It’s been two months since Prince Philip passed away at the age of 99, and he is dearly missed by millions of people all over the world. Now, Sophie of Wessex, who is married to Philip’s youngest son Prince Edward, has broken down in tears as she talked about just how missed he is.

“He has left a giant-sized hole in our lives,” Sophie told BBC host Naga Munchetty on Wednesday.

Sophie went on to recall a time in Scotland when she took a much-loved photo of Queen Elizabeth and her husband relaxing, which was released on the eve of Philip’s funeral.

“We were lucky enough to go to Scotland for half-term, and I don’t know if you remember the photograph that I took,” she said as she began to tear up while explaining that she was pregnant with her oldest child, Louise, when she took the photo.

“Just to be there, in that place, was an ‘Oh my God’ moment,” she said while she fought back tears. “Um, so I think they’ll come and go, but you have to let them come, and let them go. But just talking to you now, it’s a bit of an ‘Oh my goodness’ moment, which you don’t necessarily expect, and you don’t expect them to come. And I had the same when I lost my mother. You know, I’d be fine, absolutely fine, fine, fine.”

“And then something happened, or you’d hear a piece of music, or you’d do something, and suddenly you would, you know, get taken off at the knees,” Sophie added. “So there’ll be lots of moments like that. But it’s good to remember.”

Sophie then said that dealing with grief has been more difficult for so many because of social distancing.

“I think unfortunately the pandemic has slightly skewed things, inasmuch as it’s hard to spend as much time with the Queen as we would like to,” she continued. “We’ve been trying to, but of course it’s still not easy. I think the whole grieving process is probably likely for us to take a lot longer.”

“Of course, the normal way of things isn’t normal yet, so we’re not necessarily doing the things that we would normally have done with him,” Sophie explained. “It may be the same for many other families out there. Because if you’re not living with somebody, 24/7, the immediate loss isn’t necessarily felt in the same way, as if somebody was in the house with you all the time.”

Sophie has shown herself to be a close confidante of the Queen as of late.

“She is trusted and relied on by the Queen in a way I couldn’t say applied to the Duchess of Cambridge or the Duchess of Cornwall,” an insider told the UK’s Express back in April. “She is like another daughter to Her Majesty — they are that close.”