{"id":474652,"date":"2025-10-04T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474652\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:55:12","slug":"prince-william-reveals-his-surprising-link-to-tom-hanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474652\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William reveals his surprising link to Tom Hanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/strong> is showing a new side of himself during a recent television appearance.<\/p>\n

During Friday’s episode of Eugene Levy’s<\/strong> Apple TV+ series, The Reluctant Traveler, the Prince of Wales opened up about his childhood, his family life with Kate Middleton<\/strong>, and his future life as king.<\/p>\n

Though this interview may be the most intimate conversation we have ever seen with the 43-year-old, not all of the topics discussed are heavy ones. William and Levy also take a trip down memory lane to discuss fond memories of the royal’s late grandparents and what hobbies he enjoys with his children: Prince George<\/strong>, 12, Princess Charlotte<\/strong>, 10, and Prince Louis<\/strong>, 7.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m a football fan,” he tells the actor in a sneak peek clip. “I support Aston Villa, have you heard of them? Tom Hanks<\/strong> is a big fan.”<\/p>\n

Just like the Oscar-winning actor, William is a longtime supporter of the Birmingham-based club, even knowing the backstory behind his fandom.<\/p>\n

“I love the story that Tom tells about why he suddenly supported Aston Villa \u2014 because when he was looking for a team to support, he saw the words ‘Aston Villa’ and thought that sounded quite like a sunshine-y, nice, ‘villa’ place to go,” the Prince of Wales said. “When, actually, if he turns up to Birmingham, it\u2019s not that sunshine-y.”<\/p>\n

Hanks recalled that same story during a 2015 appearance<\/a> on The Graham Norton Show, saying: \u201cNow I know [what it\u2019s really like], and I\u2019m still with them.”<\/p>\n

So far this season, Aston Villa is ranked towards the bottom of the Premier League, but Prince William has been a supporter<\/a> since he got “big into football” in school. Before the 2015 FA Cup, he told the BBC\u2019s Gary Lineker<\/strong> that his choice to cheer for the “Villans” rather than one of the more popular clubs was based on his desire to go against the grain.<\/p>\n

“All my friends at school were either Man United fans or Chelsea fans, and I didn\u2019t want to follow the run-of-the-mill teams,” William explained. “I wanted to have a team that was more mid-table that could give me more emotional rollercoaster moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cAston Villa\u2019s always had a great history. I have got friends of mine who support Aston Villa, and one of the first FA Cup games I went to was Bolton vs. Aston Villa back in 2000… It was fantastic, I sat with all the fans with my red beanie on, and I was sat with all the Brummie fans and had a great time. It was the atmosphere, the camaraderie and I really felt that there was something I could connect with.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prince has since passed his love of the team<\/a> onto his eldest son, Prince George. The father-son duo have attended several games together, including a special outing to the two-part Champions League quarterfinal in April 2025, when the pair attended the away game at Paris Saint-Germain before returning to Villa Park for the conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William is showing a new side of himself during a recent television appearance. During Friday’s episode of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,4080,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,79,1985,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-474652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-prince-of-wales","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-princess-of-wales","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tom-hanks","20":"tag-uk-royal-family","21":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115318602274672653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}