{"id":101172,"date":"2024-05-31T03:05:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/welcome-to-wrexham-and-prince-william-have-a-surprising-connection\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T03:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:05:50","slug":"welcome-to-wrexham-and-prince-william-have-a-surprising-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/welcome-to-wrexham-and-prince-william-have-a-surprising-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Wrexham and Prince William Have a Surprising Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Welcome to Wrexham<\/em><\/a> has a major connection to Prince William<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 and it\u2019s not solely because Wales is involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrince William is here in Wrexham today because it is St. David\u2019s Day, which is obviously the Welsh, sort of, national holiday,\u201d Wrexham AFC executive director Humphrey Ker<\/strong> said during the Thursday, May 30, episode of the FX series. \u201cOnly we don\u2019t get the day off St. David\u2019s Day, which is a bit of a swiz.\u201d<\/p>\n

St. David\u2019s Day is celebrated on March 1, and William, 41, met up with<\/a> Wrexham AFC cochairman Rob McElhenney<\/strong> at The Turf pub.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Prince of Wales, Prince William has gotta come and press the flesh, kiss babies and do all that sort of business that princes do,\u201d Ker continued. \u201cFor us, it\u2019s great that Wrexham Football Club and Wrexham as a whole has become a place the royals put on their itinerary when they\u2019re coming to visit Wales.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere in the scene it was revealed that Ker and William actually grew up together, both attending Ludgrove School and Eton College. The Prince of Wales noted it\u2019s \u201cbeen a while\u201d since they\u2019d seen each other while shaking hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to school with Prince William. I have known him since I was 7, or something like that,\u201d Ker said in his confessional. \u201cWe literally shared a bedroom from 7 until 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

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William sat with McElhenney and Ker, praising their work with Wrexham AFC.<\/p>\n

\u201cHas the journey been as exciting as it looks on the outside?\u201d William asked McElhenney, 47. \u201cIt\u2019s great what you guys are doing, it really is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team has \u201cexceeded anything we could have ever imagined,\u201d the It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em><\/a> star told the Prince of Wales.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou give so many football fans, whose team maybe is not in the glory days that they want to be or used to be, the hope and the optimism that one day you can be back,\u201d William added. He and McElhenney pulled beers from the tap and took shots together while in the bar.<\/p>\n

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