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I'm the living example of better late than never.

Until a few years ago, my life was steady, predictable, reassuringly

repetitive.

But my recent adventures have changed all that.

So, what's next for me?

Now that I'm considered something of a traveler, I've challenged myself to

complete my own bucket list before actually... kicking the bucket.

I did a lot of research, kept an open mind.

Who's going hiking in the Amazon?

And came up with a lift of my own.

Take a look at this.

Welcome to London!

Never felt more like a tourist.

These are some of the greatest once -in -a -lifetime travel experiences

you can have.

Don't take this the wrong way, but this is a horrible ride.

Take that off the bucket list.

This is my first time in Ireland.

Of course, I've been here before. Yep, once.

Once or twice? Once. Once.

Whether they should be once in my lifetime is another matter.

But I like to think I've gotten a little bit bolder. It's hard to believe I'm

actually here.

A little bit braver.

Of course I work well under pressure.

So this could be my most memorable trip yet.

Was getting drunk with Prince William on your bucket list? That's the bucket.

That's the bucket.

This red bus is on the wrong side of the road.

which can only mean one thing.

I'm in England.

Okay, everybody, welcome to London!

Everyone excited to be here?

Yay! Fantastic!

I've never felt more like a tourist.

There are lots of reasons to be a fan of the UK's capital city, but for me, it's

all about one thing. The monarchy.

I've never really explored the royal aspect of it.

and it's kind of what makes it exciting to come to London.

Being Canadian, we are members of the British Commonwealth.

When I was, you know, a young lad, we would start every day in school by, of

course, doing the Pledge of Allegiance and then singing God Save the Queen.

It's been a long -distance relationship my whole life.

So for this bucket list experience, I'm spending a few days taking a closer look

at all things royal.

On the right -hand side is St. Paul's Cathedral.

Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married there in 1981.

And here we are at Westminster Abbey. This is where the royal coronation takes

place. Okay, and now we have Buckingham Palace on your left -hand side, the

official royal residence for His Majesty King Charles III.

This is royalty. We're looking right at it. I mean, just look around.

I've never seen more gold lining every fence.

This could be the most famous balcony in the world.

I mean, it's not much, but they call it home.

I like the idea of being treated like a king.

So I'm staying just five minutes from the palace at the only hotel in the

to be awarded a royal warrant for hospitality.

Mr. Levy. Hello. Very warm welcome to the Goring. We're delighted to have you

here. Well, this is an absolutely beautiful hotel. Since 1910, we had

British reigning monarch visiting the hotel.

Stunning. Let me lead you the way to the royal suite now. Sure.

In 2011, a certain Catherine Middleton stayed in the same suite the night

her wedding to Prince William.

Eugene, may I introduce you to Oliver, your footman?

Mr. Levy, it's a pleasure to meet you. Nice to meet you, Oliver.

This I like. After you. Thank you.

It's just charming and so very quaint.

Here we go with the master bedroom.

Is there anything else I can do for you? I think that's it for now. Thank you.

I'd love to have been a fly on these walls the night before the big wedding

Something tells me Catherine wasn't kind of tearing it up. You know, I don't

think she was throwing things off the balcony.

Having a spot of pee, and I'm feeling very, very British right now.

I'm going to put this over here and let my footman take care of the rest.

Mr. Levy, sir? Oliver.

Just have some correspondence with you, sir. Ah.

Thank you.

Kensington Palace.

And there's a W on the insignia.

Did you know about this?

All right.

Dear Eugene.

Handwritten. This is crazy.

Oh, my God.

I heard that your travels have brought you to the UK, and I wondered if you

might like to see Windsor Castle, which I was going to see, of course.

If you're free at 10 tomorrow, why don't you pop down to the castle for a

private tour? Would be great to see you.

With best wishes, William.

Okay, all right.

From the Prince of Wales, Future King.

Okay, now I'm getting hot. I'm actually kind of flushed.

Okay. Would be great to see you. Would be great to see you.

This is really, really lovely. Being in this room is as close as I think I've

come to a royal.

There's actually another note.

Meet at the Quadrangle, Windsor Castle, 10 a .m. Ah.

Dress code, suitable for a dog walk.

It seems Catherine isn't the only one who gets to stay here before a nerve

-wracking rendezvous with Prince William.

This calls for something stronger than tea.

Yes, hi, Oliver.

