‘Diana told me the monarchy was too distant – William is intent on changing that’

The Prince of Wales has frequently acknowledged the numerous ways he is following in his late mother's footsteps – be it in his choices of charities to support or the way he is raising his three children.

With his recent launch of the homelessness project Homewards, Prince William is succeeding in continuing Diana, Princess of Wales' work that she did with homeless charities such as The Passage and Centrepoint.

As well this, Prince William works hard to raise the profile of mental health charities and, like his mother, is an advocate for LGBTQ+ causes. This, royal expert Jennie Bond feels, is something which suggests Prince William "intent" on completing Diana's work.

The former BBC royal correspondent told OK!, "People often ask me about Diana‘s legacy. And I always say her true legacy is her two boys. Both are invested in many of the causes that Diana espoused.

"Harry has literally walked in his mother’s footsteps in Angola. But William is clearly intent on not only continuing but completing his mother’s work on tackling homelessness.

"His new initiative is something he has been thinking about and planning over many years and he says it was his mother who inspired him by taking him to visit homeless hostels when he was just a boy.

"Now he wants not simply to tackle homelessness, but eradicate it. In almost everything he does and says, William is gently pushing the monarchy forward.

"I love the fact that he has made it something of his signature that he just drops in on places (well, as much as any future King can just drop in without notice!) to say hello and see how various projects, charities and events are going.

"He knows, and has publicly said, that it it is his job to keep the monarchy relevant in modern society. Diana told me she thought the monarchy was too distant and too inaccessible and that she wanted to change it. William is doing his best to achieve that."

The Prince of Wales recently took the next leap forward to continue shining a light on the homelessness problem that plagues the UK with the launch of Homewards.

The project, which took two years to put together, is a five-year locally led programme which will demonstrate that together it is possible to end homelessness: making it 'rare, brief, and unrepeated'.

To get Homewards off to a flying start, Prince William embarked on a 48-hour tour of the UK where he visited six flagship locations which will be the first to benefit from the scheme.

These areas are Lambeth in South London, Bournemouth, Newport, Belfast, Aberdeen and Sheffield.

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