{"id":626839,"date":"2026-10-11T00:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626839\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:14:15","slug":"prince-harry-booed-at-english-rugby-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626839\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry booed at English rugby match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Britain&#8217;s Prince Harry was booed by a section of the crowd as he watched Leicester play Gloucester in an English Prem rugby match on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Harry, who had a beer in his hand, has long been a keen rugby fan and was in attendance with Andrea Pinchen, the Leicester chief executive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The prince was pictured on the big screen at Leicester&#8217;s Welford Road ground but there were audible boos from spectators before TNT cameras cut away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">&#8220;Some boos there&#8221;, said TNT commentator Nick Mullins before returning to the match action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Harry and his American wife Meghan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/1147292\/prince-harry-and-meghan-arrive-back-in-uk-to-begin-new-life\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned to the United Kingdom in August<\/a> after six years living in the United States following their shock decision to stop being working members of the monarchy, amid a bitter row with his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Harry, 42, and Meghan, 45, hold the titles of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">But Harry reportedly remains estranged from his brother, heir-to-the-throne Prince William and wife Catherine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">On the field, Leicester defeated Gloucester 38-31, with the Cherry and White suffering their first league defeat of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Leicester were 14-0 down after just 10 minutes but hit back with 31 unanswered points in a match where eight of the nine tries were scored by forwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Leicester fly-half Billy Searle was sin-binned just three minutes into the match and Gloucester made their man advantage count when Wales flanker Jac Morgan powered over before the visitors&#8217; driving maul saw them score a second try through Dian Bleuler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">But Leicester drew level through tries from Finn Carnduff and Joe Heyes before Jamie Blamire, from a driving maul, went over to give Leicester a 21-14 lead at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">A penalty and Wales international Aaron Wainwright&#8217;s 50th-minute try, his first for Leicester, extended the Tigers&#8217; advantage before team-mate Ollie Hassell-Collins became the first back from either team to score when he went in at the corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Gloucester, however, claimed two bonus points late on as Jack Innard scored their fourth try before George Barton landed a penalty with the final kick of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Prince Harry was booed by a section of the crowd as he watched Leicester play Gloucester in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-626839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}