Prince William receives an unexpected boost from Disney+ as his streaming rivalry with Harry intensifies.
Royal fans are eagerly awaiting a brand new ITV documentary on Prince William’s crusade to try to end homelessness.
The show, called Prince William : We Can End Homelessness, will be shown across Wednesday and Thursday nights on ITV1 and explore the first year of the Prince of Waleses’ Homewards initiative, which aims to develop a blueprint for eradicating homelessness in all its forms, “making it rare, brief and unrepeated”. And in a boost for royal fans who aren’t in the UK, it has been confirmed that international audiences will also be able to enjoy the show from Friday (November 1) on streaming service, Disney+.
This means it will be available to view before estranged brother Prince Harry’s upcoming documentary uncovering the lives of polo players, which is not premiering on Netflix until December. It comes as a teaser for William’s documentary shows him recalling playing chess and chatting with people during his first visit to The Passage homelessness charity with his mother, more than 30 years ago.
William said he was “a bit anxious as to what to expect” before his first visit, and remembered his mother – Diana, Princess of Wales – “making everyone feel relaxed and having a laugh and joking with everyone”. He says: “My mother took me to The Passage. She took Harry and I both there.
“I must have been about 11, I think probably at the time, maybe 10. I’d never been to anything like that before, and I was a bit anxious as to what to expect. 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. I remember having some good conversations just playing chess and chatting. That’s when it dawned on me that there are other people out there who don’t have the same life as you do.
