...and he reveals his children's love of Fawlty Towers

The Prince of Wales has taken part in a children’s comedy workshop run by Kiri Pritchard-McLean.

Prince William – who has also just revealed his own kids’ newfound love of Fawlty Towers – attended the session for children at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Llandudno on Tuesday as part of a tour of North Wales.

The heir to the throne played a game of Guess Who I Am?, in which the kids took turns to portray fictional characters and tried to guess each other's roles, as well as joining in as they created sketches based around Cinderella and Aladdin.

His father, King Charles, used to enthusiastically perform Goons-inspired material in revue at Cambridge University. But William can be seen admitting 'this is very hard!' in video of the event uploaded to the Royal Family’s YouTube channel:

The prince, who was previously based at RAF Valley in Anglesey during a three-year tour with the Search and Rescue Force, praised the children, and the workshop, reportedly saying that they were 'brilliant kids' and that 'the quality of what you are doing there is fantastic. Laying such good ground work for them to go on and do that if they want to in the future'.

He added that he found the class 'very, very funny’.

Last night, William was back in London where he met Fawlty Towers co-creator John Cleese at the Tusk Conservation Awards. The royal told the former Python: ‘My children have just discovered Fawlty Towers, they literally love it, we’ve been having a lot of family laughs.’

The prince added that he had been ‘reliving’ the 1970s sitcom ‘all over again with the children watching – it’s brilliant’.

After their chat, Cleese said of his show: ‘I always explain it's about "who's scared of who" and kids pick that up immediately.’

Pritchard-McLean was full of praise for the prince getting ‘stuck in’ when he attended  Gwneud, Make, Do, a comedy school she co-founded to help children and adults develop their comedic talents.

She told local paper the North Wales Chronicle that the prince 'is braver than I am. Sometimes I like to keep hands-off but he really got stuck in which I think is lovely.

'That will be a moment they [the children] will remember forever.’

The Welsh stand-up explained that the royal visit had been planned for several weeks 'and the young people found out last week when they got a permission form from the palace. They've had a week to get very excited.

'Prince William seemed genuinely interested and very warm. It was really nice to have him because I know how much it means to the young people to give some recognition for all their hard work. In these more rural, isolated communities that I’ve grown up in, and they live in, we don’t get stuff like this very often so it was a real pleasure.

Set up by Pritchard-McLean and fellow comedian and former teacher Katie Gill-Williams in 2023, Gwneud (Welsh for 'make' or 'do') aims to open up opportunities in the arts, particularly for those from low-income households or living in rural locations, inviting them to try stand-up, sketch, improvisation, comedy drama and musical comedy.

Pritchard-McLean, who is also a foster carer, said that the school is 'a very nurturing group.

'Sometimes I know, as a foster carer, people’s age on their birth certificate isn’t necessarily represented in their developmental age, which means we have a very broad set of needs and access needs and also abilities. But everyone works together to make sure they are all firing on the same cylinder.’

She added that it was ‘really important’ to have the royal spotlight on the  classes, adding: ‘I come from round here and I have known so many people who wanted to pursue creative endeavours and weren't able to make a choice between living where they love, in North Wales, and doing what they loved.

‘I moved away, I went to England, I was very lucky that I had enough success and could move back to Wales.

'It was so important to me to immediately try and establish something for people who wanted to be involved in comedy and have that provision there. It is amazing to see them all absolutely smashing it today and be brilliant.

'It is an amazing place where we live, but Wales has the highest rate of children in poverty in devolved nations. We have an issue with that, we have an issue with access and part of a mission statement with Gwneud, Make, Do is to have fully subsidised places.

‘If you can’t afford to come, that will not be a barrier to coming and spending time with us, which is an amazing thing as we have children from all types of backgrounds.'

- by Jay Richardson

Published: 27 Nov 2025