{"id":812089,"date":"2026-03-08T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/812089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:07:22","slug":"princess-anne-leaves-fans-in-stiches-after-funny-rugby-moment-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/812089\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Anne leaves fans in stiches after funny rugby moment | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/princess-anne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Princess Anne<\/a> has left fans in stitches after she shared a hilarious moment with a Scottish rugby player. The Princess Royal, Scottish Rugby Union, attended the Guinness Men&#8217;s Six Nations match between Scotland and France in Edinburgh today.<\/p>\n<p>Anne presented the Auld Alliance Trophy to Scotland&#8217;s Sione Tuipulotu after they beat France 50-40. As the rugby player was getting close to Anne, he made a gesture of a hug attempt, before they both burst out laughing. However, the King\u2019s sister kept the formalities and gave him a handshake before having a brief chat.<\/p>\n<p>A video of the hilarious moment has gone viral on social media, with fans praising the princess.<\/p>\n<p>One user wrote on X: \u201cFunny moment as #PrincessAnne #PrincesRoyal presents the trophy as Patron of @Scotlandteam after they beat France 50-40 in the @SixNationsRugby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A second one wrote: \u201cI wish she was Queen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another one agreed: \u201cShe would be a great monarch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ensure our latest royal headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. <\/strong><strong><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=express.co.uk&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here to activate<\/a><\/strong><strong> or just add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fourth one said: \u201cAnne loves her rugby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A fifth one added: \u201cGreat moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A sixth one commented: \u201cShe really loves her Scottish rugby doesn\u2019t she?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Anne has left fans in stitches after she shared a hilarious moment with a Scottish rugby player.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4102],"tags":[5118,234429,234426,34473,34474,34472,234427,234428,2640,234430,10858,4151,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-812089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-princess-anne","tag-princess-anne-hilarious","tag-princess-anne-hug","tag-princess-anne-latest","tag-princess-anne-latest-news","tag-princess-anne-news","tag-princess-anne-rugby","tag-princess-anne-six-nations","tag-princess-royal","tag-princess-royal-news","tag-royal-news","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116193240479838805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812089","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=812089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}