Prince William and Aston Villa: How His Devotion Is Another Way Princess Diana’s Legacy Lives On

The narrative goes that Prince William began supporting Aston Villa as a schoolboy. “A long time ago at school I got into football big time,” he told the BBC in 2015. “I was looking around for clubs. All my friends at school were either Man U. fans or Chelsea fans. I didn’t want to follow the run-of-the-mill teams.”

Indeed, there is another royal connection to Aston Villa. William’s great-grandfather King George VI, then Duke of York, visited Villa Park in 1924 and stayed for a…