\n The Western Bulldogs had a surprise guest at training when Prince Harry popped in for a kick\n <\/p>\n
L-R: Tom Liberatore, Prince Harry, Matthew Kennedy and Adam Treloar are seen at a Western Bulldogs training session on April 15, 2026. Picture: Western Bulldogs FC<\/p>\n
WESTERN Bulldogs players and officials welcomed a surprise guest to the Mission Whitten Oval on Wednesday, with Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, visiting the club.<\/p>\n
Prince Harry visited to speak at an event for mental health charity Movember, which also has a relationship with the Bulldogs, where he opened up about his early struggles with fatherhood.<\/p>\n
After meeting with CEO Ameet Bains and president Kylie Watson-Wheeler, the prince hit the track to try out his footy skills.<\/p>\n
Bulldogs midfielders Adam Treloar, Matthew Kennedy and Tom Liberatore – all young fathers themselves – taught him how to kick and handball.<\/p>\n
At the Movember event, Prince Harry spoke openly about his role as a father and how he struggled to adjust to parenthood.<\/p>\n
“It’s the most important and transformational role a guy can ever move into,” he said. “That role … gives you purpose.<\/p>\n
“Those days, weeks, after birth are a real struggle.<\/p>\n
“If I was stressed, the moment I held Archie … he would notice it quicker than I could.”<\/p>\n
The meeting had been kept under wraps for several weeks, with Bains recalling his initial shock when the club was approached about Harry visiting.<\/p>\n
“Our first reaction was one of disbelief and needing to double-check that we had the facts right. Like, have we got the right person here?” Bains told Nine.<\/p>\n
“When we had the staff meeting to inform everyone of the duke’s arrival, there were a few gasps in the audience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Bulldogs had a surprise guest at training when Prince Harry popped in for a kick L-R:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-608036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608036","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=608036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}