{"id":251822,"date":"2025-07-09T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251822\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:58:09","slug":"royal-support-as-prince-william-watches-englands-crucial-euro-2025-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251822\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal support as Prince William watches England&#8217;s crucial Euro 2025 match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sc-1uza6dc-1 huxBsk\">Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England<\/a> had some royal encouragement at the Women\u2019s European Championship on Wednesday with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/prince-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> in the crowd to watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/lionesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lionesses<\/a> in their crucial match against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/netherlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netherlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prince William, who is the first in line to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/british\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British<\/a> throne, is president of the English Football Association.<\/p>\n<p>He is a fervent Aston Villa supporter and is often to be seen at the club\u2019s matches as well as those of the England team \u2013 both men\u2019s and women\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>England was leading 2-0 at halftime against the Netherlands in a match the defending champion needed to win after losing its opener against France.<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back losses would almost certainly end England\u2019s tournament at the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-251822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114825521366667240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}