The two-part documentary Prince William: We Can End Homelessness comes out this week. Prince William wants people to focus on his vanity project rather than enjoying Halloween with your family. Ahead of the air date, ITV released a new clip from the documentary where William actually says his brother’s name:
The Mail is like “OMG HE SAID ‘HARRY’.” But actually watching the clip, the whole thing is strange – it’s like he’s trying to reclaim Diana’s memory while also showcasing his stunted perspective on problem-solving homeless issues. Speaking of, the Guardian has more quotes from this documentary and it gets even weirder:
Prince William has said criticism about his privileged lifestyle and many residences drives him to try to end homelessness in Britain. The heir to the throne was challenged to respond to jibes about his three homes and 135,000-acre Duchy of Cornwall estate for a two-part ITV documentary airing this week.
In ‘Prince William: We Can End Homelessness’, viewers hear a recording of LBC radio host James O’Brien citing criticism from Graham Smith, the chief executive of Republic, the anti-monarchist group, who says homelessness is about government policy and investment, and won’t be stopped by charity or royal patronage.
Asked how he feels about the criticism of Homewards, his five-year programme designed to show others how homelessness can be ended, William says: “I think if I answered every critic, I’d be here all day. But you know, criticism drives you forward….I think it’s right to question but I think, ultimately, we are pushing forward to deliver change and hope and optimism into a world that frankly has had very little of it for a long time. I hope I can bring something that’s not been done before.”
The documentary, which airs on Wednesday and Thursday, follows him through the first year after launching Homewards. William is seen touring Nansledan, near Newquay, where the duchy is building 24 homes.
“I’m not sitting here saying I’m going to solve the entire world’s homelessness problems. But I am going to show people how to prevent homelessness,” he says.
More than 350,000 people in Britain lack a permanent home. The number of homeless people, or at risk, aged between 16 and 24 is estimated to have risen to more than 130,000.
The prince tells the documentary team he has discussed homelessness with his three children, George, Charlotte, and Louis on the school run. In Windsor, where they live, the local council was dealing earlier this year with 101 homelessness cases and there were 25 rough sleepers. “The first few times I thought, do I bring this up? Or should I wait and see if any of them noticed? And sure enough, they did, and they were just sort of in silence after I had said what was going on,” he tells the film-makers. “And I do think it’s really important that you start those conversations when the children are small, so that they understand the world around them and they’re not just living, you know, in their own little worlds.”
I’m really astonished by so much of this. William is such a dilettante, he can’t even answer a question about what he’s actually doing about homeless issues IN HIS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HOMELESSNESS. “We are pushing forward to deliver change and hope and optimism into a world that frankly has had very little of it for a long time…” He started a pilot program in which his foundation gave money to homeless shelters and halfway houses. That’s it. He’s not reinventing the wheel – he’s literally doing the bare minimum of issue-driven charity work. Which would be fine, except (again) he’s claiming that he’s “going to show people how to prevent homelessness” and he’s literally made a documentary centering HIMSELF in the homelessness issue.
Royal commentator Peter Hunt made a good point: perhaps instead of wandering around, claiming to be a thought-leader on homeless issues, William should simply take a fixed income from the Duchy of Cornwall and give up the enormous estate.
William can singlehandedly make a significant impact on homelessness by accepting a fixed income in return for giving up his vast Duchy of Cornwall estate.
Instead of tinkering at the edges, he’d become a consequential royal. https://t.co/U9mQoqz9NA
— Peter Hunt (@_PeterHunt) October 27, 2024
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- The Centrepoint Awards 2024 at the British Museum London,United Kingdom 16 October 2024 Featuring: William, Prince Of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 16 Oct 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- The Centrepoint Awards 2024 at the British Museum London,United Kingdom 16 October 2024 Featuring: William, Prince Of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 16 Oct 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- The Centrepoint Awards 2024 at the British Museum London,United Kingdom 16 October 2024 Featuring: William, Prince Of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 16 Oct 2024 Credit: Cover Images
No one takes William seriously.
He’s offering empty promises of hopium in lieu of real solutions.
