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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Diane Taylor

Pioneering facility offering alternative to women’s prisons opens in England

Lady Grosvenor, left, and the Princess of Wales
Edwina Grosvenor with the Princess of Wales, who officially opened the Hope Street facility in Southampton on Tuesday. Photograph: Chris Moorhouse

It all started when Edwina Grosvenor spent an hour with two heroin addicts at a drug rehabilitation centre in Liverpool, almost 30 years ago.

Her parents – Natalia and Gerald Grosvenor, who was one the richest men in the UK and the sixth Duke of Westminster – decided to take her to the centre at the age of 12 or 13 to show her that there was a world beyond her privileged bubble. “At that moment I learned about empathy,” Lady Grosvenor said.

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