Three years after Queen Elizabeth‘s death, her grandson Prince William is talking about life after the massive loss. In a new clip from this week’s upcoming episode of Eugene Levy’s Apple TV+ series, Will gets emotional talking about Elizabeth and what it was like to lose such an important person in his life — and all of the ways things have changed for him (and the monarchy) because of it.
As William gives Eugene, the host of the show, a personalized, private tour of Windsor Castle, they end up having a pretty heavy discussion when the Schitt’s Creek star asks the prince if he misses his grandmother.
“I do actually, yeah. I do miss my grandmother and my grandfather,” William said, mentioning the late Prince Philip, who died in 2021.
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He also admitted that his memories of Elizabeth at Windsor Castle were influencing the tour that he was giving Eugene at the time.
“It’s been quite a bit of change, so you do sort of — you think about them not being here anymore and particularly being in Windsor, for me Windsor is her,” William said. “She loved it here; she spent most of her time here. Showing you around today is very much a case of trying to make sure I’m doing it in the way she’d want you to see it. She had her horses here as well, as you can imagine was a big deal for her, so that’s why she loved it here.”
A clip from the episode that was released earlier this week revealed that this won’t be the only moment that William gets personal while chatting with Eugene. In another part of their conversation, William said that 2023 leading into 2024 was the “hardest year I’ve ever had” after both wife Kate Middleton and father King Charles received separate cancer diagnoses.
“You know, life is sent to test us and being able to overcome that is what makes us who we are,” he said.
William’s episode of The Reluctant Traveler begins streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday.