Huevo, Finland and other countries have already figured out the key to solving homelessness:
make the wealthy pay up so that every citizen can have guaranteed Universal Basic Income, and put give them homes to live in.
UBI *works*. Finland’s homes for the unhoused initiatives *work*. Dassit.
The reason people are on the streets in the UK, and the US, and many other countries is because the wealthy control the government. They all got wealthy through wage/corporate benefit/tax theft & fraud, and they continue to wield that money to control the levers of power.
The way to change is for the laborers who are making money for these monsters to withhold their labor. Look after each other, lock out the wealthy, watch their stock portfolios crash and burn. Everyone in govt is a bankster these days.
I don’t get it. ““I’m not sitting here saying I’m going to solve the entire world’s homelessness problems. But I am going to show people how to prevent homelessness,” he says. Dude, if you’re going to show everyone how to prevent homelessness, then you have solved the problem. He’s so inculcated in his own specialness, he can’t really see when he’s spouting nono sequiturs or other logical fallacies.
He looks awful with the beard. He does not want to hear criticism . And he points out the homeless to his children on school runs. Then he has the nerve to play the Diana card after censoring her Interview which included her talking about bringing her children to call attention to charity work. It takes a lot more to help the homeless than just empty talk that will goes in for
My only issue with W giving up his estate to the government is that they’ll bungle it and waste those funds on other projects. The government made this problem or at least has failed to help those without homes, giving them more money isn’t the solution. That being said, William could actually make tangible improvements but that would require real work, real empathy and as we know, he’s allergic to both.
He doesn’t have to give the income up officially. He can give that amount to the charities himself, instead of giving back to the government. No one is gonna say, he can’t do that. Previous research shows that only providing unconditional housing would decrease the issue significantly. Of course, mental health assistance is part of it, but people can’t solve their issues if they don’t have a secure home.
You’re right. Charles voluntarily started paying taxes on the duchy income around two decades ago. (1994 maybe?) They don’t need to wait to do it. He could see the average cost, give himself some extra to invest like Charles has (very well too) and remit the rest. He needs no permission to do so. It would certainly look good in comparison to being forced to do it
As Americans know since Harry and Meghan and their children were victims, it’s easy in the UK to evict tenants. A landlord doesn’t need a reason.
England and Wales have a No-fault Eviction
It’s early in the morning in my neck of the woods so please cut me some slack. Peter Hunt suggested that William should give up his duchy in order to raise money for homeless people? It would be a worthy cause but isn’t that a bit extreme?
I think he’s saying that William acts like this is “all” he can do it, when it is not. He could accept a fixed income of even 5 million from the duchy and donate the rest of the money to homeless organizations and charities.
Basically I don’t think Hunt actually expects William to give up the duchy. I think he’s trying to make an extreme point to highlight the hypocrisy of William here. William is one of the largest private landowners in England and he’s like “well I can bring some optimism into the world!”
No, you can do a lot more than that.
This is how I interpreted it as well: take a certain amount (the Duchy of Cornwall income: https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/features/duchy-cornwall#:~:text=The%20Duchy%20currently%20provides%20an,all%20revenue%20from%20the%20estate. ) and donate a large chunk to be put to use. There are various causes of homelessness (which can occur at the same time) including losing employment, divorce, domestic violence, addiction, mental health issues, natural disasters, fire, etc. It personally makes me wonder how he discussed it with his kids.
“I hope I can bring something that’s not been done before.”
I think this is such a big problem for him. He’s more concerned about making a name for himself that he has no insight. He isn’t smart or creative enough to just pluck a good idea out of think air. He needs to build on the work that’s already being done and study it. He might them be able to come up with something. But he hasn’t done the work.
Do you think the documentary is actually going to say how much was donated? We all know it wasn’t enough to build 24 homes. At least not sturdy ones.
When ppl like him say that stuff about criticism it’s frustrating bc they are usually the ones who actually need to hear it. He’s so self centered.
Yes, for William, everything is about being exceptional. He just can’t help to solve a problem, it has to be grand and world-changing and have his name plastered all over it. At the same time, he can’t bring himself to commit to something lasting – why should Earthshot only be for 10 years? Why should this homeless project only exist for 5 years? Most programs take 5 years just to get going and more to start showing a few results.