I'd like to order up a vodka martini and if you could bring up some dog

biscuits. Thank you. Bye -bye.

I'm excited about tomorrow, to spend a little time with the man who will be the

next King of England, someone many of us watched grow up.

His mother, Princess Diana, and his father, then Prince Charles. Those are

images that I remember, in particular the images with his mother.

All his important milestones, moments of heartache, and heartwarming occasions.

Their wedding day, William and Catherine, it was a spectacle. Everybody

and everybody was so enamored with them. It was almost a Hollywood version of

what a royal couple should be.

That's the William that we think we know, but I don't know whether we

really know him.

Luckily, tomorrow, I'll get to find out.

Eugene, here we are.

We have arranged a beautiful car to take you to Windsor now, so... It'll do.

This is going to be a fun day.

To reach the castle, I'm traveling 22 miles west of London. I would love to

out what it's like to be a royal. I mean, what is it like behind the palace

walls? What is the workday like?

I mean, is it kind of a 9 to 5 thing?

Well, we're definitely out of the city. And we're into the English countryside.

And it's beautiful.

Windsor sits right on the bank of the River Thames.

It's very quaint. I wonder if the citizens of Windsor feel special because

are neighbors of the royals.

Guess who lives across the street?

The king.

Oh my, there it is. Look at this. Right, almost right in town, literally across

the road.

That's the castle.

Incredibly, this was built almost a thousand years ago.

It's the oldest continuously occupied castle in the world.

Think about all the people that have been romping around here.

Over the years, all the kings and queens, Henry VIII, Queen Victoria, 40

monarchs have lived here.

It's crazy.

Getting a few palpitations right now, but it's all good.

And the day is perfect.

It's just kind of a drizzly, rainy day. It could not be more English.

Thank you.

Well, so far, so good.

I'm on time.

I do know he's not prompt, and don't think I won't be bringing that up.

I'm very excited.

Oh.

Note to self, bucket lists are far from predictable.

Eugene, good morning.

Your Royal Highness.

Nice to see you.

This is not what I was expecting.

This is your mode of transportation.

It is right here. On the grounds?

Yeah. I have a very low threshold for adventure, so I've actually never been

one of these. It gets around quite nicely around here. It's quite fun. But

good to see you. It's good to see you. This is your home. Yes. Not in the

castle. So we live...

down outside the castle. My father spends a lot of time there, but we don't

actually live in the castle itself.

But we come and use the castle for work and for meetings and... Oh, I see.

And I'm always late, so I thought this was the way to keep my meetings on time.

I'm still regularly late, anyway.

I see.

I have managed to get myself a puncher this morning, which is quite amusing.

That's why I was going so slowly up the road.

Maybe I'll let his timekeeping slide just this once.

I heard you were in town, so I thought, why not get you over here? I was a big

fan of your earlier films, usually, and all the American Pies. Uh -oh. Yeah, I'm

afraid I was of that generation.

I have to ask, who did you see American Pie with?

Lots of my friends.

With your friends? Yeah. He likes my movies, so that's a good start.

Windsor Castle was definitely on a bucket list. Good. I was prepared to buy

ticket and take the tour, but then your invitation came. You might still have to

do that. My tour's rubbish.

Who needs a ticket? Well, if you want to know about history, I'm not the guy, by

the way.

So should we head on in and have a look around?

Would love to do that. Brilliant. Good. Can I show you what's happening?

Yeah, let's do.

I'll pop this up.

A prince on a scooter.

He's certainly not afraid to roll with the times.

We'll go in there and then upstairs.

How do you know where you're going? I don't.

There are more than a thousand rooms in this place, so I better not let William

out of my sight.

Even for a royal residence, this castle contains some serious collector's items.

Quite a spectacular room.

Or I guess what the Windsors call family heirlooms.

Oh, my.

This is the king's drawing room, which is still very similar to what it was

years ago.

Obviously, some things have changed and been refurbished and renovated, but it's

kept some very good nick.

But I thought this was quite a good spot to come and look at, because from out

here, you can see the grounds much better.

And also, out there, you've got Eton College.

That's where I went to school. Yes. That's College Chapel, that large

there. How old were you when you were 18?

13 to 18.

So I was within a few miles of my grandparents.

So you would pop over from Eaton?

