the “boy in the tent” invited to the coronation of Charles III

Among the high dignitaries, dukes and countesses expected in Westminster Abbey for the coronation of Charles III, there is Max Woosey, 14, a teenager who raised hundreds of thousands of euros for carers of his city ​​by sleeping outside. In England he is known as the “boy in the tent” and spent three years camping in his parents’ garden to attract donations and started during the first lockdown. Summer or winter, rain or shine, Max sleeps outside.

700,000 euros raised

Invited to pitch his tent up to 10 Downing Street, the home of the Prime Minister, the young boy grew up in front of his camera and his subscribers. His pot was also filled well beyond expectations, more than 700,000 euros were collected, enough to pay more than a year’s salary for about fifteen nurses in the establishment which had welcomed Rick, his neighbor sick with cancer. “Every time we talked about the possibility of him quitting, he would cry and get angry. So we let it go, it’s a subject he didn’t want to talk about until he started saying three years was enough., explains Rachael, his mother. He folded up his tent before receiving the official invitation for the king’s coronation.