Prince William Opens Up About His Children’s Reaction To Learning About Homelessness

How many of us live so sheltered a life we can’t believe the worst of conditions and situations can befall a human being? Not Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte.

The young royals have actually been clued in on this totally helpless and unwanted situation by their father, Prince William, who is on the front lines of eradicating it.

Here’s everything he had to say about his conversation with his kids.

Prince William Explained Homelessness To His Children So They Don’t Live “In Their Own Worlds”

Prince William talked about homelessness in his ITV1 and ITVX documentary, ‘Prince William: We Can End Homelessness.’

He said: “When you are that small you are just curious and trying to work out what’s going on. You ask the question ‘why are they sitting there?’ My mother would talk to us a bit about why they were there and it definitely made a really big impact.”

When asked whether he’s started discussions with his children – Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and George, six – on the issues of homelessness.

He responded: “I am probably already doing it on the school run. The first few times I thought ‘do I bring this up or should I wait to see if they notice?’ Sure enough, they did. They were sort of in silence when I said what was going on.”

He also said: “I do think it is really important that you start these conversations when the children are small so they understand the world around them, rather than just living in their own worlds.”

Prince William On How Mother Princess Diana Exposed Him To the Topic of Homelessness

Prince William was a young lad himself when his mother decided to expose him to the cause by taking him and his younger brother Harry to The Passage, a charity that caters to homeless people and others at the risk of it.

He recalled, “My mother took me to The Passage; she took Harry and I both there. I must have been 11 at the time, maybe 10. I had never been to anything like that before, and I was a bit anxious about what to expect.”

“My mother went about her usual, making everyone feel relaxed, having a laugh and joking with everyone,” he said. “I remember at the time kind of thinking, ‘Well, if everyone doesn’t have a home, they’re all going to be really sad.’ But it was incredible how happy an environment it was.”

The realization caused him to improve his worldview and led to his determination to eradicate homelessness in modern Britain.

“I remember having some good conversations, playing chess, chatting and that’s when it dawned on me that there were other people out there who don’t have the same life as you do. You know, when you’re quite small, you just think life is what you see in front of you and you don’t really have concept to look elsewhere. It’s when you meet people, as I did then, who put a different perspective in your head and say, ‘Well, I was living on the street last night,’ and you’re like, ‘Woah.’ I remember that happening.”

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