Sometimes on weekends, sometimes if I could get away in the evening when there

was nothing else going on, I'd come around and have a bit of tea with her

because she had the best teas ever. So I used to get well fed.

I'd come around to have a chat with her and see how she was and just sort of,

you know, check in, see how she was doing, have a chat about family stuff, a

of work stuff, maybe sometimes about what was going on.

Mostly just to tell stories, really.

about what I was up to. And you had a great relationship.

Yeah, I had a good relationship.

My grandparents were of a different generation.

I think when we were younger, it was harder to have that very close

because it was quite formal.

But as they got older and I got older, it got warmer and warmer.

And I definitely think my relationship was best with my grandparents when they

were more in their sort of 80s, when they sort of relaxed a little bit.

My grandfather was incredibly amusing.

Sometimes not deliberately, sometimes by accident.

OK. But we had a lot of laughs, and he had a great sense of humour, as did my

grandmother as well, actually.

My grandfather definitely was the one who would create quite a few laughs. And

it was, you know, it was happy times. There was always a warmness. There was

always a laughter. There was always a family feel.

And my grandparents loved having the family around them. So we were always

encouraged to turn up and be around.

Could you make them laugh too?

Oh, yeah. You had to be careful about your timing and who it was about.

So you had to sort of, you had to pick and choose your moments to make them

laugh.

Now that's an audience I'd be nervous playing to.

But as a grandparent myself, it's the laughs I want my grandson to remember me

by.

Do you miss your grandmother?

I do, actually, yeah. I do miss my grandmother and my grandfather.

Yeah, 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. So she loved it

She spent most of her time here.

Showing you around today is very much the case. I'm trying to make sure I'm

doing it the way she'd want you to see it.

She had a horse that's here as well, as you can imagine was a big deal for her.

That's why she loved it here.

Did a lot of riding. A lot of riding. Here.

Yeah. She'd have a headscarf on. She hardly ever wore a helmet until she got

older. No, no. She used to wear just a headscarf. I know. That's an image we

were all very familiar with, right?

Most people who used this place would see her on a daily basis. So it wasn't

such a big deal suddenly if the green road passed or the green walk passed.

She was out walking her dogs or she was out on the horse, whatever.

Well, I just don't understand how that would ever be kind of just...

you know a commonplace but uh when you when you live and you know use the

here it's kind of second nature see them all the time what a sight that would

have been if she's looking down on her favorite castle now she's probably

wondering who this canadian guy is i thought we'd stop and look at this uh

picture of my grandmother it's quite a large and wonderful painting oh wow she

Posed for quite a few paintings. She did quite a few.

She did. Was this something she enjoyed?

I think she felt it a little bit more part of the job, part of the role, is to

historically mark those moments.

And I think she preferred being painted than she did being photographed.

I'm not fond of pictures either.

I think you look good as an oil painting.

You know, you look quite good in oil. I would actually love to have one done,

just to try and capture who I, you know, really am.

It feels like we're adding more to your bucket list today than taking stuff off.

She was a very impressive woman.

You can see the enormous robe that she had to carry as well. It's very heavy,

it's very warm, and so it weighs quite a bit. You could have used it on the

scooter. It would have been very helpful. Probably would have been

the wind.

We'll head through here.

We've moved a lot of the awards now into this room, which, as you can see, is

pretty spectacular.

I wasn't going to mention this, but he brought up the awards, so... Well, in

terms of investitures, I became a member of the Order of Canada and recently was

promoted to Companion of the Order.

And, you know, you might want to drop that and...

over the dinner table tonight.

Sure you do. I'll bring that up.

Is there another level you'd like to go to? Oh, this is the top level. The top

level. Yeah.

We're not angling for another bucket list moment here, are we? Yes.

There may be another level, but not necessarily of this world.

Understood.

Everything is quite spectacular. I mean, this is my first trip to the castle. We

provide this service for everyone.

We do personalized tours everywhere.

All right.

This is St. George's Hall, which actually is one of my favorite parts of

whole castle.

My cousins and I and the family would chase each other up and down here and do

silly games.

I remember these carpets weren't here.

And there were a couple of spots where you had to watch out because you'd get

massive splinters because the old floor was so old wood. This was just a wood

floor. This was a really dark wooden oak floor. So when you went running off...

you'd end up coming away and you'd have an enormous splinter. And everyone would

be like, stop, stop.

And someone had a splinter sort of that big in their foot.

