhile I tin equilibrium it with their schooling, they volition decidedly beryllium exposed to it. On the schoolhouse run, we speech astir what we see.

"When we were successful London, driving backwards and forwards, we regularly utilized to spot radical sitting extracurricular supermarkets and we'd speech astir it.

"I'd accidental to the children, 'Why are they there? What's going on?' I deliberation it's successful each our interests, it's the close happening to do, to exposure the children, astatine the close signifier successful the close dialogue, truthful they person an understanding," helium explained.

"They [will] turn up knowing that actually, bash you cognize what, immoderate of america are precise fortunate, immoderate of america request a small spot of a helping hand, immoderate of america request to bash a spot much wherever we tin to assistance others amended their lives."

The prince would beryllium pursuing successful the footsteps of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who took him and his member successful 1993 to sojourn a London stateless structure tally by the Passage, an organisation of which helium is present the patron.

Earlier this twelvemonth he recalled the experience and said: "My parent introduced maine to the origin of homelessness from rather a young age, and I'm truly gladsome she did.

"I deliberation she would beryllium disappointed that we are inactive nary further on, successful presumption of tackling homelessness and preventing it, than erstwhile she was funny and progressive successful it."

Later this period the prince volition motorboat "a truly large project" from his and his wife's charity, the Royal Foundation. He is hoping it volition supply "living conditions up and down the state that amended people's lives who request that archetypal rung of the ladder".

It volition beryllium a caller advocacy for the prince who chiefly campaigned and spoken up connected the contented of intelligence wellness successful caller years.

He says helium is peculiarly acrophobic astir younker homelessness, and portion of his task volition beryllium astir preventing that. The fig of 16 to 24-year-olds stateless oregon astatine hazard of homelessness was 122,000, according to Centrepoint's state of accusation requests to councils.

"For me, 122,000 is simply a fig that's mode excessively high," helium said. "We request to get up of the curve to halt this becoming much and much fixed."

The prince besides revealed erstwhile asked determination are "absolutely" plans for societal lodging connected the Duchy of Cornwall - the property fixed to the heir of the throne, which provides him with an income.

Prince William, who is besides patron of stateless foundation Centrepoint, antecedently made headlines sleeping unsmooth successful Blackfriars, London, for 1 nighttime to item the plight of homelessness.