{"id":786670,"date":"2026-09-29T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786670\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:30:19","slug":"prince-william-and-catherines-surprise-visit-to-kevin-sinfields-charity-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786670\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William and Catherine&#8217;s surprise visit to Kevin Sinfield&#8217;s charity run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rugby star&#8217;s gruelling mission will end on Saturday at Old Trafford in Manchester, when Sir Kevin arrives ahead of the Super League Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Make sure you hold yourself together for another few days,&#8221; Prince William told him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Kevin replied that he had been dreaming of an ice bath all day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since his first challenge in 2020, Sir Kevin has raised more than \u00a311m for MND causes &#8211; and Prince William and Catherine made a private donation to the charity effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before meeting Sir Kevin, the royal couple talked to families facing the impact of MND and heard how fundraising projects had helped them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier on Tuesday, Prince William and Catherine visited the home ground of Rob Burrow&#8217;s rugby league team, Leeds Rhinos, and met some young players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The royal visitors heard how the club&#8217;s charitable foundation was working to help health, education and well-being projects in the Leeds area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamie Jones-Buchanan, a former teammate of Rob Burrow, described the team&#8217;s ethos in good and bad times: &#8220;We went through success and adversity, but we always came out on the other side together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rugby star&#8217;s gruelling mission will end on Saturday at Old Trafford in Manchester, when Sir Kevin arrives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786670","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=786670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}