So now it's a lot easier. My children don't realize how lucky they are.

got a big old carpet they can run down and there's no splinters. So we come in

after hours and chase each other around sometimes.

Splinters or not, everyone's childhood home has a story to tell.

But this one more than most.

Do you ever get overwhelmed just by the sheer history?

Of the place?

When you say it like that, it sounds like I should say yes.

But no, I wouldn't say history overwhelms me. Other things overwhelm

history, no.

Because I think if you're not careful, history can be a real weight and an

anchor around you, and you can feel suffocated by it and restricted by it

much. And I think it's important to live for the here and now.

But also, I think if you're too intrinsically attached to history, you

possibly have any flexibility because you worry that the chess pieces move too

much and...

Therefore, no change will happen.

And I like a little bit of change.

I guess what you're saying is you want to open up some... I want to question

things more. That's it. That's what I'm saying. Okay. I think it's very

important that tradition stays and tradition has a huge part of all this.

But there's also points where you look at this and go, is that still fit for

purpose today? Is that still the right thing to do?

Are we still doing and having the most impact we could be having?

So I like to question things is what I'm really getting at. If history doesn't

overwhelm you, is there anything that does?

Yeah, I think stuff to do with family overwhelms me quite a bit.

You know, worry or stress around family kind of things, that does overwhelm me

quite a bit.

But in terms of, you know, doing the job and things like that, I don't feel too

overwhelmed by that.

Not now, anyway. When I was younger, yeah, there are bits that overwhelm you,

bit like, whoa, are we actually doing this? Is this sort of happening?

But with time and age, I think you feel a bit more... settled in that side of

things, and you go, actually, I could do that.

And even a few curveballs come in, that doesn't necessarily overwhelm me.

When it's to do with family and things like that, then that's where I start

getting a bit overwhelmed, as I think most people would, because it's more

personal, it's more about feeling, it's more about upsetting the rhythm, if you

like.

I wasn't expecting to chat to William like any other guy.

But what I'm realizing is, despite all the grandeur, this castle's actually a

home.

And the famous history that happened here is his family's story.

And this is the lantern lobby.

This is Henry VIII's armor, which I always think is quite amusing because

not that big.

He had a big historical presence and a big historical narrative around him, but

actually not a particularly tall man.

Slightly round. Wow.

Yeah. He loved a good meal. He loved a good meal. Yeah.

Chunk of Venice, probably.

Definitely. I'm thinking of the people who have wandered these hallways.

Henry VIII, Richard III, Elizabeth I.

You're probably the one family who would never have to go on Who Do You Think

You Are to learn more about your family tree, I would imagine.

I think I probably need to do three lessons so I could do that.

George, my son, is way better at history than I am, and I have to check with him

now on my dates.

And talking of dates, this room will always be known for one in particular.

As you can see here, it's marked where the fire started in Windsor Castle.

So 23 November 1992, I still remember I was having my dinner at home in

Gloucester with my mother, and I saw my father on television with my

grandparents taking everything out of the castle.

It was all over the news at the time.

So you were watching this? Yeah, I was watching it happen.

On television?

92, so I was 10. You couldn't probably put it all together when you were

watching it? No, the time you're watching it, when it's on television,

it's a film.

But it kind of doesn't feel real.

But you just recognized your family. You recognized people on there doing things

that probably it was difficult to do. And it destroyed... All this.

All this. All of that.

St. George's Hall. So the roof was completely gone.

The walls were fairly badly damaged as well.

So the whole roof fell in. I remember seeing news footage of your grandmother,

Queen Elizabeth, who was on the grounds.

Yeah. So my grandmother, my grandfather, my father came as well. I think my

aunts and uncles came here too.

And they were all part of a team, like a sort of human chain, taking stuff out

of the castle as quickly as they could.

I gather that also, very sadly, your house was affected badly recently.

Well, we did. We lost a home in the California fires this year. I'm sorry to

hear this. It was like a horror movie in a way, right?

Evacuation notices went out. We were packing up and getting out. Maybe three

hours later, God knew the place was gone.

Over here, we were watching the winds. It just looked, I mean, terrifying.

The winds were almost 100 miles an hour that night.

I'm so sorry for you and everyone who's lost their eyes.

Fires feel very emotive, don't they? It doesn't matter whether you're in a

castle or a bungalow. It doesn't, you know, the pain is still there.