If William wasn’t the FK, he’d be that guy holding court every evening at the local pub – the one who knows everything and could solve all the world’s problems, if only “they” would listen to him.
Hear the criticism, take it on, think, change, and improve. William is utterly incapable of any of that, so it’s all just blah blah blah to him. And he really doesn’t have to change a darned thing about his life. He knows he’ll be fed & clothed & housed, as will his children, and that their health needs & educational needs will be met.
William’s “gold-plated” advisors are so deeply incompetent. Homelessness will never be an advantageous issue for the royals to take on because they will always be criticized for their ridiculous amount of property sitting idle at great expense, and not to mention all the profits from renting all their other housing stock exempt from taxation. There are a hundred other issues he could have tried to co-opt so this is just 💩 strategy, even if William wasn’t a complete nincompoop.
He should have gone for oceans or clean beaches, or joblessness, or preserving cultural practices (although he can’t be bothered to learn Welsh as PoW). Almost anything would be less tone deaf than homelessness.
And yet he stumbled his way into making ‘affordable housing’ his pet project for no other reason than deciding to quash the #princewilliamaffair hashtag with ‘princewilliamaffordablehousing’ and then having to do something about it to make it look like a legitimate interest.
@Interested Gawker
100%
William makes it all about him.
William, in effect, is saying, “I alone can fix it, and it will be a novel idea that no one has ever attempted before.” Okay.
My only reaction is, “Eh, go wash your face.”
No one cares really, he can’t inspire intense love or even intense hate because people don’t simply care so he’s trying to manufacture criticism instead of just enjoying indifference directed at him.
As many of you know because of Frogmore Cottage, evictions are easy in the UK.
England and Wales give the right to any tenant to evict a tenant after 6 months, even if they pay the rent, all their bills, have a job, are clean and quiet, have young children or are disabled or elderly. Under Section 21,aka the NO FAULT EVICTION procedure, a landlord doesn’t need to give a reason to evict you.
This is the only democracy in the world where this is permitted. The first step would be to make this illegal. Landlords here are too powerful. It also means the profile of the homeless person or the homeless family here is different. Most have jobs.
This practice is absolutely shameful but no government wants to change it.
Also, as I doubt it can be done in the US, a landlord can increase your rent by 20% or more overnight and there’s nothing one can do. If the following month you pay the increased rent, it legally means you have tacitly accepted the raise. If you don’t, you can be kicked out faster.
Finally there’re not enough homes to rent, or buy in that matter, in the UK and the prices are far higher than the US
S21 is going to be banned under the new government.
Wow,that’s crazy! The US has trouble even evicting squatters. My mom rents three apartments above her store. She finally turned it over to a property manager because she’s a pushover. She’s let people stay months without paying before. If you allow people to pay even a portion of their rent you can’t evict them. It’s a whole process to do so. She’s had to,evict people a few times who’ve just trashed the place.
Kamala has some great ideas for working on our severe housing issues including dealing with companies which buy up homes at above cost to then rent them, rent control and tax breaks to help home buyers. Plus democrats at state level have been working to speed up,the process in home building both single and family. Houses, condos, apartments. Meanwhile the gop wants to deport 50-70% of the construction workforce.
A 20% hike with no warning???!!!! And that’s on top of no-excuse-needed eviction??? That’s outrageous!!
I feel like this is William’s response whenever he is asked directly about any criticism (which doesn’t happen that often) – “well I can’t respond to every critic.” Okay but can you respond to this one? Because this is a valid criticism regarding your bubble, your privilege, and what makes you equipped to lead on this issue when you staged a year long tantrum in the press because you wanted a new house – and you’re still staging one because Royal Lodge is bigger and you want that one.
And how is this man, who has never earned a salary, never lived on a budget, never paid rent, going to show people how prevent homelessness?
I’m not saying that people in positions of extreme privilege can’t do good in the world. Of course not. But there’s a way to approach these issues and causes that doesn’t reek of “I’m so amazing and special and no one has ever done this before and I’m such a great father because I talk with my children about the homeless people in Windsor who weren’t lucky enough to be born with special blood in their veins.”
