Eddie Redmayne 'feeling sorry' for Prince William while at Eton College says a lot
Eddie and William go way back!Eddie Redmayne once opened up about his time playing rugby with Prince William while at school.
Oscar winner Eddie, 43, and the Prince of Wales, also 43, were in the same year at Eton College, which they both attended between 1995 and 2000.
Eddie Redmayne on Prince William at Eton
Back in 2018, during an appearance on the Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Eddie opened up about playing rugby with Prince William at Eton.
However, he admitted that he felt “sorry” for the Prince of Wales during their rugby days together.
“I did play rugby with Prince William,” he revealed.
“I always felt a bit sorry for him because basically, any school you played, all they wanted to do was tackle Prince William and they could say, ‘I tackled Prince William.’
“So if you were standing next to Prince William, like I was, it was actually quite easy and quite fun.”
‘I always felt slightly sorry for him’
In 2015, Eddie shared a similar story with Glamour magazine.
“We were on the same rugby team at Eton College,” he said at the time.
“He’s a wonderful man. I always felt slightly sorry for him because everyone wanted to tackle the future king of England. He took all the hits.”
Eddie had another story to tell about the royals during his appearance on the Watch What Happens show.
Recounting the time he got an OBE, he said: “You go to Windsor Castle and you queue up alongside the most extraordinary people, who have genuinely done brilliant things and you’re an actor and you feel a bit of a schmuck. And then you go through a door to meet the Queen and in that room is this huge assembly room of people.”
He then continued, saying: “It’s all royal and palatial, and there’s this string quartet playing music. And you think it’s classical music. And I suddenly heard them playing Coldplay. I think it was ‘When You Rule the World.’ And I was like, ‘That’s appropriate.'”
Was Eddie Redmayne friends with Prince William?
Yes, it appears as though William and Eddie shared a bond during their Eton days thanks to the fact that they were both on the same rugby team.
In their final year at the school, Eddie and William were also both prefects.
They were last pictured together at a polo match in 2015. However, the nature of their relationship these days, 25 years on from leaving Eton, is unclear.
Did Eddie Redmayne go to Eton with Prince William?
Yes, they both attended the leading boys’ boarding school. They were both in the same year, having joined the school in 1995.
Eddie’s path may have crossed with Prince Harry’s too, during his school days.
Harry joined Eton in 1998, a couple of years after his older brother.
The Duke of Sussex was also a big rugby fan during his Eton days, admitting in his book, Spare, that the sport was an outlet for his “rage”.
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