![\"Prince](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/54413787616_c08b468ee4_k.jpg\")
The future king had plenty of questions for Angus on the tour. Image: Andrew Parsons \/ Kensington Palace<\/p>\nThe future king had plenty of questions for Angus on the tour. Image: Andrew Parsons \/ Kensington Palace<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asked about Invisible Cities, how I got involved with Invisible Cities, how the setting up of the Aberdeen branch was going, things related to the tour that I was actually talking about, the type of housing. The tour I do is sort of bricks and mortar and cement-based because I\u2019m an old crumbly building worker. So it was a mixture of asking about Invisible Cities and about Aberdeen. It\u2019s a rather unique building landscape, you might say, and it\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBack when I was selling the Big Issue I never thought I\u2019d be giving Prince William a tour of Aberdeen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The future king\u2019s visit also saw him meet new graduates from Invisible Cities\u2019 most recent trainees at Aberdeen\u2019s Trinity Hall.<\/p>\n
Guides undertake four weeks of training and upon graduating they can either become a guide or have gained skills they are able to take onto other employment opportunities.<\/p>\n
![\"Prince](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/54414173175_37005c084b_k.jpg\")
Prince William received a unique tour of Aberdeen. Angus, like Invisible Cities\u2019 other tour guides, creates his own route and offers his own perspective on the tour. Image: Andrew Parsons \/ Kensington Palace<\/p>\n
Angus told the Big Issue that his experience at Invisible Cities has convinced him of the concept\u2019s potential to boost employment opportunities.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s similarly convinced that Prince William\u2019s Homewards mission can help turn around the growing UK homelessness crisis.<\/p>\n
Advertising helps fund Big Issue\u2019s mission to end poverty<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I began Invisible Cities I was really only thinking of some occupation for myself, an income and a job,\u201d said Angus. \u201cAs time has gone by, I\u2019ve become really engaged with it and I think it\u2019s really good that we collaborate with other things such as Homewards, Social Bite and so on. To be quite honest, I didn\u2019t know about Homewards before the Prince\u2019s tour came up. It\u2019s always good, the more people who get to know the better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s 100% positive. He was quite clearly genuinely interested. It\u2019s not like a thing that he just does. I\u2019m aware some people have criticism and say: \u2018Oh, what does a royal know? They live a life of privilege.\u2019 I think that\u2019s completely irrelevant. As a royal, and having a life of privilege, he could quite easily not do this. I think it\u2019s totally a positive and he\u2019s in a very good position to do this and he\u2019s doing it very well.\u201d<\/p>\n
![\"Prince](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/54412919687_5f05c6dc85_k.jpg\")
Prince William was in Aberdeen as part of his mission to end homelessness through Homewards. Image: Andrew Parsons \/ Kensington Palace<\/p>\n
Each Invisible Cities tour is crafted by the tour guide themselves, ensuring a unique insight into each city.<\/p>\n
Angus told Big Issue that this one-of-a-kind perspective is not only a good way of seeing lesser-known parts of the city, it also helps to break down barriers between people experiencing homelessness and the rest of the general population.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cInvisible Cities is quite different in every way from the better-known touring guide companies,\u201d said Angus. \u201cOne thing that is different is that each guide is making their own tour. There is no company tour or company script as such. My Edinburgh tours \u2013 I did two different ones \u2013 were both out of my own head and that\u2019s the same for all our guides. It\u2019s kind of our individual view.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the fact that all the guides have experienced homelessness and vulnerability, so it gives us a different insight on the place we live in. It\u2019s also a contact. For perfectly understandable reasons, most people have never had any real contact with a homeless person and I think it\u2019s very good to show that we can do stuff, we can be useful. It\u2019s a slightly different insight. We tend to know places and cities that other people either don\u2019t know or don\u2019t talk about. Because we have lived in those corners.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertising helps fund Big Issue\u2019s mission to end poverty<\/p>\n If you want to catch a tour with Angus, he will be showing tourists around Aberdeen on Friday afternoons. Tours also operate in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and York. Head to Invisible Cities\u2019 website<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n Do you have a story to tell or opinions to share about this?\u00a0Get in touch and tell us more<\/a>.\u00a0Big Issue exists to give homeless and marginalised people the opportunity to earn an income.\u00a0To support our work buy a copy of the magazine<\/a>\u00a0or get the app from the\u00a0App Store<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Google Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Image-CTA-1658.png\")
<\/p>\n![\"Prince](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/54414035848_b031e0701f_k.jpg\")
Prince William also met the first graduates of Invisible Cities\u2019 training programme in Aberdeen. Image: Andrew Parsons \/ Kensington Palace<\/p>\n