By Nicola Methven,Rachel Cronin

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Prince William has given some rare insight on missing both of his late grandparents in a new interview. Speaking to Schitt’s Creek star Eugene Levy in a special episode of his documentary series, the prince was asked if he missed his royal relatives. Queen Elizabeth died in September 2022 shortly after celebrating her platinum jubilee, and her husband Prince Phillip had died 17 months earlier. Prince William confessed: “I do actually, yeah, I do miss my grandmother and my grandfather.” Levy, who is two years older than William’s father King Charles at 78, was invited to meet the prince at the castle in order to be given a personal guided tour for a new episode of his Apple TV+ series The Reluctant Traveler, called Living The Royal Life In The UK. The Prince of Wales, who was very close to the late Queen, said that his grandmother was always in his thoughts when he was at Windsor Castle, reports the Mirror. He explained: “It’s been quite a bit of change, so you do sort of, you think about them not being here any more, and particularly being in Windsor, for me Windsor is her. She loved it here, she spent most of her time here.” In the show, Levy is seen arriving in London before receiving a written invitation from Prince William to join him at the castle – and to wear clothes suitable for a dog walk. The pair chat in a relaxed fashion as they take in the building and wander in the grounds, and William tells the actor that the tour he is giving him has been hugely influenced by his late grandmother. “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,” he explains. “She had her horses here as well, as you can imagine that was a big deal for her so that’s why she loved it here.” In a clip released last week, William was shown having a pint in a local pub with Levy, during which he admitted that 2024 had been “the hardest year I’ve ever had” after his wife Kate and his father were both diagnosed with cancer. “Life is said to test us as well and being able to overcome that is what makes us who we are,” he said. Their day together, filmed in February, will be available to watch from Friday on Apple TV+. The heir to the throne has spoken previously of his closeness to his “grannie” with whom he spent many holidays and who helped him cope with the loss of his mother, Diana . After the Queen’s death he said: “She was by my side at my happiest moments. And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life.” Royal historian Robert Lacey has said she would give him regular training on how to be king from a young age. “When William became a teenager, she would have him at Windsor Castle and would open the state boxes and guide him through the papers,” he explained last year. “It was William’s constitutional education.”