Windsor Castle will welcome England\u2019s Red Roses to Windsor Castle this week for a special reception hosted by the Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n
Kate, who is the patron of the Rugby Football Union, will be joined by the Red Roses on Thursday to celebrate the team\u2019s 2025 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/a> success.<\/p>\n England<\/a> players and team staff will receive a tour of the castle before taking a photo with the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/a> trophy.<\/p>\n The princess was present in Brighton as England beat Australia<\/a> 47-7 in the pool stages. During the match she was joined in the stands by Red Roses captain Zoe Stratford and 2014 Rugby World Cup winner Marlie Packer.<\/p>\n Kate then joined the squad at full time. England hooker Lark Atkin-Davies<\/a>, in her tournament column<\/a>, said: \u201cLast week we had football royalty visit us when Chloe Kelly watched the Samoa<\/a> game, but this week we had actual royalty come to watch.<\/p>\n \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<\/a> and Marlie Packer<\/a>, and visited the changing room after.<\/p>\n \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 \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 \u201cThe changing room was really lively because we wanted to bring plenty of energy and make sure we showed the Princess of Wales<\/a> what the Red Roses are all about.\u201d<\/p>\n In the New Year Honours list John Mitchell, Zoe Stratford (nee Aldcroft) and Marlie Packer<\/a> were made OBEs. Ellie Kildunne<\/a>, Sadia Kabeya<\/a> and Megan Jones<\/a> were made MBEs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Windsor Castle will welcome England\u2019s Red Roses to Windsor Castle this week for a special reception hosted by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-408524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}