The Prince of Wales has recalled playing chess and chatting with people during his first visit to The Passage homelessness charity with his mother, more than 30 years ago, in a new documentary. William said he was “a bit anxious as to what to expect” before his first visit, and remembered his mother – Diana, Princess of Wales – “making everyone feel relaxed and having a laugh and joking with everyone”. He told the ITV1 and ITVX documentary – Prince William: We Can End Homelessness: “My mother took me to The Passage.
She took Harry and I both there. Diana, Princess of Wales during a visit to the homeless charity The Passage with her sons (The Passage/PA) “My mother went about her usual part of making everyone feel relaxed and having a laugh and joking with everyone. “I remember at the time kind of thinking, ‘well, if everyone’s not got a home, they’re all going to be really sad’.
But it was incredible how happy an environment it was. “I remember having some good conversations just playing chess and chatting. That’s when it dawned on me that there are other people out there who don’t have the same life as you do.
“When you’re quite small, you don’t really, you just think life is what you see in front of you and you don’t really have the concept to look elsewhere and it’s when you meet people, I did then, who put a different perspective in your head and say like, well, ‘I was a living on the street last night’, and you’re like �.