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Prince George helped serve lunch at a homeless shelter in London alongside his father, Prince William, on Dec. 16
During their visit, the 12-year-old signed a visitors' book right underneath his father and late grandmother Princess Diana's signatures
"The visits I made as a child to this place left a deep and lasting impression upon me," William said of the charity when he became a Royal Patron in 2019
Prince Georgeis carrying on the royal family's tradition of giving back to those in need.
The 12-year-old helped to prepare the annual holiday lunch at The Passage, the U.K.'s largest resource center for homeless and insecurely housed people, alongside his father,Prince William, on Dec. 16. While at the London charity, George signed a visitors' book right underneath his father and late grandmotherPrincess Diana's signatures, as seen in aphotoshared by the royal family on social media.
Diana took William and his younger brother,Prince Harry, to the same charity when William was around the same age his eldest child is now. In the 2024 documentaryPrince William: We Can End Homelessness, the Prince of Wales, 43, opened up about how much his mom inspired him with her generosity.
"I'd never been to anything like that before. And I was a bit anxious as to what to expect," he explained at the time. "My mother went about her usual part of making everyone feel relaxed and having a laugh and joking with everyone. I remember at the time kind of thinking, 'Well, if everyone's not got a home, they're all going to be really sad.' But it was incredible how happy an environment it was."
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According to the charity, William first visited The Passage with his mother when he was 11, and it has since remained a centerpiece of William's public life. In 2019, heofficially became the organization's Royal Patron.
"The visits I made as a child to this place left a deep and lasting impression upon me — about how important it is to ensure that everyone in our society, especially the poorest, are treated with respect, dignity and kindness, and are given the opportunities to fulfill their potential in life," William shared at the time.
Two decades after Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, William spoke toBritish GQabouthow heartbreaking it wasthat she never got to meet his wife,Kate Middleton, or their kids: Prince George,Princess Charlotte, 10, andPrince Louis, 7.
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"I would like to have had her advice," he told the outlet in May 2017. "I would love her to have met Catherine and to have seen the children grow up. It makes me sad that she won't, that they will never know her."
"I can talk about her more openly, talk about her more honestly, and I can remember her better, and publicly talk about her better," William continued. "It has taken me almost 20 years to get to that stage. I still find it difficult now because at the time, it was so raw. And also it is not like most people's grief, because everyone else knows about it, everyone knows the story, everyone knows her."
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