By Issy Ronald, NCS
(NCS) — Prince Harry jokingly apologized to Canada on Thursday for carrying a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap when he watched the crew tackle the Toronto Blue Jays through the World Series.
“I was under duress,” he explained in an interview with Canadian broadcaster CTV News after apologizing. “There wasn’t much choice. I was invited to the Dodgers dugout by the owner. I was doing what I thought was the polite thing to do.”
Harry and his spouse, Meghan, attended Game 4 of this yr’s Fall Classic on October 28 at Dodger Stadium, the place they watched the Blue Jays stage the sequence towards the LA crew, although the Dodgers finally took the title in Game 7.
“When you’re missing a lot of hair on top, and you’re sitting under floodlights, you’ll take any hat that’s available,” Harry joked, whereas pointedly donning a Blue Jays hat.
“Game 5, Game 6, Game 7, I was Blue Jays throughout. Now that I’ve admitted that, it’s going to be pretty hard for me to return back to Los Angeles,” he added.
Canada was gripped by the World Series final month and early in November because the Blue Jays, the nation’s solely MLB crew, got here agonizingly shut to upsetting the Dodgers juggernaut.
As the son of Canada’s head of state, Harry has long-standing ties to the nation, regardless of now not being a working royal. But since he now lives close to Los Angeles, his spouse’s hometown, he has hyperlinks to each groups.
He dubbed the incident “Hat-Gate” after it generated lengthy Reddit threads and a few criticism within the Canadian media.
The prince was visiting Toronto on Thursday to meet with veterans there forward of Remembrance Day on November 11.
He later attended an occasion to honor Canada’s army, the place he delivered a speech that additionally addressed “the blue-hatted elephant in the room.”
“Truthfully and jokes aside, this city will always mean a great deal to me,” he added.
Meghan lived in Toronto for seven years whereas filming the hit authorized drama “Suits,” and town additionally hosted the Invictus Games, which Harry based, in 2017.
The couple additionally briefly lived on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in 2020 after they stepped down as working royals earlier than they ultimately settled in Montecito, California a couple of months later.
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