Yeah, definitely.

You know, for me, it's such a positive story to see what can be rebuilt. It's

incredible. You know, people walking around here after the first few weeks

looking at this going, how?

And this is never going to come back.

And now look at it.

Listen, I want to show you around the grounds as well, so should we head this

way? There's someone outside I'd like you to meet.

And by someone, he means his dog.

So while he's off fetching his pooch, I've been given a free pass to wander

around. Well, that's what I call a tour, okay?

I mean, this is something you don't see back home. This grand structure, it is

an art gallery, it's a museum.

but it's also the home to the royal family.

I've never been able to tangibly reach out and touch history the way I've

been able to do here at Windsor Castle.

And if things couldn't get any more surreal, we're going to take a dog walk

around the private gardens.

You know, I'm not really sure whether his dog has a title.

Good girl.

Who's this? This is Orla.

Orla? Yeah. Say hello. Hi, honey.

Say hello.

Yeah, good girl. Oh, my goodness.

Look at you.

Good girl. Wow.

Yes, good girl.

So sweet.

Down, down, down. Good girl. She thought that was a walk -on, so she's now very,

very excited about it. Oh, my, my.

Yeah. Well, look what I got. Some dog treats. Oh, very nice. For little Orla.

See if she likes them. She might take them off you. You think? Is this good?

There's a chance she rejects them, so it's a 50 -50 call.

See what happens.

Let me see. Orla!

Oh, you like that? There you go.

Huh?

Oh, my goodness.

This is going down well. You're getting the look, which is like, please feed me.

And that'll do it. Yeah.

Oh, my goodness.

So she's actually the niece of our other dog, Lupo, who sadly we lost in

lockdown. Were you there? Yeah, we were all there sadly.

It was very sad, yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry.

She likes you now.

Yeah, she likes me now, doesn't she?

You'll be top of the list.

William, what about these planes?

Yes.

Heathrow Airport, obviously, it's pretty close to here. It's very close.

It's not far over that way at all.

You can't do anything about it?

Not legally, anyway.

Well, you've got cannons.

We do have cannons. I'm not sure that's probably the best advice. Maybe, maybe.

The tour guides get to hear some funny stories. We head back one time.

I won't name the nationality of the tourists, but we look around the castle

going... Wow, this place is incredible.

But why did they have to build a castle so close to Heathrow Airport?

Which has gone down as the sort of number one quote of a tourist going

Windsor Castle, which I thought you'd appreciate.

I mean, I know my history is bad, but that's another level.

Well, I never thought plane spotting would be a feature of royal life.

Your work day would be what? Would you call it a 9 to 5?

Not really, no. Okay.

Doesn't quite work like that. But I do try and stick to school timetables as

best as possible.

So most days we're in and out of school, don't pick ups and drop offs.

Getting the balance of work and family life right is really important.

Because for me, the most important thing in my life is family. And everything is

about the future.

And about if you don't start the children off now with a...

happy, healthy, stable home.

I feel you're setting them up for a bit of a hard time and a fall.

So it's about making sure that we can look after our families and look after

children in a way that we feel is best for their future.

That importance of kind of having a relatively normal home life, I think,

started with you and your mother as well. Yeah, definitely. I think it's

important that that atmosphere is created at home.

You have to have that warmth, that feeling of safety, security, love.

That all has to be there.

And that was certainly part of my childhood. My parents got divorced at

so that lasted a short period of time. But you take that and you

learn from it and you try and make sure you don't do the same mistakes as your

parents. I think we all try and do that. I just want to do what's best for my

children. But I know that the drama and the stress when you're small...

really affects you when you're older.

As a dad myself, I can relate to that feeling of just trying to do right by

kids. What do you do when you're home?

Sleep.

Really? When you've got three small children, sleep was an important part of

life recently.

And now, luckily, they're at a certain age where, unless they're ill, they do

sleep pretty well.

So that's a bit of a relief. But when you've got three small children growing

and they're waking up at all sorts of the night.

It is quite exhausting, as every parent will tell you. Would you all sit down at

the dinner table together?

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah? Yeah, definitely.

So sit and chat is really important.

None of our children have any phones, which we're very strict about. That is

really interesting.

So if your kids don't have phones to play with, what do they play with? What

they love doing?

So Louis loves the trampoline.

