{"id":415274,"date":"2025-09-11T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:57:12","slug":"princess-of-wales-enjoyed-dressing-room-sing-song-with-england-players-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415274\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess of Wales enjoyed dressing-room sing-song with England players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol\u2019s Lark Atkin-Davies, who was brought off the bench in the second half, revealed in her weekly column on EnglandRugby.com that the princess was not merely there to make up the numbers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A special visit from HRH the Princess of Wales \ud83c\udf39<\/p>\n<p>Read Lark Atkin-Davies\u2019 new player column here \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RWC2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RWC2025<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedRoses?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RedRoses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Red Roses (@RedRosesRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedRosesRugby\/status\/1965780922944643416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLast week we had football royalty visit us when (England\u2019s) Chloe Kelly watched the Samoa game, but this week we had actual royalty come to watch,\u201d Atkin-Davies revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Princess of Wales, who is also the Rugby Football Union\u2019s patron, met the non-playing players at half-time, then watched the second half with Zoe Aldcroft and Marlie Packer, and visited the changing room after.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure what they spoke about, but I\u2019d love to find out! I wonder if they were giving her all the inside gossip from camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to chat to her myself and we spoke a bit about the game itself, but she also mentioned she would love to bring her children to watch a game which would be really cool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a team we have a song that we do after a game and she actually asked us to sing it for her. She was in amongst all of us while we were singing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe changing room was really lively because we wanted to bring plenty of energy and make sure we showed the Princess of Wales what the Red Roses are all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>England are building up to Sunday\u2019s last-eight meeting with rivals Scotland in Bristol, where John Mitchell\u2019s team will aim to stay on track to clinch home World Cup glory.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol\u2019s Lark Atkin-Davies, who was brought off the bench in the second half, revealed in her weekly column&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414478,"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-415274","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\/115184602067102691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415274","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=415274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}