Royal wedding gift fund benefits little-known charities

Princess Diana used her celebrity to draw attention to difficult social causes. Now her son William and his bride, Kate Middleton, appear to be maintaining the tradition, potentially delivering a multimillion-pound windfall to a handful of mostly little-known and unfashionable charities.

The couple asked wedding guests and the public to support 26 organisations that comprise the couple's charitable gift fund, covering a range of causes such as mentally ill ex-servicemen, young offenders, former gang members, bullied youngsters, refugee students, homeless people, teenage drug addicts and children in care.