The Prince of Wales has praised former rugby league captain Sir Kevin Sinfield, saying he should have received his knighthood \u201cyears ago\u201d.<\/p>\n
The rugby coach and motor neurone disease (MND) campaigner was one of 60 people to receive honours from William at a recent investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n
Sir Kevin, who has raised millions for charity, received a knighthood for his services to the MND community, as well as for services to league and union rugby.<\/p>\n
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, the prince said: \u201cI think, frankly, he should have been Sir Kevin years ago.<\/p>\n
He’s a top bloke, really nice guy, good, honest, kind, decent northerner and I love that about Kevin, that there is no ego with him. He is what you get<\/p>\n
Prince of Wales, on Sir Kevin Sinfield<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how he keeps going, I\u2019m worried about his knees, I\u2019m worried about his hips. The guy is just a machine.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a top bloke, really nice guy, good, honest, kind, decent northerner and I love that about Kevin, that there is no ego with him. He is what you get.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Prince and Princess of Wales recently surprised Sir Kevin in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, as he completed the third day of his final 7 in 7 running challenges.<\/p>\n
The challenge involved completing an ultra-marathon every day for seven days.<\/p>\n
The fundraiser was inspired by his former Leeds Rhinos teammate Rob Burrow, who died in 2024 after living with MND for four-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n
The prince said he had also written a letter to Mr Burrow\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
William met Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield during a visit to Headingley Stadium in Leeds in 2024 Credit: left<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone grieves differently and every circumstance is different, so you need to take your time over it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always better to say something around grief than it is to ignore it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking about receiving his knighthood, Sir Kevin previously said he was \u201cmassively humbled by the whole experience\u201d and \u201cvery proud to accept it on behalf of the MND community and their families\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 46-year-old said William, who presented Sir Kevin and Mr Burrow with CBEs at Headingley Stadium in 2024, had been \u201cfantastically supportive\u201d of their campaign.<\/p>\n
Sir Kevin told the Press Association: \u201cI think he champions pulling communities together and I have seen how the MND community have come together on the back of Rob\u2019s diagnosis and several other high-profile sportspeople over the last six or seven years.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, his support and, obviously, Princess Catherine\u2019s as well, they\u2019ve been wonderful and bring a real credibility to what we\u2019re trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prince of Wales has praised former rugby league captain Sir Kevin Sinfield, saying he should have received…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-665769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}