'Enormously grateful' King greets the inspirational campaigners fighting scourge of knife crime

THE King teamed up with actor Idris Elba and a host of campaigners yesterday in a crusade to fight knife crime.

- By Emily Ferguson Royal Editor

Charles welcomed young people, charity representatives and politicians to St James's Palace, to discuss finding positive opportunities for families devastated by the issue.

They were joined by a Netflix film crew working on an upcoming documentary to mark the 50th anniversary of the King's Trust charity.

The get-together marked 12 months since the monarch held an initial meeting on knife crime.

Charles gave an off-the-cuff speech and said he was “enormously grateful” for the support of the attendees, emphasising that it was “critical” that organisations team up to tackle the issue.

He said: “If you bring more people together who are involved in the same sort of field, then there is a great deal more you can achieve.

“So I'm enormously grateful to you all. I look forward very much to seeing the actual progress on the ground, which will make a huge difference to so many parents' lives.