{"id":554029,"date":"2025-11-07T00:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554029\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T00:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:45:18","slug":"prince-harry-cracks-hilarious-joke-on-being-under-duress-as-he-apologises-after-backlash-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554029\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry cracks hilarious joke on being ‘under duress’ as he apologises after backlash | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry<\/a> has issued a grovelling apology to the Canadian public after he was seen wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers cap<\/a> during the 2025 World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays last week. The couple were seen cheering on the LA Dodgers and wearing hats in a show of support.<\/p>\n

Meghan was born and raised in Los Angeles, and it’s no surprise that the couple would support her hometown. The couple\u2019s move raised some eyebrows<\/a> after their close connection to Canada, and on Thursday, Harry was asked about the incident during a visit to Sunnybrook Hospital’s veterans centre in Toronto, after he was gifted a Toronto Blue Jays hat.<\/p>\n

Asked by CTV News about the incident, Harry apologised, joking that he was \u201cunder duress\u201d during the game and there was not much that he could do.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cFirstly, I would like to apologise to Canada for wearing it. Secondly, I was under duress, there wasn\u2019t much choice. I was invited to the box by the [LA Dodgers] owner, so I was doing what I thought was the polite thing to do. But [taking the Toronto Blue Jays hat] I\u2019m going to wear this from now on.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also joked: \u201cWhen you\u2019re missing a lot of hair on top and you\u2019re sitting under lights , you\u2019ll take any hat that\u2019s available. Now that I\u2019ve admitted that, it\u2019s going to be really hard for me to return to Los Angeles.\u201d<\/p>\n

During today\u2019s poignant visit, the Duke of Sussex met a 101-year-old Canadian World War 2 or WW2 navy veteran and other former servicepeople ahead of Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n

Harry was all smiles as he watched veterans taking part in activities such as painting, ceramics and photography at the Sunnybrook Veterans Centre in Toronto.<\/p>\n

He viewed military helmets decorated by veterans to reflect their experiences of service and remembrance, and was pictured lending a hand with one man’s artwork.<\/p>\n

Among those the duke met was Brenda Reid, 101, who served at a women-run naval station in Nova Scotia during the Second World War and Harold Toth, 95, a Korean War veteran who enlisted with the Queen’s Own Rifles.<\/p>\n

When asked by Harry about their war experiences, Ms Reid offered a playful warning about her fellow residents: “You can’t always believe the boys.”<\/p>\n

The meeting was part of his two-day visit to Toronto to meet veterans, members of the armed forces community and military charities to mark the “Remembrancetide” period which spans the two-week period leading up to Remembrance Sunday.<\/p>\n

It came after Harry expressed his pride at fighting for his country and warned how easy it is for veterans to be forgotten “once the uniform comes off”.<\/p>\n

Harry, who undertook two frontline tours to Afghanistan, spoke in an essay about serving alongside men and women from all four corners of the UK.<\/p>\n

He called on people to remember “not only the fallen, but the living” who carry the “weight of war” and urged them to knock on veterans’ doors and “join them for a cuppa… or a pint” to hear their stories and “remind them their service still matters”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry has issued a grovelling apology to the Canadian public after he was seen wearing a Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[943,177196,32287,447,5105,7710,519,448,32290],"class_list":{"0":"post-554029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-canada-apology","10":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","11":"tag-prince-harry","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115505654909891576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554029","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=554029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}