{"id":415063,"date":"2026-01-15T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415063\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:12:09","slug":"kate-hosts-rugby-world-cup-winners-at-windsor-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415063\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate hosts Rugby World Cup winners at Windsor Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate hosted the winning women\u2019s rugby squad, with the World Cup trophy taking centre stage at the reception.<\/p>\n<p>The royal followed the team\u2019s campaign in her role as patron of the Rugby Football Union, watching from the stands when they defeated Australia in Brighton in a pool match, and then joining the players when they held a celebratory sing-song in the changing rooms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2.83064956.jpg\" alt=\"England Women\u2019s Rugby reception \u2013 Windsor Castle\" data-title=\"England Women\u2019s Rugby reception \u2013 Windsor Castle\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Kin Cheung\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>The Princess of Wales with members of the England Women\u2019s Rugby team (Kin Cheung\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>In the final, the Red Roses beat Canada 33-13 in front of a record 81,885 spectators who filled a sold-out Twickenham, a third World Cup victory following wins in 2014 and 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Among the guests were captain Zoe Stratford, double Rugby World Cup winner Marlie Packer and head coach John Mitchell \u2013 who were all named as OBE recipients in the New Year Honours.<\/p>\n<p>They were joined by vice-captain Megan Jones, standout back row Sadia Kabeya and Sports Personality of the Year nominee Ellie Kildunne, all recognised with MBE awards.<\/p>\n<p>The players arrived late after their coach broke down and their private tour of Windsor Castle, ahead of their reception with Kate, had to be cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate hosted the winning women\u2019s rugby squad, with the World Cup trophy taking centre stage at the reception.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-415063","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\/415063","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=415063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}