{"id":272749,"date":"2025-07-18T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272749\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:49:09","slug":"prince-william-sends-message-from-everyone-back-home-amid-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272749\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William sends message from ‘everyone back home’ amid ‘rivalry’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Prince<\/p>\n

Prince William sends message from ‘everyone back home’ amid ‘rivalry’<\/p>\n

Prince William has sent a personal message as a \u201cclassic rivalry\u201d unfolds in the sports world. <\/p>\n

Ahead of the British and Irish Lions\u2019 milestone tour of Australia, the Prince of Wales\u00a0\u2014 who is a massive sports fan\u00a0\u2014 shared a personal message of support for the team just one day before their first Test match on July 19.<\/p>\n

Taking to the official Instagram account of the Prince and Princess of Wales, William, 42, reposted an image of the squad with a note of encouragement.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood luck to @britishandirishlions as they take on the Wallabies in the first Test tomorrow,\u201d he wrote in the July 18 Instagram Stories post.<\/p>\n

\u201cA classic sporting rivalry and always tough opposition! Everyone back home is cheering you on!\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

He signed off the message with his initial, \u201cW,\u201d indicating it was written by the future king personally.<\/p>\n

\"Prince<\/p>\n

The post featured a lion and football emoji, underscoring William’s well-known love of sport.<\/p>\n

The British and Irish Lions will take on the Wallabies at Brisbane\u2019s Suncorp Stadium in the first of three Test matches. In total, the tour will include nine games across six cities. <\/p>\n

It marks the first Lions tour to the country since 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William sends message from ‘everyone back home’ amid ‘rivalry’ Prince William has sent a personal message as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272750,"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-272749","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\/114875738771696752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272749","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=272749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}