Prince William Is Recreating a Sweet Family Tradition Started by Princess Diana With His Kids

He plans to get George, Louis, and Charlotte involved with a cause that was close to his later mother's heart.

Prince William and his kids are following in Princess Diana's footsteps. The royal is reportedly gearing up to take his and Kate Middleton's three children. Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, on a visit to a homeless center—"a move which echoes his own visits to homeless shelters as a child with his mother Princess Diana," Hello reports.

In a recent interview with The Times, William revealed that he often talks to his three kids about homelessness after seeing people on the streets on the way to their school.

“When I left this morning, one of the things I was thinking was, ‘When is the right time to bring George or Charlotte or Louis to a homeless organisation?’ I think when I can balance it with their schooling, they will definitely be exposed to it. On the school run, we talk about what we see," he said. "When we were in London, driving backwards and forwards, we regularly used to see people sitting outside supermarkets and we’d talk about it."

The Prince of Wales continued, “I’d say to the children, ‘Why are they there? What’s going on?’ I think it’s in all our interests, it’s the right thing to do, to expose the children, at the right stage, in the right dialogue, so they have an understanding. They [will] grow up knowing that actually, do you know what, some of us are very fortunate, some of us need a little bit of a helping hand, some of us need to do a bit more where we can to help others improve their lives.”

William's desires to expose his children to the difficulties of homelessness comes amid the announcement of his two-part ITV television series, Prince William: We Can End Homelessness, set to air on ITV1 and ITVX this fall. The program will detail the royal's journey as he launched Homewards—his initiative across the U.K. to prevent and ultimately end homelessness—and will "capture the stories of individuals currently facing homelessness and those with lived experience,” per the series' official press release.

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