“Firstly, I would like to apologise to Canada for wearing it,” he said in a CTV interview while in the commonwealth this week for Remembrance events. “Secondly, I was under duress. There wasn’t much choice.”
The prince – wearing a Blue Jays hat during the interview – quipped that “when you’re missing a lot of hair on top, and you’re sitting under flood lights, you’ll take any hat that’s available”.
He plans to wear a Blue Jays hat from now on and rooted for the Toronto team in subsequent games, appearing to do so in a clip posted on social media by the Duchess of Sussex – a Los Angeles native – when the Dodgers won the series in Game 7 a few days later.
Prince Harry, who was given a Blue Jays hat while meeting with Canada’s oldest veterans on Thursday, also said that admitting that he is a Toronto fan would likely make his reception in California more difficult.