Hahaha it reminds me of schitts creek. “David, I can’t teach you everything” … “well can you teach me one thing? How do I fold it in?”
Haha yes that’s exactly what I was thinking of too!
@becks1 was perfect. It totally made me think of Schitt’s Creek. I’m picturing David’s face LOL.
The best way to prevent homelessness is to be born next in line to the throne – he can certainly speak to that.
Wait a minute, now he’s going to show people how to PREVENT homelessness? He’s going to show them how to prevent job loss, substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence, racial disparities, cuts in public assistance programs, housing laws, etc.? He’s probably just referring to affordable housing, but he doesn’t sound like he knows what he’s talking about.
He probably thinks there’s a vaccine.
He probably thinks that vaccine is Ozempic.
And wasn’t he previously say he wanted to end homelessness but here he’s saying that’s not the goal but to prevent it. And yeah there are so many factors to preventing it. I blinked at that part. Well at a few parts really.
And my goodness, why do we have to wait until his documentary comes up before we learn this oh-so-important news? I mean really, you know how to PREVENT homelessness, Billy Boy? Tell us! Tell us now! 🙄
I was going to mention Peter Hunt’s comment on this. He’s absolutely right. William doesn’t even respond to the valid criticism that government involvement is necessary to solve homelessness.
Hunt is the best one to follow of the royal reporters.
It’s strange that he’s saying he wants to prevent it. As mentioned, he hasn’t talked about what ideas he has or how he’s implementing those ideas.
I have one for him- how about paying your staff more than £25K/year to work in central London? That would help prevent homelessness. Set the example.
Maybe he’s like Trump and only has a concept of an idea.
Bingo !
if I am correct, the money for this project is not coming out of Willilan’s own pocket. This is a blatant money-making scheme:
He took the £3M (at first they said is was £5M, meaning, that somewhere a long the road £2M went into someone else’s pocket) from rich people and he’s building the houses on his own/Duchy land across the country, so these houses are his. He and the rich donors are going to make a lot of money from this project; the ‘homeless’ will have to pay rent. They are not going to live there for free.
If this was Harry (will never happen, H is not that stupid), making money from people’s misery and calling it ‘solving the homeless problem’, then the British press, politicians and the RRs and the briefing courtiers would have a fieldday finishing him off.
PS: I wonder what’s gonna happen when some of the homeless who are lucky to be selected to live in these houses, at some point in time, can’t pay the rent. Is Willy going to make them homeless again?
William would not give away his own inherited money.
It’s his private project, nothing to do with his Prince of Wales duties, so he could have invested some of his own money in it, since the houses are built on Duchy of Cornwall land.
But these blatently scamming royals can sell the gullible Brits anything via their mountpieces in the British press, with little or no pushback.
PS: the British tabloids have just reported that his father, Charles, has a new side huslte too: he’s selling a new whisky, made at his privately owned Highgrove estate, for £ 250 a bottle.
And no condemnation or questioning whatsoever.
I wonder if the British people no that no other European constitutional monarch (funded by the state) is allowed to make money with private businesess, or off state’s properties, whilst in the active role of monarch.
What’s Charles going to sell next? Gold sneakers? Gold watches? trump & Charles, two of a kind (although I think Duchy Originals does all right, hasn’t gone bankrupt yet).
William reminds me of pictures of the famous clown, Emmett Kelly. He looks like he rubbed charcoal over his face. I guess he sees a super masculine image in the mirror, but I see a clown.
Comedian Red skelton dressed that way too same makeup. William needs to shave the stubble
He was a desperate, clout-chasing assclown before the beard, and he’s still a desperate, clout-chasing assclown. He needs to go back to his little David Beckham “I’m special and everyone likes me” echo chamber. Huesa can hire someone to seal the door.
If he answered every critic he would be there forever. He is an idiot and admitted it. He and what he does is for his PR and nobody else. His advisers are only yes men nothing more. They don’t look at the big picture or read the room and so they come off as arrogant attention seekers nothing more and will be helping no one.
Can we really solve homelessness based on optimism, change and hope .
