The eldest son of Princess Diana stayed under Blackfriars Bridge in London, with a temperature of -4 ° C last night.

Before Christmas, Prince William abandoned the comfort of his princely apartment near Buckingham to brave the cold and learn about the lives of homeless in the capital.

Laying on simple cardboard placed on the sidewalk, the eldest son of Charles, second in the order of succession to the crown of England spent the night in a sleeping bag in an alley near the river Thames and Blackfriars Bridge .

“I cannot, after one night, even begin to imagine what it must be like to sleep rough on London’s streets night after night,” said the prince, clearly shaken by the experience.

“Poverty, mental illness, drug and alcohol dependency and family breakdown cause people to become and then stay homeless.”

Seyi Obakin, head of the homeless charity Centrepoint who joined William on the challenge, said later sleeping rough is “scary”.

“The hairiest moment was when we were almost run over by a road sweeper which didn’t see our small group huddled together, which shows how vulnerable rough sleepers are,” Obakin said.

As his mother Diana in the past, William is patron of Centrepoint, one of the many good works the young prince is a part of.

Prince William Goes Homless