Prince William has travelled to Cornwall today to visit Nansleden, where the Duchy of Cornwall’s first housing project will be built – and just hours after Prince Harry’s event at St Paul’s Cathedral on his UK return
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Prince William visits an innovative housing project site in Cornwall
Prince William has been seen for the first time since avoiding his estranged brother Prince Harry on his UK return.
The Prince of Wales smiled as he visited Cornwall today, where he is set to carry out engagements in both Newquay and the Isles of Scilly. Today, he is visiting the the site where the Duchy of Cornwall’s first homeless housing project will be built, in Nansleden, Newquay.
The outing comes after there was no reunion for William with Harry, who was on a whirlwind trip to the UK to attend a service at St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games. Speaking last week, an insider told the Mirror: “Their relationship remains extremely fractured. Harry has privately expressed a wish to sit down with his brother but now is not the time.”
Harry also did not meet with their father King Charles during his stay in the UK due to the monarch’s busy diary. At the service yesterday, Harry was supported by members of his late mother Princess Diana’s Spencer family, including his uncle Charles Spencer and aunt Lady Jane Fellowes.
In Cornwall today, William is at a housing project, delivered alongside Cornish charity St Petrocs, which will provide 24 homes with wraparound support for homeless people. William will meet the development leaders and the chief executive of St Petrocs, Henry Meacock. Construction will begin in September this year, and land for the homes is being provided by the Duchy. William will then visit Fistral beach, where he will meet organisations who take care of it.
Tomorrow, he will make his first official visit to the Isles of Scilly since becoming the Duke of Cornwall in September 2022. William will visit St Mary’s Harbour, which is run by the Duchy, and handles passengers and vessels. He will spend time with harbour operators before paying a visit to St Mary’s Community Hospital.
The small hospital provides both inpatient and outpatient clinics for the Isles of Scilly and wraparound care to island residents and visitors. The Duchy is working with the local council to build a new integrated health and social care facility on land it owns adjacent to the hospital. William will meet hospital staff, where he will hear about the challenges of providing healthcare on an island.
Elsewhere today, the King is meeting military staff and their families at a training base for the Army’s Royal Engineers. Charles, who is Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Engineers, is visiting the 3 Royal School of Military Engineering in Minley, Surrey, before speaking to members of the 8 Engineer Brigade, which is the centre’s deployable unit.
The training base has world-class facilities which include target ranges, swimming pool, state-of-the-art fitness suite and a sailing lake. It is thought the King has been receiving his cancer treatment as an outpatient midweek. He hosted the first Buckingham Palace garden party of the season on Wednesday.
