Britain’s Prince William watched Aston Villa’s Champions League match on Oct. 2 from an executive box, not with regular supporters in the stands, contrary to online claims.
Facebook posts compared William, 42, with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and suggested the latter watches Arsenal matches from a special box. “The Prince of Wales watching football *in the stands*,” said text over the top half of a composite image, which showed William at Villa Park watching Aston Villa beat Bayern Munich.
The bottom half of the image, showing a picture of Starmer, said: “Our ‘working class’ prime minister: ‘I must watch football from a special box’.” However, several pieces of evidence suggest William watched the match in an area separate from regular supporters in the Trinity Road Stand at Villa Park.
A photo of William at the game, available via Getty Images, shows “Emmiera Group” written on the window behind him. Emmiera Group, a furniture and property repair firm, has an executive box in the Trinity Road Stand, according to its post on LinkedIn offering it as a prize in December 2023 for the Aston Villa versus Sheffield United Premier League game.