{"id":252336,"date":"2025-07-10T02:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252336\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T02:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:31:05","slug":"royal-approval-as-prince-william-watches-england-win-crucial-euro-2025-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252336\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal approval as Prince William watches England win crucial Euro 2025 match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH (AP) \u2014 England had some royal encouragement at the Women\u2019s European Championship on Wednesday with Prince William in the crowd to watch the Lionesses in <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/euro-2025-england-wiegman-03e230ef4dba1548a3b59356a8ba32db\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their crucial match<\/a> against the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>William, who is the first in line to the British 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><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/euro-2025-england-netherlands-james-66a716ac1d76543450028b7d21f24531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England went on to beat the Netherlands 4-0<\/a> in a match the defending champion needed to win after <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/euro2025-france-england-923b0ef6bc668dabca981aecec0e74ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing its opener against France<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH (AP) \u2014 England had some royal encouragement at the Women\u2019s European Championship on Wednesday with Prince William&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[422,393,5215,4179,5105,7710,519,448,10031,79,97195,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-252336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-aston-villa-fc","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-eurocopa-2024","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-william-carvalho","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114826594495373107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252336","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=252336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}