Prince William says Harry's name for first time in 6 years in step toward reconciliation

has taken a public step to reconciling with his brother .

for the first time in what is believed to be six years while speaking in a new documentary about their mother Princess Diana. The documentary, titled ': We Can End Homelessness', recounts when Diana took her two boys to a homeless shelter in London to open their eyes to life without royal comforts.

“My mother took me to the Passage, she took both there… I must have been about 11, I think probably at the time, maybe 10. I’d never been to anything like that before, and I was a bit anxious as to what to expect,” William said.

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The film reveals previously unseen images of William and Diana at The Passage shelter in Westminster. One shows William playing chess with a homeless man during a visit on June 14, 1993, just a few days before his 11th birthday. Another showed William in a suit in the December of that year carrying presents alongside his mum.

Williamr remembered “making everyone feel relaxed and having a laugh and joking with everyone”. He also said: “I remember at the time kind of thinking, ‘well, if everyone’s not got a home, they’re all going to be really sad’. But it was incredible how happy an environment it was.

“I remember having some good conversations just playing chess and chatting. That’s when it dawned on me that there are other people out there who don’t have the same life as you do.

“When you’re quite small, you don’t really, you just think life is what you see in front of you and you don’t really have the concept to look elsewhere and it’s when you meet people, I did then, who put a different perspective in your head and say like, well, ‘I was a living on the street last night’, and you’re like ‘woah’, you know.”

The prince was followed for the programme during the first year of his Homewards initiative. The campaign is a major long-term focus for William, who has told how visiting shelters with his late mother when he was a child left a deep and lasting impression and inspired his work. Homewards aims to develop a blueprint for eradicating homelessness in all its forms, “making it rare, brief and unrepeated”.

The documentary will be broadcast on October 30 and 31 at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX, STV and STV Player.

William said he talks to , Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis when they spot rough sleepers – much in the same way that his mother did when he and his brother Harry were children. William was asked on the documentary when he felt the right time would be to introduce George, 11; Charlotte, nine; and Louis, six, to homelessness.

He replied: “I am probably already doing it on the school run. The first few times I thought ‘do I bring this up or should I wait to see if they notice?’ Sure enough, they did. They were sort of in silence when I said what was going on.”

He also said: “I do think it is really important that you start these conversations when the children are small so they understand the around them, rather than just living in their own worlds.”