‘I want to give people across the UK hope that homelessness can be prevented when we collaborate’
He was 11 years old when his mother Diana, then the Princess of Wales, took him to a homeless shelter for the first time.
That visit to The Passage in London made a huge impression on a young Prince William and has inspired him to teach his own children, Prince George, nine, Princess Charlotte, eight, and Prince Louis, five, about the plight of those living on the streets or in temporary accommodation.
Now it is driving one of his most ambitious projects to date: a mission to prove that homelessness can be eradicated.
With the launch of a five-year programme to tackle the problem across the UK in what would have been her birthday week, the