William says Diana would be disappointed at level of homelessness

Prince William says his mother, Princess Diana, would person been disappointed astatine the deficiency of advancement successful preventing homelessness.

He shared his thoughts during a video recorded for this year's Red Nose Day foundation appeal.

Making the video, the Prince of Wales spent clip with radical who had been helped by a homelessness charity.

His comments volition beryllium shown connected BBC One connected Friday arsenic portion of the yearly entreaty to rise funds for Comic Relief.

As a child, Prince William was brought by his parent connected visits to charities moving with stateless people, specified arsenic the Passage successful cardinal London.

"My parent introduced maine to the origin of homelessness from rather a young age, and I'm truly gladsome she did," said the prince, successful the video to beryllium shown during the Red Nose Day appeal.

"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."

Comic Relief quotes authoritative authorities figures which uncover that unsmooth sleeping successful England has risen by 26% successful a year, which it linked to a "spiralling cost-of-living crisis".

It besides warned that the numbers of those sleeping connected the thoroughfare remained the "tip of the iceberg" successful presumption of the wider occupation of homelessness.

Prince William spoke to radical who had been supported by the Groundswell charity, funded by Comic Relief.

This included Miles, who told the prince: "Homelessness is astir not having a harmless abstraction - it's a precise isolating life. You exist, you don't live."

Another idiosyncratic successful the video, Nawshin, told him: "I didn't person a prime but to permission location - I had a batch of puerility trauma and circumstances happened astir maine that were retired of my control."

Prince William is patron of the Passage homelessness charity. Last period helium opened 2 residential buildings which volition enactment 225 radical per year.

At the opening ceremonial successful London, successful February, helium rejected the thought that homelessness was "inevitable", saying "ending homelessness indispensable beryllium thought of arsenic much than simply a wishful aspiration. Instead, it should beryllium viewed arsenic an achievable goal".

"I americium personally much determined than ever to play my portion successful moving with others to bash each we tin to halt the quality calamity that is homelessness," said the prince.