From the time they could walk, and perhaps before, Princess Diana ensured her sons William and Harry would be different from many other heirs to the British throne. They were an important part of her daily schedule, although sometimes those appointments were not a part of her official calendar.
She would pack her boys into a car filled with blackets and food and drive through the more desperate neighborhoods in London and deliver food and blankets to the homeless. She embraced patients with AIDS and leprosy, in an age when no one else, aside from her her dear friend Mother Theres let alone a member of the royal family. would do so.
Today, her sons anounced that they had joined together to form the Princes' Trust and that they would carry on their mother's work. Said her oldest son, William:
“There's a time and a place for being an ornament as such. Or you know, shaking hands and being at an engagement and showing support in that way, But I think there's an awful lot more from actually doing stuff. And this is an example of what I just want to be actually more involved in.”
Following the death of their mother, Prince Charles rose to the occasion and became the father his sons deserved. He carried on the work of his late ex-wife, not in the way she would have done, but in his own way. Without Charles' commitment to a just and better world, it is doubtful his sons would have been able to be the heir to Charles and Diana and not just the English throne.
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