Tackling homelessness is such a great idea and here he is, not actually doing anything.
At times like this, you can really tell he never had a proper job. This is some executive level waffle word salad with bullpoop dressing.
Well, the article begins by speaking the the truth: this vanity project is just an attempt by William to distract from criticism over his unearned-privileged life. And his failure to present any substantive response to his critics proves the point even further.
I love that they’re criticizing his absolute blindness to his own privilege, and that it’s actually rattling him. He keeps wanting to invoke Diana, to remind people that when she died and he was a kid, the public loved and sympathized with him. He wants that good regard again. But the public learned about his true personality and there’s no going back now.
He needs to stop hiding behind the mother he maligned and face up to his failures as a man.
Talking of criticism, if he had to face the amount of criticism his brother and sister in law,he wouldn’t last an hour.
I would love someone to ask William why homelessness is increasing if he’s working so hard to prevent it.
William is getting absolutely roasted online by regular people which pleases me greatly. I’m sure he will send his KP bot army to counteract it but this really isn’t going over well with regular people. I hope the viewing numbers are terrible. I can’t imagine what they will cover that needs a two part series.
“he prince tells the documentary team he has discussed homelessness with his three children, George, Charlotte, and Louis on the school run. In Windsor, where they live, the local council was dealing earlier this year with 101 homelessness cases and there were 25 rough sleepers. “The first few times I thought, do I bring this up? Or should I wait and see if any of them noticed? And sure enough, they did, and they were just sort of in silence after I had said what was going on,” he tells the film-makers. “And I do think it’s really important that you start those conversations when the children are small, so that they understand the world around them and they’re not just living, you know, in their own little worlds.””
so basically Huevo saw the interview on what Harry&Meghan told Archie and give out backpacks to the homeless on the school run and blatently copied that.
Well, not quite. There was no action on Kate’s part, no giving out of backpacks. The kids remained silent.
Dunno if I’ll watch the documentary (maybe some clips on Youtube) but does it follow some homeless people’s journeys specifically and what they’ve been through? It’s always more impactful when a documentary features a few people whose journeys we can follow along with to understand whatever it is that the documentary is about. Or is it just William wandering around talking endlessly of ending homelessness?
Please let William do the Pippa tips of homelessness. “The best way to prevent being homeless is to have a home! I have 4 just to make sure.”
But yes please show us how to individually prevent a national cost of living crisis, stagnant wages, landlord greed and worker exploitation. Better still tell all the U.K. citizens trapped in a situation of predatory interest-only mortgages how to go back to 2006 and not take one out to prevent their current housing crisis.
Seriously. This guy.
For the amount of money this man is paid yearly by the taxpayers he should happily answer questions 24/7 if the public demands it.
Please, PLEASE lose that hideous beard thing. Please.
“I think if I answered every critic, I’d be here all day.” Oh, I’m sorry luvie!!! Did you have somewhere else to be?? Perhaps something else you need to do other than the barest of minimums for the plebs? If you have multitudes of critics, maybe it’s time to do some inner searching as to why? This whole rotten family needs to get off the publicly funded teet and go learn what it is to be a decent human being. But I fear it’s too late for this bunch.
“But I am going to show people how to prevent homelessness,”
This should be amusing
William, we know you have no appointments on your calendar. You have all day to listen to critics.
So he’s also claiming credit for the Nansledan project is he? (Which is just a bog-standard new housing community outside Newquay in Cornwall, including affordable housing as well as shops etc. – it’s not a homelessness initiative as such).
Because even that was his father’s project, started 10 years ago.
Just so PW can give the impression he is doing something. Other than point out the homeless to his kids from their swanky car, that is.
You won’t be there all day mate, as they’re all saying the same thing–YOU ARENT DOING ANYTHING.
“I am going to show people how to prevent homelessness” has to be the most patronizing crap he’s said in a while. Throwing a tiny amount of his money at the problem to see what will happen will have literally no impact. As per usual William is just being a rich useless snob.
With William studying homelessness and Kate studying child development what have either of them actually done to get people of the streets or opening centers to help families with small children.
“All day”– more like the rest of his life.