So he's obsessed by trampolining, and actually Charlotte does a lot as well.

As far as I can tell, they just end up jumping up and down on the trampoline,

beating each other up most of the time.

Apparently there is an art to it.

Charlotte does her netball as well and her ballet.

And so keeping them busy with sports and just being outdoors is really

important.

They're trying to learn musical instruments. I'm not sure how successful

being with that.

George loves his football, his hockey.

And are you a...

Football fan yourself?

Yes, Eugene.

Who's your team? I support Aston Villa.

Tom Hanks is a big fan.

Okay, maybe that's where I've heard it. You might have heard of Aston Villa from

there. And I love the story that Tom tells about why he suddenly supported

Villa, because when he was looking for a team sport, he saw the word Aston

Villa, and I thought that sounded like quite a sunshine, nice villa place to

When actually, if he turns up to Birmingham, it's not that sunshiny.

Still, if they're good enough for Tom Hanks and Prince William, then they're

good enough for me.

It's official. I am now an Aston Villa fan, which is surely a cause for

celebration. So you might need to go to a pub if you fancy a quick drink. A pub?

Show you a bit of Windsor.

I would love that. I could go for a, you know, a pint.

Was getting drunk in a Windsor pub with Prince William on your bucket list?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Well, that's the bucket. The bucket, is it? That is the bucket itself.

Yes, that would be something.

He might be a royal, but he's still British.

It was only going to be a matter of time before we ended up in a pub.

Look, is that a picture of Concord flying over the castle?

Yeah. That's quite cool.

Come on through, Eugene.

Can I get you a drink?

Uh, yes.

Yes, you can.

What do you fancy?

Yes, you can.

What do I fancy?

I'm going to have a Guinness.

Find a Guinness? Yeah. Sweet or dry?

Sweet, please. Sweet.

Thank you very much.

Do you know how many pubs we had at St. Andrews University where I was in

Scotland? How many pubs in the town? In the town.

I'm going to guess 35.

Not bad. 45.

The mission was to get around all 45 pubs in one go, which I don't think

anyone's ever managed. I thought someone's managed it, but none of my lot

managed it.

Oh, yeah, it's quite quite feet 45 up. Thank you. Thank you Come and grab a

over here and I'll go I'll sit in there. Yeah, sure Only

you can stay on the table be a good girl, okay Here's our new Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle exactly You spent a lot of time talking about

Your family and It's a priority, right?

This last year, your wife and father have been ill.

How are things now, first of all?

Yeah, things are good.

Everything's progressing in the right way, which is all good news.

But it's, yeah, it's been, I'd say 2004 was the hardest year I've ever had.

Trying to sort of balance protecting the children, Catherine.

My father needs a bit of protection, but he's old enough to do that himself as

well. But it's important my family feel protected and happy to kind of process a

lot of the stuff that's gone on last year.

And that was tricky, trying to do that and keep doing the job.

But, you know, we all have challenges that come our way and it's important to

kind of keep going.

So, you know, I enjoy my job, but sometimes there are aspects of it.

such as the media, the speculation, the scrutiny, they'll make it a little bit

harder than other jobs. And it's just making sure that that doesn't overtake

intrude into areas at times when you just want a bit of space and a bit of

peace. You're unable to just say, time out.

I think it's also important because if you're not careful, you can intrude so

much into someone's life that actually you start unpicking everything.

And... And growing up, I saw that with my parents, just that the media was so

insatiable back then. Hard to think of it now, but they were much more

insatiable. And they wanted every bit of detail they could absorb.

And they were in everything, literally everywhere.

They would know things, they'd be everywhere.

And if you let that creep in, the damage it can do to your family life is

something that I vowed would never happen to my family.

And so I take a very strong line about where I think that line is.

And those who overstep it, you know, I'll fight against.

But equally, I understand in my role, there is interest.

We have to work with the media. They're all there. So you have to have a grown

-up situation with it as well. And it's about knowing where the line is and what

you're willing to sort of put up with.

That was one of the toughest aspects of that year, over and above the illness

itself, which is horrible for anybody to deal with.

And Catherine is in remission now. Yes. Yes, which is wonderful. It's great

news, exactly.

How did that affect the children, if I may ask?

Everyone has their own coping mechanisms for these sorts of things, and children

are constantly learning and adapting.

We try to make sure we give them the security and the safety that they need.

