Sir Patrick Stewart’s son Daniel has posted a tribute to his Star Trek legend father after his death despite the actor expressing ‘regrets’ about his estrangement from his two children.Stewart, who was best known for his roles in the iconic sci-fi series and the X-Men superhero franchise, passed away on Wednesday aged 86 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.The 59-year-old actor took to his X account to share a sweet image of himself giving his father a piggyback ride.The snap was taken from their production of Johnson Over Jordan which they performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse back in 2001.Daniel did not caption or add any other words or context to the image as he posted the snap and let it speak for itself.His father had previously spoken about his complicated family life including regrets over his estrangement from Daniel and his younger sister Sophie, 54, in the years before his death. Sir Patrick Stewart’s son Daniel posted a tribute to his Star Trek legend father after his death despite the actor expressing ‘regrets’ about his estrangement from his two children (Above, the two in Los Angeles in August 2015)Stewart told the Irish Independent in 2023 that he had experienced ‘significant grief’ over the estrangement.Stewart said: ‘Given that I’m separated from my children now – we don’t have relationships – they have become very important.’The actor said that he was surprised and mired in regret over his ‘non-existent’ relationship with his children, who he fathered during his decades-long marriage to ex-wife Sheila Falconer.’I never thought this would happen, but both my children are in their 50s – they’re not children anymore, they’re adults,’ Stewart said. ‘And my relationship with them is practically non-existent.’Stewart appeared to take responsibility for the state of the relationships, saying: ‘I always put my acting work first, before my family.’Stewart in the interview said that ‘not a day goes by’ that he didn’t regret the situation, as he was ‘pained by the memory of [his] children’ and ‘who they were’.He added he’d been upset by ‘a sense of responsibility that they became who they are in part because of me and my influence or lack of influence on them’.Stewart told the newspaper that he ‘could’ve done better as a parent, when [his] kids were little’. Three years ago, Sir Patrick Stewart spoke out about his complicated family life – including regrets over his estrangement from his adult children, Daniel, 59, and daughter Sophie, 54 Stewart pictured in 2023, when he said he ‘could’ve done better as a parent, when [his] kids were little’ Stewart and son Daniel, who is also an actor, at a 2010 event in New York Before the estrangement, Stewart with Daniel and Sophie, and his second wife, Wendy Neuss, in New York in 1999 ‘I was just obsessed with my work, and everything else took second place. I’m trying to correct that now, whenever possible with my grandchildren. And my own children seem to have forgiven me,’ he said.Stewart also spoke about his relationships with Daniel and Sophie in his 2023 book Making It So, saying they were ‘a work in progress’.He wrote in the memoir: ‘The hurt caused by my split with their mother has never fully gone away. I do get on wonderfully with their children – my four remarkable grandchildren; the eldest in his early 20s and the other three in their teens.’Stewart did not just star on stage with Daniel as he also portrayed his son, a character named Batai, in Star Trek: The Next Generation titled The Inner Light (season five, episode 25) which first aired on June 1, 1992. Stewart was married three times: to Falconer from 1966 to 1990, to American TV producer Wendy Neuss from 2000 to 2003, and to singer Sunny Ozell, to whom he had been wed since 2013.Stewart’s death was confirmed in a statement published to his Instagram page on Thursday.The statement read: ‘We announce with great sorrow the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart yesterday at his home in Los Angeles, in the loving care of his beloved wife Sunny, following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia [a brain disorder that affects thinking, movement, behaviour, and mood].’He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter, and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all,’ the statement revealed. Stewart did not just star on stage with Daniel as he also portrayed his son, a character named Batai, in Star Trek: The Next Generation titled The Inner Light (season five, episode 25) which first aired on June 1, 1992 Stewart was married to American TV producer Wendy Neuss for three years’We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace.’ The English star gained international stardom for his leading role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1994, a role he reprised in a series of films and Star Trek: Picard from 2020 to 2023.He also garnered acclaim for playing Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series from 2000 to 2017.While best known for his roles in blockbuster movies and TV shows, the classically trained stage actor also scaled the Shakespearean canon. The Star Trek actor with his first wife, actress Sheila Falconer, with whom he had two children, in LA in 1992 Stewart met his third wife, Sunny Ozell, in 2008, when she was working as a waitress in a restaurant in BrooklynIn 1966, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and later made his Broadway theatre debut in 1971 in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.He would go on to win a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Antony and Cleopatra in the West End. Besides playing everyone from Claudius to Macbeth, he often performed a one-man rendition of A Christmas Carol and did West End and Broadway runs of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in repertoire with buddy Ian McKellen. Stewart was knighted in 2010 by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.