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Prince William makes candid Royal Family admission as feud with Prince Harry continues

GB News logo GB News 19.06.2023 13:24:07 Georgina Cutler

Prince William has made a candid admission regarding the Royal Family during his latest interview.

During the sit down chat, the Prince of Wales also spoke of his desire to end homelessness in the UK.

William admitted that not everybody sees the point of the Royal Family and the public feud with his brother, Prince Harry has "taken up far more airtime".

The Prince of Wales said that he appreciates that it is "hard sometimes to see what the family bring and what we do" but explained that the royals "help people where we can".

The prince also revealed his plans to end homelessness, which has been a lifelong ambition following in the footsteps of his mother Princess Diana.

This month, William will launch "a really big project" from his and the Princess of Wales's Royal Foundation, his first significant intervention as heir to the throne.

"We're all very busy and I think it's hard sometimes to see what the family bring and what we do," he told The Times.

"But the amount of causes, the interests, the dinners, the meetings, the visits, whatever it is, that we do day in, day out, throughout the year, we've always been involved in that.

"It's part of what we do. It's trying to spotlight other causes, other people, other interests, and help people where we can. We'll continue to do that."

William said he was 11 when Diana first showed him a homeless shelter in London and since then has long campaigned to raise awareness of the problem.

He told the Sunday Times: "When I left this morning, one of the things I was thinking was, 'When is the right time to bring George or Charlotte or Louis to a homeless organisation?' I think when I can balance it with their schooling, they will definitely be exposed to it.

"On the school run, we talk about what we see. When we were in London, driving backwards and forwards, we regularly used to see people sitting outside supermarkets and we'd talk about it.

"I'd say to the children, 'Why are they there? What's going on?' I think it's in all our interests, it's the right thing to do, to expose the children, at the right stage, in the right dialogue, so they have an understanding.

"They [will] grow up knowing that actually, do you know what, some of us are very fortunate, some of us need a little bit of a helping hand, some of us need to do a bit more where we can to help others improve their lives."

Last year, William was spotted selling copies of The Big Issue with no media in tow, but was soon recognised by passers-by.

"It's very hard to make it not about me - [that's] what I don't want to do. That was about promoting homelessness. If you're doing to go and do genuine gestures, you do them privately, you don't do them with an audience," he said.

Speaking about the homeless people he has met, he added: "In my job, I get to meet these people, I get to hear the stories, I get to feel it, I get to see it. That for me - and I've heard from them themselves - matters an awful lot.

"They've become invisible. It's really important that society acknowledges that there is somebody there and they're having a tough time. It shouldn't happen but it's right there. You can't ignore it."

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