Very few celebrities in the world
would have agreed to this heart-warming gesture, but then the Duchess of
Cambridge has always been different. According to latest reports, the
former Kate Middleton, has agreed to swap for one night the luxury
of Kensington Palace
for the dark chilly streets of London.
The 30-year-old brunette, who is
no stranger to hardship, would be participating in a rough-sleeping night to
draw attention to the difficulties faced by the homeless in London. The event called Sleep
Out is conducted by the charity for homeless Centrepoint.
British TV star Lisa Maxwell, 48
is the ambassador at Centrepoint of which Prince William is also a patron, just
as his late mother Princess Diana was before him. The star panelist on
the daytime Talk show ‘Loose Woman,’ will be joining Duchess Kate when they bed
down for one night as part of a Sleep Out campaign in the capital
city.
Lisa Maxwell says it didn't take
much arm-twisting to convince the soft-hearted Duchess to get involved.
Catherine it seems promised Lisa that she was ready to sleep rough the next
time the ‘Loose Woman’ Star takes part in the campaign to highlight the plight
of the rising number of destitute people in London.
'I work with Centrepoint and William's
our patron. We had a little do and they both came down,’ Maxwell told
the Daily Mirror newspaper. ‘She asked me about sleeping out, so I
said, 'Next time I do it, you're doing it with me. No excuses, he's done it.'
She said, 'You're on'.' It was as simple as that.
It may be noted that the Duke of
Cambridge had participated in an earlier rough-sleeping night three years ago
around Christmas time. William had lain down on a bed for the night close to
some garbage bins near London's Blackfriars Bridge. The highpoint of that sleep out
was that the Prince was nearly run over by a road sweeper that evening in 2009.
Check Pic: Prince spends
night on the streets
Writing on the Centrepoint
website, Centrepoint chief executive Seyi, who too was with Prince William at
that time revealed: “He was determined to do it as [Centrepoint] patron to
raise awareness of the problem and to be able to understand a little better
what rough sleepers go through.”
St James' Palace spokesperson had
read out an official statement at the time: 'Prince William took away from the
experience the importance of tackling all the issues that cause people to be
homeless and stay homeless, from drug dependency to mental health problems.'
Source: Daily Mirror
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