It was probably not the reception Prince Harry envisaged when he planned his dramatic return to the UK.
As the Duke of Sussex watched the Premiership match between Leicester Tigers and Gloucester on Friday night, the unmistakable sound of booing from fellow rugby fans rippled around Leicester’s Welford Road stadium as he appeared on a big screen.
It was enough for TV commentator Nick Mullins to quip: ‘Well, that wasn’t overly welcoming, was it?’
Perhaps predictably, the duke’s loyal ‘Sussex Squad’ supporters claimed online this weekend that it was the referee – and not Harry – who was the subject of the crowd’s
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