{"id":475199,"date":"2026-03-14T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475199\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:22:07","slug":"prince-william-to-attend-wales-v-italy-six-nations-match-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475199\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William to attend Wales v Italy Six Nations match in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the prince is patron of the WRU, the princess holds a similar position with the Rugby Football Union (RFU).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple have previously joked about supporting different teams during the tournament, with the prince supporting Wales and Catherine rooting for England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2023, the prince remarked that it would be a &#8220;tense journey home&#8221; with his wife after a Six Nations game between the two countries in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/articles\/cg5n334v7mno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have not won a Six Nations game since beating Italy in March 2023<\/a>, a losing streak that stretches to 15 games despite a determined display against Ireland last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italy meanwhile will travel to the Principality Stadium in high spirits after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cp85pqgrgmvo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a historic first win against England in Rome last Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the prince is patron of the WRU, the princess holds a similar position with the Rugby Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-475199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475199","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=475199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}