Although in the months after this controversial move, the royal house announced that the most important positions held by the grandson of Isabel II would pass to other more reliable hands, until now it had not come to light who will replace Harry as the pattern of the Rugby Football Union, which manages one of the most popular forms of this sport in England.
According to the newspaper Daily Mail, this patronage will now fall to the Duchess Kate of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William and future queen of England. In this way, she becomes the first royal to take one of the positions that used to belong to the Duke of Sussex.
The British newspaper points out in its edition this Friday that the transfer of powers will take place “imminently”, since the expected process will begin in February, which brings together the national teams of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Italy and England.
William and Kate will be “rivals” as she will be patron saint of English rugby, and he, of Welsh.
You have to remember that William has been a patron of the English Football Federation, which would explain in part why it will be his wife who now becomes the visible head of the other great sport in English territory.