Ant & Dec did the only thing anyone would do at Prince Charles's house after he'd gone to bed - they got drunk.

The Geordie duo got to know the royal pretty well during filming for their documentary When Ant & Dec Met the Prince: 40 Years of The Prince's Trust - so much so that he invited them to stay at his house in Scotland.

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Appearing on tonight's The Graham Norton Show, the pair explain: "It was the weirdest thing. We thought it would be a massive place and we would stay in another wing but it is a house and we stayed in rooms next to Charles.

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"We shared a butler and as we were going to bed he asked if we'd like anything else and we asked for two bottles of wine.

"We then got drunk with our wives but we were very conscious that Charles was down the corridor so as we got louder every now and again one of us would go, 'Shush, he's in bed!' 

"It was very bizarre."

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Elsewhere, Ant & Dec are set to host the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations for ITV later this year.

The Graham Norton Show airs tonight (February 12) on BBC One at 10.35pm. Julianne Moore, Rebel Wilson and Little Mix are the other guests.

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