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The Duke of Sussex has apologised to Canada after he and his wife, Meghan, were photographed wearing Los Angeles Dodgers caps while attending a World Series game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Harry joked to Canadian broadcaster CTV that he wore the Dodgers merchandise “under duress” during game four of the series, saying it felt like “the polite thing to do” after being invited to the dugout by the team’s owner.
“Firstly, I would like to apologise to Canada for wearing it,” he said. “Secondly, I was under duress. There wasn’t much choice.”
The duke, who conducted the interview wearing a Blue Jays cap, is in Canada for Remembrance Week events.
“When you’re missing a lot of hair on top, and you’re sitting under floodlights, you’ll take any hat that’s available,” he joked.
“Game five, game six, game seven, 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.”
Toronto ultimately lost out to the Dodgers in a seventh-game decider. The duke added he was “devastated” at the Blue Jays’ defeat.
The royal pair moved to Los Angeles in 2020, after initially setting up home in Canada, and live in Montecito with their children Archie, six, and Lilibet, four.
While Meghan wore a Dodgers cap and team colours during the series, she has previously shown her support for the Blue Jays, a nod to her former home city.
The former actress lived in Toronto while filming the legal drama Suits, and she and Harry spent time together there during the early stages of their relationship.
The duchess was photographed wearing a Blue Jays cap while attending a game in 2015.
During his visit to Canada, Harry met a 101-year-old Canadian Second World War navy veteran and other former servicepeople ahead of Remembrance Day.
The duke was all smiles as he watched veterans taking part in activities such as painting, ceramics and photography at the Sunnybrook Veterans Centre in Toronto.
He viewed military helmets decorated by veterans to reflect their experiences of service and remembrance, and was pictured lending a hand with one man’s artwork.
Among those the duke met was Brenda Reid, 101, who served at a women-run naval station in Nova Scotia during the Second World War and Harold Toth, 95, a Korean War veteran who enlisted with the Queen’s Own Rifles.
When asked by Harry about their war experiences, Reid offered a playful warning about her fellow residents: “You can’t always believe the boys.”
The meeting was part of his two-day visit to Toronto to meet veterans, members of the armed forces community and military charities to mark the “Remembrancetide” period which spans the two-week period leading up to Remembrance Sunday.
