Prince William doesn't feel 'calm enough at the moment' to watch Hamnet, but it left his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, in 'floods of tears'

Prince William doesn't feel "calm enough at the moment" to watch Hamnet.

The 43-year-old royal and his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, attended Sunday's (22.02.26) BAFTA Awards at The Royal Festival Hall in London in their first joint appearance since his uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on Thursday (19.02.26), and he was quizzed about some of the biggest films of the last 12 months.

William - who is president of BAFTA - noted Catherine had been in "floods of tears" on Saturday (21.02.26) after watching Chloe Zhao's Hamnet, which is based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the death of William Shakespeare’s 11-year-old son from the plague.

But asked if he had seen it, he said: "I need to be in quite a calm state and I am not at the moment. I will save it.”

Catherine, who wore a Gucci gown she had previously stepped out in in 2019, joked to Southbank Centre chief executive Elaine Bedell that watching Hamnet had been a "bad idea" because she “ended up with very puffy eyes”.

She added: “It was so beautifully shot. The music as well. The score is fantastic.”

The princess also praised the movie's “presentation of intergenerational grief” and noted the young child actors had done "so well".

Catherine “loved the connection to nature” in "very, very powerful" Hamnet.

She added: "It’s very stripped back and you see the human emotions”.