Prince Harry was booed by sections of the crowd when he attended a Prem Rugby match last night.

The Duke of Sussex watched Leicester Tigers face Gloucester at Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium in Leicester.

A video shared on Prem Rugby’s X account shows the duke wearing blue jeans, a dark coat and holding a pint as he took a seat in the stands.

But his presence was booed by some fans, with their displeasure acknowledged by the commentators.

As the camera cut to him, TNT commentator Nick Mullins said: ‘A face in the crowd, Prince Harry, back home and enjoying some rugby again.’

He then admitted there were ‘some boos there’ before hastily returning to focus on the game at Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium in Leicester.

It saw the Tigers claw out a 38-31 victory in a match that Harry clearly enjoyed, despite any negativity.

With a beer in hand, the father-of-two took no heed and appeared glued to the action as Gloucester made the Tigers earn their hard-fought victory.

Harry, 42, lived every moment of it, punching the air and high-fiving a friend sitting next to him when Leicester sealed victory.

The event marked Harry’s first solo outing in the UK since he returned to the UK with wife Meghan, 45, and their children Lilibet and Archie in August.

A clip of a relaxed duke taking a seat in the stands while wearing blue jeans, a dark coat and holding a pint was shared on Prem Rugby’s X account, which also recorded the booing.

Such a scenario would have been unthinkable a decade ago, when the rugby-mad prince served as the patron of the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and was universally adored by the egg-chasing faithful.

This goodwill appears to have soured since Megxit in 2020, which saw Harry and Meghan Markle step back as frontline royals.

It was swiftly followed by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s six-year stint in North America, where they levelled racism accusations at an unnamed senior royal during an Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021.

The late Queen famously replied that ‘recollections may vary’ in response to the Sussexes’ claims.

This was followed in 2023 by Harry’s tell-all autobiography Spare, which created further embarrassment for the Firm by detailing Harry’s use of recreational drugs and an alleged fight with his brother, Prince William, in 2019.

Representatives for the future king have strongly denied that any physical violence took place.

Amid this estrangement, the couple seemed set on staying away from Blighty and raising seven-year-old Archie and five-year-old Lilibet in Meghan’s home state of California.

Harry reinforced this stance in May 2025 by telling the BBC that he ‘can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK at this point’.

His outburst came shortly after he lost an appeal over the levels of security he and his family were entitled to while in the UK.

At the time, he said this had left him in a position where he could only safely return to the UK if invited by the Royal Family as he would be entitled to sufficient security in those circumstances.

This appeared to be the status quo until it emerged in the summer that the family were swapping sunny California for the Cotswolds, with the kids enrolling in schools in Oxfordshire for the autumn term.

They are currently paying for private security, although since returning full-time it has emerged that there will be a review of their publicly funded security, according to the BBC.

Regardless of the security situation, last night’s booing exemplifies how Harry’s relationship with the British public has drastically changed since he stopped being a working royal six years ago.

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