Prince William and Kate Middleton appeared on the morning show BBC Breakfast last Friday via video call.
The future king admitted that he was concerned for his father Prince Charles when he caught the coronavirus.
He said: “I have to admit at first I was quite concerned. He fits the profile of somebody the age he is at, which is, you know, fairly risky. And so I was a little bit worried, but my father has had many chest infections, colds and things like that over the years. And so I thought to myself, if anybody’s going to be able to beat this it’s going to be him.”
At the end of March, Prince Charles was diagnosed with the virus and self-isolated himself. William revealed that the virus caused other difficulties to his 71-year-old father.
He continued: “I think the hardest thing he found was having to stop and not be able to go and get a bit of fresh air and go for a walk. He’s a mad walker. He loves his walking. So I think he found it quite difficult … with his mental health, being stuck inside and not being able to go for walks.”
The Duke showed concern for his grandparents who have crossed the age of 90. He said that he gets worried thinking about the vulnerable people who have to self-isolate themselves.
“I think very carefully about my grandparents who are, you know, at the age they’re at, and we’re doing everything we can to make sure that they’re, you know, isolated away and protected from this,” he told the BBC. “But it does worry me, you know, what’s going to happen to a lot of the vulnerable people and the high-risk people who are going to potentially have to isolate away for quite some time, and the impact that’s going to have on them and on families up and down the country having to do that.
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William knows the pain of losing someone close as he had lost his mother, Princess Diana when he was 15. He talked about the emotions people are going through this pandemic.
He added: “Trauma comes in all sorts of shapes and forms and we can never know or be prepared for when it is going to happen to us. People are going to feel angry, they’re going to feel confused; they’re going to feel scared. That is all normal feelings. And that is, unfortunately, all part of the grieving process.”
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