Prince William dons an apron as he serves Christmas dinner at The Passage - a homelessness charity he first visited with Princess Diana
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Prince William made a secret visit to serve up Christmas dinner at a charity for the homeless today - and was described by one of those he met as a ‘legend’. Leo Scanlon, 39, who is himself a client of The Passage in London, said the future king spent more than an hour serving up vegetables wearing an apron, chatting and posing for selfies with around a hundred people being helped by the charity.
![[Pictures obtained by the Mail showed the Prince of Wales carefully piling roast vegetables on to plates during his hour-long service at the Westminster-based charity that holds a special place in his heart]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/06/06/92845779-14163125-Pictures_obtained_by_the_Mail_showed_the_Prince_of_Wales_careful-a-1_1733467342673.jpg)
Although the visit was not announced in advance and there were no members of the media present, Leo got in touch with the Daily Mail because he wanted to ‘thank William from the bottom of my heart for what he did’. He said: ‘When you are homeless you fall to the edge of society quickly and it’s scary how you can become invisible. We become street furniture. You aren’t seen as a person. When you have someone at the top of the game coming down and talking to someone at the bottom, not for a photo opportunity, just because they care. Well, it means a lot.’.
![[Prince William became a patron of The Passage in February 2019, after first visiting the charity in 1993 with his mother, Princess Diana]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/06/06/92845777-14163125-Prince_William_became_a_patron_of_The_Passage_in_February_2019_a-a-2_1733467346486.jpg)
Leo said there had been ‘whispers’ that prince might come to the annual Christmas lunch for The Passage, a charity he was first introduced to by his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales as a child and now is patron of. But he said the royal arrived without fanfare, walking quietly through a side gate, at around 1.30pm and many didn’t realise he was there until he started serving.
![[In what is becoming a holiday ritual, the father-of-three also made a surprise appearance at The Passage's Christmas party last December]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/06/06/78878759-14163125-In_what_is_becoming_a_holiday_ritual_the_father_of_three_also_ma-a-3_1733467413568.jpg)
‘The Passage canteen can be quite hostile environment sometimes, there are lot of people with mental health issues, or who don’t speak any English and get frustrated. It’s quite hard in a small space. But the way he dealt with it all when he came in was amazing,’ he said.
![[Father-of-three William appeared deep in conversation with one of the guests at the Christmas meal in 2023]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/06/06/78878769-14163125-Father_of_three_William_appeared_deep_in_conversation_with_one_o-a-4_1733467420454.jpg)
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