{"id":644930,"date":"2025-12-20T21:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644930\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:13:11","slug":"prince-george-joins-prince-of-wales-in-visit-to-homelessness-charity-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644930\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince George joins Prince of Wales in visit to homelessness charity | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince George joined his father the Prince of Wales on a visit to a homelessness project to help with Christmas lunch preparations in London.<\/p>\n

Prince William<\/a> took his son to the Passage Charity in central London, more than 30 years since he first visited with his mother, Diana the Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n

The father and son donned aprons as William poured brussels sprouts on to an oven dish and George laid Yorkshire puddings out on to a tray ahead of cooking.<\/p>\n

In a video posted to the Prince and Princess of Wales\u2019s YouTube account on Saturday, William and his eldest child, 12, were seen chatting to guests, decorating a Christmas tree and helping to lay the table.<\/p>\n

A post on the Prince and Princess of Wales\u2019 X account said: \u201cProud to join volunteers and staff at The Passage in preparing Christmas lunch \u2013 this year with another pair of helping hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales and Prince George with Brain and Sarah, service users of the passage in central London. Photograph: Andrew Parsons\/Kensington Palace<\/p>\n

In the footage, William, 43, rubbed The Passage\u2019s head chef Claudette Hawkins\u2019 shoulders and George laughed as he helped prepare other vegetables for the roast dinner.
Visiting the shelter in Victoria during the Christmas period has become a tradition for the Prince of Wales, after he also helped out in 2023 and 2024. His first visit in 1993 came as an 11-year-old.<\/p>\n

William is the charity\u2019s royal patron and with his own Homewards project he aims to help eradicate homelessness in all its forms.<\/p>\n

Last year, he told the ITV1 documentary Prince William: We Can End Homelessness<\/a> how his first visit to The Passage had impacted him.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI remember at the time kind of thinking, well, if everyone\u2019s not got a home, they\u2019re all going to be really sad.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it was incredible how happy an environment it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember having some good conversations just playing chess and chatting. That\u2019s when it dawned on me that there are other people out there who don\u2019t have the same life as you do.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re quite small, you don\u2019t really, you just think life is what you see in front of you and you don\u2019t really have the concept to look elsewhere and it\u2019s when you meet people, I did then, who put a different perspective in your head and say like, \u2018well, I was a living on the street last night\u2019, and you\u2019re like \u2018woah\u2019, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince George joined his father the Prince of Wales on a visit to a homelessness project to help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-644930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115753963091381107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}