And we're a very open family, so we talk about things that bother us and things

that trouble us.

But you never quite know the knock -on effect it can have.

And so it's just important to be there for each other and to kind of reassure

the children that everything's okay. Right.

When I was a kid, and this is going back a few years, we were maybe

the first family in our block to have a television set. And I remember watching

the coronation of your grandmother.

You will one day be king of England. Do you think about that at all?

It's not something I wake up in the morning and think about.

Because to me, being authentic and being myself and being genuine

is what drives me.

And then you can attach whatever labels and kind of roles that come on top of

that.

But if I'm not true to myself and I'm not true to what I stand for and believe

in... then kind of it doesn't really matter who you are.

It gets lost.

I take my roles and my responsibilities seriously, but it's important, like I

said to you earlier, you don't feel they own you. You have to own them.

Would you have the same feeling about your son becoming a king as well?

It's an interesting question, and it's a big question, that one, because there's

lots of things to think about with that.

But obviously, I want to create a world in which...

My son is proud of what we do in a world and a job that actually does

impact people's lives for the better.

That is caveated with, I hope we don't go back to some of the practices in the

past that Harry and I had to grow up in, and I'll do everything I can to make

sure we don't regress in that situation.

It sounds like the monarchy will be sh... shifting in a slightly different

direction. I think it's safe to say that change is on my agenda.

Change for good.

And I embrace that and I enjoy that change. I don't fear it. That's the bit

excites me, is the idea of being able to bring some change.

Not overly radical change, but changes that I think need to happen.

In my experience, perspective in life often comes from adversity.

You've heard the expression...

If you don't have your health, what have you got? At the end of it all, I mean,

it's health that is the most important thing.

People don't think about that, especially younger people, the idea of

you know, when you're a certain age, right? Nothing can happen.

And when it does, it puts a whole new perspective on things, doesn't it?

Definitely, and I was probably guilty of that as well.

we've been very lucky we haven't had many illnesses in the family for a very

long time my grandparents lived to the you know the high 90s so yeah um

they were they were the vision of fitness and stoicism and resilience if

like um so we've been very lucky as a family but i think yeah i think

when you suddenly realize that the uh

The rug if you were the metaphorical rug can be pulled from on your feet quite

quick at any point You maybe think yourself it won't happen to us Will be

because I think everyone has a positive outlook you've got to be you've got to

be positive But when it does happen to you then Yeah, then it takes you in some

pretty You know not great places.

Yeah, are you optimistic?

I am optimistic. I'm generally very optimistic person

Especially when I'm with someone like Yuji.

You know, life tends to test us as well, and it definitely can be challenging at

times.

And being able to overcome that is what makes us who we are.

I'm, you know, I'm so proud of my wife and my father for how they've handled

of last year. My children have managed brilliantly as well.

Well, I'm hoping every other prince I run into is as nice,

open, and...

human as you. There's a prince everywhere now. Very common.

You'll find quite a few.

It's been really nice chatting to you, Eugene, and showing you around Windsor.

It's been really fun. It has. Thank you.

You know what really struck me today?

We're all sweating the same stuff.

Work, health, family.

And that's true even for a future king.

But before I leave a world of Windsor walks and pubs with princes, there's one

final place I want to visit.

St. George's Chapel is the final resting place of William's grandparents, Queen

Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.

I'll never forget that heartbreaking image of the late queen at her husband's

funeral. Now here I am, sitting in the same pews after the most extraordinary

day.

I was so impressed with the Prince of Wales.

It was a charming few hours that we had together.

I don't know what I expected, you know, from a royal.

The monarchy has always been so very formal, but with William,

you didn't get that at all.

He's the dad who goes to work.

And then comes home and, you know, and has dinner with his kids. There's a

normalcy to it that just surprised me.

It took me aback, actually, a little bit. He was so down to earth, very

very bright.

Got to be honest, he was fun to hang with.

I kind of hope when William becomes king, I'll still be around to tell my

grandson, you see that guy wearing the crown?

I had a pint with him once. And hey, as bucket lists go, this is going to be

pretty hard to top.

Hard, borderline impossible.

But we'll give it a go.

Next on my bucket list.

Break down the K -Wave for me.

Korea. Oh, yeah.

I found my most brother.

This device will rejuvenate the skin. I look 35.

Oh, man.

And we'll be right back.