{"id":166258,"date":"2026-05-08T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=166258"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:37:49","slug":"prince-william-celebrates-aston-villas-europa-league-semifinal-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/prince-william-celebrates-aston-villas-europa-league-semifinal-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William celebrates Aston Villa\u2019s Europa League semifinal win"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Prince William celebrated Aston Villa\u2019s victory in May<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Prince William<\/strong> had a special night on May 7, 2026, after <strong>Aston Villa<\/strong> won its Europa League semifinal against Nottingham Forest. The team defeated its English Midlands rival 4-0, securing a place in the final. After the game, Prince William was spotted dancing and clapping along to Neil Diamond\u2019s \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d with other Aston Villa fans. The moment showed that he is ready to fanboy over the club he has followed for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PRINCE William was seen belting out Sweet Caroline and celebrating wildly as his beloved Aston Villa thumped Nottingham Forest to reach the Europa League final.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll probably get into trouble that <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/THpKhXikDA\">pic.twitter.com\/THpKhXikDA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WeGotitBack \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@NotFarLeftAtAll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NotFarLeftAtAll\/status\/2052549480491135102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Aston Villa will play the final in Istanbul later this month<\/h2>\n<p>Aston Villa\u2019s victory means the English Team will play the Europa League final in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 20, 2026. It is still unclear whether the father of three will attend the match in person. The 44-year-old Prince has often spoken about his love for Aston Villa and has shared that he follows the team closely. He has also taken his son, Prince George, to matches, turning his support for the club into a family experience.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prince William chats with Thomas Tuchel, coach of the England national team, and Damian Vidagany, Aston Villa\u2019s director of football operations, before the second half of the 2025\/26 UEFA Europa League semi-final between Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest at Villa Park today \u26bd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GBEWtPE9BE\">pic.twitter.com\/GBEWtPE9BE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The British Prince (@freedom_007__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freedom_007__\/status\/2052477777551507736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Prince William has shared his Aston Villa fandom with Prince George<\/h2>\n<p>During a trip to Paris in April 2025, William explained that he wanted George to experience a major European match because such moments are rare for Villa fans. He said those memories are important to create.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;I thought, it\u2019s been 43 years since anything like this has happened in my generation as a Villa fan, and I want George to experience a night out away from home in a big European competition. I hope it&#8217;s not 43 years until the next time it happens, but I think those memories are really important to create and to bring him along tonight is a big deal for me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>In March 2025, he also joked that when Aston Villa is not playing well, he moves around the house and changes where his children sit, hoping it will improve the team\u2019s luck.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;If we\u2019re not doing very well, I start moving round the house quite quickly and I put the children in different positions hoping that\u2019s going to change our luck,\u201d he shared with The Sun in March 2025.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince William celebrated Aston Villa\u2019s victory in May Prince William had a special night on May 7, 2026, after Aston Villa won its Europa League semifinal against Nottingham Forest. The team defeated its English Midlands rival 4-0, securing a place in the final. After the game, Prince William was spotted dancing and clapping along to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":166259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,1795],"tags":[1525],"tmauthors":[3734],"class_list":{"0":"post-166258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-news","9":"category-royal-family","10":"tag-prince-william"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166258","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=166258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166262,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166258\/revisions\/166262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166258"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=166258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}