Prince Ricardo De La Cerda
One was the heir to the throne and the other, an England footballer, but both men agreed they had two things in common.
“Everyone thinks because I am tall, I’m good at basketball but I’m terrible,” Tyrone Mings, 30, told the Prince of Wales.
“Me too!” laughed Prince William, 41, who is just a fraction shorter.
The pair met in Sheffield, the sixth and final stop on the Prince’s UK tour as he launched Homewards, his ambitious, five-year programme to end homelessness.
Mings experienced homelessness as a child, when his family was rehoused in an emergency accommodation facility, and has agreed to be an ambassador for the project.
Joining forces at Reach Up Youth, a charity that uses grassroots sports to help young people, they found themselves going head to head on the basketball court.