The British DJ, Producer, songwriter, and musician originally from Watford says he is “forever grateful” regarding the support he received from King Charles. The prince’s Trust is a charity founded in 1976 that supports young people aged 11 to 30, to find jobs, have access to training courses, education, and businesses.The main objective of the trust was to “build sustainable communities worldwide- supporting young people into education, employment and enterprise”.The trust has supported a large mass of over 1.000,000 young people across the UK and Naughty Boy is one of the many success stories.

Naughty Boy was awarded a £5,000 grant in 2005 to help him with his plans to pursue music. He set up a music studio in his parent’s garden shed, with the money he was granted he began embarking on his creative pursuit. Naughty Boy whose legal name is Shadid Khan spoke to Good Morning Britain and spoke about the effect growing up in a council estate had on his mindset. He felt as if no one would “shine a light” on the talents he acquired until the grant was given to him.

Khan also said during his interview at Good morning Britain  “I think at the time when I had the Prince’s Trust grant it gave me confidence. It made me think you know what? There’s someone who thinks I’ve got a chance at this. And that someone was our now King Charles, and I’m forever grateful for that”. Khan has collaborated with artists such as Jennifer Hudson, Ed Sheeran, Bastille, Wiz Khalifa, and many more big artists. Following his success, he later became an ambassador for the British Asian Trust.

This trust was also founded by King Charles in 2007 and Khan performed for him on several occasions, including one memorable time at Buckingham Palace. Touching on the newly appointed King Charles he says “I’ve seen how he is with crowds, shaking everyone’s hands and being very human- the best thing that has come out of this is that we’ve gained ourselves a peoples King, especially in a time like this, and a diverse king`’Although he is hopeful for the future with this “Diverse King” he expresses sympathy and sadness regarding the Queen by saying “It’s going to take a while to recover from the loss of the Queen because I was thinking this year’s Christmas message and that’s going to be weird, like every year of my life I’ve seen the Queen at Christmas who would deliver a beautiful message- so it’s a transition but I think as a nation, we’ll get there”