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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Alistair Smout, Sarah Mills and Marie-Louise Gumuchian

With Charles king, his Prince's Trust youth charity goes on

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Charles shakes hands with well-wishers as he departs after meeting The Prince's Trust Young Entrepreneurs at Brixton's NatWest Bank branch in London, Britain November 11, 2021. Chris Jackson/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

A British youth charity set up by the then Prince Charles in the 1970s that has helped a million young people, including actor Idris Elba, to get training, find work or create community projects will continue to operate now he is monarch.

Charles, who became king last week after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth, set up the charity with 7,500 pounds ($8,678) of severance pay from the Navy, to tackle high youth unemployment he feared would leave young people marginalised.

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