Ronnie Wood reveals Prince William kept the portrait he drew of his grandfather Prince Philip

His tales of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll may not be to the tastes of royalty.

But Ronnie Wood has revealed Prince William was so impressed by his charcoal portrait of his grandfather Prince Philip that he keeps it in a ‘special place where he can see it every day’.

The Rolling Stones rocker, 75, recreated a photograph taken of the late royal tipping his hat at a parade to commemorate the end of a charity trek at Buckingham Palace in 2017.

Speaking to the Mail, Wood said: ‘I genuinely loved that image when I saw it in the paper. I told William I genuinely was struck by that image… he’s tipping his hat.

‘I captured it and [William] thought it was amazing. He said ”I’m not going to let the Queen have it”. He said: ”She can have a look – but she’s not having it”.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ronnie Wood has revealed Prince William was so impressed by his portrait of his grandfather Prince Philip that he keeps it in a ‘special place where he can see it every day’

Blast from the past: The Rolling Stones rocker recreated a photograph taken of the late royal tipping his hat at a parade to commemorate the end of a charity trek in 2017

‘He’s got it in special place where he can see it every day he said.’

William and Kate currently live at Adelaide Cottage in Windsor. It is not clear where the portrait is kept.

Wood, who started painting as a child, also revealed he has a secret stash of sketches of the late Queen.

‘I would have loved to [paint the Queen],’ he said. ‘I’ve painted her in my spare time and I’ve got a few images of her that I’ve been sitting on that are not quite right. A difficult thing to capture. Over the years I’ve done some different sketches.

‘It’s one commission I would have loved to have done. It’s time. You’ve got to have the person sitting for you and the time to dedicate to it..’

Wood was speaking ahead of the release of his latest artwork, Stones in Cuba.

The colourful piece, which depicts the late drummer Charlie Watts playing a Cuban drum, Sir Mick Jagger dancing and bassist Darryl Jones throwing his Fedora into the air, is on sale with Wood’s handwritten setlist from the Stones’ historic free concert in Cuba in 2016.

The group performed to over 500,000 people as part of the biggest rock concert ever staged in the country, whose government once deemed the group’s music ‘ideological deviation’.

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Sweet: Ronnie told the Mail: ‘I captured it and [William] thought it was amazing. He said ”I’m not going to let the Queen have it”. He said: ”She can have a look – but she’s not having it”

Incredible: Wood was speaking ahead of the release of his latest artwork, Stones in Cuba which is on sale with Wood’s handwritten setlist from the Stones’ historic free concert in 2016

Wood created the piece at his Hertfordshire home after waiting for the ‘buzz to settle down’ on returning to the UK.

‘I thought, we’ve got to capture some of the magic that was created there before it’s in the distant past,’ he said of the artwork. ‘Capture with the set list a little flavour of the joy when we played down there.

‘The sheer delight on people’s faces was just pure love. They were just mind blown people, their dream come true. They never thought rock and roll would come home to them.’

Wood will release 295 signed sets, which cost £699, on Monday.

The Stones have been recording a new album and are looking to tour in North America later this year.