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Prince William evoked the memory of his late mother this morning on a visit to a homelessness charity she opened more than 30 years ago.
The Prince of Wales, 40, arrived at Depaul UK in London today to meet with people who receive help from the charity, as well as staff working on its programmes.
He follows in the footsteps of Princess Diana who visited the charity in engagements in 1990, 1993 and 1995. Diana opened the first Depaul Trust Hostel in Willesden in June 1995.
William's visit comes in the wake of Prince Harry's attacks on his brother and sister-in-law, Kate in his bombshell memoir, Spare - as the Duke finds himself dragged into a diplomatic row over Iran's execution of a British-Iranian national.
Prince William attended Depaul UK this morning, 30 years after his late mother Princess Diana began working with the charity
Despite an almighty fallout from his brother's memoir, Prince William looked professional as ever on his visit to Depaul UK this morning, following Kate's first solo outing yesterday since the book was released.
During the visit, he met with people who use the service now or have used it in the past, as well as staff members from employability and education programmes run by the charity.
The duke has made working with the homeless one of his key missions as part of his royal duties.
He is patron of Centrepoint homeless charity and in 2020 revealed that he talks to his older children Prince George, now eight, and Princess Charlotte, now seven, about the issue of homelessness.
Speaking to Mary Berry for her Christmas special A Berry Royal Christmas, he said: 'On the school run already, bear in mind they're six and four, whenever we see anyone who is sleeping rough on the streets, I talk about it and I point it out and I explain why and they're all very interested. They're like: "Why can't they go home?"'
Princess Diana first visited the charity in 1990 (pictured on one of her many visits) where she worked with homeless people
Prince Harry, who has launched a series of scathing attacks on his brother William in his memoir, Spare, and interviews to promote the book, has also held the charity close to his heart (pictured visiting in 2017)
In 2019, the duke became the patron of The Passage, an organisation established in 1980 which has gone on to help more than 135,000 people in crisis through its resource centre, homelessness prevention projects and innovative accommodation services.
Diana first took the royal and his brother the Duke of Sussex to the charity in 1993, when the pair were young boys and William has gone on to make numerous public and private trips to the organisation.
In December 2009, a then-27-year-old Prince William spent a night sleeping rough to understand the plight of the homeless at Christmas.
He arrived shortly before midnight and stayed out in temperatures as low as minus 4C (24F), lying in a central London alleyway surrounded by wheelie bins.
Prince William, who has made homelessness one of his main priorities as a royal, appeared in good spirits today
The Prince of Wales chatted with clients as he visited the youth homelessness charity in London earlier today
The second in line to the throne was accompanied by his right-hand man at St James's Palace, former SAS officer Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, one of the Scotland Yard police protection officers who accompany him everywhere and Seyi Obakin, chief executive of Centrepoint.
Dressed in jeans, trainers, a hooded sweatshirt and beanie hat, he went unrecognised as he laid a piece of cardboard down on the
