Some would say that Prince William has set a huge and ambitious goal that will cause some major damage to King Charles III and his wife, Queen Camilla.
A few believed that Prince William might be on his way to stain the Royal Family more than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
This week, the heir to the throne unveiled his life mission: to end homelessness with an initiative called Homewards. William, Prince of Wales, has set aside about $3 million to eradicate homelessness in five years.
There are more than 300,000 homeless people in England, and many of them are children. Experts have sadly predicted that the number will rise this year more than ever.
William, Prince of Wales, said the project, which is a “lifelong mission,” was inspired by his late mother, Princess Diana.
He stated: “I first visited a homeless shelter with my mother when I was 11. The visits we made together made a deep and lasting impression.”
William, Prince of Wales, will be using funds from the Royal Foundation to create six halfway houses for those in need. Prince William has been on a mini-tour through the UK to launch the project, and things are not going very well.
Many great minds and experts have looked at Prince William’s plan and laughed because it does little. Prince William is being called out for not doing his homework and not talking to people who are knowledgeable on the matter before launching his program.
Zoe Williams penned a piece in the Guardian entitled “£3m to fix the UK’s housing crisis? Ha ha ha ha ha, your royal highness,” where she is laughing at the initiative for these reasons: “Prince William is going to solve homelessness with a new royal foundation. It’s such a short sentence that it makes so little sense. You can look at the housing crisis from a range of perspectives. Some people are obsessed with planning permission; some have a supply-side fetish. You don’t have to chalk it all up to the ever-more feudal rentier economy. Nevertheless, we could agree, I think, that dropping half a million into a city, even if it might put a roof over a handful of heads, would barely scratch the surface.”
She went on to ask why a man with so much wealth and property is trying to be something he is not. She wrote: “Furthermore, whatever your view on equality—and again, there’s a spectrum, with some people thinking great concentrations of unearned wealth are good for motivation or whatnot—it would still, I think, strike you as piquant that a man with housing plenty beyond anything he could ever use would style himself as an ambassador for the business of getting people off the streets.”
Graham Smith, of the anti-monarchy group Republic, went after Prince William by saying this: “The last thing we need is for William to get involved in this issue, a man who has three huge homes and a vast estate gifted to him by the state. Homelessness is about government policy and investment and will not be resolved by charity or royal patronage; he is being hypocritical.”
Prince William’s initiative has led media outlets and people who are against the monarchy to write pieces that reveal how many castles and mansions the royals have, their massive net worth, and the amount they cost taxpayers each year.
Prince William’s Kensington Palace spokesman is fighting back with this comment: “This isn’t about a PR stunt. This is about trying to change the way that we as a society think about homelessness.”
Many royal experts say that King Charles and his wife are probably exasperated as they watch Prince William embarrass the monarchy with his short and empty ideas, missions, and pledges.
I think that his idea is ment from the bottom of his heart but he is only 1 person and maybe by him doing what he is doing others may follow suit then it wouldn’t be such a bad idea and then the idea may make a bit of a dent in the number of homeless but it would be very nice if the accommodation it generates where to go to the homeless with british birth certificates first I say that because where I live british people are sleeping rough on the streets but the boat people are staying in a holiday inn they have taken over the whole building get 3 meals a day plus state benefits his idea is good but a big ask for 1 person