{"id":148193,"date":"2025-09-06T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=148193"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:12:09","slug":"princess-kate-middleton-vs-prince-william-royals-split-sides-at-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/princess-kate-middleton-vs-prince-william-royals-split-sides-at-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate Middleton vs Prince William: Royals split sides at Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kate Middleton<\/strong> and<strong> Prince William<\/strong> turned their weekend into a sporty adventure on Saturday, September 6, 2025, showing up at different <strong>Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/strong> matches. The Princess of Wales cheered on England against Australia at the American Express Stadium in East Sussex. Meanwhile, the Prince of Wales backed Wales as they faced Fiji at Sandy Park in Exeter. They were in their perfect places, since Kate Middleton is patron of the Rugby Football Union in England, and William has been the Welsh Rugby Union patron since 2016.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SabirahLohn\/status\/1964362474960146616\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Catherine is at the Women&#39;s Rugby World Cup 2025 Pool A match between England and Australia at Brighton &amp; Hove Albion Stadium.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PrincessofWales?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#PrincessofWales<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bASBofRjsg\">pic.twitter.com\/bASBofRjsg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sabirah Lohn \ud83d\udc95\ud83e\udd95\ud83e\udd96 (@SabirahLohn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SabirahLohn\/status\/1964362474960146616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The pair has shared their rugby passion before, most recently in March during the<strong> Wales vs. England Six Nations Match<\/strong>. That marked their return to public rugby fun after Kate Middleton\u2019s cancer battle. Beyond the sports fun, both royals often use these appearances to meet players, families, and beneficiaries of charities tied to the sport. For example, Prince William is also patron of the Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monamm2175\/status\/1964336110987072012\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prince William attends the Wales vs Fiji Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup match at Sandy Park Stadium, Exeter. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PrinceofWales?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#PrinceofWales<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xdUFVboHRj\">pic.twitter.com\/xdUFVboHRj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mona\ud83d\udc51 (@monamm2175) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monamm2175\/status\/1964336110987072012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rugby is not just their pastime; it is a family thing! Their three kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, are already following the action. William once joked that the England versus Wales rivalry has turned into \u201cquite the thing in the house.\u201d With Kate on Team England and William being a Wales fan, the royal family is basically living its own sports drama!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Middleton and Prince William turned their weekend into a sporty adventure on Saturday, September 6, 2025, showing up at different Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup matches. The Princess of Wales cheered on England against Australia at the American Express Stadium in East Sussex. Meanwhile, the Prince of Wales backed Wales as they faced Fiji at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":148194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1795],"tags":[1995,1525],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-royal-family","9":"tag-kate-middleton","10":"tag-prince-william"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148193"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=148193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}