Windsor council leader calls for removal of homeless before royal wedding | Society | The Guardian

Windsor council leader calls for removal of homeless before royal wedding | Society | The Guardian

 St George’s chapel at Windsor Castle, where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will marry in May. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

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The leader of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead – home to Windsor Castle, Eton College and Ascot racecourse – has demanded police use legal powers to clear the area of homeless people before the royal wedding in May.

Simon Dudley, the council’s Conservative leader, wrote to Thames Valley police this week seeking action against “aggressive begging and intimidation” and “bags and detritus” accumulating on the streets.