{"id":413083,"date":"2026-02-07T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413083\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:06:10","slug":"kate-and-william-battle-for-bragging-rights-today-as-wales-play-england-in-the-rugby-six-nations-at-twickenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413083\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate and William battle for bragging rights today as Wales play England in the rugby Six Nations at Twickenham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/a> and Princess Catherine are set to battle for bragging rights today as Wales go head-to-head against their English rivals in a Six Nations match today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The future monarch, 43, is the patron of the Welsh Rugby Union, meanwhile his wife’s team of choice is England, for whom she also serves as patron<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And tensions may rise at their Forest Lodge home in Windsor as the two sides prepare to face off in Twickenham at around 4.40pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a joint statement today, the royal couple said: ‘Wishing the best of luck to Wales and England Rugby as they go head-to-head at Twickenham today in the Men’s\u00a0Six Nations<\/a> Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘As patrons of both unions respectively\u2026 May the best team win! W&C.’<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it remains unclear if the sporting rivalry between William and Catherine extends to their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte<\/a> and Prince Louis<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is believed the princes, aged 12, and seven, enjoy playing the sport in school, while their 10-year-old sister is said to join in when the family plays at home together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And during a meeting with the World Cup-winning England Ladies’ rugby team, their mother confessed that she did ‘not want to get tackled by George<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

\"Prince <\/p>\n

Prince William is the patron of the Welsh Rugby Union, meanwhile Catherine’s team of choice is England, for whom she also serves as patron<\/p>\n

\"Tensions <\/p>\n

Tensions may be rising at their Grade II listed mansion today as they prepare to battle it out for bragging rights as their respective teams go head-to-head (Pictured: The Waleses in Stirling, Scotland on January 20)<\/p>\n

In January, she revealed how the family play rugby together at home and that Louis even participates in\u00a0extra-curricular ‘Rugbytots’ sessions for younger boys and girls aged up to seven.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chatting to captain Zoe Stratford (formerly Aldcroft), vice captains Marlie Packer and Megan Jones and head coach John Mitchell, she explained her youngest child was ‘enjoying’ the sessions.<\/p>\n

‘He’s sort of seven, eight now, and he’s enjoying it,’ she said. ‘At this time of year, the pitch is either totally swamped or they’re hard.’<\/p>\n

During a discussion about how schools often don’t segregate boys and girls for sport when they are younger, she said: ‘Charlotte is playing rugby but at home with the family, so she isn’t yet at school.<\/p>\n

‘Rugby is so accessible; Louis is playing touch rugby and it’s such a great game.<\/p>\n

‘Actually, they shouldn’t necessarily need to pigeon hole boys and girls in particular sports too early.<\/p>\n

‘Obviously as they get physically stronger \u2013 George now, if we play at home, I do not want to get tackled by George! But, up to a certain age I think it’s great.’<\/p>\n

At the time, Catherine was hosting a reception at Windsor Castle for the national team to celebrate their achievement in September 2025 \u2013 the team’s first World Cup win since 2014.<\/p>\n

\"In <\/p>\n

In a joint statement today, the royal couple said: ‘Wishing the best of luck to Wales and England Rugby as they go head-to-head at Twickenham today in the Men’s Six Nations Championship’<\/p>\n

They were welcomed to the Green Drawing Room by the Band of the Irish Guards \u2013 of which the Princess is Colonel \u2013 who played tunes including 9 to 5 and New York, New York.<\/p>\n

The team, who were all wearing their winners’ medals, had been celebrating the night before with a ball to Grosvenor Hotel in London.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, tensions are brewing on both sides of the Severn Bridge, as Wales and England prepare to go head to head in a Six Nations match later today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last March, the English squad annihilated the Welsh side on their home turf in Cardiff, winning a record 68 to 14 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And tonight, the Men in Red will hope to redeem themselves on the back of last year’s disappointing performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William and Princess Catherine are set to battle for bragging rights today as Wales go head-to-head against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[97,120,98,5903,43326,101,56,54,55,1220],"class_list":["post-413083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-dailymail","tag-prince-william","tag-royals","tag-rugby","tag-six-nations","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}