Prince William's real reason why he only mentioned Prince Harry once in candid chat

Eugene Levy has revealed why he didn't probe Prince William on his bitter feud with Prince Harry during his candid chat with the Prince of Wales.

Williamgave a rare glimpse into his family life and his plans for when he is King during an appearance on Levy's Apple TV show The Reluctant Traveller. As the prince gave the Schitt's Creek star a tour of Windsor Castle, William set out his approach to the monarchy, saying, "I want to question things more", but added that central to his world was his family life with wife Kate and their three children.

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The heir to the throne also candidly described how his wife’s cancer battle left him overwhelmed, revealed his children do not have mobile phones, and said he aims to create a “world in which my son is proud of what we do”.

During the course of the episode, his estranged brother only came up once when William revealed his hopes to not repeat the past when he ascends the throne.

He said: "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."

In an interview with ITV News, Levy was asked if the reason he did not ask more about the brothers' rift was that because he was told it was off limits.

But he revealed in his reply: "I was not told I couldn't ask anything, but it wasn't really, you know, up to me, to get into that. I had no interest in asking him about that, because it was, you know, very delicate issue and certainly not up to me to get into it.

"I think there were other things, you know, I could lead the conversation to that might be interesting for him and interesting for the world to hear, but that was something I wasn't necessarily interested in getting into."

William's single mention of his brother is one of just a handful of times that he has talked about him so publicly since he and Meghan quit as working royals and moved to California more than five years ago.

And former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond told the Mirror : "The mention of Harry is indeed fleeting and I think it would be wrong to spend much time talking about it. But I suppose it does show that William hasn’t blocked his brother completely from his brain.

"They shared a traumatic childhood and adolescence, and nothing can ever change that part of their history. It was only natural for him to include Harry when talking about his childhood, but I don’t think we should read more into it than that."

Jennie added: "On the programme as a whole, I think it was an extraordinary insight into who William really is. We all think we know him, at least as a prince, but this was a glimpse behind the mask at the man who will be King.

"The words that screamed out at me were his unequivocal intention to question whether certain aspects of the monarchy are fit for purpose.

"He is not going to stand for doing things in a certain way just because that’s what has happened in the past. He respects and is surrounded by tradition but refuses to be bound by it. And that’s something fairly new."