Prince William: down and out in London
Britain’s prince William, 27, Number Two in line to the UK throne, now knows first-hand what it’s like to be hungry, cold and homeless during the season of goodwill.
Last night he crashed near Blackfriars bridge in central London.
“At a dinner Prince William attended in March 2009 to support Centrepoint, the Prince, our Patron, threw down the gauntlet for us to work towards ending youth homelessness by our 50th anniversary,” says Centrepoint CEO Seyi Obakin, going on:
“I invited him to share, for one night, the experience a young person sleeping rough on the streets of London might have. It did not occur to me that he would pick up that gauntlet. But he did!”
After almost run over by a road sweeper, “I cannot, after one night, even begin to imagine what it must be like to sleep rough on London’s streets night after night,” William is quoted as saying.
“Poverty, mental illness, drug and alcohol dependancy and family breakdown cause people to become and then stay homeless.”
Meanwhile, over at Buck House …
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